A man jumped off Yavapai Point on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon National Park, in what park officials said was an illegal attempt to BASE jump at the national park. The parachute deployed, but the man was found dead 500 feet below the rim.
A man was fatally injured at the Grand Canyon on Thursday after park officials said he attempted to parachute down from the South Rim of the national park. Park rangers were contacted Thursday morning about a visitor attempting to
jump at about 7:30 a.m., park officials said in a statement. When park rangers arrived, they found the man dead, about 500 feet below the rim with a deployed parachute. jumping is a sport where participants with parachutes jump off fixed objects. The term is an acronym for locations participants jump off of, such as buildings, antennas, spans and earthly peaks. The sport is prohibited throughout the national park. Officials believe the man died from the fall despite having deployed his parachute at some point. Recovery workers were not able to reach the site until Friday morning, when the body was taken via helicopter to the Coconino County Medical Examiner's Office.
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