[ClearCase_guy]

He will rely on its oxygen tanks as the air is too thin to breathe –
and hope that the sheer force of the fall does not make him blackout.

Hope is not a plan. Although that little fact has become obscured since about 2008.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

-— Hope is not a plan. Although that little fact has become obscured since about 2008-—

Works in politics. In engineering, not so much.

This was done before a half century ago:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sky=mrdr&site=webhp&q=freefall+space+youtube&oq=freefall+space+you&aq=0v&aqi=g-v1&aql=1&gs_sm=c&gs_upl=6407l19373l0l20829l21l21l0l3l3l0l406l4061l2-10.2.2l14l0

[KC Burke]

Joe Kittinger has held the record for over 50 years at over 102,000 feet. He did three high altitude test jumps to see if a drogue chute would stop high altitude ejection flat spin and almost died on one of the jumps. The final one, his pressure suit failed and his hand froze at the minus 94 degree temperature experienced.

If this guy goes about 16% higher, but 50 years later, I still think Kittinger has the bigger brass.