Tragedy at Swiss Alpswhere he left his last breath a 24 -year -old Scottish Wingsuit pilot – Wingsuit flight is a sport in which athletes wear special bats.
24 -year -old Liam Byrne was killed last Saturday (21.06.2025) during a jump in the Swiss Alpsas local police said in a statement.
Liam Byrne’s parents, in a statement to the BBC, paid tribute to “Bold spirit and the noble heart” of their son.
Byrne had experience in flight with wingsuit – He became champion in the sport in 2022, recording the fastest speed in the advanced category.
The unfortunate young man had appeared in a recent BBC documentary entitled The Boy Who Can Fly (“The boy who can fly”) who watched his dreams fly like a bird and his careful preparations to do so.
On Saturday, he himself and two other Wingsuit fly jump from Gitschen Mountain in Central Switzerland at a height of about 2,400 meters above sea levelbut he has been misunderstood by his planned course for unknown reasons, the Swiss police said.
Crashed into a rocky steep area at a height of about 2,100 meters Above the surface of the sea and suffered deadly wounds, the announcement is added.
Growing up in Stonehaven, a small town on the northeast coast of Scotland, Byrne has always had an attraction for adventure and extreme sports. According to his profile at LinkedIn, he had climbed Mount Kilimanjaro at the age of 12, passed 500 kilometers with his own Hassky team in Norway, Sweden and Finland at the age of 14 and had qualified paratroopers.
“Liam was fearless, not necessarily because he was not afraid, but because he refused to let the fear hold him back. He chased life in a way that most of us only dreams of and rose high, “his family said in a statement.
“The free decline with a parachute and Base jumping was more than just about Liam – it was freedom. There he felt more alive. “