We got on the first gondola around 8:30am. There was a group of 6. Everyone was very excited as 5 of us had never done the jump before, Raian was leading us to the exit as he had done it a few times before.
When we arrived around 10 am, it was very light to dead winds, got sunny as we got to the top and everyone was stoked. Raian was relatively quiet on the hike up but gave us the info we needed on exit. He geared up pretty quickly and was ready to jump first. He said have a good jump to us all and went first.
His exit was quite head high, pendulumed head down and had a bad start what was as normal for Raian what we didn’t know at this stage however he flew right out of sight and we didn’t hear from him again. The next 5 of us jumped about a minute apart.
Only 2 of the remaining 5 made it through the V line (both in Corvid 2’s). We both had good exits and quick starts, and still the conditions didn’t allow for much healthy margin. With a bad exit, I believe it would have been nearly impossible to make the hard flight in the conditions given. (Shaded wall and first time on this line in the C BASE). As we flew overhead through the V, we saw his body resting on the top of the second main impact point through the gulley.
No canopy out, laying flat with head up as though he had stalled out right as he impacted. We just met Raian the day before in Sass Pordoi. He was very kind and fun to hang out with a very good dude! Was hoping to get some epic jumps in with him over our last few days here in Europe. He will be missed for sure, I think anyone who has been lucky enough to hang out with Raian will miss him, a great energy to have in the group.
From a close Friend: Raian was a special person. Really a good soul and always make me smile. 75% off all his jumps I jumped with him. No one knew him better then me. He had many problems with speed on his flying. Thats why he bought a C-Base to solve this problem. But he took this suit for every jump. Short exits. Glidy flights however we talked many month about it and he know his problems with head low exits and flying slow. However fix your problems with training and not just changing a suit. Use the suit for the terrain and glide you fly. You where an amazing human. We love you and thank you for everything! On our way we did together.
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