[robotresearcher]

> I think part of the reason base jumping is banned in Yosemite has to do with the spectacle of it.

From the fine article:

" “The reason we would like to discourage it is not so much because of the danger of it, but the spectacle of it,” O’Neal said during an interview at the park’s Emergency Operations Centre."

[carsonbaker]

Yes, very sorry. "Some charlatan has stolen a Ziggy and passed it off as his own!"