Credit: Weston Huff/Facebook

Credit: Weston Huff/Facebook

A 33-year-old man has died while attempting to BASE jump in Utah, authorities said.

In a news release shared with PEOPLE, the Provo Police Department said first responders were summoned to Rock Canyon around 12:50 p.m. local time on Saturday, March 21, following a report of a man who had fallen into an area known as “Bad Bananas.”

“Sadly, the male did not survive the fall,” police said.

Detectives identified the victim as Weston Huff, 33, from American Fork, Utah. The police added that Huff was adventuring alone but was an “experienced sky diver.”

“It appears he was base jumping from atop the canyon and likely experienced a parachute malfunction,” authorities added. “Our sympathies are with the family and loved ones of Weston Huff.”

A spokesperson with the Provo Police Department told PEOPLE that the investigation into the incident remains open until the medical examiner’s office provides its report.

In addition to his experience in paragliding and BASE jumping, Huff was a certified tandem paragliding instructor, Trina Preece, the victim’s mother, told NBC affiliate KSL.

“People put their lives in his hands,” she said. “And when it wasn’t someone else, he was at risk of his life in his own hands.”

The family noted that Huff was diagnosed with Tourette’s and Asperger’s syndrome.

“Weston had a lot of difficulties, of things that we could share or things that he absolutely would never share that were too painful, trauma, things that he might have suffered,” Preece told the outlet.

“So for someone like that to have a takeaway of goodness and kindness and love, I mean, a lot of people walk away from hard experiences being jaded and hardened,” she continued.

His family also shared that Huff lived for flying, telling KSL that Rock Canyon was where their loved one had previously jumped from.

“Based off of one of the people that were there, he pulled the cord and his chute didn’t fully expand, and he died on impact,” Kalli Bistrattin Machado, Huff’s sister, told KSL. “And there were people that came running when they saw it and switched out for CPR for 10 to 15 minutes before emergency services arrived and pronounced him dead.”

A GoFundMe was created on behalf of Huff’s family

“Weston shared a special bond with all of his family members, especially his mother, Trina, who brought him into this world 33 years ago against all the odds stacked against them,” the organizer wrote in the fundraiser’s description.

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“Weston came into and left this world in the same exact way: flying, free, and full of love,” the organizer added.

PEOPLE contacted the GoFundMe organizer on Tuesday, March 24, but did not receive an immediate response.