World high-diving champion Orlando Duque enlisted the help of local people as he prepared to jump 35 metres from a tree directly into the Peruvian Amazon river.
Duque, a Colombian national uses a rope ladder to climb on top of the Caucho tree, considered the most representative tree of the Amazon forest. “The view from up there is truly beautiful. You can see both sides by walking behind the tree. I don’t think you can imagine it,” he said. He added that nobody has probably ever jumped from there before.
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