Skydiver successfully makes 25,000-foot jump without parachute | Fox News

It's to prove it can be done. Maybe to give the sport of skydiving some added publicity (though, no one should start skydiving with the aspiration to do something this crazy). It's to show the world that even in free fall, from miles in the sky, jumping out of a plane going 100mph, you can be in control enough to direct yourself right where you want to be. Do I think the reward was worth the risk? No way. But do I appreciate what Luke, as fellow skydiver, has accomplished? You better believe it. Whether it was for a sense of accomplishment, for a name in a book, for glory, or just to say he did it - you have to admit, it was pretty cool, especially when you remind yourself of where "skydiving" was a few decades ago when it was primarily military canopies in the sky.

Of course it is, ask Evil Kneivel; I don't recall too much static when he was jumping the Grand Canyon (sort of...)