A skydiver recorded himself jumping through clouds and people are in awe of the 'impressive' footage.
Skydiving certainly isn't for the faint-hearted and if you've never dared make the leap but want to experience what it's like to float through the clouds like some sort of Greek god or goddess or one of the babies being delivered in Whoville - too soon for Christmas references? - then one adventurer has you covered.
Eric Finat Trepat jumped off a plane 4,500 meters in the air over Girona, Spain.
And thankfully for those of us who don't plan on jumping out of a plane anytime soon, he decided to take a camera with him so we don't have to.
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Eric told Storyful it was his first jump of the day and he's certainly not wrong when he reviewed it as his 'most impressive one'.
In the video, Eric descends rapidly towards the clouds before going right through them, with viewers able to see what looks like rain and water particles all around - but eerily nothing underneath but clouds.
The skydiver ends up fully engulfed in the clouds, with the recording going quite dark, however, eventually, he makes it to the bottom of the clouds and a view of the land below emerges.
Eric revealed he went through three different climates during the jump, from clear and hot, to wet and cold and also just plain cloudy.
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The footage has been widely circulated on social media and it's not taken long for people to weigh in.
One Redditor said on thread r/bestoftheinternet: "That's f**kin insane."
"I felt cold," another commented.
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A third user wrote: "Did this before. It hurts like hell. You're screaming towards earth at terminal velocity and there are very pronounced rain and ice particulates that strike your body. He changed to go feet first to reduce the drag and s**t hitting him haha still cool though."
And someone else pointed out: "Just so everybody knows, kids at home it’s dangerous sky diving through clouds especially rain clouds."
Indeed, as per the Federal Aviation Administration's Regulation Part 105.17: "No person may conduct a parachute operation, and no pilot in command of an aircraft may allow a parachute operation to be conducted from that aircraft - 1) Into or through a cloud, or 2) When the flight visibility or the distance from any cloud is less than that prescribed."
Although, Long Island Sky Diving does note you can still skydive below clouds and sometimes between them. Should you happen to accidentally pop over a plane into clouds, the site advises to not pull your parachute inside a cloud to avoid mid-air collisions with any other skydivers and to wait until your past them to open up.
Poppy Bilderbeck