A MAN will today attempt to glide 17.6km from the Aran Islands over Galway Bay to the mainland. If successful, Swiss flyer Ueli 'Sputnik' Gegenschatz will hold the record for the longest ever wing suit flight.

INISHMORE, ARAN ISLANDS, IRELAND - Perhaps I stamped when I should have stomped. Perhaps my bodily fluidity could have been better and my toes more obedient. Perhaps my footwear let me down. But the Celtic music was marvelous, the company impossible to better. My feet rarely touched the ground.