Felix baumgartner family biography letters

Born in Salzburg, Austria, in 1969, Felix began skydiving at the age of 16 and extended his skills as part of the Austrian military’s demonstration and competition team. In 1988, he began performing skydiving exhibitions for Red bull.

The company’s out-of-the-box thinking and Felix’s adventurous spirit clicked and they’ve collaborated ever since, becoming today the world’s most known Red bull athlete.

By the 1990’s, Felix felt that he’d gone as far as he could with traditional skydiving, so he extended his canopy skills with BASE jumping – parachuting from a fixed object or landform – one of the most extreme and dangerous sport.

He finds that the lightning-fast reflexes and precise techniques required by such low-altitude feats also enhance his high-altitude skydiving technique.

Felix has made 14 world records with his BASE jumps all over the planet , being a pioneer who has opened the path for all the skydivers around the world, for whom he is a g