Extreme sports icon Felix Baumgartner has died following a paragliding accident on Thursday in the coastal town of Porto Sant’Elpidio on Italy’s Adriatic coast. The Austrian adventurer lost control of ...

Felix Baumgartner, the daredevil who made a record-breaking parachute jump from the stratosphere in 2012, died Thursday in a paragliding accident in Italy, a local mayor confirmed. Firefighters who ...

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Felix Baumgartner, the daredevil who made a record-breaking parachute jump from the stratosphere in 2012, died Thursday in a paragliding accident in Italy, a local mayor confirmed. Firefighters who ...

(CNN) — Felix Baumgartner, an Austrian base jumper and skydiver renowned for his record-breaking jump from the stratosphere, died while paragliding in Italy on Thursday, local media reported.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The world of extreme sports is mourning the death of Felix Baumgartner, the Austrian athlete who became the first person to break ...

From the moment he leapt from his capsule to the moment he touched the reassuring ground, a whopping 9 minutes and 9 seconds ...

A skydiver has made history by smashing the world record for the highest skydive after leaping from 128,097ft. Daredevil Felix Baumgartner ascended to the edge of space in a pressurised capsule ...

A short film on Felix Baumgartner's 2012 jump from space to Earth uses new footage from the GoPro he wore during his descent. "I wish you could see what I can see," Baumgartner said before his ...

Outside of the entertainment world, and action films specifically, it's not often the world becomes familiar with a professional skydiver. One would have to participate in some pretty wild stunts to ...