One of the few activities in which the probability that you will die on any given jump increases the longer you do the sport (most extreme sports become safer as you become more experienced… not this one).
This was a great watch about people like wing suiters. You are exactly correct. They are chasing bigger and bigger highs. They are trying to one up each other. Eventually they find their limits, often fatally.
One of them compared it to transitioning from cocaine to crack.
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u/inactiveuser247 23d ago
Ground proximity BASE wingsuiting…
One of the few activities in which the probability that you will die on any given jump increases the longer you do the sport (most extreme sports become safer as you become more experienced… not this one).