He takes off in a wingsuit, a 20-year-old died in a crash: drama in Bolzano

There wingsuit it didn’t open and parachute emergency situation. A young 20-year-old guy died under dramatic circumstances. base jumpers A South Tyrolean who collapsed to the ground after an extreme jump from the ruins Greifenstein Castle, above the town of Settekerse, along the Adige Valley between Merano and Bolzano. He tried to fly where no one had ever dared, in a difficult place where good technology was most likely needed: the man fell into the forest a few tens of meters below the path leading from Settekerse.

To raise the alarm rescuers it was a witness who, shortly before the launch, spoke with a twenty-year-old athlete, to whom he told that he wanted to try to launch. Members of the Alpenvere mountain rescue team in South Tyrol were at the scene, as were members of the CAI and the Guardia Fiscal, who intervened by sending a helicopter. The helicopter that then delivered the body.

On August 24 last year, another BASE jumper died in Switzerland: he jumped in a wingsuit from Dent de Morcle in the Swiss Alps and was missing for two days before his lifeless body was found in a stream.

© All rights reserved.

Ciro Cuozzo