Duo fly across Auckland

Chuck Berry successfully landed in Victoria Park to complete the first ever wing suit flight across Auckland's skyline.

Weather conditions were perfect and Chuck touched down at precisely 10:28am local time with international coach Jim Scott, who filmed the whole event while sky diving.

The event marks 50 days until the start of the 2015 Winter Games, that take place in Queenstown, Wanaka and Naseby from 21-30 August.

Alpine skier Corey Peters - current world champion and 2014 Sochi Paralympic silver medalist - was in attendance to promote the games alongside Anna Wilcox, who's a member of New Zealand's freeski team, and she competed in the Sochi Olympics last year.

Straight after his smooth landing, Chuck said: "Every time you jump out of a plane it's good fun. This is the way to arrive. The very best way!"

"It was beautiful and there was no cloud at all. You could see right across Auckland. Being above the viaduct and the harbour, while looking down on the big buildings and Sky Tower, it's just awesome.

"The view is amazing and the air was fresh. You get a much bigger view of the world and your place in it."

"New Zealand it dotted with gorgeous places to sky dive and this (Auckland) is one of them. Being in an urban environment is really unusual to do this kind of skydive. It's really nice to be able to do this."

The Winter Games will attract the world's best snowsports athletes and Arthur Klap, Winter Games NZ CEO, said Chuck's sky dive was "perfect".

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"The weather played its part and Chuck's good value. He did his job and the landing looked really good. The imagery we got from up above Auckland should be fantastic.

"Chuck's been involved with at least the last two games and he lives in Queenstown. The whole connection with snow sports and extreme events is there already. He'll be doing a wingspan jump over Cardrona for the closing ceremony. He's keen and he loves it.

"It's an event that's really special for New Zealand. We get the very best in the world coming but it's also a fantastic destination for New Zealand that goes out through an international audience."

Chuck added: "This is the kick off to crowd awareness before the games. I closed the winter games last time around with a sky dive on the final day so I've got a relationship with the winter games crew.

"I've been really stoked to be asked to come and do this jump and bring it to Auckland - bringing it to the masses.

"The games is really a southern spectacle with 800 competitors coming from all over the world.

'It makes the games the largest recurring sporting event in New Zealand.

"Most of it's happening in the southern lakes region so we're encouraging everyone to be involved and come on down or tune in to see how it all goes."

The games will showcase alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, freeskiing, snowboarding and curling with all but a few events free for everyone to watch in person or live on TV and online.

Klap added: "We have downtown villages in Queenstown and Wanaka. We'll have free concerts and we've got an adventure film festival which Chuck is part of.

"We get most of the top free skiers and snowboarders in the world. In 2017 we'll get all of them because it will then be six months until the Winter Olympics.

"The games are ongoing so in 20 and 30 years time, there's an annual event in New Zealand showing off the best skiers and snowboarders in the world.

"Then there's the pride that we have in New Zealand in delivering another great international event."