'Chuting Factoids We bet you didn't know that... The highest jump of all time was made from over 100,000 feet... ...While the lowest jump ever was from a mere 143 feet. Leonardo da Vinci conceived the physics of parachuting (on paper) back in 1495... ...But it took another 122 years for someone to actually test da Vinci's contraption. Skydiving fatalities were down by almost 22% from 2008 to 2009.