The park did not name the person who died Thursday morning because it was still awaiting positive identification and needed to notify his family.
The jump attempt had been reported to the Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center. Park rangers were able to recover the man’s body about 500 feet (15.4 meters) below the rim early Friday, along with a deployed parachute.
The body was transported to the rim by helicopter and subsequently taken to the Coconino County Medical Examiner’s Office.
The National Park Service and the medical examiner’s office are conducting an investigation into what happened.
BASE jumping is a high-risk activity involving parachuting from fixed objects and illegal throughout Grand Canyon National Park. The Grand Canyon may not be the biggest of America's national parks, at 1,900 square miles, but the Arizona natural wonder has seen more missing person reports, deaths and suicides, than any others from 2018 through to the first two months of 2023.
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At least 56 people have been reported missing from Grand Canyon National Park since the beginning of 2018 and at least six people have been found dead. This is despite the park not only being smaller but seeing millions fewer visitors than many of the other 424 national park sites.
Records from the Department of Interior obtained by the New York Post were not only redacted, but inconsistent when it came to the level of detail included and incomplete as part of privacy regulations which meant only 60 pages could be released.
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