Austrian skydiver and base-jumper Felix Baumgartner passed away in a tragic paragliding accident in Italy. The daredevil was flying a motor paraglider in Porto Sant’Elpidio, a historic village in ...

Felix Baumgartner, the world-renowned Austrian pilot who was named National Geographic’s 2013 People’s Choice Adventurer of the Year for his fearless aerial feats, has died in Italy. According to ...

Felix Baumgartner, the man who was well-known for jumping from the stratosphere and back to Earth, has died in a freak paragliding accident in Italy. He was 56 years old. It was reported that the ...

Update #3: Okay, so, he's alive. It worked. That was all a bit stressful, yes? Baumgartner survived jumping from almost 130,000 feet above the earth. He didn't break the record for longest free fall.

This summer, Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner will attempt to break the world record for the longest jump, plummeting more than 23 miles from the Earth's stratosphere. "I've done a lot of test ...