Google vice president Robert Alan Eustace has broken the record for the highest parachute jump in history, smashing through the sound barrier in the process. Eustace jumped from 130 000 ft (nearly 40kms up) over the southern New Mexico desert. That’s just a little higher than Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner during the Red Bull Stratos expedition back in 2012. Eustace took two hours to reach drop height but his descent from space to earth lasted a mere four and a half minutes and stretched 42 km. At peak speed, the middle-aged exec was falling at speeds in excess of 1 322.00 km/h.
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