Jean-Marc Boivin

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Jean-Marc Boivin (born April 6, 1951 in Dijon ; † February 17, 1990 at Salto Ángel , Venezuela ) was a French mountaineer who has always moved between the human possible and the crazy on his tours.

Life

In 1985 he was the first to take off from an 8000 m high mountain with a paraglider. Three years later he sailed from Mount Everest to the valley on a paraglider . Boivin died in Venezuela in 1990 while trying to jump with a special parachute from the edge of Salto Ángel - the highest free-falling waterfall on earth.

Individual evidence

  1. Jean-Marc Boivin. Retrieved August 29, 2017 .
  2. ^ Died: Jean-Marc Boivin . In: Der Spiegel . No. 9 , 1990 ( online ).
  3. Base Jump . jeanmarcboivin.free.fr