Highest parachute escape

According to Official Guinness Records,

The greatest altitude from which a successful parachute escape has been made from an aircraft is from a Canberra jet bomber by Flt./Lt John de Salis, aged 29, of Southampton, and Fg Off. Patrick Lowe, aged 23, of Potters Bar, Middlesex, over Monyash, Derbyshire, UK, on 9 April 1958. Their plane exploded at 56,000 ft (10.60 miles) and they fell free in a temperature of - 70Fº to a height of 10,000 ft at which altitude their parachutes were automatically opened.

For a complete list of 1958 records, please visit 1958 Guinness Records in United Kingdom.

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