Skydiving Fatality was friend of dead BASE Jumper
An Icelandic man killed in a parachute jump performance at a North Coast dance festival was a good friend of one of Australia's most experienced BASE jumpers, Anthony Coombes, who died last year jumping from a 1100-metre cliff in Norway.
BASE jumping is a form of parachuting that involves jumping from objects such as cliffs and skyscrapers. It stands for Building, Antenna, Span, Earth.
So close was their bond that the 27-year-old Icelander, known as Benni, travelled to Australia late last year to spend Christmas with Coombes's sister and mother at Goonellabah, near Lismore on the state's North Coast.
But exactly two weeks later, yesterday, Benni was also dead, when a skydiving performance at the Superfreaks dance festival near Bonalbo, about an hour west of Lismore, went wrong.
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