A freak encounter with a venomous snake has forced Tim Howell of the UK to cancel his upcoming attempt at the highest-ever wingsuit flight. Howell planned to launch from 8,300m on the Lhotse Ridge. "A week before we were due to leave, I was walking in Grenoble [in the French Alps]," he wrote on Instagram. "I stopped for a pause, put my hand in a bush, and what I thought was just a thorn turned out to be a bite from an Asp Viper." Asp Viper (Vipe…
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