An extreme athlete famous for performing alongside Madonna during the Super Bowl halftime show in 2012 has died in a tandem jump in eastern Utah. Andy Lewis, 39, died Sunday during a BASE jump in a remote canyon outside Moab, the Grand County Sheriff’s Office said. Also killed was Danny Joe Kregel, a 68-year-old grandfather from Arizona who was harnessed to Lewis. The athlete was a towering figure in the BASE jumping and slacklining world and had long acknowledged the dangers of his profession. “It’s weird to think about how many people are dead,” he said in a 2025 documentary interview. Lewis founded BASE Jump Moab in 2018, a guiding company that strapped paying novices to seasoned jumpers for tandem leaps off desert cliffs. He claimed four straight slacklining world titles from 2008 to 2011 and set a 2011 Guinness World Record for side-surfing a slackline. Lewis vaulted from niche athlete to household name at the 2012 Super Bowl, and in 2014 crossed a slackline strung between a pair of hot-air balloons more than 4,000 feet above Nevada’s desert.
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