85-year-old skydiver chases 1,000 jumps [Video]

Have you ever been skydiving? How about more than once? Could you fathom doing it a thousand times? One 85-year-old woman from Cadillac, Michigan, is more than halfway there.”In my mind, it’s just I’m gonna jump, I’m gonna jump. It’s coming you know,” Kim Emmons Knor told WWJ.Knor says the excitement never goes away while she’s strapping up to get ready for her 689th jump. That’s right, at the time of this posting, she has 688 jumps logged.Related video above: Skydiver sets new Pennsylvania record for most jumps in single dayKnor’s first jump, as logged in one of her several booklets seen in the video above, was 65 years ago, when Knor was just 20. Hundreds of jumps later, she’s chasing 1,000.”A thousand is what I need for Gold Wings and back in the day when I started jumping in 1959, the epitome of success was Gold Wings,” Emmons Knor …