TAIWAN-BASE JUMP-HIGHEST TOWER

Austrian base jumper, 38-year-old Felix Baumgartner is stepping into a taxi to escape after he jumped 11 December 2007 from the world?s tallest completed building, the 509-meter high Taipei "101 Tower" in Taiwan. Baumgartner, an extreme sport professional, has had his eye on a leap from the world?s tallest completed building ever since it was officially completed three years ago, after two reconnaissance missions to scout out the tower in the past year, Baumgartner made his spectacular leap from the platform at exactly 4.18 p.m. local time (0818 GMT) and after a five second-long free fall opened his parachute just before landing safely on the roof of a multi-storey car park. AFP PHOTO BERNHARD SPOETTEL ** RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE****