A BASE jumper who got caught on the wall of an Idaho canyon had to be rescued by emergency crews on Tuesday night.
The unnamed male jumper got stuck on the canyon wall beneath the upscale Twin Falls, Idaho bistro restaurant Elevation 486, which sits 486 vertical feet above the Snake River.
Authorities received the call for help at about 8.30pm on Tuesday. Emergency workers from Magic Valley Paramedics were dispatched to the scene, according to KMVT.
An unnamed BASE jumper in Idaho got stuck on a cliff wall and had to be rescued by a paramedic (shown here) on Tuesday night at about 8.30pm
The paramedic inched his way across the cliff to get to the stranded BASE jumper
In a video, one of the paramedics can be seen repelling down the cliff face and then inching his way over to where the jumper appeared to be dangling from his stuck parachute. The rescue was illuminated by the medic’s headlamp and a flashlight hanging off his belt.
At about 10pm, the rescue worker was able to detach the jumper from the wall and perform a rope rescue, which involved strapping the jumper into a harness and then lowering them both down to the ground.
Authorities told a KMVT reporter that the jumper refused to be taken to the hospital and didn’t want medical attention.
According to a witness at the scene, a second male also attempted a BASE jump, but he landed without issue on the canyon floor.
The paramedic was able to detach the jumper from his parachute and perform a rope rescue
Once harnessed in, the paramedic was able to lower the jumper safely back down to the ground at about 10pm that night
A view of the cliff where the BASE jumper was stranded. A helicopter can be seen overhead
A view of the canyon from beneath the Elevation 486 restaurant where the jumper was stuck
In June, BASE jumping icon Miles Daisher landed the world record for most human-powered BASE jumps in a 24 hour period by jumping off Twin Falls’ Perrine Bridge, located not too far from where Tuesday’s BASE jumper got stuck.
Daisher told Red Bull that when he first started BASE jumping, a friend told him that he needed to go to Twin Falls, where it is legal to BASE jump off the Perrine Bridge.
Unlike other places, where BASE jumpers resort to middle of the night jumps to avoid authorities — which he admits is ‘dangerous’ — Daisher noted that ‘in Twin Falls, we’re not hiding from police. We’re not worried about getting in trouble at all’ because ‘Twin Falls embrace us as BASE jumpers.’
BASE jumping is illegal in some jurisdictions, particularly several national parks, due to a number of high-profile deaths suffered by participants of the extreme sport.