On October 22, 1999, 60-year-old Jan Davis, a veteran BASE jumper from Santa Barbara, California, leapt from the top of El Capitan, a 3,200-foot granite monolith in Yosemite National Park. She wasn’t just chasing adrenaline—she was protesting the National Park Service’s ban on BASE jumping, hoping to prove the sport could be done safely. She was the fourth of five jumpers in the demonstration. The first three landed successfully. But Davis, fearing her gear would be confiscated, borrowed unfamil
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Jan Davis was a parachutist who died in a fall at Yosemite’s El Capitan in 1999. She leaped from the top of 3,200-foot El Capitan in a protest organized in response to the June 9 death of a man who parachuted off the same peak and drowned in the river below while trying to flee rangers.
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