Italy, May 26th
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According to media a young Swedish basejumper died on ITW.
Nothing out, died on scene, difficult rescue.
RIP
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According to media a young Swedish basejumper died on ITW.
Nothing out, died on scene, difficult rescue.
RIP
Re: [bumbum] Italy, May 26th
https://www.ladige.it/...-jumping-altro-morto (Ita) The jumper died on the 2nd Pilastro of Casale, usually simply known as the "pilastro" exit.
From 2nd hand information i know that he was jumping a wingsuit and somehow went instable some seconds after exit.
He impacted on the vertical wall (not on the talus) with nothing out.
I have no information about wingsuit model or experience.
Condolence to friends and family.
Re: [spector] Italy, May 26th
The suit was a Freak 2
BFL wrote:
Date: May 26, 2017
Nationality: Swedish
Object Type: Earth
Location: Pilastro, Italy
COD: Unstable exit impacted 4 secs after exit
Clothes / Suit: Wingsuit Freak 2
Gear / Parachute: Squirrel/Asylum Crux with Outlaw Lite canopy
Age: 35
Skydive Experience: Experienced
BASE Experience: ​Beginnner - 3rd season with previous 2nd season transitioning to wingsuit base on T-bird
Years in Base : 3
WS BASE: Beginner
Time of day: 12pm
Description:
Wingsuit jump from Pilastro.
Flying a Freak 2. Incident occurred at approximately noon local time.
Wind at exit was jumpers right to left crosswind around 7 mph.Jumper at exit point reported that the exit was noticeably head low. Jumper in LZ saw him corkscrew and then the suit flew him into the wall about 4 seconds after exit.
Canopy deployed after impact and slid, then hung up on the cliff.Both eyewitnesses—the jumper in the LZ who saw and the last jumper at exit—have more than 500 jumps and more than 10 years in sport.
Both are experienced BASE wingsuit pilots.Mountain rescue was called immediately, and a helicopter arrived approximately 10 minutes after the incident. A rescue team was landed on the top of the cliff, and a rescuer rappelled to the canopy. Extrication took approximately 2 hours from the time of the incident, and the jumper was pronounced dead on site by the coroner.
Re: [bumbum] Italy, May 26th
A fellow Swedish jumper mentioned that he had just obtained a sponsor and was making a fast progression into WS BASE 
Re: [bumbum] Italy, May 26th
Sad to see this one, he was a good person. Maybe the lesson here is the same old "do not cut any corners". Not 100% sure, so someone closer should verify, but i think he didn't have much big wall experience. Just few tracking jumps and one season(heliboogie and few brento trips) in T-bird? Really good in skydiving environment with bigger suits though. Not trying to throw dirt, just want to know the facts.
Re: [johnnyquid] Italy, May 26th
I knew him rather well. He had recently received a sponsorship as previously mentioned. He received a sponsored Crux just a month before this happened and had as far as I know made at most 20 jumps from airplanes with the Freak 2, but probably closer to 10. He was not experienced in wingsuit base or big walls in general. I was with him in Kjerag 2015 where we both did our first big wall jumps.
He made his first wingsuit base jump/s (I think he only made one) at the Heliboogie, in a T-bird, in 2016, and later the same season made a trip to Brento where he made around ten more jumps with the T-bird.
I didn't talk to him about jump numbers a lot, so even though I did personally know him this might be inaccurate. He was certainly inexperienced though.
He had hundreds of jumps in skydiving on his R-Bird pro, and lots of jumps in his T-Bird and Jedei 3 as well as some various other suits.
I miss him like hell and have a hard time dealing with this right now, but I want to contribute what I can to possibly prevent this from happening again, to at least save one life out there.
Re: [Akegata] Italy, May 26th
Hello, I would like to hear opinion from locals about jumping that exit at midday.
Last time i visited Brento (mid Aprill this year for Easter) i've seen few people jump Brento in the morning and than in midday Pilastro because Brento was to windy...
I observer they jump in really high wind conditions on the ground so assume it wasn't calm on top either.
Re: [NerwOlek] Italy, May 26th
I am also interested in this, as well as descriptions of the exit. I have never been to Brento and have minimal knowledge of the area. Is Pilastro a forgiving or an advanced exit?
Re: [Akegata] Italy, May 26th
It's an easy, overhung TS/WS exit, just not quite as overhung as Brento.
Re: [NerwOlek] Italy, May 26th
The Ora wind at ITW and that valley are misleading to people who do not understand valley winds. The winds are very strong in the valley but not at the exit points. But from reading this thread, it seems he may have had a dynamic wind instead of the valley wind. Just something to think about.
take care,
space
Re: [gharrop] Italy, May 26th
I don't have the numbers to hand but it is an intermediate exit point (i.e. not forgiving of an unstable exit, unlike Brento) This was probably the jumpers 2nd BASE jump on the suit.
I prefer to be on the ground by 11am - 11.30am before there is any significant Ora / south wind.
I had jumped from a different exit on the same mountain shortly before the accident, IMO it was more likely unstable exit / flight.
Re: [NerwOlek] Italy, May 26th
NerwOlek wrote:
Hello,
I would like to hear opinion from locals about jumping that exit at midday.
Then of course when you go around the next corner towards the landing area it can be very bumpy then you've got full Ora under canopy.
And I've mostly only jumped it in very late summer/autumn. Certainly not in full summer midday sun.
Re: [jakee] Italy, May 26th
Wind at exit was about 7-10 mph, crosswind. I don't believe that the wind was a major factor in this incident. It seems more likely that a bad exit combined with an unfamiliar suit (Freak 2, on which he had only a few skydives and either 1 or 2 previous BASE exits from Brento) was the primary cause of the accident.
Re: [alygator] Italy, May 26th
alygator wrote:
Corkscrew on purpose or lost of control?
Lost control.
His jump plan was to fly out and then turn left and fly along the wall to the WS landing area.
Re: Italy, May 26th
Hi, In the typology of Pilastro, which is a pillar as its name suggests with a large south face (corridor) on the right side (side which forms the pillar), necessarily a wind arrives around this pillar. The face of the exit is oriented East (sunny in early morning as on the photo, but shadow at midday), and this is the right of the Pilar that will heats up the most and around 12pm it is from there that the thermals will come up strongly then turning around the pillar from right to left (illusion of a crosswind). It is necessary to know that a thermal at full speed in the middle of the day at the top of the wall is 10m/s (35km/h, 22mph) on a thickness of 20m. Enough to destabilize a big wingsuit in the first 3 seconds. As much to the Brento the overhang breaks the thermal force as much to Casale must not play.
With a too much head down exit in that condition it is really dangerous with no speed. Even with a 10mph crosswind felling from exit (probably under wind, exit oriented East) but perhaps more at 10m in front of the pilar... because if there is a little crosswind, there is more wind somewhere!
Correct me if Iam wrong.
Take care.