[dennisw]

The recent deaths have put a renewed focus on the dangers of base jumping — an activity that veteran Hervé le Gallou described as “more like a suicide than a sport” in an interview with the New York Times. (Le Gallou died during a jump in the French Alps in 2012)

[generally]

Statistics I read a while back said that 10% of all base jumpers have died while base jumping.

That seems to indicate that your chances of dying if you participate in the sport exceed 1 in 10, since at least some of the other 90% are still active and have not yet died of old age.

1 in 10!! Would you continue to fly in airplanes if your chances were 1 in 10 of eventually dying in a crash? Would you go swimming if your chances were 1 in 10 of eventually drowning? Yikes.

[dfwgator]

It’s an addiction, like heroin, with these people.