I’m so sad and for me is devastating to write down this report. Ale was a wonderful guy, still dreaming like a kid, he was a professional long-range pilot, he had a long skydive and base-jumping background, he was the kind of jumper that underestimates his skills, always conservative with good mindset, he never pushed hard in his way of flying.
Ale was super kind, gentle and a humble human being. My thoughts go to his family, his friends, his colleagues, his son and lucky jumpers that have crossed paths with him.
Details
It was a solo jump, a friend of his drove him up to the top of the mountain and while Ale was hiking to the exit his friend drove the car down to the landing zone. Ale texted his friend that he would jump in 2 minutes. His friend never had Ale in sight, but a speleologist (cave diver scientist) has reported to authorities that he saw a wingsuit spinning and never saw it exiting from the valley. Rescue team was called immediately, helicopter operations took about one hour, Ale was found dead.
Considering all the information that we have at this stage, information's by climbers who were close to the area, videos on TV news and GPS points of possible impact, we could assume that it was a “MISSPULL”. He used to fly “normal” lines, never aggressive, never low passes. Probably he missed the PC, we suppose he lost stability attempting another pull, wingsuit went unstable starting spinning without control. Probably he has impacted in full speed spinning down, he was found close to the last cliff close to landing zone, where we use to start flare or splitting formations.
Canopy was found close to container and PC probably is still in the BOC. Camera was found completely unserviceable, no SD card found. With no videos we could not be sure about what has happened, but we think we are close to the truth. We could consider many factors that could contributed in this Base fatality, but I think it would be disrespectful. I would just say a thing, just my 2 cents that was “philosophy” we share in our “base career”: go jumping conservative, with good friends, with good vibes, when you are happy. I’ve never met people who didn’t have a good word for Ale! Ale you will be missed a lot. Fly free in your infinite skies!
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