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Noen sitter fast i radiomasten
12.feb. 2012

http://www.bt.no/...02.html#.TzjXZLQrWVB
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Google translation (106 meter = 350 feet or so)
Some are stuck in the radio mast

Police received a strange message from MD Manen Sunday.

OFF: silje Gomnæs
Published: 12.feb. 2012 (18:16) Updated: 12.feb. 2012 (20:58)

Three foreign base jumpers tried to jump from the radio mast of Round Manen Sunday afternoon.

14.35 The time called a worried man to the police and said he saw three base jumpers respectively yellow, white and red jump suit up in the radio mast.
Come down

One had hung onto the mast, and seemed to be dragged to a radio antenna in the fall.

- For a moment we considered whether we should go up, but it's not way up there. But before we had time to do some more, got the message from the man who first called in that all three had now come down. After that we heard nothing more, says Terje Hilland, operations manager at the Hordaland police district.

Arne Hjeltholm was one of those who watched the scene. He estimates that the three jumpers spent about 25 minutes to get to the top of the mast.
- The rest mass is

- They climbed up too. It collapsed a lot of ice from the tower when they climbed, he told bt.no.

He says that the man who got stuck, first jumped out from the top and then got the parachute touched the mast again.

- He fell thankfully into the mast again, and landed on a platform. Then he climbed further up again and released the parachute, says Hjeltholm.

A total of 4.3 spectators who were standing and looking at the jumpers.

- I thought for a while this seemed to go bad. It's not particularly high either.

Radio mast at Round Manen is 106 feet high, according to Wikipedia.
- Strange

He says that there were some smiles at the operations center when the message arrived.

- We think it was a bit strange. I can not quite imagine how you can jump from there, I would have thought they went in the ground long before they got buoyancy. But they're good ones that are doing stuff, so maybe it's possible.

- It's not allowed to climb up the mast?

- No, it's not allowed. But it's probably not a sign with "Jumping forbidden" either.

Nice clean 180 , Looks like the Talus caught-up with them on the sink & snagged the Nose .

Does not look like in the reading/translation that they release the name of the ( foreign ) jumpers ,
They must have been detained as they have there nice Vid, footage from the Ground Crew .
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"But before we had time to do some more, got the message from the man who first called in that all three had now come down. After that we heard nothing more, says Terje Hilland, operations manager at the Hordaland police district."

What makes you even think that they might have been detained?
The police didn't even bother to go up there due to the lack of roads. Also don't think that that is ground crew photo either but rather some random person with a phone.

But correct me if I have misunderstood something.

Just observing & trying to translate a translation . The Vid. to me Looked to good for a random phone Video caught by accident .
I have seen people who have never seen a BASE jump 'try' to get jump Video & it really sucked for getting the jumper from exit to landing .
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