News Clipping Back to Newsroom Loved ones celebrate life of fallen BASE jumper Thirty people gather at El Capitan in Yosemite for a memorial service for Jan Davis. As a heavy fog obscured El Capitan's cliff edge, where Jan Davis jumped to her death about two weeks ago, about 30 people gathered Monday at the granite mountain's base to pay tribute to their fallen comrade. I love her so much. She lived life the way that she wanted to, and she died the way she wanted to.
Life is an adventure.
She was epic. For BASE-jumping supporters on hand, the day was split into two distinct segments. The court proceedings were continued for a month, and the defendants did not enter a plea Monday. On Oct. 22, five BASE jumpers hiked up El Capitan to jump off the granite cliff in protest of the National Parks Service's ban of their sport. They had agreed to leap, turn over their equipment and be cited by park rangers for the illegal jumps.