corliss arrives with a typhoon warning in effect, threatening the event and corliss' safety. >> i thinkly frightened. how are you doing? you can see it's not really clouds. i don't know what you call that -- haze or overcast is basically touching the top of the mountain. so i can't get the altitude to leave the helicopter to fly through it anyways. so i'm not going to be able to do a practice jump right now. all of my practice days -- you know, i was going to be able to do five jumps a day for five days and lead myself into this thing, i didn't get any of them. none. >> right now the conditions are ideal. >> finally, a break in the weather. corliss races to make much-needed practice runs only one day before the event. [ applause ] >> wow! >> i do my first practice jump flying over it. i'm looking down going -- like, oh, you know. i open and come into the landing area and slam in. a horrible landing. i mean, bad. and then all of a sudden it started dawning on me -- i spent the last year and a half getting better. so now i'm going to get totally broken again and have to go through another