Geronimo, Possums

WHAT goes up must come down. Or as Isaac Newton used to say: she'll be apples. And, indeed, it was for an Australian couple who have smashed the world record for the highest BASE jump. They had to toil up a Himalayan mountainside for 22 days, then, dressed up like flying possums in wing suits, they jumped off a cliff. The trip back down took them two minutes. But there were no short cuts for their Sherpa bearers: they had to cart the couple's gear all the way back to base camp. They are reported ...