If not, you're not being honest with yourself. I hope I don't (die), but I've definitely considered the possibility. "I'm really in the moment, thinking about performing, moving away from the rocks. ![]() A 2012 University of Colorado study found that 72 percent of wingsuit flyers had witnessed death or serious injury, and 76 percent had experienced a "near miss." "I'm not thinking about life or death," says Burwell, who has had seven friends die in jumps since he started. So it turned out to be pretty exciting." Terms like exciting and dangerous are all relative in the world of BASE jumping, perhaps the most dangerous of extreme sports, where daredevils like Burwell don special suits that help them harness gravity and literally soar like superheroes through the sky before parachuting to the ground. Outdoor writer Mark Freeman of the Medford Mail Tribune gained these insights after he caught up to Burwell, a veteran of at least 75 jumps on three continents: "I didn't really plan on it happening that way," Burwell says. Could have been a disaster, but the video of the experience, called "Throwing Blake Burwell Off a Cliff," (below) is giving a new meaning to his home town of Talent. Two friends went along with the idea, grabbed his hands and feet and tossed him off a sheer cliff wall called Kjerag. But it just seemed like a good idea to have some friends join in." THRILL SPORTS - Oregon BASE jumper Blake Burwell racked his brain for a new way to fly off a 3,000-foot cliff in Norway last June.
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