‘It was wonderful up there’: 104-year-old aims for world’s oldest skydiver record

Dorothy Hoffner, who first skydived at 100, left her walker on the ground and made the 13,500ft tandem jump in northern Illinois

A 104-year-old Chicago woman is hoping to be certified as the oldest person to ever skydive after leaving her walker on the ground and making a tandem jump in northern Illinois.

Age is just a number," Dorothy Hoffner told a cheering crowd moments after touching the ground Sunday at Skydive Chicago in Ottawa, about 85 miles (140km) south-west of Chicago, the Chicago Tribune reported.