Jan Davis was a parachutist who died in a fall at Yosemite’s El Capitan in 1999

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.

On October 23, 1999, Jan Davis—an experienced and respected BASE jumper—leaped from El Capitan in Yosemite as part of a demonstration against a proposed ban on the sport. Moments into her descent… | The Business Guy

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