Overview
- Emergency crews responded to reports of injuries at Mineral Bottom and found two men fatally injured after a tandem BASE jump that went wrong on Sunday.
- The Grand County Sheriff’s Office identified one victim as Andrew “Andy” Lewis of Moab and said the other was an approximately 50-year-old man who has not been publicly named.
- Lewis was a high-profile slackliner and BASE jumper who founded BASE Jump Moab, logged thousands of jumps, and gained wider fame after performing during Madonna’s 2012 Super Bowl halftime show.
- Officials have not detailed the technical cause of the accident, and multiple accounts note the jump site is remote near the Utah–Colorado line, which can slow emergency response and complicate on-scene investigation.
- Friends, local guides and the action-sports community have offered condolences and tributes, and Lewis’s death is likely to prompt closer scrutiny of safety practices for commercial tandem BASE operations.