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YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Three basal jumpers person been convicted of amerciable basal jumping successful Yosemite National Park, the parkland announced Friday.
Yosemite National Park Superintendent Raymond McPadden described the convictions arsenic demonstrating the "professionalism and dedication of Yosemite’s extortion squad successful upholding national regulations and ensuring the information of some visitors and archetypal responders."
“We bash not tolerate amerciable enactment successful Yosemite National Park,” said McPadden. “Our instrumentality enforcement rangers stay efficient, effective, and vigilant 24 hours a day, 365 days a year."
According to the National Park Service, on July 15, 2024, Park Rangers located Christopher I. Durell astatine Mirror Lake aft receiving a study that 2 radical had jumped from an country adjacent North Dome. Durell admitted to BASE jumping from the Porcelain Wall and pleaded guilty.
On September 16, 2025, Durell was sentenced to 18 months of unsupervised probation, $600 successful fines, and 40 hours of assemblage work with an enactment supporting the National Park Service. His BASE canopy and wingsuit were forfeited.
On July 15, 2024, Rangers accidental they received a study of 2 jumpers adjacent North Dome. One fled connected ft but was aboriginal identified arsenic Joshua A. Iosue, who was cited connected July 17, 2025.
According to the parkland service, Iosue pleaded guilty, and helium was sentenced connected October 7 to 2 days successful jail, 24 months of unsupervised probation, and $2,510 successful fines. He is banned from entering Yosemite National Park during his probation.
A 3rd person, according to officials, David A. Nunn, jumped from El Capitan connected July 21, 2020. He suffered a terrible instrumentality malfunction, colliding with the partition of El Capitan earlier crash-landing astatine the base. He was rescued by NPS personnel.
According to the parkland service, Nunn, who had a erstwhile condemnation for the aforesaid discourtesy successful 1998, pleaded guilty.
On September 16, 2025, helium was sentenced to 2 days successful jail, 12 months of unsupervised probation, $760 successful fines, and restitution of $458.77 to screen the outgo of his rescue. He is banned from entering Yosemite during probation and was ordered to forfeit his parachute and harness.
Base jumping successful Yosemite has been amerciable since the mid-1980s.
