Two prominent Base jumpers, Dean Potter and Graham Hunt, died in a wingsuit accident in Yosemite national park this weekend.
Potter, 43, was a pioneer in extreme sports that included rock climbing and skydiving.
Potter and Hunt, 29, crashed late on Saturday after leaping from a promontory called Taft Point, 3,000ft above the valley floor, park ranger Scott Gediman said.
A friend called Yosemite search and rescue on Saturday night when the pair failed to return from their jump. Their bodies were not recovered until Sunday morning, with the assistance of park rangers and a California highway patrol helicopter. Neither of the men appeared to have deployed their parachutes.
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