Three men were convicted for illegally taking BASE jumps at Yosemite National Park where the activity has been illegal since the mid-1980s. All three were fined and two were given jail time. “We do ...

Illegal BASE jumping has surged at Yosemite during the 2025 federal shutdown. Reduced park staffing left enforcement thin, enabling daytime cliff leaping. Editorial calls for Congress to end the ...

In 1783, Louis-Sébastian Lenormand climbed to the top of an observatory tower in Montpellier, France, leaned over the edge, and jumped. An astonished crowd watched as he fell to the ground with the ...

The National Park Service (NPS) announced that three people were convicted of illegal BASE jumping in a national park, and the agency warned would-be outlaws it’s still enforcing the law despite the ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — Rock climber Peter Zabrok was enjoying his morning coffee, dangling from a slab of granite hundreds of feet off the ground, when he heard a sound he likened to a jet ...

A BASE jumper was rescued in a dramatic video shared on social media in the canyons near Moab, Utah, earlier this week. The video, taken by Ashley Corbin, shows the heart-racing moment Wednesday when ...

You are standing at the edge of a cliff. In a few moments, you will jump. Once you take that step off solid ground, you will experience a fleeting free fall until—if all goes to plan—the parachute ...