MediaFaro News Digest<p>Extreme skydiver Baumgartner dies in a paragliding accident.</p><p>Austrian skydiver and extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner has died in a paragliding accident in Italy, according to local media.</p><p>The 56-year-old shot to global fame in 2012 with his record-breaking free-fall from space.</p><p><a href="https://mediafaro.org/article/20250717-extreme-skydiver-baumgartner-dies-in-a-paragliding-accident?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mediafaro.org/article/20250717</span><span class="invisible">-extreme-skydiver-baumgartner-dies-in-a-paragliding-accident?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/FelixBaumgartner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FelixBaumgartner</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Baumgartner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Baumgartner</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/ExtremeSports" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtremeSports</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Skydiving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Skydiving</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Paragliding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Paragliding</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Space</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Austria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Austria</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Italy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Italy</span></a></p>