A Washington state BASE jumper died Sunday after an issue with his parachute and falling over 600 feet to the ground, authorities announced. The man, 47-year-old Elliot Barstow, was BASE jumping ...

BASE jumping—or parachuting off fixed objects like buildings or cliffs—is obviously a wildly dangerous prospect. But while literally every video of BASE jumping is thrilling, a new demonstration from ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The deaths of extreme athlete Dean Potter and his friend Graham Hunt in Yosemite National Park brought renewed attention to the risks of BASE jumping and its more dangerous offshoot ...

SAN DIEGO — The death of a man whose parachute failed to deploy during a late-night "base-jumping" attempt off a 23-story University City residential high-rise was under investigation Wednesday. The ...

All day and well into the night, dozens of people — young and old from all corners of the country — thrust themselves off the 500-foot Perrine Memorial Bridge in Twin Falls, Idaho. They fall into the ...

Matthew Blank and Ian Flanders first met at a rock climbing gym in Orange County 10 years ago. They became fast friends and started climbing together at Yosemite National Park. Adding to their ...

John Goodwin has never been base jumping before. But here he is, staring out over a craggy, sun-drenched canyon in Moab, Utah, lurching toward a gutsy jump off a 420-foot cliff. He instinctively ...

Hours after it was reported that a trio of men dove off 1 World Trade Center in a 1,368-foot BASE jump last September, the men, plus a friend who served as lookout, turned themselves into the police ...

Ironworkers James Brady (left, and inset) and Billy Geoghan release a cable during installation of a steel beam signed by president Obama in the World Trade Center. Brady is charged in a BASE jump ...

Strap in and hold your breath—this isn’t just a wingsuit BASE jump, it’s a full 360° ride from paraglider to freefall. You’ll ...

A BASE jumper in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, makes a super-splashy entrance at a rooftop pool party, and you can fly along with him in this crazy video. Freelancer Michael Franco writes about the serious ...