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Rest in Peace

Felix Baumgartner

Born:20 April 1969
Salzburg, 🇦🇹 Austria
Died:17 July 2025 (aged 56)
Porto Sant'Elpidio, 🇮🇹 Italy
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Punxi · F
That the cat that fell to earth?
RunTheJulz · 46-50, F
@Punxi lol
A highly respected and passionate athlete in the flying (falling) sports community. I had the opportunity of meeting him at a Red Bull sponsored event for legal B.A.S.E. Jumping in the USA. He died in a paragliding accident. I can’t imagine how that could have happened because he was such a skilled pilot with a paraglider. That activity has been exerting a significantly greater pull to participate in it on me more and more.
The only problem is that I don’t think the rest of my family and friends will be very interested/excited/supportive of my participation in it. So for now it’ll remain just a dream…
And I admire and respect those who do it and who pay the ultimate price for their actions. I don’t think Felix would be too disappointed in his own life but he would perhaps miss the one’s he loved most. It’s they who end up with the burden of his loss of life. 😔
mindless · M
@RunTheJulz my understanding is that he had a heart attack during his jump and was dead before he touched the ground.
The man was an absolute icon
TradEmily · 26-30, F
@mindless … crashed into a swimming pool of the Le Mimose Family Camping Village, striking a young woman who was injured on impact