An American BASE jumper died on Friday afternoon after attempting a BASE jump in the Swiss Alps, misjudging his launch, hitting a cliff, and falling hundreds of feet into a gorge.

Police are still searching for a man who pried open the doors of a gondola lift and illegally base jumped 1,500 feet in a tribute to an extreme skier who died jumping off a cliff.

A BASE jumper attempting a cliff dive off the side of "Wall Street" near Moab, Utah, suffered a brutal fall after a poor parachute opening — and the entire thing was captured on his headcam.

An extreme sportsman who leapt off a 1,000-foot cliff in Lake Garda, Italy, only to suffer a parachute malfunction and tumble helplessly to the ground, shockingly managed to escape the harrowing ordeal with only minor injuries.

[Two BASE jumpers leap from the Kuala Lumpur Tower in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for some reason. That's 1,400 feet in the air. I can't even look at this photo without covering my eyes. Photo via AP.]

Jumping off at over 2,000 meters in the air and soaring in the sky for over three minutes, Dean Potter gets as close as humanly possible to achieving human flight.