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Felix Baumgartner has a passion for expanding boundaries, especially in the air.
Born in Salzburg, Austria in 1969, Felix began skydiving at the
age of 16 and polished his skills as part of the Austrian
military's demonstration and competition team. In 1988, he began
performing skydiving exhibitions for Red Bull. The company's
out-of-the-box thinking and Felix's adventurous spirit clicked, and
they've collaborated ever since.
By the 1990s, Felix felt that he'd gone as far as he could with
traditional skydiving, so he extended his canopy skills with BASE
jumping - parachuting from a fixed object or landform. He finds
that the lightning-fast reflexes and precise techniques required by
such low-altitude feats also enhance his high-altitude skydiving
technique.
Felix has made world-record BASE jumps and has been nominated
for a World Sports Award and two categories in the NEA Extreme
Sports Awards. He is also a prominent advocate for the nonprofit
Wings for Life Spinal Cord Research Foundation. And, while he
acknowledges that the Red Bull Stratos mission is a step into the
unknown, his determination to reach the edge of space and break the
speed of sound is unshakable. "If Red Bull Stratos is successful,
we can share data that hasn't been available ever before," Felix
states. "I would be proud to be able to make such a
contribution."
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