Pregnant woman dies during 'one last base jump'

London - An adventure-loving Swedish woman who had vowed to quit base jumping forever as she became pregnant could not survive her last attempt at the jump.

Wioletta Roslan, 37, from Sweden, became addicted to adrenaline when she took up skydiving at the age of 19. She went on to wing walking strapped to the

wings of a biplane before her addiction to base jumping.

She had performed hundreds of jumps by the time she decided to hang up her parachute. However, she was determined to do one last jump and went to her favourite spot in the Swiss mountains last weekend despite being four months pregnant.

Roslan's mother Halina Zaniewska-Pettersson, said: "I was always terrified every time I knew that she was doing the sport again and I kept expecting the worst -- when she said that she was going to do one last jump while pregnant I begged her not to go."

Last week Roslan travelled to the area with her boyfriend Aleksander Domalewski. As soon as they arrived, the couple went straight to their favourite spot -- the Via Ferrata.

The mother said: "Aleksander jumped at the same time as her and could only watch what happened. He told me that she desperately tried to get her parachute to open without success. 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," the mother added.