Thursday 8th of December I arrived in Caracas, Venezuela. I hooked up with some of the other guys and went straight to a night club. Heavily armed commandos from the Venezuelan National Guard joined us, so we felt very safe :)
The rest of the guys (and girls) showed up the day after. We had a nice dinner at the hotel and went early to bed. On Saturday the bus was waiting for us at 5 in the morning. The next days was used traveling. We used bus, skytrucks, helicopter and river boats and on Sunday we arrived at Base Camp at the bottom of Angel Falls. The weather wasn't very good, so we sat down and waited. I was one of the four lucky jumpers picked out for first load and when the weather cleared up we and Marty, the photographer, got in the helicopter and was placed on the top. Right after the helicopter left we had a complete white out. The clouds came in really quick so we had to sit down and wait. The weather stayed bad the whole day. It was too much of both clouds and winds to both jump or be rescued by the helicopter.
Night was quickly approaching so we had to find shelter for the night. Somewhere on the top of the falls we fould a small cave. We all crawled together in the small cave and eventually got some sleep. Personally I slept pretty well (still wearing my body armor) but the other guys weren't that satisfied. The morning after we got up at about 5.30 and walked over to the exit point. At 6 o'clock we sat there watching the sun come over the horizon. The weather was still not good enough to jump so we sat on the exit waiting for a few more hours. After a while the helicopter arrived with another load of jumpers so we got more company.
After a couble of hours the weather cleared up and we got ready to jump. The jump it self was beautifull. I had fantastic 17 seconds of freefall with great visuals. Our landing area was a tiny little opening in the jungle. I nailed the landing and could just relax and laugh at all the guys landing in trees around. One of the guys (Jack) ended up about 25 meters up in a tree and had to be rescued by the helicopter.
The trip was a huge success and sitting at work back in Norway again is kind of sad. Allthough, if I work hard for some months again now, I'm ready for my next adventure :)