BASE jumping, a fringe extension of skydiving that began in the late 1970s, is considered to be one of the world’s most dangerous extreme sports. It consists of plunging from fixed objects such as buildings, antennas, spans (such as bridges or beams), and earths (such as cliffs) — the four structures that compose the acronym BASE.
The sport requires participants to utilize their own body or the design of their winged suits to fly within very close proximity to mountainsides and weave through trees and ravines before deploying their parachutes.
