Patrick de Gayardon
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Patrick de Gayardon (French pronunciation: [patʁik də ɡɛjaʁdɔ̃]; 23 January 1960, Oullins, Rhône – 13 April 1998, Hawaii) was a French skydiver, skysurfer and a BASE jumper.
De Gayardon was famous for pushing the boundaries of skydiving. He was one of the first people to develop the unique style of skysurfing, in which skydivers use a snowboard to make aerobatic maneuvers. He also made many famous stunts with his development of a ram-air wingsuit, starting modern-day wingsuiting.[1][2] In 1998 Patrick fell to his death in Hawaii during a skydive with Adrian Nicholas using the wingsuit while testing a modification to his parachute container; his death is attributed to a rigging error he made while making the modification.[3]
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