Birdmen

For hundreds of years, fully grown adults and very young children have dreamed about flying. Now, a small group of extreme sportsmen wearing specially made wingsuits have come about as close to flying as you can get outside the confines of an airplane, at least for a minute or two.

The wingsuit allows its wearer to stay aloft three times as long as a skydiver.

The 60 Minutes team and correspondent Steve Kroft traveled to Norway to see this spectacle for themselves.

There is no better time or place than the Romsdal valley of Norway during the summer solstice, a paradise of fjords and farms several hundred miles northwest of Oslo.

Myth has it that Norway's trolls live here amidst the waterfalls and some of the tallest sheerest cliffs in Europe.

Norwegians have been parachuting off them for decades. Birdmen take the extreme sport to new extremes, dropping off a cliff and free falling until the air inflates the wings of their nylon suits and propels them forward.

Near the end of our stay, we chartered a helicopter for the biggest adventure of our visit. We were going to the top of one of the most famous mountains in Norway, Romsdalshorn.