“seemed to die doing what he loved”
You gotta be tough, if you love a hard landing in the rocks, after a 500 foot freefall.
(the fall doesn’t kill you, the landing does.)
I might add, being a Russian scientist doesn’t seem to include the common sense course.
Woman falls 100 feet to her death from cliff in Belgium after posing for selfie.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4009897/posts