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38-year-old Brandon John Chance and his wife, Aly, both jumped from the bridge around noon, but Brandon Chance deployed his parachute late and hit the water with the chute only partially deployed. Sheriff’s spokeswoman Lori Stewart said Chance’s wife pulled him from the water and performed CPR, but Chance did not survive his injuries. The I.B. Perrine Bridge spans a canyon 486 feet (148 meters) above the Snake River in Twin Falls, Idaho. It’s a popular destination for BASE jumpers and is the only man-made structure in the United States where people can BASE jump year-round without a permit.

French wingsuit flyers recently completed an unbelievable stunt following a B.A.S.E. jump from the top of the Jungfrau mountain in Switzerland.

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...

Three people accused of parachuting off the top of 1 World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan this past September turned themselves in Monday along with an earthbound accomplice to face charges, including felony burglary, misdemeanor reckless endangerment, misdemeanor jumping from a structure The case is the second in two weeks arising from surreptitious stunts from the structure. A teenage boy was arrested on March 16 after authorities said he slipped through a gap in a fence, eluded an inattentive security guard and spent about two hours atop the 1,776-foot-tall tower. The incidents have raised questions about security at the lower...

Stather's friends were waiting on the canyon floor for him to complete his second jump when he never landed, azfamily.com reports. The friends hiked out of the canyon and found his body about 2,000 feet from the top and called the police, according to a Coconino County Sheriff's Office spokesperson. Authorities said Stather was wearing a wing suit and parachute popular among those who do the activity.

Looks like this happened November 24, 2013. Two of my kids and I walked along this road (Potash) a few days later a couple of days after Thanksgiving. Amazing views. We love going to Moab...usually go in the Fall when it's cooler and less people. I didn't make it last Fall, but decided spur of the moment to do it this year. Perfect weather, even though cool, there and back...surprising for this time of year so dry over the passes along 1-70. Thank goodness for us snow storm came in a few days later. We didn't see any base jumpers...

What to you get when you go out looking for one of the daring (craziest) people on earth, give him a flying bat suit (a flying wing suit), a bunch of GoPro cameras and tell him to jump off a cliff? This video. Meet Jeb Corliss. Asked about the risk defying adventures, “I go out there expecting death”. That pretty much explains Jeb. For as long as he can remember, Jeb Corliss has dreamed of flying. One of his earliest memories came when he was 6 and sitting in the back of his aunt’s car watching birds jump from telephone...

CASA GRANDE, Ariz. — Authorities say a Tucson man has died after parachuting from a cell phone tower at night and hitting high-voltage power lines. Pinal County sheriff's Lt. Tamatha Villar says 23-year-old Darrell Dunafon and two friends broke into a cell tower site about 30 miles south of Phoenix on Friday night and were parachuting off the approximately 400-foot-tall antennae. Dunafon's parachute became tangled in nearby 12,000-volt power lines and he was shocked with a live wire.

Officers of the Moscow Traffic Safety Inspectorate documented a bizarre car accident, which took place in Russia’s capital on November 29 at night. The accident occurred because of a B.A.S.E. jumper. The car accident took place in Moscow’s north on Sunday night. The B.A.S.E. jumper was jumping off a high-rise building on Moscow’s Khodynsky Boulevard. The man miscalculated the trajectory of his flight and landed on a Land Rover vehicle that was traveling along the street. In addition to the driver, there was a woman and a child on the back seat of the vehicle. The extreme jumper, a 31-year-old...

A Sunny Isles Beach woman's efforts to scale her way into her locked apartment Sunday morning ended in tragedy when she fell to her death from the roof an 11-story building. The accident occurred at 10:30 a.m. as the woman, believed to be in her mid-20s, returned home from a night out to her condo at the Ramada Plaza Marco Polo Beach Resort, 19201 Collins Ave. Employees said the woman appeared to have lost her keys or locked herself out of her apartment. Police did not release her name but those who recognized her said she was an exotic dancer...

He was known as Peter Pan - the boy who could fly - but something went fatally wrong moments after Australian Darcy Zoitsas leapt from a 1000-metre Norwegian BASE jumping site. As he hurtled down the huge cliff face of Kjerag Peak in western Norway his parachute failed to open on Monday. "I used to call him Peter Pan, the boy who can fly and refuses to grow up and are surrounded by lost boys. He would smile in recognition and call me his Wendy," wrote Lesley Assersen at an online remembrance message board. "I had hoped to live with...