BASE Jumping - Fatalities

Fatalities

BASE jumping as of 2002 has an overall fatality rate estimated at about one fatality per sixty participants. A study of 20,850 BASE jumps from the same site (the Kjerag Massif in Norway) reported 9 fatalities over the 11-year period from 1995 to 2005, or 1 in every 2,317 jumps. However, at that site, 1 in every 254 jumps over that period resulted in a nonfatal accident. As derived from this same jump site study, BASE jumping has the highest risk of injury and death and so is the most dangerous of identified global recreational activities, with a rate forty three times higher than parachuting from a plane.