Overview
- Two people died in a BASE-jumping accident over the weekend in Mineral Bottom, a remote canyon area near the Utah–Colorado border.
- The Grand County Sheriff’s Office confirmed one victim as Andy Lewis, a 37-year-old extreme athlete and co-owner of BASE Jump Moab, and said the second victim’s identity has not been released.
- Aerial Arts Moab and company materials indicate the pair were making a tandem jump, a format used in commercial experiences where a guide and a client share a harness.
- Emergency teams responded to the scene and authorities say they are investigating the circumstances and causes of the crash but have not provided further public details about equipment or sequence of events.
- BASE jumping lacks a central death registry and independent trackers list hundreds of fatalities since 1981, a fact that underscores the sport’s high risk and the challenges of rescue and investigation in remote desert canyons.