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The video shows a tiny, dark figure leaning off the side of Idaho’s Perrine Bridge. The sky above is gray, the Snake River rumbles 500 feet below. The figure, 73-year-old base jumper James E. Hickey, leaps from the bridge and his parachute bursts into flame. “What the hell?” a spectator behind the camera says, half shocked, half chuckling. “We gotta —” But as distant fireball plummets toward the river below, it’s clear that something isn’t right. The laughter dies.

Two base jumpers, including an Australian, were killed in separate accidents in the French Alps on Sunday (local time) after parachuting off mountains in their wingsuits. Their deaths bring to four the number of people killed taking part in the extreme sport in France this month. ... On August 6, two base jumpers, one from Switzerland, the other from France, died in similar accidents in the Alps and French Pyrenees. ... Unlike skydiving, which involves leaping from an aircraft, base jumpers take off with a parachute from a fixed point, usually a cliff or a bridge. The sport carries high...

SQUAMISH, British Columbia- An extreme jumper was rescued after being stuck in an extreme location on a Canadian mountain Monday, authorities said. The stranded BASE jumper was spotted stranded on Stawamus Chief Mountain, a popular British Columbia venue for the risky activity, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported. BASE stands for the four types of extreme jumping locations: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs). Rescuers reached the parachutist, who was safe, but stuck on the rock face, after parachuting from the peak of the mountain, Vancouver's CKWX reported. John Willcox of Squamish Search and Rescue told CKWX the man was...

BASE jumper killed at Kjerag in Western Norway An Australian BASE jumper was killed Tuesday when he didn't manage to open his parachute. The man had jumped off a cliff at a popular BASE-jumping site in western Norway. Western Norway is popular with BASE jumpers from around the world. On Tuesday, one of them met his death at Kjerag. PHOTO: TONE GEORGSEN "Witnesses have told me that he had problems getting hold of the lever that opens the parachute," said Vibeke Knutson, vice president of the Stavanger BASE Klubb. "When he finally did, it was too late." Sølve Tanke Hovden...