How hard could it be?

Joby Ogwyn is a just a normal guy…who enjoys extreme skydiving and speed-mountain climbing. At age 24, he became the youngest American to ever climb Mt. Everest in 1998, and he scaled the 26,246-ft Cho Oyu in Tibet in record time in 2004. Now he’s training for his most dangerous feat yet: a combination of his two favorite pastimes. This May, he plans to jump off the top of Mt. Everest and fly to the ground in a specially-designed nylon wingsuit.

His training regime involves buzzing around the Matterhorn in his wingsuit. Ogwyn has also been practicing near the Eiger and recently managed to jump off the Swiss mountain three times in a single day. He plans to make a few modifications to his suit at an airfield in California before heading to Everest. Here are some of his career highlights so far:

First World Achievements:

• First wing-suit flight around all four faces of the Matterhorn.
• First man to fly a wing-suit next to Mt. Everest.

Career Highlights:

• Three BASE jumps from the Eiger north face in one day (world record).
• Summits of four out the six highest mountains in the world.
• Speed ascents of Everest, Cho Oyo, and Ama Dablam (world records).
• Seven summits completed.

Ogwyn’s death-defying leap will air, live, on the Discovery Channel in over 200 countries. The international broadcaster also screened Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner’s amazing freefall from the stratosphere in 2012. He’ll be joined by a 40-person team who will follow him to Everest’s base camp at 17,800 feet. From there, four cameraman will journey with Ogwyn to the peak. Then, after changing into his wingsuit, the daredevil will bounce off the top and, if everything goes as planned, he’ll land somewhere in China.  He thinks the trip will take him about 10 minutes and he’ll reach speeds of up to 150 mph.

Ogwyn expects to encounter Chinese authorities when he reaches the surface, wherever that may be. “I will definitely have some cash and my passport in my wingsuit.”