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.]

Steve Jurvetson was stoked about the new Valley fad, biking with business buddies out in the mud and muck. This weekend, the VC got to "intensely interface" with a cliff. That's the sort of adventure that thrills Valleyfolk these days.