Joshua Michael McVay

Date: August 8, 1999
Nationality: American
Object Type: Earth
Location: Crown Point, Columbia River Gorge, Portland, Oregon, United States
COD: Low-pull, Object Strike
Clothes / Suit: Normal clothes
Gear / Parachute: TBD
Age: TBD
Experience: TBD
BASE Experience: TBD
WS BASE: TBD
Time of day: TBD

Description: Joshua is BASE jumping alone when friends reported him overdue to return. They found his car at Crown Point and called in search & rescue teams. Searchers found his body about 450 feet from the top. He appears to have died after hitting the wall under canopy.

In 2006 I received this report from Josh's wife:

How dare Slim Simpson (NOW DEAD), Nik Harshorne (NOW DEAD), and Jason Zaslaw say that they reported Josh being overdue... I, Marie McVay was the one reported him over due! I had a 7 month old daughter at the time of his death... I was on the phone with him when he died. His phone was on in his fanny pack that was on his waist. I heard him scream, HELP ME! and heard him go through the tree branches, which struck from his right side of his body throughout his left side of his neck.

Please change your comment how he died!!! It was not true!!! This upset me greatly. I hate your additive sport, which caused Josh to die! If it wasn't for this sport he would still be alive!!!





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