A mom of two has died in front of her son after slipping off an almost 300-foot-high platform while trying to take a selfie to celebrate completing a dangerous bungee jumping stunt, authorities in Russia said.

Extreme sports fanatic Elizaveta Gushchina, 45, carried out the jump successfully on Saturday — the same day she plummeted to her death in front of her 22-year-old son, Nikita, according to local authorities . 3

Gushchina then returned to the top of the 289-foot chimney at an unfinished thermal power plant without her safety harness to take a selfie with her son when she lost her footing and fell, hitting a hard surface above the ground, Russian state media outlet RIA Novosti reported .

“She secured herself to a rope used for rope jumping, but did not set the required sa

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