Stunning pics show LED-lit wingsuit jumpers blasting through the sky during a spectacular meteor shower
The adrenaline athletes performed the incredible stunt in La Palma in the Canary Islands
FOUR fearless wingsuit jumpers leap into the path a meteor shower - lit up in LED costumes.
Adrenaline junkies Jokke Sommer, Armando del Rey, Marco Waltenspiel and Georg Lettner plunged into total darkness at speeds of more than 105 mp/h as they followed in a trail of stars lighting up the night sky.
The stunt took place over La Palma in the Canary Islands during the Perseids also called ‘tears of Saint Lawrence’ - a prolific meteor shower usually peaking in mid-August.
They flew from a height of 1,800 metres to the floor of the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, where the world's biggest optic telescope is located, in an experience they described as "crazy."
Jokke said: "It literally felt like I was in a video game.
"I was in this black tunnel and there was nothing else besides all those billions of stars in my face.
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"It was a really unique visual because you could really feel the speed, but you have no other surroundings.
"You are just in pitch black, it is like you are out there in the outer space.
"It's crazy, it was literally crazy."
The stunning visuals which show their descent, were caused by Perseids - a stream of debris stretching along the orbit of the comet Swift-Tuttle.
On the night of their daring jump, 500 meteors were observed per hour - five times more intense than usually expected.
Following the breath-taking celestial event, the four-man team wrote ‘Gracias’ with their LED suits once they had safely landed back on the ground.
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