Felix Baumgartner, an Austrian base jumper and skydiver renowned for his record-breaking jump from the stratosphere, died while paragliding in Italy on Thursday, local media reported.

Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner, the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound during a 24-mile leap through the stratosphere more than a decade ago, died in a crash Thursday along the eastern coast of Italy.

The Austrian daredevil, 56, set records when he broke the sound barrier in a jump in 2012. He died in Porto Sant’Elpidio, Italy, in a paragliding crash.