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A record-breaking daredevil who performed alongside Madonna at the Super Bowl XLVI halftime show is one of two men who died in a BASE jumping accident near Moab, Utah, over the weekend, according to the Grand County Sheriff’s Office.
Andy Lewis, best known for setting a highline record 480 feet above Las Vegas in October 2013, died during a tandem jump with another diver Sunday in Mineral Bottom, Utah, authorities said.
“He was a very big personality,” one Moab resident told Fox News Digital Monday. “Everyone knew him.”
Lewis’ final Instagram video, posted Sunday not long before his death, showed him doing a flip off a cliff in the desert outside Moab.
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“Thanks for keeping me in frame for my test jump <3,” he wrote. “…Stoked for the rest of the season. What a journey it’s been — and it’s only just begun.”
During the tandem jump, something went wrong, and both men suffered fatal injuries, the sheriff’s office said in a statement.
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The second victim, described only as a man about 50 years old, has not yet been publicly identified.
“The Grand County Sheriff’s Office extends its deepest sympathies to the families, friends, and all those affected by this tragic incident,” the statement concluded.
Lewis was originally from California and relocated to Moab, where he picked up the stage name “Sketchy Andy” for his death-defying stunts.
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He appeared on an episode of Red Bull’s “Ultimate Rush” in 2016, where he attempted a highline walk between two hot air balloons 4,000 feet in the air.
At the time of his death, he held a Guinness World Record for a slack rope walk above a waterfall in Mudanjiang City, China.
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He had performed stunts on at least three continents and previously set records in Bangkok, Thailand, and at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.
Lewis had also been part of a group of four men who removed a mysterious 12-foot-tall metal monolith that appeared on public land outside Salt Lake City in 2020.
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