Posted on 08/23/2023 12:15:12 PM PDT by george76
Russian scientist Dr. Dmitry Fedyanin seemed to die doing what he loved.
German officials say the 34-year-old expert in ultra-violet light and a senior research fellow at the Nanooptics Department of Siegen University in Germany fell to his death Berchtesgadener Alps National Park after following his hiking app over a cliff.
Fedyanin’s body was found at the bottom of Hoher Laafeld peak, which sits at about 7,000 feet.
Fedyanin was using his hiking app to make his way down the mountain but the route he was taking didn’t have paths and the app “sent him over mountain precipice.”
“Our investigators assume that the male individual slipped in the rocky area which features some patches of grass,” police spokesman Maximilian Maier told media outlets.
“He then slid down at least 150 meters (492 feet). It is understood that he had been around on his own.”
It’s been a brutal 10-day stretch for the Berchtesgadener Alps, according to German news outlet BR24, which reports there were four deaths in the mountains. In one case, a 57-year-old woman slipped to her death as her husband watched in horror. There was also a 29-year-old woman from Austria who fell to her death after a “misstep.”
As pilots say, “Sometimes you should look out of the window.”
Putin's goon squad needed to practice before nailing their actual target?
Did this happen today, same day as Russians shot down a jet?
When there is no skyscraper nearby,the kind equipped with high, extra wide windows, one can always take your selected Comrade on a long, winding, one way hike up the nearest cliff side.
“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.
Always love it when these extreme adventurers get the Darwin Award without any first responders being injured.
Was he vaxxed?
Did he know Epstein?
Yevgeny Prigozhin airplane crashed / like Ron Brown.
His words as he fell. “I have information that will lead to the arrest of and conviction of Hillary Clintooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon”
“It’s been a brutal 10-day stretch for the Berchtesgadener Alps...”
Well, Hitler didn’t choose it for his secure mountain hideaway for no reason.
Woman falls 100 feet to her death from cliff in Belgium after posing for selfie.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4009897/posts
Very true!!
😂🤣
The next new rage: Pokemon Hike!
Gotta collect ‘em all
Some apps will just push you over the edge.
that’s asking a lot from a cornbinder...
Trust that GPS without question. No need to think for yourself, the machine is much smarter than you are.
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