{"id":225815,"date":"2026-09-28T06:31:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T06:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/base-jumper-fatally-plunges-700-feet-after-wingsuit-failure-in-utah-nbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T06:31:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T06:31:19","slug":"base-jumper-fatally-plunges-700-feet-after-wingsuit-failure-in-utah-nbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/base-jumper-fatally-plunges-700-feet-after-wingsuit-failure-in-utah-nbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"BASE jumper fatally plunges 700 feet after wingsuit failure in Utah &#8211; NBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For You<br \/>Settings<br \/> news Alerts<br \/>There are no new alerts at this time<br \/>A 27-year-old BASE jumper died Sunday after his wingsuit failed when he launched from a 700-foot perch in Utah, authorities said. <br \/>The man, whose identity was withheld until his family could be notified, fatally plunged from a mountainous area of Hyrum, Utah, east of Millville Canyon and east of the small city of Millville, Cache County Chief Sheriff\u2019s Deputy Doyle Peck said.<br \/>Search-and-rescue crews were called to Leetham\u2019s Hollow, an area of canyon walls and cliffs not unlike the Grand Canyon\u2019s, at 9:10 a.m. Sunday and declared the man dead at the scene, Peck said in a statement.<br \/>\u201cOn today\u2019s jump, something went wrong and he did not have enough lift with his wingsuit,\u201d Peck said. \u201cHe impacted the ground at a high rate of speed resulting in his death.\u201d<br \/>The man was \u201cexperienced in this type of activity\u201d and was part of a group of as many as 10 people who appeared to be engaged in wingsuit-aided BASE jumping, according to Peck.<br \/>The area, about 45 miles north of Ogden, is popular with BASE jumpers, he said. <br \/>A medical transport helicopter sent to help with the initial search transported the man\u2019s body, Peck said.<br \/>Before Sunday, 541 deaths around the world since 1981 had been logged by the <a href=\"https:\/\/bfl.baseaddict.com\/statistics\" target=\"_blank\">BASE Fatality List<\/a>, maintained by an online community for the sport. This year, 15 such deaths have been reported globally, according to the list.<br \/>In June, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/utah-canyon-base-jump-kills-2-daredevil-athlete-performed-madonna-rcna350235\" target=\"_blank\">two BASE jumpers died in a separate accident in Utah<\/a>. One of them, Andy Lewis, performed onstage with Madonna at the 2012 Super Bowl.<br \/>Photographer <a href=\"https:\/\/skydivingmuseum.org\/member\/carl-boenish\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carl Boenish<\/a> helped coin BASE as a description of the sport\u2019s adrenaline-inspiring launch points (buildings, antennas, spans, earth) in 1978, when he videotaped early jumps from Yosemite National Park\u2019s El Capitan rock formation.<br \/>Dennis Romero is a breaking news reporter for NBC News Digital.<br \/>&copy;&nbsp;2026 NBCUniversal Media, LLC<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiqgFBVV95cUxOYlROTm1FRnFCUjQ2bWpmcVpTMy0xSklmYzdxOHk3ZUpsX2ppZDhQSmRrNVJtNW5BbV80TUNDU3FfRmczZGRmWDduSU0tZ19CU2N5LUhyUHFYNnowYWxZNjJkWmMyb0JPc0h1VjJrR1BfNlF0dlBtVExvV1U2NXZmRlQtOEY5aXlCZ0ZmRmpSaWRuNE9hMWxlZ1h6dUhpeURrbWpnTnJtLUNLQQ?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For YouSettings news AlertsThere are no new alerts at this timeA 27-year-old BASE jumper died Sunday after his wingsuit failed when he launched from a 700-foot perch in Utah, authorities said. The man, whose identity was withheld until his family could be notified, fatally plunged from a mountainous area of Hyrum, Utah, east of Millville [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}