Pacific Beach resident Barry Holubeck is being featured in the April edition of Reader’s Digest as part of a feature called “What It’s Like to…” The feature profiles five people across the country and their extraordinary adventures. Holubeck is a skydiving and BASE-jumping instructor who leaps from cliffs around the world wearing a wing suit equipped with a parachute. As part of his profile in next month’s Reader’s Digest, Holubeck describes jumping off one of the tallest mountains in the Swiss Alps. Before taking the plunge, he said he sat for a few minutes near the edge to take in the view. When Holubeck said when he jumps, falling at about 35 mph, he feels about three seconds of euphoria and complete calm before he snaps to attention with four seconds remaining to save his own life. When the wing suit inflates, he’s said he is flying rather than falling. At the 10-second mark, he travels at 120 mph. For the two minutes Holubeck is flying along the side of a cliff, he said he feels as if he’s attacking the terrain. And once his chute inflates, his anxiety of concentration evaporates. His complete story and a video of him in action can be found by visiting www.rd.com/true-stories/what-its-like-to-fly. To subscribe, visit www.readersdigest.com.