A WESTERN Australian tradie has died while wingsuit BASE jumping in Italy, his heartbroken family says.

Ben Drummett, 25, slammed into a mountain while BASE jumping with friends in the northern Italian province of Trentino on Monday, the Seven Network reports.

BASE is an acronym for building, antenna, span and earth - the four categories of fixed objects people can jump off.

His father, Simon Drummett, says his son died doing what he loved the most.

“He would jump off anything, anywhere, at any time of the day or night,” he told Channel Seven on Friday.

“You can wrap your kids up in cotton wool but at the end of the day they are who they are and you wouldn’t have stopped Ben doing what he loved doing.

“The chance of getting that phone call in the middle of the night was always a very real, very real thing and, unfortunately, it did happen.”

Mr Drummett’s parents and brother have flown to Italy to bring him home.

“Fly free my brother, you’ll be missed like you wouldn’t believe,” Jordan Drummett wrote on Facebook.

Mr Drummett was from Mandurah, south of Perth, and worked at Bouvard Marine.

In a statement, the company said he “will be remembered as a top-class tradesman, friend, extreme sportsman and comedian”.