It was a terrible experience for me, and changed the way I jump. This has been a thoroughly positive experience for me.Įdit 4: After discussing it with my brother, I've decided to post an account of the worst thing that's happened to me in 10 years of BASE jumping. There are a couple of questions I have not yet answered, which I will return to in the morning. Let's get to the questions.Įdit: I will be away from the keyboard for a few hours, but will respond to more questions when I get back.Įdit 2: Back for a bit, and answering questions.Įdit 3: I'm off to get some sleep. It is a highly analytical activity by necessity, and tends to draw intelligent people from all walks of life.Įnough with the intro. It may come as a surprise that a university education is not uncommon among BASE jumpers. I have university degrees in physics and pure mathematics. That said, if conditions are right, I don't like to hold back. I wear a helmet and full body armour on almost every jump, and am not afraid to walk down if conditions aren't right. I am, for the most part, a very cautious jumper. At that point, everything becomes calm, and the world jumps into a surreal perspective. Sure, I'm scared at the exit point, but my favourite part of the jump is just after my feet have left the object. I think the 'adrenaline junkie' image gets overplayed.

I am an experienced BASE jumper, but by no means the most experienced-there are lots of jumpers with more jumps, and more experience, than I have. In the past decade, I've made just over 300 BASE jumps. I made 500 skydives before I started BASE jumping. I have been skydiving for 14 years, and BASE jumping for 10. BASE jumping is the activity of jumping from fixed objects (buildings, antennas, bridges, cliffs, etc.) with a packed parachute.

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