Video captures daring helicopter rescue of BASE jumper dangling from canyon wall

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A BASE jumper was rescued successful a melodramatic video shared to societal media successful the canyons adjacent Moab, Utah, earlier this week.

The video, taken by Danielle Mick, shows the heart-racing infinitesimal connected Wednesday wherever rescuers intercepted the BASE jumper who had a rainbow parachute stuck connected the canyon look astatine Kane Creek.

Grand County Emergency Services shared successful a station that officers were called astir 1:00 p.m. that day and it wasn't until 3:15 p.m. that the officers archetypal could scope the BASE jumper whose individuality is chartless astatine this time.

In a Facebook station aft the incident, the Grand County Sheriff's Department wrote that "the BASE jumper was successfully rescued," was provided "advanced attraction for mean injuries," and was hoisted astir 4:00 p.m. from the cliff look to a landing zone.

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In the video, a archetypal responder descends from a chopper to scope the ill-fated jumper arsenic upwind whips the snagged parachute on the canyon face. The video of the daring rescue, primitively shared to Facebook, is astir 20 minutes long.

According to Moab BASE Access, Utah Chapter, a 501(c)3 organization, "BASE jumping connected lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management that situation Moab is legal," and "BASE jumping is each amusive and games until you are smashed up connected the talus and request rescue and surgery." Moab BASE Access did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.

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Each Utah county's respective sheriff's bureau is liable for their ain hunt and rescue operations, according to the Utah Search and Rescue Association.

"While yesterday's incidental gained nationalist attraction due to the fact that it was disposable from municipality — these types of rescues are precisely what we bid for and bash connected a beauteous regular basis," wrote Grand County EMS connected Facebook. "It’s a privilege to service this assemblage alongside specified dedicated professionals, and to bring radical location safely."

Jasmine Baehr is simply a Breaking News Writer for Fox News Digital, wherever she covers politics, the military, religion and culture.