It was his companion who gave the alert, worrying not to see him return. A 44-year-old man from Vendée was found dead on Wednesday in the Hautes-Pyrénées by mountain rescuers from the Gavarnie CRS.
This base-jumper had jumped from a cliff in the Pibeste massif. According to the first elements of the police investigation, he would have made mistakes during his jump. The 40-year-old died instantly after falling from the rocky point from a height of 30 to 50 meters.
Base jumping is an extreme sport that consists of parachuting from a high point, whether from a mountain cliff, a building or a bridge.
Every year, fatal accidents are recorded in France, in particular on “spots” such as the Millau viaduct, as last November, and which is nevertheless the subject of a ban by prefectural decree.