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I just learned of a fatality in Nalchik, a town in the south of Russia, lots of low cliffs around there, a handful opened, most not.

Jumper: Nikolai Ens. Apparently it was a cliffstrike under canopy in strong winds. More details when available.

You'd almost think every year one nation gets picked by fate to reap the bloody harvest, and this year it's the Russians.

Sorry to hear.


Low cliffs and strong winds...

Don't know if it is fate, or poor choices, sounds like the latter.

Very sorry to hear about that. Has anyone got any more details?

More details: It's a cliff that was opened last year. It's about 10 seconds to impact tall, but people would regularly jump it slider-down because the landing zone is upwards of 1600ft away.

The jumper was on a Troll 305 MDV and had in lieu of 65 jumps, with 3 being from that object.

The headwind was strong that day. After a while it dwindled to 4-6 MPH, but still remained a headwind. The jumper made a 1-2 sec delay slider-down. Nobody saw the deployment. The jumper was discovered hung up on a ledge about 750ft below the exit point, with toggles in hands.

Attached see a picture of the wall.

Body-armor and (full-face) helmet?

On the walls of that size, doesn't headwind at the exit point pretty much mean vertical straight-up wind at the opening altitude when the jumper is close to the wall?