BASE Jumping Deaths in Utah Span Age and Experience, Underscoring Sport's Inherent Lethality

Two jumpers died near Moab on June 14: Andy Lewis, 39, an extreme athlete known as "Sketchy Andy," and Danny Joe Kregle, 68, a grandfather. The fatalities expose BASE jumping's toll across experience levels. The sport carries no federal licensing requirements, and sites near Moab operate in regulatory gray zones. BASE's compressed margins—deployments from hundreds rather than thousands of feet—leave minimal recovery time for equipment failures.