BASE stands for “buildings, antennae, spans, and earth,” and jumpers parachute from these and other fixed *objects—an incredibly risky pursuit that has claimed at least 180 lives since 1981. The world’s deadliest sport has no governing body, but the online magazine Blinc maintains the official BASE jumping fatality list (BFL), which assigns each dead jumper a BFL number and describes the incident. Here’s how they all went down.

By: Meaghen Brown

BASE jumping is considered the world's deadliest sport. Photographer: Illustration by Chris Philpot


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