Extreme sports icon Felix Baumgartner has died following a paragliding accident on Thursday in the coastal town of Porto Sant’Elpidio on Italy’s Adriatic coast. The Austrian adventurer lost control of ...

Baumgartner was an Austrian skydiver, BASE jumper and overall daredevil. Known for multiple jumps such as from Petronas Towers in Malaysia and the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Austrian skydiver and daredevil Felix Baumgartner speaks during an interview. The Austrian extreme sportsman Felix Baumgartner has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner died on Thursday at age 56, crashing into the side of a hotel swimming pool while paragliding ...

He broke the sound barrier, set records, and will go down in history as one of the greatest German-speaking extreme athletes. For decades, Felix Baumgartner continually pushed the boundaries of what ...

Extreme sports icon Felix Baumgartner has died following a paragliding accident on Thursday in the coastal town of Porto Sant’Elpidio on Italy’s Adriatic coast. Baumgartner lost control of his glider ...