This from the French Base Assoc site, very sad news
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Engelberg- Accident by jmp
Information of the 2003-01-12 valid one until 2003-01-27
January 11, 2003 - 20:43
A Zurchois young person is deceased while devoting himself to the base jumping
SARNEN - a Zurichois young person lost the life in a basic accident jumping with Engelberg, in the canton of Obwald. He struck a wall of rocks before making a fall of several hundred meters. It is the second accident of the kind at this place.
The victim which was accompanied by a colleague is hurled since Fürenalp with 1800 meters of altitude in direction of Herrenrüti to 1100 meters, indicated the cantonal police force. The parachute opened in time, but at the time of the starting jump the young man was propelled towards the rocks which it ran up against of full whip.
He then made a fall several hundred meters. Rega could only note its death. A few months ago, another "base jumper" had found death at the same place.
Source:
http://www.edicom.ch/news/suisse/030111204332.sa.shtml
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