Police search for illegal base jumper as woman arrested for alleged mischief

WHISTLER, B.C. – Police will be recommending charges of mischief over $5,000 against a 25-year-old man who made an illegal base jump from a gondola at Whistler mountain.

RCMP Staff Sgt. Steve LeClair says Mounties are attempting to arrest the man who is believed to be living in Vancouver but is originally from Ontario.

He says a 23-year-old woman who was in the Peak 2 Peak gondola with the base jumper was arrested yesterday at work after a YouTube video of the stunt surfaced.

He says police first spoke with the woman after she emerged from the gondola on Feb. 6, and that charges of obstruction of justice and mischief will now be recommended against her.

The video shows the cabin door forced open as the man with a GoPro camera leaps out and parachutes from the highest point above Fitzsimmons Creek, laughing and landing in the snow below, where he points the camera at his face.

LeClair said the woman is scheduled to make her first court appearance on April 2.