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It’s hard to feel sorry for folks who meet disaster parachuting from fixed heights of 1,000 feet or so, but they do have a breathtakingly high mortality rate. Their passion, BASE jumping, is done from antenna towers, cliffs, buildings and bridges. Since skydiver Carl Boenish invented the sport in 1978, at least 80 have died, including Boenish. This site lists them all. Reading it begins as voyeurism, but absorbing so many incomprehensible deaths becomes oddly affecting.
