A base jumper escaped with just a broken leg after his parachute failed to open properly.

Hans Lange was attempting the most dramatic free-fall jump of his death-defying career in Romsdalen, Norway.

Lange flew down a mountainside in a specially designed winged suit, capturing the action on a camera.

His canopy failed to open fully but he cheated death when a tree broke his fall, and a Norwegian Air Ambulance team managed to lift him to safety.

Nursing a broken leg, Lange said: "I have never considered this as a last jump.

"Lying there, floating along the mountainside, feeling the hairs stand in your neck, and you are in complete control. It's a wonderful feeling, and a feeling I seek, and will always do."

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