catbirdseat Posted July 6, 2004 Posted July 6, 2004 From the King5 TV Website (www.king5.com): Man dies attempting 'base jump' off Wash. cliff 06:27 AM PDT on Tuesday, July 6, 2004 From KING Staff INDEX, Wash. - A search team planned to head back out Tuesday morning to recover the body of a base jumper who fell more than 1,000 feet from a cliff in Snohomish County. Monday night's search near Index was called off because of darkness. The remote area in the Cascade foothills about 30 miles northeast of Seattle made recovery by foot difficult. The Snohomish County Sheriff's Office said one person successfully based-jumped off a cliff on Mount Baring early in the evening. A second jumper didn't make it. "He fell approximately 1,000 feet. Parachute did not deploy and he impacted down into the talus on the mountain," said Danny Whikstrom of the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office. Three survivors hiked out and called police. Quote
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