2026年6月16日 美国东部时间5:29 / 美联社
当局表示，犹他州一处峡谷周末发生的翼装跳伞事故造成2人死亡，其中一名遇难者是2012年超级碗舞台上与麦当娜同台表演的知名极限冒险家。
据犹他州格兰德县警长办公室消息，救援人员于周日接到报警，前往犹他州与科罗拉多州边境附近偏远沙漠地区矿物谷底处理一起翼装跳伞尝试过程中有人受伤的事件。
该办公室确认，其中一名遇难者是安迪·刘易斯，这位以翼装跳伞特技闻名的极限运动员从事的这项危险运动，指的是从建筑物、桥梁或俯瞰深峡谷的沙漠悬崖等固定高大物体跳下后打开降落伞落地。
据杂技公司莫阿布空中艺术的社交媒体帖子称，两名遇难者当时正在进行双人翼装跳伞，即两人被安全绳绑在一起。该公司将刘易斯称为“联合所有者兼挚友”。
刘易斯还拥有一家名为“莫阿布翼装跳伞”的企业，为缺乏经验的客户提供双人跳伞服务，客户会与携带降落伞的教练绑在一起。该公司网站上的宣传视频显示，成对的人员从高耸的悬崖边缘跳下，短暂坠落之后降落伞打开。
刘易斯的冒险精神几无边界
爱达荷州特温福尔斯的翼装跳伞教练约翰·麦克埃沃伊曾与刘易斯一同跳伞，他表示，在翼装跳伞圈中，刘易斯拥有大量追随者，以挑战极限著称——他会钻进更狭窄的空间，或是比同行更晚打开降落伞。
“他拥有多年训练积累的超凡运动能力和技巧，”麦克埃沃伊说，“但随后他又会承担极高的风险。”
格兰德县警长贾米森·威金斯确认，另一名遇难者是68岁的丹尼·乔·克雷格尔，他是一名父亲和祖父，一名家属称他是一位成功的商人。
“丹尼极具幽默感，总在想方设法逗大家开心，”亲属悉尼·拉弗蒂告诉《独立时报》，“他最大的乐趣之一就是和孙女一起表演魔术。”
刘易斯还是扁带运动和花式扁带运动这一小众领域的知名人物，这项运动融合了高空走钢丝和空中杂技元素，有时会在极具危险性的高空进行。
2012年，他在麦当娜的超级碗中场秀登台表演，从一名默默无闻的运动员一夜成名。当时他身着罗马长袍，在仅一英寸宽的扁带上弹跳并完成特技动作，仿佛那是蹦床，而麦当娜则在他身后演唱。
“我的手机连续三天响个不停，直到没电关机，”赛后不久刘易斯在柯南·奥布莱恩的深夜脱口秀节目中说道。
研究显示：翼装跳伞比高空跳伞危险得多
尽管没有翼装跳伞死亡人数的官方统计数据，但网站BASEaddict.com汇总的名单显示，自1981年以来全球共有540人死于该项运动，其中去年有30人遇难。知名遇难者包括2015年在加州约塞米蒂国家公园尝试翼装飞行时丧生的翼装跳伞者迪恩·波特及其登山搭档格雷厄姆·亨特。
2007年发表在某医学期刊上的一项针对挪威翼装跳伞运动的研究估计，翼装跳伞的受伤或死亡风险是高空跳伞的5至8倍。
刘易斯曾公开承认这项运动固有的危险性。
“想到已有那么多人丧生，感觉很奇怪，因为这项运动对我们而言就像日常活动一样，”刘易斯在去年发布的一段接受纪录片导演埃拉·沃尼克采访时说道。
麦克埃沃伊表示，双人翼装跳伞会带来额外风险，因为两名人员被绑在一起，其中一人通常缺乏经验，共用一副降落伞。但由于涉及新手，这类跳伞往往也是风险最低的基础跳伞类型。
“在翼装跳伞圈里，这是一个极具争议的话题，”麦克埃沃伊说，“很多人说这是世界上最愚蠢的行为，也有人反驳：‘不，我们正在给人们带来毕生难忘的体验。’”
周一记者致电、发送短信和脸书消息试图联系“莫阿布翼装跳伞”公司，但无人回应。
刘易斯在2008年至2011年间连续四届获得竞技扁带运动世界冠军。2011年，他在中国吊水楼瀑布上方完成扁带冲浪动作，双脚左右摇摆模仿冲浪姿态并保持平衡，因此创下吉尼斯世界纪录。
2014年，他在内华达州沙漠上空4000多英尺处，在两个热气球之间悬挂的扁带上行走。
多亏了麦当娜，他的另一项运动让他一夜成名。
BASE jumping accident kills 2 including extreme athlete Andy Lewis, who performed with Madonna at Super Bowl
June 16, 2026 5:29 AM EDT / AP
A weekend BASE jumping accident in a Utah canyon killed two people, one of them a daredevil athlete best known for performing onstage with Madonna at the 2012 Super Bowl, authorities said.
Emergency responders were dispatched Sunday to a report of people injured in a BASE jumping attempt at Mineral Bottom, a remote desert area near the Utah-Colorado line, according to the sheriff’s office in Grand County, Utah.
The office confirmed one of the dead was Andy Lewis, an extreme athlete known for feats in BASE jumping, a dangerous sport that involves parachuting to the ground after jumping from a tall fixed object such as a building, bridge or desert cliff overlooking a deep canyon.
The victims had been conducting a tandem jump in which two people are harnessed together, according to a social media post by Aerial Arts Moab, an acrobatics company that described Lewis as “co-owner and best friend.”
Lewis also owned BASE Jump Moab, a business that offered tandem jumps to inexperienced customers who would be harnessed to a guide wearing the parachute. Promotional videos on the company’s website show pairs of people stepping off the edges of towering cliffs and briefly plummeting before their parachutes open.
Andy Lewis walks across a highline at the Fruit Bowl in Moab, Utah, in an undated photo. Jared Alden / Getty Images
Lewis’ risk-taking knew few bounds
In BASE jumping circles, Lewis had a huge following and a reputation for pushing the envelope – leaping into tighter spaces or deploying his parachute later than his peers would dare, said John McEvoy, a BASE jumping instructor in Twin Falls, Idaho, who has jumped with Lewis.
“He had an incredible level of athleticism and skill that was developed over years of practice,” McEvoy said. “But then he would take an incredible amount of risk.”
Grand County Sheriff Jamison Wiggins confirmed the other person who was killed was Danny Joe Kregle, a 68-year-old father and grandfather who was described by a family member as an accomplished businessman.
“Danny had a wonderful sense of humor and was always looking for ways to make people laugh,” relative Sydney Laverty told The Times-Independent. “One of his greatest joys was performing magic tricks alongside his granddaughter.”
Lewis was also a prominent figure in the niche sports of slacklining and tricklining, which combine elements of high-wire walking with aerial acrobatics – sometimes at perilous heights.
He went from obscure athlete to overnight celebrity when he appeared onstage in Madonna’s 2012 Super Bowl halftime show. Dressed in a Roman toga, Lewis bounced and executed tricks on his inch-wide line like it was a trampoline while Madonna sang behind him.
Andy Lewis appears during Madonna’s halftime performance at Super Bowl XLVI between the New York Giants and New England Patriots on Feb. 5, 2012, in Indianapolis. AP Photo / Charlie Riedel, File
“My phone actually rang itself to death three days in a row,” Lewis said soon afterward in an appearance on Conan O’Brien’s late night show.
BASE jumping much riskier than skydiving, study shows
Though there’s no official tally of BASE jumping deaths, a list compiled by the website BASEaddict.com shows 540 total fatalities worldwide since 1981 – including 30 people killed last year. Prominent deaths include BASE jumper Dean Potter and his climbing partner, Graham Hunt, who were killed in 2015 while attempting a wingsuit flight in California’s Yosemite National Park.
A study focused on BASE jumping in Norway, published in a medical journal in 2007, estimated that BASE jumping carried risks of injury or death five to eight times greater than skydiving.
Lewis openly acknowledged the sport’s inherent danger.
“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.
Tandem BASE jumping carries additional risk because it straps together two people, one of whom generally lacks experience, under a single parachute, McEvoy said. But because they involve novices, they also tend to be the most low-risk, basic types of jumps.
“Within BASE, it’s a very controversial topic,” McEvoy said. “There’s a lot of people who say it’s the stupidest thing in the world and others arguing: `No, we’re giving people the experience of their lives.’”
No one immediately returned phone, text and Facebook messages left Monday for BASE Jump Moab.
Lewis won four straight world championships in competitive slacklining from 2008 through 2011. Lewis set a Guinness World Record for slackline surfing, swaying his feet side to side in a rocking motion that mimics surfing, while keeping his balance above China’s Diaoshuilou waterfall in 2011.
In 2014, he walked a slackline suspended between two hot air balloons more than 4,000 feet above the Nevada desert.
Lewis’ other sport made him an overnight celebrity, thanks to Madonna.
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