"I'm OK, but getting the rope ': What British tourist, 41, said his girlfriend over the phone after a base jumping left him hanging from a cliff. Three hours later fell 230ft to his death.

 

 

British tourist spent three hours trapped on a cliff talking quietly to his girlfriend on the phone before a gust of wind blew his 230ft to his parachute death.Jake Simkins' became tangled on the face of the cliff while the base to jump on a Greek island. He called for (41 years), his girlfriend of old, which is almost seven months pregnant, in a nearby hotel to raise alarm.But emergency services, the Greek was unable to rescue the worker the London Underground, which landed on the shore of Navagio on Zanetti after a storm wind drag parachute him off face.As waved to the abyss hundreds of feet above the rocks on the island - also known as Zakynthos - Mr. Simkins to make calls from his mobile phone to reassure the partner Anita that he was not seriously injured after hitting into the abyss and said he was only a factor which Greek leg.A The side-by-side with Anita contacted the emergency services, but the firefighters did not reach Mr. Simkins.The woman, who did not want to be named: "He was talking to them constantly, and let her know that was okay. 'He was quiet, and they were joking until . Jake request for emergency services to throw him a rope, so he could get off.Certainly three hours was enough time for the fire service to find a rope and get it to him? Antonis Potamitis, who runs a boat tour of the Gulf and collected Mr. Simkins jumps after the other, he repeatedly called the fire service and begged them to bring a dedicated team climbing from Athens.He added: "It was a terrible tragedy. Jake was really good man, and knew what he was doing, but somehow it ended on the rocks." I asked the President to demand the local fire specialist backup, but he did not listen. 'In spite of the passage of three hours and was suspended 70 meters above the rocks, they did not even get to the bottom rope. How is that possible? "Mr. Simkins was killed after falling on Friday night. Partner has taken to hospital suffering from shock, though, and came out on Sunday and since his transfer back to Britain.The husband had hoped to marry after the birth of their child.Said one of the local population on the island, "she was in complete shock. She could occur hardly the first day. But then it is to be expected. She came to spend the holiday with her partner, and left without him. Was very unhappy partner," Mr. Simkins "talk yesterday when he answered the door of his family home in north London.The Friends of Mr. Simkins, who was working as a technician an indication of the London Underground, and was an experienced base jumper who played more than 40 solo jumps.He may paragliding also down to the beach Navagio - known as the 'Gulf of the sinking of the ship - on three occasions before his fatal fall.Base jumping is the sport of extreme jump from the participants in the fixed point before using the parachute at the last minute to break the 'norm' fall.The their word is an abbreviation of four points of which can jump: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges) and earth (cliffs) Before his trip to Greece, Mr. Simkins post a message in Facebook, and write: 'can wait. ! June can not come fast enough "Dutch tourist who witnessed the incident and said the canopy seems stuck on the van der Eerden rocks.Corne said:" We heard the throbbing, and see what we thought was a man sky diving or parachuting. It crashed into the wall. "I shouted to him and said he thought he had broken his leg." He had his mobile phone him, and he was about to call his wife. I told him to be cautious, but he said he was going to hang on tight 'said a spokesman for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office said: "We can confirm the death of a British citizen on June 8 in Greece. We offer consular assistance to the family."