Adrenaline junkie and future mom, Wioletta Roslan, loved to do extreme sports and have her life constantly at risk for the thrill. Although she enjoyed risky hobbies, she decided to give them up after she found out she was pregnant. So she decided to take her last jump alongside her boyfriend, find out what happened as she fell to her death.
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The 37-year-old Swede was four months pregnant when she died after her parachute failed to open during a base jump near Stechelberg in Switzerland.
Her boyfriend Aleksander Domalewski jumped alongside her and could do nothing but watch as Ms Roslan realised her parachute wouldn’t open and spread her arms awaiting the impact of the 990ft drop.
The Via Ferrate cliff was Wioletta’s favourite spot for base jumping and she had been there many times before with her partner…
‘It did not open and in the last moment she realised she was not going to succeed. He told me that she had simply spread her arms and waited for the impact.’
Ms Roslan died instantly. Local emergency doctor Bruno Durrer said: ‘Every death in the mountains is tragic but this one was particularly so because I knew her and also because she was pregnant.’
Her mother Halina said: ‘I am totally devastated and shocked. I picked so often to give up jumping but she just didn’t listen and now it’s too late. When she was in Switzerland she was only there for base jumping – every spare moment she was climbing and jumping.
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