https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/15/five-die-in-french-alps-in-series-of-extreme-sports-accidents

A deadly weekend for extreme sports in the French Alps has claimed
the lives of two climbers, a paraglider, a hang glider and a wingsuit jumper.

On Sunday afternoon, rescuers found a paraglider’s body on rocks in the Haute-Savoie
region on the Swiss border, security forces said.

The man had plunged to his death from the Buclon mountain, which is 2,072 metres
(6,797ft) high.

Earlier in the day, a hang gliding instructor died aged 49 after plunging out of
his two-seater near Lake Annecy. His student, who was not harmed in the
incident, managed to land and alert the emergency services. Rescuers were unable
to resuscitate the victim.

The Bandolier study found that, for hang gliding, the chance of death was one in
nearly 117,000 flights.

“We think in the context of the number of people doing it – we have 7,000
members in the UK – it’s safe,” said Bill Bell, the director of competitions at
the British Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association. “We don’t see it as an
extreme sport,” he added, explaining that the amount of technical preparation
and study required to get aloft put adrenaline junkies off.

The extreme sport English and Welsh mountain rescue services spend most effort
dealing with is mountain biking, said Andrew Simpson, a spokesman for Mountain
Rescue. Last year the service dealt with 30% more mountain bike accidents than
the previous year, many of which happened during competitions and other
organised events.