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'Jump' to 2013! (7)

（People's Daily Online） 07:51, December 20, 2012

Austrian Felix Baumgartner jumps to the Earth from a helium balloon in the stratosphere on Oct. 14, 2012. Baumgartner successful completed extreme parachute jump in Rosewell of New Mexico, U.S. He set the record for “highest manned balloon flight”, “the longest distance of free fall” and “the fastest speed of free fall” from an altitude of 38 kilometers at a speed of 1, 342 kilometres per hour. (Xinhua/AFP)

Edited and translated by Wang Xin, People's Daily Online

The famous photography collection "Philippe Halsman's Jump Book" by Philippe Halsman records a group picture of 'Jumping moment'. He believes "In each jump, the body instantaneous springs energy against the gravitation, and people unable to control face expression and muscles. So at this moment, mask taken off and real discovered".

Jump is a born ability of human; the moment of jumping, everything is vanished, people turning into a state of ecstasy without too much thinking.

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