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Killed, perhaps the most famous Italian extreme base jumping (jumping in wingsuit or with a special parachute with fixed location) thirty-year-old Uli Emanuele.
On the account of this athlete more than two thousand extreme jumps, among which the most unique and dangerous is considered a flight in wingsuit through a crevice in a rock (a hole is only two meters width). The Italian extreme made his fatal jump in the most popular and ideal place for this kind of sport – in Lauterbrunnen Valley Bernese Alps. Here annually twenty thousand similar jumps, it is no coincidence that this place in the Alps nicknamed the mecca of base jumpers. True, the Lauterbrunnen Valley is already buried more than three hundred such desperate heads. And now in the death toll is recorded and the illustrious Italian Uli Emanuele.
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The young man worked in a restaurant – he washed dishes, and that’s all devoted his free time to training. He was obsessed base jumping, making more and more risky and unusual jumps, for example, through a small burning ring, although admirers of this extreme sports believe that their flight through a hole in the grief of Uli Emanuele never surpassed.
On the day of death, an Italian athlete took part in the filming a promotional video for GoPro where the main character His compatriot model Robert Manchino acted – also extreme girl who made almost a hundred jumps in wingsuit, not to mention already about thousands by parachute. In this project, Uli Emanuele performed in the role of the operator, he jumped after Mancino. By unknown reason, the Italian athlete suddenly deviated sharply to the right, then began to rotate in the air until it died, crashing into a rock.
Wingsuit World League – World Wingsuit League commemorating Uli Emanuele published a video (see below) dedicated to this outstanding extreme sportsman.
Another unsuccessful jump
The next video is about the death of another an extreme baseball player from Italy, allegedly twenty-eight-year-old Armin Schmieder, who recently also crashed in the Swiss Alps.
Having dressed in a suit with membranes on the arms and legs (wingsuit), the athlete went through a mobile phone to the social network Facebook and then committed live jump. Since his smartphone was at that time in your pocket, web users, one of whom recorded this video, could only hear the whistle of the wind, then – a scream and in the end – a deaf hit. True, the phone was not injured upon impact and continued broadcast the sounds surrounding the scene of the tragedy to the Network – somewhere sheep bleated nearby, there was a ringing of bells tied to the neck of animals …
Bern’s law enforcement authorities have already discovered the corpse of a young a man dressed in wingsuit, but the investigation is still ongoing, and details of why the athlete died have not been disclosed.
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