Matt Glen Munting, a true "legend of flight", found dead in a gully

For more than 400 times he had launched, with his wingsuit, from the peaks around the world and over 3,500 were the adventures with the parachute. Matt Glen Munting, a 35-year-old Australian, was a true legend among base jumpers, considered one of the greatest experts . But something, in his test on Mount Cimone, in the Western Julian Alps, betrayed him and the man was found dead in a gully.

When all traces of him are lost, the research with the technicians of Cnsas Fvg and the Guardia di Finanza started. Yesterday what looked like a parachute was identified from above, then the rescuers tied themselves up with the rope and faced a traverse and three abseils until they touched the bottom of the stony channel in which the parachutist was, now dead.

Also yesterday the body of another base jumper was found: English, 33, had launched from Monte Brento, in Trentino.

(Unioneonline / ss)