2 killed in BASE jumping incident in Utah, including man who performed with Madonna
Andrew "Andy" Lewis performed during Madonna's 2012 Super Bowl halftime show.
Two people were killed in a BASE jumping incident in Utah, including an extreme athlete who performed with Madonna during the 2012 Super Bowl, authorities said.
The incident occurred Sunday in a remote area of Mineral Bottom in Grand County, according to the local sheriff's office.
Deputies from the Grand County Sheriff's Office, emergency medical services personnel and two helicopters responded, authorities said.
Two men died from their injuries at the scene, according to the Grand County Sheriff's Office -- an approximately 50-year-old man, whose name was not released, and Andrew "Andy" Lewis of Moab.
The sheriff's office did not release additional details on the BASE jumping incident. ABC News has reached out to the office for further comment.
BASE jumping is a dangerous recreational sport that involves parachuting to the ground after jumping from a tall fixed object. BASE is an acronym for the types of objects from which one can jump -- building, antenna, span and earth, such as cliffs.
Lewis was a leading figure in the world of BASE jumping, slacklining and tricklining. He notably performed on a trickline during Madonna's 2012 Super Bowl halftime show.
"When you have that many people live there's this energy that kind of gets put in to you that you can't access any other way and it's amazing," the California native told ABC News following the performance. "The music, the flashes, the lights, the moment. It's just a spectacular thing."
Lewis owned BASE Jump Moab, which offers tandem jumps. He was also a co-owner of Moab Swingers, which claims to have the longest rope swing in the U.S.
"I'm heartbroken to say this, but one of our owners Andy Lewis passed away BASE jumping yesterday. We will continue to operate, we just need a couple days," Moab Swingers co-owner Jimmy Peterson said in a statement on social media on Monday.
Lewis held slackline world champion titles from 2008 to 2011, according to his BASE Jump Moab biography. He also set a Guinness World Record for slackline surfing at China's Diaoshuilou waterfall in 2011.
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