If you havent already, at some point in your BASE career, youve lost enough friends and had enough experience to start to wonder how you can actually safely continue in the sport, or if you can. These thoughts and discussions have lead me to the question in the subject.
If you take the total number of BASE jumps that have been performed, and consider the total amount that have been done in a wingsuit (a very small percentage, maybe 5% if not much less), wingsuits are involved in a relatively large percentage of fatalities, especially in recent years. Obviously there are a lot of confounding factors like jumping in poor conditions, proximity flying, ect, but I got to thinking, what is the risk involved just in the additional equipment.
The question: Given equal perfect conditions of a typical jump that would be considered of "beginner level" for that equipment, lets say a stowed freefall at the perrine (insert your local large span with massive LZ) vs a wingsuit jump at brento (insert your favorite large rock drop cliff with large LZ), how much more, if at all, dangerous do you feel that the wingsuit base jump is, and why?
