Renowned extreme athlete Andy Lewis and a BASE jumping client died in a tandem accident in a remote area of Utah on Sunday, officials said.
Rescuers from the Grand County Sheriff’s Office and two helicopters responded to the Mineral Bottom area, however both of the men succumbed to their injuries at the scene, the sheriff’s office said in a Facebook post. (Mineral Bottom is on Bureau of Land Management territory between Arches and Canyonlands national parks).
“Andy was tandem BASE jumping with a customer,” Grand County SAR Vice Commander Scott Solle wrote in an email to SFGATE. “I believe this to be the first fatal tandem BASE accident ever.”…