[pshc]

> For example, Wilbur and Orville Wright were quite aware that they stood a high chance of dying in their airplane experiments. Neil Armstrong figured that he had a 1:3 (or something like that) chance of dying going to the moon. The people who free climb have a very high death rate.

In these examples, these people aren't posing a threat to other people around them in their risky behavior.

[base698]

Rescue attempts for a variety of mountain sports do put others at risk. In addition most of the above post was about the effect on first responders.