Felix Baumgartner’s up-and-down career has just taken another dive: the most determined BASE jumper worldwide has just conquered Scandinavia.

“Turning Torso” is the name of Scandinavia’s most spectacular building: it is 190 meters and 57 floors tall, stands in Malmö and was designed by Santiago Calatrava. Since 18 August, the biography of the building-opened on 27 August 2005-has been one entry richer: Felix Baumgartner used its roof first as a landing surface, then as his starting ramp for a further jump.

It was exactly 6:40 am when Felix jumped out of a helicopter, pulled his ripcord and-shortly thereafter-landed on the roof of the Turning Torso, the diameter of which is a mere 11 meters. Three minutes passed before Felix went for his next jump, this time from the building’s roof. After three seconds in free-fall, “502” pulled his ripcord for the second time that day, landed safe and sound on Swedish ground just a few seconds later, and left the scene of his feat on a motorcycle.

“Landing on the roof with a parachute is something I’ve wanted to try for a long time,” said Felix Baumgartner afterwards on the boat to Denmark, “and I did it because they said it was impossible.”
Bernhard Spöttel
Bernhard Spöttel
Kasper Dudzik
Felix Baumgartner