Bridge Day Death
This is the first since 1987 -Brian Lee Schubert, 66, of Alta Loma, Calif., died in the 11:45 a.m. mishap when his parachute opened too late and he hit the river, authorities said. Schubert was described as an experienced jumper with numerous prior jumps. In 1966, he and a friend became the first people to jump from El Capitan, a nearly 3,000-foot-tall rock formation in California’s Yosemite National Park.
It was the first BASE jumping death at Bridge Day since 1987 and the third since the event started in 1980.
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