Extreme athlete Andy Lewis dies in Utah BASE jump accident
Andy Lewis, 39, and an unidentified 50-year-old man were killed Sunday during a tandem BASE jump at Mineral Bottom in Utah. Lewis owned BASE Jump Moab and gained fame performing with Madonna at the 2012 Super Bowl halftime show.
nypost.comTwo men died Sunday in a tandem BASE jump accident at Mineral Bottom, a remote desert site near the Utah-Colorado line. Andy Lewis, 39, and an unidentified 50-year-old man were found dead after the jump failed, according to a news release from the Grand County Sheriff’s Office.
Background on the victims Lewis owned BASE Jump Moab, a company in Moab, Utah, that offered guided BASE jumps for first-time participants. Moab is about 30 miles from the accident site. Authorities said the pair were conducting a tandem jump when the incident occurred.
Lewis’s career and public profile Lewis rose to national attention during Madonna’s 2012 Super Bowl halftime show in Indianapolis. Dressed in a Roman toga, he performed tricks on an inch-wide line while Madonna sang.
“When you have that many people live, there’s this energy that kind of gets put in to you that you can’t access any other way, and it’s amazing." — Andy Lewis, ABC News interview He won four consecutive world championships in competitive slacklining from 2008 to 2011 and set a Guinness World Record for slackline surfing above China’s Diaoshuilou waterfall in 2011. Lewis also walked a slackline suspended between two hot air balloons more than 4,000 feet above the Nevada desert in 2014. In a documentary interview published last year, he acknowledged the risks of the sport.”
“It’s weird to think about how many people are dead, because it’s like a normal thing." — Andy Lewis, interview with filmmaker Ella Warnick The Grand County Sheriff’s Office has not released further details on the cause of the accident.”
