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Dean Spaulding Potter (April 14, 1972 – May 16, 2015) was an American free climber, alpinist, BASE jumper, and highliner. [2] He completed many hard first ascents, free solo ascents, speed ascents, and enchainments in Yosemite National Park and Patagonia.
Experienced wingsuit BASE jumper died while attempting a solo wingsuit jump near Miners peak on Mount Lawrence Grassi in Alberta, Canada. [99] [100] 7 August 2016 David Reader 25 France British BASE jumper died a day after crashing during a wingsuit proximity flight near Sallanches, close to Mont Blanc in the French Alps. [101]
On October 22, 1999, BASE jumper and stuntwoman Jan Davis died in a jump conducted as part of a protest event involving five jumpers. The event was intended to protest the death of Frank Gambalie, [53] who had landed safely but drowned while fleeing park rangers, and to demonstrate the assertion that BASE jumping could be performed safely. [54]
The man fell into a slope “more than 1,000 feet above the valley floor,” deputies said. BASE jumper plunges to his death in ‘rugged and hazardous’ valley, Utah officials say Skip to main ...
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A man died after trying to parachute off the South Rim of the Grand Canyon on Thursday, officials said. The man tried a BASE jump around 7:30 a.m. from Yavapai Point in Grand Canyon National Park ...
Pelkey made his second BASE jump at the 2005 Bridge Day event from the New River Gorge Bridge. He and Schubert planned to jump together at the 2006 event, a few months after the 40th anniversary of their first El Capitan jump. Schubert died jumping at that event, just minutes before Pelkey was scheduled to jump. [4] [5] [6]
Ammon McNeely (June 3, 1970 – February 18, 2023) was an American rock climber who specialized in big wall climbing and aid climbing, and who set many speed climbing records and made the first "one-day ascent" for many climbing routes on El Capitan in Yosemite. His other interests included BASE jumping and wingsuiting.