A disturbing new video has been released showing the death of a daredevil who jumped to his death from a 29-story building in Thailand on Saturday night, according to reports.
A 33-year-old man, identified as British BASE jumper Nathy Odinson, is seen preparing in the video. base jump From a building in Pattaya, Thailand.
BASE jumping is similar to skydiving, but instead of descending from an airplane, you parachute from a fixed object.
Odinson, whose social media is full of photos and videos of his stunts, has jumped into the building many times before, the Daily Mirror reported.
Before jumping off, Odinson is seen having a short conversation with a friend who is recording a video, where he confirms that Odinson's helmet camera is set to record. Odinson also appears to be briefly inspecting his parachute. He then jumped from a 29-story building, but his parachute failed to deploy and crashed through a tree to the ground.
Thai paramedics arrived at the scene at around 7:30pm local time and found Odinson's body in a “horrible condition”, the Daily Mirror reported. (Related: Man BASE jumps from 23-story apartment building, parachute fails to deploy and dies, police say
The newspaper said surveillance footage from the building showed Odinson and a friend parking their car outside the building and sneaking inside.
The US Sun reported that in an interview after the incident, Odinson's brother Ed Harrison blamed his brother's death on “user error.”
“It was a simple mistake he made without realizing it. He looks like he's in a hurry, which is bad, maybe he was worried someone had stopped the jump,” Harrison said. Told.