Saturday Morning, we got on a 10.30 train with all our friends to celebrate the wedding of two beautiful humans. It was a beautiful morning, and the mountains and trees were covered in snow. We watched them marry on the bottom of the Eiger, under the mushroom. The ceremony was beautiful, we caught up with a lot of friends we haven’t seen in ages. Jonno and I hadn’t seen each other in a week, so we sneaked out of there super early without saying goodbye (sorry guys) and took the train back home. We got out off the train at Kleine Scheidegg around 4. There was a half an hour layover, and we walked out a bit and got into a huge snowball fight. Not far from us was an Asian couple taking Instagram, perfect loving snow shots. They looked at us in shock and I just said, ‘well there’s two types of relationships.’ Where after we continued attacking each other with snowballs. We were home in Lauterbrunnen at 5pm, had a chilled night, made some chicken burgers, drank some healthy fruit juice, and watched Pirates of the Caribbean in a massive beanbag, laughing about being old.

The following morning, we got up around 8, had some coffee and homemade banana bread and tried to visit Sandi to cuddle the baby cows. They said Nadja really wanted to see Jonno, and she’d be back a bit later, so they asked us to come back in the afternoon.

We decided that we’d go for a jump first. Jonno wanted to do a 2-way. I suggested he take his wingsuit, but he wanted to go slick, so I asked him to at least wear some drag. He pulled the Pikachu onesie out of the cupboard, and I just laughed. We took the 10.38 gondola up, followed by the train to Winteregg. We stopped there had some coffee on the terrace and watched the view. He took some photos for an Asian couple and went full focus on that. Those that know him will laugh at this, because you can just picture him trying to get the perfect framing and instructing them on how to pose and where to stand. 

We slowly walked down to Nose 3, he joked about doing a gainer and I said that was a stupid idea as he only ever jumps his wingsuit. When we got there the conditions were perfect. We both started gearing up and I routed the Pikachu tails through the left side lateral of his rig, because I was afraid it might be a snag hazard. We gave each other gear checks, kissed, and walked down. We got to the exit, called Air Glacier, and got clearance to jump. Jonno did the countdown, I did a flat and stable exit while looking under my right shoulder, I could see him do a gainer, go unstable and tumble. From the footage and what I’ve seen, we gathered the following:

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0 sec: exit + gainer

2 sec: starts too over-rotate

4 sec: unstable drops right side of body

6 sec: turned 90 degrees to the right and pitches

7 sec: Jonno is facing away from the wall

8 sec: Canopy fully inflated, 180 degrees facing the wall.

9 sec: He grabs the rear right and front left risers. Then drops the rear right riser and starts to pull down on the front left riser.

10 sec: Both hands on front left riser. Pulling hand over hand, up the lines.

11 sec: First impact.

13 sec: Canopy collapses. Still holding front left lines.

14 sec: Second Impact. He lets go of the front left lines and they wrap around the Insta 360 unicorn extension. The canopy is still facing the wall. The front risers have (swoop/dive/Louie) loops. The left riser loop snags on the lower unicorn mount bolt (6cm long), at the helmet mount.

15-18sec: He slides down the wall.

19 sec: He tries to unhook the riser loop.

23 sec: Third impact. Lines twisting up.

27 sec: He pops the right brake.

28 sec: Fourth impact.

32 sec: He’s still trying to clear the malfunction. Front left riser loop is still snagged on the lower bolt.

33 sec: The camera mount snaps at the helmet but is wrapped in his lines and slider. The canopy turns to the left.

34 sec: He tries to control the left turn.

36 sec: Fifth impact. He seems to lose consciousness and the camera falls away.

We spoke with a few jumpers who saw the incident from the ground. They said that he then fell to a ledge, where he was hanging for about 5 minutes. The canopy released from the wall, and he fell to the top of the talus.

Jonno was a legend and a beautiful human. He will be dearly missed by all who had the privilege to meet him.