Base jumper suffers painful, but lucky, crash landing through trees

This scary looking incident was filmed in Lauterbrunnen, near Bern, in Switzerland in May last year.

Reflecting on his disastrous jump the daredevil wrote: "I started B.A.S.E. jumping one year ago. This was jump number 56.

"After the opening, I realised that some lines built a tension knot. I was not able to clear it, so the canopy started spinning and the vertical speed increased.

"Then I hit a tree, which probably saved my life. Unfortunately, the tree didn't catch the canopy and I started falling again without being slowed down. I impacted on soft ground right next to rocks which probably had killed me if I had hit them."