Aladdin´s magic carpet: no longer a myth

An excessive sports activities fanatic has simply achieved the inconceivable, by flying on a magic carpet.

Video footage shot by a drone exhibits 44-year-old Freddy Montigny leaping into the air off a dramatically excessive mountain prime, earlier than hovering by means of the sky as if by magic.

The stunt came about within the stunning Vercors Massif mountain vary in France, with Freddy selecting the two,400 metre excessive Croix de Têtes as his launchpad. The Frenchman, who initially labored professionally as a drummer and stage technician, has spent years practising excessive sports activities and is not any stranger to leaping from excessive locations. He began paragliding when he was 25, adopted by skydiving at 30 and hold gliding when he turned 35, all of which he attributes to serving to him obtain his dream of flying on a carpet.

Freddy now considers himself to be one thing of an skilled in these sports activities, and is assured that his intimate information of the Vercors mountains, wherein he has practised his sports activities for a few years, plus the heights he jumps from, imply that his carpet voyages are as protected as they will probably be. Actually, within the video, proven on YouTube, Freddy confirms that he allowed himself to fly in direction of the bottom with a descent to 1,600 metres earlier than he felt it essential to open his parachute.

Magic carpets have been a fable in folklore for hundreds of years

Magic carpets have been written about in folklore for hundreds of years, initially within the Center Jap and South Asian tales of `One Thousand and One Nights´ (The Arabian Nights), compiled through the Islamic Golden Age (eighth – 14th Century). Nonetheless, today the flying carpet is most famously recognised for the half it performed within the story of Aladdin, which, though not included within the authentic Arabian Nights compilation, was added within the early 18^th century by French storyteller Antoine Galland.