A daredevil athlete who wowed fans during Madonna’s 2012 Super Bowl halftime show was killed in a tandem BASE jump accident at a Utah canyon on Sunday.
Andy Lewis, 39, and an unidentified 50-year-old man were both found dead after a botched jump at Mineral Bottom, a remote desert area near the Utah-Colorado line, according to a news release from the Grand County Sheriff’s Office.
Grand County Sheriff Jamison Wiggins told the Moab Sun News that Lewis and the unidentified victim were conducting a tandem BASE jump when the tragedy occurred.
Lewis owned BASE Jump Moab in Moab, Utah, which catered excursions for first-time jumpers where they would be physically strapped to a guide equipped with a parachute. Moab is just 30 miles away from Mineral Bottom.
The Post reached out to BASE Jump Moab for comment.
Lewis was a well-known stunt performer who rose to stardom when he performed in Madonna’s 2012 Super Bowl halftime show.
During the iconic performance, Lewis, dressed in a Roman toga, executed complicated tricks on an inch-wide line while Madonna serenaded millions of viewers.
Lewis told ABC News that he likely would’ve broken his leg if he fell off the line, but insisted it was worth it for “the moment.”
“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,” he told the outlet.
Despite shrugging off the possibility of breaking a bone on live television, Lewis was always candid about the inherent dangers that came with BASE jumping.
“It’s weird to think about how many people are dead, because it’s like a normal thing,” Lewis told documentary filmmaker Ella Warnick in an interview published last year.
During his storied career, Lewis clinched four straight world championships in competitive slacklining from 2008 to 2011.
He also set the Guinness World Record for slackline surfing all while keeping his balance above China’s 131-foot-wide Diaoshuilou waterfall in 2011. Then, in 2014, he walked a slackline suspended between two hot air balloons more than 4,000 feet above the Nevada desert.
