Pictured: British father-of-two killed while attempting ‘double flip’ BASE jump in Swiss Alps as his family raise money to fly his body home because he was not insured
- Mark Hart, 44, died during a BASE jump in Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland
- Father-of-two from Sheffield crashed into a cliff trying to do a ‘double flip’
- Rescuers said injuries were so severe there would’ve been nothing they could do
- His family are trying to raise funds to be able to bring his body back home
- His niece writes on GoFundMe page that Mr Hart did not have full insurance
The British BASE jumper who died after crashing into the side of a Swiss cliff ‘while attempting a double flip’ has been named as a father-of-two from Sheffield.
Mark Hart, 44, died after launching himself from a take-off point near the village of Murren in Switzerland’s Lauterbrunnen area on Tuesday.
Mr Hart’s family are now trying to raise money to be able to bring his body back home, as he did not have insurance coverage for the extreme sport.
Tragic: Mart Hart, 44, pictured with his two-year-old daughters, reportedly died while attempting to do an acrobatic trick during a BASE jump in the Swiss Alps
Pictures of Mr Hart with his two-year-old twin daughters were posted on a crowdfunding site, as the family revealed their heartache at the loss.
‘Mark passed away in a freak accident whilst in Switzerland with his friends leaving behind both of his two-year-old daughters and his fiancee Anna,’ a his niece writes on the GoFundMe page.
‘He died doing the sport he loved the most but this time whilst base jumping from a hill in Geneva, it took a tragic turn for the worst although details of how or why it happened have yet to be confirmed.
‘Unfortunately, he wasn’t covered for the way he died meaning it’s going to cost thousands to bring him back home.
Passion: Mr Hart’s family said he had died doing the sport he loved the most
Accident: Mr Hart crashed into the cliffside after jumping from a take-off point near the village of Murren in Switzerland’s Lauterbrunnen area on Tuesday
Tragedy: The family are now trying to raise money to bring his body back home as Mr Hart’s insurance did not cover the way he passed
‘Money is never an issue when it comes to family, especially when it’s something as urgent as this but we are desperate to bring him home and for him to be at peace properly so any help at all, whether it’s a pound or a penny, will go such a long way and we will all be well and truly grateful for it.
‘Not only will this money go towards getting him home but will also go towards supporting Anna and his children whilst they go through the worst of heart breaks.’
The GoFundMe campaign has raised more than £19,000 in just three days.
Video footage of the helicopter’s attempts to reach the Mr Hart’s body after the accident was posted on Facebook by professional BASE jumper Jeb Corliss.
Corliss addressed the incident in a comment to the video posted on his page, which has some 345,000 followers, saying the Briton had ‘tried to do acrobatics and didn’t do them fast enough’.
Local authorities in the Lauterbrunnen valley, pictured, said Mr Hart’s injuries were so severe there would have been nothing they could have done to save his life
‘If someone had told me they were going to try and do a double front flip from the nose I would have told them they were going to die.
‘The cliff is not good for acrobatics. It’s a tracking cliff or wingsuit cliff only.’
Mr Hard’s body was later recovered, and local police confirmed that he was dead by the time rescue teams reached him.
‘An investigation is being carried out to find out what went wrong after the man’s chute was deployed,’ a police spokesperson said.
‘It is believed he died as a result of the collision with the cliff.
‘A rescue helicopter was quickly on the scene but there was nothing that could be done for the man, his body was trapped for some time on the side of the cliff face.’
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