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- - - - Mountains pose the greatest danger of all other environments for extreme sports. "Out of every 6 attempts to climb Everest one person dies from hypothermia, lung edema, blindness from corneal burns, frostbite, or pneumonia."
    - - Whitewater rafting with rapids of grade 5 or higher is one of the practices with the highest mortality rates.
        Surfing and kitesurfing in extreme wind or storm conditions have higher mortality rates, as does cave diving.
    - - Hang gliding accounts for one death every 550 flights; base jumping, one death every 2,300 jumps, which represents 200 people in the last 30 years; and skydiving causes one death every 75,000 jumps. "Free or integral climbing has a rate of one death every 27,000 ascents," notes the expert.