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Fatality 24th July 2010 Kjerag/Norway
On the 24th july at Norway,kjerag

A Russian Base Jumper ( Anton Knestyapin ) with 200 Base jumps/200 skydives passed away.

The deceased died on a 12 sec rock drop doing multiple aerials, after 10 seconds of aerials he comes out facing the wall at 11-12 seconds turned facing fjord and pitched there was no seperation from wall (tracking) and opened with a off heading hitting wall, multiple cliffstrikes ending up hung up on wall / killed on impact

Jumper was wearing no helmet or protective equipment..

I am sorry for the Russian community who i believe has lost a highly respected jumper..

This information is written from myself who was there..

Name will not be released until police contact relatives less then 24 hours old..



tweaked the subject line to help standardize the format. --- wwarped
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Re: [MBA-PATTO] KJERAG/NORWAY FATALITY 24/07/10
I am sorry, yet another loss. We are now at fatality #152...

For those who continue to not understand, that deciding to push the limits, at the same time, NOT prepare, should read this:
http://www.blincmagazine.com/.../Fatality_Statistics

When you are done, read it 10 more times!