Renowned daredevil Felix Baumgartner, famous for his record-smashing stunts — including a 24-mile skydive from the edge of space in 2012 — has died in a paragliding accident in Italy, according to local media reports.
Felix Baumgartner, the Austrian skydiver and BASE jumper who gained international fame for his 2012 supersonic freefall from the edge of space, has died at the age of 56 after a fatal paragliding accident in Italy, according to local media.
Austrian skydiver and extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner has died in a paragliding accident in Italy, according to local media. The 56-year-old shot to global fame in 2012 with his record-breaking free-fall from space.
MILAN (AP) — Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner, the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound during a 24-mile leap through the stratosphere
Felix Baumgartner, the Austrian skydiver who became the first human to travel faster than the speed of sound without the assistance of a craft during his record-breaking leap through the
Felix Baumgartner broke the sound barrier in 2012 after jumping from a helium balloon 24 miles above the earth, freefalling before opening his parachute.
MILAN — Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner, the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound during a 24-mile leap through the stratosphere more than a decade ago, was killed in a paraglider c
Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner, the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of was killed in a crash Thursday along the eastern coast of Italy.
Baumgartner became the first human to break the sound barrier with only his body after jumping from a capsule at the edge of space, more than 24 miles over New Mexico.
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