Base instinct that drives Dan

The Men Who Jump Off Buildings C4 BASE jumping, in which participants hurl themselves off high buildings, is one of the deadliest of all adrenalin sports. Right up there with cribbage.

However, the likes of Dan Witchalls who has made 800 such leaps, just can't leave it alone. "It's not just the jump," he says, "it's everything leading up to it. Will anything go wrong? Will I be smashed to pieces? Will I be dead?" When he puts it like that, you can see the appeal.

Over the years, Dan, pictured, has jumped from buildings including Battersea Wholesale Handbags Power Station, Wembley Stadium, and Blackpool Tower. He's one of the few people to have got tearful at the demolition of Unity House. He sees base-jumping as the pastime that gets him through the tedium of his work as (wait for it) a roofer. "Base jumping gives me enough excitement to get on with this," he said, in the middle of a job. "Too many people get on the treadmill, go to work, come home, go to work, come home. They turn round and they're 40, then 50, 60, retired, and dead."

If the roofing falls through, he could always get a job as a motivational speaker. The fact is that if he continues base- jumping, Dan is unlikely to reach pensionable age himself. His girlfriend naturally had some concerns about his hobby, made worse by the fact that he does most of his jumps in darkness to avoid being caught.

"What's it like living with a base jumper?" she was asked. "You do get used to it," she mused, "although at first I found it really difficult with him sneaking out in the night."

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She accepted it better when she found out he was sneaking out to see a tower block and not another Replica TAG Heuer Watches woman. Dan's partner met him while partaking in the somewhat less life-threatening sport of skydiving. "I would like her to do one base-jump," said Dan, "just so she could experience what I get out of it, standing on the edge looking down, thinking: 'I'm going to die.'" The old romantic fool.

Surprisingly, she isn't swayed by that argument. And so Dan relies on his base-jumping mate Ian for company instead. They leapt from Nelson's Column together. To ascend the monument, the pair had to evade stringent security.

"I'd pretty much resigned myself to getting caught," said Dan. "In fact, I'd already given myself the day off work the next day."

But capture came there not. Ian has now gone into retirement after two near-fatal crashes.

Dan, though, jumps on. Next week, he jumps off Peter Crouch.

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