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I'm giving Stein a helping hand here by posting this for him:

Mexico cave jumps are the best jumps I can get. After 5 trips I can hardly wait till next time I get to go back. I would like to say thank you to all of you who have been with us on these trips.

I really like to meet all the new people from around the world when I`m on my jumping trips. This time in Mexico we had Gary C. with us, he did 24 jumps! That is a record for our Norwegian Cave Expedition. We had also 6 jumpers who never have done acrobatics before, but on this trip all of them did some acrobatics like front loops, back loops, barrel rolls, linked exits etc. It a pleasure to see people grow as jumpers on these trips. I believe since you can do many jumps in a very short time, you progress very quickly as a jumper. In this trip we did total 154 jumps in 5 days of jumping, with no injuries. Gary did 7 in one day and he said it was just for you, Seven.

We will go again late Feb. (Feb. 22. – March 2.). If you would like to join us on this trip, you can contact Vibeke Knutson (vibknuts@online.no) for more details.

Once again thank you all for your support in Norway, Mexico, China, US, Switzerland and all around the world.
Stay safe,
Best regards,
Stein Edvardsen

For those of you who don't know him, Stein is the president of the Norwegian BASE Association. He is also the discoverer of what is probably the world's most popular legal BASE site, a 3000' cliff in Southern Norway.

The story of it's "unveiling" to the BASE world is classic Stein. He went to Bridge Day, a relatively young and unknown jumper, sometime in the early 90's. He simply started talking to the leading American jumpers, and asked:

"So how big is the stuff you are jumping?"

When they told him that most of their jumps were in the 1000-2000 foot range, he said something like,

"Well, I've got this cliff by my house that I've been jumping. It's around 1000 meters."

The rest is history.

If there is someone on Earth who the worldwide BASE community owes a debt of gratitude, it is Stein.