The day before, he posted a picture of the mountain on his Facebook page, accompanied by a smiling emoji and the description "feeling like he is dreaming." "Certainly knew this day would come but no less gutted that it's here," Glen J. Kilpatrick wrote on the World Wingsuit League's Facebook page. "I think many of us already knew in a way that he was going to die soon, since his flights were closer and crazy day by day," wrote Jose Montero. According to his bio with the World Wingsuit League, Dickinson started out parachuting but quickly took up wingsuiting. According to the WWL, Dickinson was travelling in China alone with a mission to scout and open new jumping exit points.

Source: CBC News February 01, 2017 15:00 UTC