Roland "Slim" Simpson

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Roland Simpson (1969 – 22 October 2004) was a BASE jumper with over 1,000 jumps. He was born in Australia in 1969. He was a qualified tandem master and a wingsuit instructor. He became the US national exit style champion in 1998, and the US national champion in 1999.[citation needed]

BASE life

Since 1993 he was well known as a

Cave of the Swallows
in Mexico. He even participated in making the world's record in jumping from fixed objects on 3 July 2004, when 30 jumpers leapt at the same time.

On 25 April 2001 in Garie Beach (Australia), he had a serious accident in which he was badly injured. His injuries were three broken vertebrae, two broken femurs, a broken collarbone, a punctured lung, and a smashed pelvis. A year after the accident, he returned to the sport. He was always active in BASE jumping.

Fatal injuries from last BASE jump

Roland Simpson's death

On 5 October 2004 during Chinese National Day Holiday, a multi-national group of BASE jumpers who were invited by the Shanghai Sports Bureau leapt from the top of the tower. The next day, Roland Simpson leapt from the

wingsuit. After a good jump and flight, his parachute opened with multiple line twists making it difficult to steer and he crashed onto an adjacent building.[1] He went into a coma. He was then returned to Australia, where he died from his injuries in Canberra Hospital at 2:30pm AEST on 22 October 2004. He is number 85[2] on the BASE Fatality List.[3]

References

  1. ^ "A leap too far: leading base jumper killed in Shanghai". The Sydney Morning Herald. 9 October 2004. Retrieved 9 June 2016.
  2. ^ "BFL - BFL85: Roland 'Slim' Simpson". bfl.baseaddict.com. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
  3. ^ "BFL". bfl.baseaddict.com. Retrieved 14 October 2019.

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