[Axenolith]

There was a guy in the 70's or 80's skydiving who survived a fall of around 9000 feet onto a muddy slope and walked. One of my classmates in geology who base jumped (yea, could you find much more psycho things to do?). He watched a guy ahead of him jump off the New River Gorge bridge in West VA, suffer a complete canopy failure and then saw him gather up the chute and crawl out of a pool he landed in. It's not inconcievable and I'll buy it, particularly with witnesses.

[SamAdams76]

All the responses here about other examples of people surviving falls from incredible heights has caused me to rethink my position on the subject. I now concede that this story is probably true. But I don't plan to do any independent testing on my own - I'll just take your word on it!