Death at 56 years
Felix Baumgartner – his life, his stunts
With Felix Baumgartner, one of the best -known German -speaking extreme athletes died on Thursday. His stunts kept causing a stir.
The Austrian extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner killed in Italy on Thursday. This was confirmed by the fire brigade of the Eastitalian region of brands. According to information from the Austrian news agency APA, the 56-year-old lost control of being equipped with an engine equipped with a motor and crashed over Porto Sant’elpidio on the Adriatic coast. According to APA, he fell into a hotel pool.
Jump from the stratosphere made Felix Baumgartner famous
Baumgartner became known worldwide through his stratospheric jump in autumn 2012. At that time he jumped from the stratosphere to the earth from more than 36 kilometers and landed safely in the New Mexico desert in the USA. With the highest jump, the longest free fall and a top speed of 1357.6 kilometers per hour, he set several records.
Baumgartner, born in Salzburg in 1969, dreamed of flying as a child. He had climbed on trees, “always wanted to see the world from above,” he said in the APA interview shortly before his stratospheric jump. As a young man, he worked as a car mechanic and repaired motorcycles. He completed his first jump as a teenager, later he went to the Austrian army.
After his career, he drifted further and further right
Baumgartner has been commuting between Switzerland and the USA in recent years. He repeatedly commented on political issues and was bought with the right -wing populist FPÖ in his home country. In online media he mocked the fight against climate change and rejected the Greens and the rights of LGBTQ.
In 2016 he triggered outraged reactions when he proposed the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban for his anti -immigration course for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Source: Stern
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