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High in the sky over Tianmen Mountain in China, a host of daredevils threw caution to the wind... by throwing themselves off a 4,600ft-high (1,400m) ledge.
This was the scene at the first World Wingsuit Championship in Hunan Province on Thursday.
One by one, the eight finalists leapt from the cliff and negotiated a 1.2km-long obstacle course which involved whizzing across a valley, diving beneath a cable car, and other extreme acrobatics, before engaging their parachutes and landing on a red-carpeted mountain road.
The rules were simple: the fastest flyer wins.
Daredevils jump off 4,600ft-high mountain ledge in world

This was the scene at the first World Wingsuit Championship in Hunan Province, China, on Thursday

One by one, the eight finalists leapt from Tianmen Mountain

The flyers had to negotiate a 1.2km-long obstacle course

The daredevils had to whizz across a valley, dive beneath a cable car and perform various other extreme acrobatics

The rules of the contest were simple: the fastest flyer wins

A flyer swoops beneath some cable cars

South African Julian Boulle took first place - setting the benchmark for the wingsuit flying record - with a time of 23.41 seconds.

Mr Boulle has made more than 11,000 skydives and 1,600 wingsuit flights.