Man who videotaped himself BASE jumping in Yosemite arrested, federal officials say. He says it was AI

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A California man is facing a criminal charge for allegedly BASE jumping off Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park during the federal government shutdown last year.Jack Propeck, of Mission Viejo, is charged with one count of delivering or retrieving a person or object by parachute, helicopter or other airborne means, according to a complaint filed Dec.12 in U.S.

District Court for the Eastern District of California.Propeck is representing himself, court documents state.He did not respond to a message seeking comment Thursday.The investigation began in October, when someone reported to the National Park Service tip line an Instagram video of a man making the jump on Oct.

8, according to a criminal complaint.The video, posted to an account bearing Propeck’s name, pans to the man’s face as he deploys a parachute, it states.A license plate reader detected Propeck’s car entering the national park on Oct.

7 and leaving Oct.8, and photos showed Propeck behind the wheel, wearing the same purple mirrored sunglasses the man was seen wearing in the Instagram video, according to the complaint.When a park ranger contacted Propeck, he denied he was the man in the video, saying he’d used artificial intelligence to superimpose his face onto the footage, the complaint states.Propeck is next due in court April 7 for arraignment.

World & Nation In 1966, Brian Schubert and a buddy strapped parachutes to their backs and leaped off Yosemite’s 3,000-foot-high El Capitan cliff -- and unwittingly inspired the worldwide extreme sport of base jumping.BASE jumping is an extreme sport in which people make parachute-assisted leaps from fixed objects ranging from cliffs to rooftops to bridges.

BASE is an acronym for buildings, antennas, spans and earth.The activity is illegal in national parks, but multiple reports of people engaging in the thrill-seeking activity emerged during the governm...