1. Do you have any idea what BASE jumping ..........?

2. Apparently it is an .......... where the letters in the word are the first letters of a group of words.

3. In other words the letters .......... building, antennae, span and earth, all of which you can jump from.

4. Felix Baumgartner recently base-jumped out of a plane 9,000 metres .......... dover, a port on the south coast of England.

5. He intended to .......... across the channel with a parachute and land on the coast of France near Calais.

6. He started very early in the morning so that he was able to .......... commercial flights.

7. During the flight his supporters .......... that he will have reached 200 kmh.

8. The fact remains that he .......... and managed with the help of oxygen supplies to complete the crossing in ten minutes.

9. He created a new .......... and joins Louis Bleriot, the first to fly across the channel in 37 minutes and Matthew Webb, the first to swim across in 22 hours.

10. These are amazing achievements but if like me you want comfort, warmth and food on the journey, take the ferry crossing .......... 90 minutes.