Paris, 1795. André Garnerin jumped from a hot air balloon over a crowd of hundreds of thousands gathered to see the spectacle and parachuting was born as a spectator sport.
Two hundred years later, dare-devil jumpers are equipped with steerable parachutes and winged suits. In the summer of 1998 Patrice de Gayardon lost his life chasing the dream of human flight, while his co-flyer Adrian Nicholas survived. This is their stories with vivid first-hand accounts, rare archive and remarkable aerial photography.