Antoine Montant found dead in French Alps

The body of daredevil skier, BASE jumper and speed flying champion Antoine Montant was found Sunday in the French Alps, a day after his girlfriend reported him missing.

Montant, 30, had embarked on a solo BASE jumping wingsuit expedition in the Haute-Savoie region. His main parachute had not been deployed.

The Frenchman clearly enjoyed life to its fullest. He was the national acrobatic paragliding champion from 2006 to 2008. He was first to combine acrobatic paragliding and BASE jumping and made what's still a record 120 tumbles while paragliding.

BASE jumping is parachuting from a stationary object and paragliding is flying beneath a fabric wing similar, in some respects to a hang-glider.

Montant had won the Speed Flying Pro Les Arcs in France for the past three years.

Planetmountain.com described Montant as "a visionary explorer capable of living a reality which most considered pure madness. He breached the borders of what was hitherto believed skiable, thanks to his extraordinary paragliding ability he managed to ski the mountains like no one else before him."

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Antoine Montant speed flying Chamonix, France.

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[Captn35]

Ummm, sick!!!

[foxtrotzeroalpha]

Meet you on the other side Antoine.

[gardacom1]

Adieu Antoine, tout les pilot in Malcesine sont..... ciao Antoine, incredible Infinity Tumbling man! Claudio Chiarani

[monr18]

Grind!



[gertrongertron]

RIP.