Skydiver to attempt highest jump without parachute

To many, doing a parachute jump is their greatest fear. However, renowned American skydiver Luke Aikins is about to go one further and jump out of a plane without a parachute.

Aikins said: "Well, we're jumping from 25,000 feet, we're going to freefall for about two minutes before we land and I'm going to land without a parachute, I'm going to land without a parachute, I'm going to land and get up and walk away without a wingsuit, a parachute, no nothing."

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The 42 year-old husband has been jumping for 26 years and has completed 18,000 jumps.

Aikins, however, will be landing in something which is only being described as a kind of 'slide'.

Luke Aikens says: "So that's a big drama. Everyone wants to know what we're going to land in and what I'm here to tell you is we're going to land in something, I need to land on my back.

"This device has been tested. We've been dropping stuff from helicopters from 1000 feet a dummy - just like me - and i catches it and it slows it down and the g-forces are right around four and a half to five g's, that's all for about one and half second you slow over and I slow down roughly over around 150 feet."

While Aikens says this is something he's been training for his whole life... variables like the wind could cause a bad outcome.

The stunt is scheduled to be shown live on Fox in a one hour special on July 30th in an event called 'Stride Gum Presents Heaven Sent'.