A man has died after jumping off of the edge of the Grand Canyon with a parachute.
Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024, and was previously an entertainment reporter at The Messenger.A man has died after attempting an illegal BASE jump with a parachute in the Grand Canyon.
BASE jumping — in which jumpers attach themselves to fixed objects like cliffs, bridges or the four structures the sport is named after and then deploy a parachute to slow their fall to the ground — is prohibited in the Grand Canyon, and the National Park Service calls the sport a "high-risk activity."
Rescue teams were able to reach the man on Friday morning, the NPS added in its statement. His body was first taken to the canyon's rim by helicopter, before it was then brought to the Coconino County Medical Examiner’s Office."The National Park Service and the Coconino County Medical Examiner’s Office are conducting an investigation into the incident," the NPS said. "The name of the victim is being withheld pending positive identification.
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