Overview
- The jumper launched from about a 700-foot perch at Leetham’s Hollow and fell to his death, officials said, with search-and-rescue crews declaring him dead at the scene and a medical transport helicopter removing the body.
- The jump occurred Sunday and Cache County deputies said the man was an experienced BASE jumper who was part of a group of up to 10 people taking part in wingsuit-aided jumps.
- Cache County Chief Deputy Doyle Peck said preliminary findings point to a failure of the wingsuit to produce enough lift, leading to a high-rate-of-speed ground impact.
- Authorities are withholding the man’s name until his next of kin are notified and have not announced any criminal probe or regulatory action in initial reports.
- The death joins a long record of BASE fatalities recorded by a community-maintained list, which shows 541 deaths since 1981 and 15 this year, underscoring the sport’s ongoing safety risks after other recent deadly jumps in Utah.