NOW HE’S FOREVER UP IN THE SKY
‘HILMAR NEVER WANTED TO BE ON THE GROUND. HE’S IN HEAVEN NOW HERE HE’S MEANT TO BE’
THEIR passion for the sport connected them like brothers. Nothing brought them greater joy than freefalling through the air before deploying their parachutes and floating down to Earth.
The four friends, Joggie Botma, Hilmar Backer, Rudi Serfontein and Dylan Whitehair, shared a bond forged through adrenaline and adventure and they spent most weekends indulging in their greatest passion.
“A high-risk sport like this makes you close,” Joggie says. “It’s like blood, but stronger.”
Then came the freak accident that ripped their lives apart.
