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High life

High life

12 August 2016

11:00 PM

12 August 2016

11:00 PM

Gstaad

 

‘He flies through the air with the greatest of ease, that daring young man on the flying trapeze.’ As everyone knows, life’s unfair, but this is ridiculous. An American daredevil falls out of an aeroplane at 25,000 feet without a parachute and manages to land on a postage-stamp-size net without a scratch.

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