A Ohio man died in a BASE jumping accident on a Portugal vacation when the wind blew him into a cliff, according to a report.

Zeke Wilson, 35, of Rossville died Saturday in Porto da Cruz while BASE jumping, which refers to leaping from a building or antenna, among other fixed objects, news station WRCB and local media outlets reported.

On his final jump, the wind reportedly blew Wilson and his parachute backward into the side of a cliff.

He died from injuries he suffered in the crash, according to a GoFundMe page created to raise money to get his remains home.

“It took rescuers several hours to recover his body,” the page said. “[His wife] was a witness to the entire event.”

In addition to his wife, he is survived by hisA few years after fleeing the fascist tidal wave in Europe and finding refuge in New York City, Hannah Arendt penned a letter to her mentor and confidant Karl Jaspers, commenting briefly on the peculiarities of American politics and society. She remarked, “The fundamental contradiction of the country is political freedom coupled with social slavery.”

This simple sentiment, which she affirmed until the day she died, is striking for three reasons. Most obviously, it suggests civil and political freedoms are not sufficient foundations for what we would consider a “good society.” Secondly, Arendt, a German Jew, obviously had no illusions about how low European society had sunk in its flirtation with fascism, but she apparently and rather damningly found the United States comparatively worse than pre-war Europe in terms