[bjornedstrom]

Didn't expect to find one here at Hacker News. 698... so you must have started around the early 00:s or thereabouts?

Unfortunately I share your same statistics: I was very active in the early 2010:s and in that period I lost about 10 friends/acquaintances. Since then even more people I've hung out with are gone.

So yeah: wingsuiting is dangerous. But BASE itself can be done "reasonably" safely I think: personally I was always more fond of slider down (low) stuff, like buildings, and in my mind that's a safer sport than wingsuit BASE.

[base698]

Yeah 2000 was first BASE jump. There are a few on here. Brendan W and a few others pop up on these threads.