Extreme Athlete Who Performed With Madonna Among Killed In Base Jumping Accident

A play BASE jumping mishap successful a Utah canyon has claimed 2 lives, including that of Andy Lewis, an utmost jock wide recognized for his 2012 Super Bowl capacity alongside Madonna.

Authorities successful Grand County, Utah, confirmed Lewis was among nan deceased. He was a salient fig successful nan high-risk athletics of BASE jumping, which involves parachuting to nan crushed aft leaping from gangly fixed objects specified arsenic buildings, bridges, aliases godforsaken cliffs overlooking heavy canyons.

Lewis besides excelled successful nan niche disciplines of slacklining and tricklining, which harvester elements of high-wire stepping pinch aerial acrobatics, often astatine perilous elevations.

His quality during Madonna’s 2012 Super Bowl halftime show catapulted him from comparative obscurity to overnight personage status.

Dressed successful a Roman toga, Lewis bounced and executed tricks connected his inch-wide statement for illustration it was a trampoline while Madonna sang down him.

“My telephone really rang itself to decease 3 days successful a row,” Lewis said soon afterward successful an quality connected Conan O’Brien’s precocious nighttime show.

Emergency responders were dispatched Sunday to a study of group injured successful a BASE jumping effort astatine Mineral Bottom, a distant godforsaken area adjacent nan Utah-Colorado line, according to nan sheriff's office. Lewis and an unidentified 50-year-old man died astatine nan scene, nan sheriff’s agency said successful a news release.

Sheriff's Lt. Al Cymbaluk confirmed to The Associated Press that it was Lewis nan utmost jock who died. He said he had nary further specifications connected nan fatal accident.

Lewis owned BASE Jump Moab, a business that offered excursions to inexperienced customers utilizing tandem jumps, successful which nan customer was harnessed to a guideline wearing nan parachute.

At nan aforesaid time, Lewis openly acknowledged nan sport's inherent danger.

“It's weird to deliberation astir really galore group are dead, because it's for illustration a normal thing,” Lewis told documentary filmmaker Ella Warnick successful an question and reply published past year.

No 1 instantly returned phone, matter and Facebook messages near Monday for BASE Jump Moab.

Lewis won 4 consecutive world championships successful competitory slacklining from 2008 done 2011. Lewis group a Guinness World Record for slackline surfing, swaying his feet broadside to broadside successful a rocking mobility that mimics surfing, while keeping his equilibrium supra China's Diaoshuilou waterfall successful 2011.

In 2014, he walked a slackline suspended betwixt 2 basking aerial balloons much than 4,000 feet (1,200 meters) supra nan Nevada desert.