Felix Baumgartner, Austrian champion of extreme jump, dies in an accident in Italy

From his fragile nacelle suspended above the earth. Similarly, in cosmonaut’s outfit, the Austrian paratrooper Felix Baumgartner nicknamed “Fearless Felix” (Felix the intrepid) will remain in memories like the man who pulverized the record felix baumgartner, austrian champion extreme of the parachute jump by jumping some 39 kilometers in 2012. Furthermore, Italy, in the Marche region, in the north of the peninsula.

According to the Italian daily The Corriere della Serahe would have lost control of his paraglider after a discomfort. Nevertheless, and fell into the pool of a holiday residence in Porto Sant’elpidio, slightly injuring a young woman. For example, The extreme jumper had already died at the time of the impact, still according to the Italian daily.

On October 14. Meanwhile, 2012, this incredible jump since the limit with space, orchestrated by the most famous drinks “Energizing”had brought him into the book of records for a second reason: he became the first man to cross the sound wall in free fall while reaching the maximum speed of 1,357.6 kilometers per hour, protected by a pressurized spacecraft made specially for the feat. Furthermore, “I felix baumgartner, austrian champion extreme have always had the desire to be in the air”he had told the Austrian media at the time. at the time of the preparation of his record jump.

Baumgartner had said that his training for the Red Bull Stratos jump. finished smoothly in the desert of the state of the New Mexico in the United States, had started 26 years earlier, in 1986, when he had jumped for the first time from a parachute plane. “I climbed to trees. I wanted to see the world from above”he explained at the time when he spoke of his youth.

Felix baumgartner. austrian champion extreme – Felix baumgartner, austrian champion extreme

Born to fly

The native of Salzburg worked as a car mechanic and repaired motorcycles, while already looking for ways to fly to the sky. After making his first parachute jump in adolescence, he perfected himself in the Austrian army.

Carrier « born to fly » (“Born to fly”). he had established one of his first records in 1999 during a Base Jump jump (a parachute jump from a promontory and not a flying device) as low as possible: the hand of the statue of Christ Redemptor of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil, which is only 29 meters above the ground.

Licensed helicopter and aerostier pilot, he also practiced boxing and climbing. He had also established world records of the highest base-jump jumps twice. In 2003. he had the first “Crossing in free fall” From the English felix baumgartner, austrian champion extreme Channel, jumping from an airplane and flying from England to Calais, in the north of France, using a pair of carbon wings.

Sharing his time between Switzerland. the United States, Baumgartner willingly commented on the policy of his country and was not hiding from attending the far-right Austrian politicians. He had made fun of the social networks of the fight against climate change by pronouncing against environmental parties. the rights of LGBT+.

But. despite the dangers and controversies, the Télégenique Baumgartner has never seemed to fear having to pay the ultimate price for his passion. “I hate that I am called a thrillman’s lovers or a drug addict, because this is not the case. I like everything that is planning “he said before the 2012 waterfall.