Romsdalen rescue operation June 30.

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Google translation

"Less than three months after a 30-year-old businessman was killed after a jump from Karlskråtind, the police and rescue creates Yesterday the phone about NOK another unsuccessful jumps in the same area.

It was the base hopperen even that called the police to warn about what had happened. The accident occurred just after at 14.00, and the man put in the ROCKY MOUNTAIN of about 1000 meters altitude.

It was sent both a Sea King rescue helicopter and luftambulanse to place and operasjonsleder by Nordmøre og Romsdal Police, Harald Rønning says to NTB that the man had bruises in the accident and was proposed when he was taken with luftambulanse Molde and flown to a hospital.
- Catching more.
Politimester in Nordmøre and Romsdal, Arnstein Nilssen, told Romsdals Budstikke the rescue action was considered as difficult.

- This is due fjellets nature, "says Nilsen, who is clear in his speech in the wake of the rescue action.

- The summer has just barely begun, and the jump a lot now. Unfortunately, I fear that there will be many accidents in the summer, "said the chief, adding that more and more people are dragged into the environment, and that not everyone who jumps have so much experience. This is according to him a greater chance that it will go wrong.
- Farmer himself.
- Base Hoppere is irresponsible. They grow themselves and do not care about those who put lives at stake to save them, says the superintendent who fear that one day's in a situation where there will be attempts at rescue.

He stressed that in many cases would not be appropriate to make the attempt to rescue people who have jumped.

Accidents in the Troll wall is a case, but deny the rescue, according to Nilsen also could be the case after jumping from Karlskråtind.

- The days of a rescue crew told me that the task is too dangerous, it will not be set in motion an action. If it is set in motion redningsaksjon, determined in each individual case. This is some base jumpers agree with, says Nilssen.
- Is a Limit.
After the accident in April, taken comrades of the forulykkede him from the scene of an accident after the rescue action was postponed because of the large rasfare.

- It happened where I liked poor. It could have ended quickly with a new redningsaksjon. It was not done anything illegal, but it shows that there is a Mind games that are missing, "says Nilssen.

- The problem is not that they expose themselves to danger, but that they expose rescue crews at risk. That is what is my ankepunkt, says the superintendent.

- We will stretch ourselves far for the free livsutfoldelse, but there is a limit, he quit."

- Uansvarlige basehoppere

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The incident was 180 with line twists. He landed on a small grass field at the very top of the talus unhurt!

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The incident was 180 with line twists. He landed on a small grass field at the very top of the talus unhurt!

Google translation of my answer published in the newspaper on friday. Not on the web page.

- Legal to jump from Kalskråtinden
BASE-jumper Paul Fortun react against the chief

- The chief's reaction after the rescue action on Kalskråtind this week, are exaggerated and wrong, says Paul Fortun.

Rauma: This is one of the åpolitimester Arnstein Nilssen in Nordmøre and Romsdal Police said to the Romsdals Budstikke Wednesday 1. July:
- Base hoppere is irresponsible, farmer himself and cares not about the rescue together companies that put lives at stake to save them, "said politimester. The comment came after a base jump had to be saved down by a helicopter after an emergency landing in mountainous terrain under the wall on Kalskråtind Tuesday 30. June.
The experienced base hopperen Paul Fortun, who is also the initiator and organizer of the World Base Race on Gridsetskolten in Innfjorden, react to police mesterens negative characteristics.
- Selfishness and self-cultivation are found in many arenas, not only among base hoppere. Base Jumping and mountain aviation is the extreme activities that most people can not identify themselves with, and that is why it is understandable that people react when they read about the dangerous rescue operations. How has it been with other activities that we currently consider as "healthy Norwegian activities", and that we are proud of. BASE environment must do something about attitudes to risk, and so do we. Base Hoppere who will visit the station, we are told that they can not automatically expect to be rescued if they get out of an accident, "says Paul Fortun.
He reacts against the police master word for a rescue action after a jump in an area that is regarded as one of Norway's safest, and which lies well outside the illegal zone in and the Troll Wall.
- It will not help if the media use the superintendent as talking over the heads of the jumpers, and not directly to the jumpers. He has not been with him all that is done with the attitudes and environment in which we inform about attitudes, and basic guidelines. When one looks at the long-standing attitude campaigns, which are conducted in the last 50 years aimed at Easter mountains (easter tourists) and the use of seat-belt (in cars), one can understand that there is still a long way back for a young mountain flying environment. When it is about the Police chief statements, it is important to understand that demanding rescue operations do not always have to be life threatening. Now the chief uses the term "rescue crews put lives at risk" time after time when the base jumpers is saved after accident or accidents, it creates the impression that it is always perilous to retrieve base jumpers, "says Paul Fortun.
- Exactly what the superintendent says that more and more people are dragged into enviroment and that many of them have little experience?
- We go not into the environment, but the new practitioners from other outdoor activities have begun with the base hopping the last few years. We must deal with. However, I encourage the superintendent and others to see also on the positive aspects of our activity. Møre og Romsdal is known for its diversity of activities on the mountain and the sea. It would be a shame not to exploit this diversity, when there are many serious practitioners who want to come here to use the wonderful nature we have. These are gifted people, who will have much to mean to the Romsdal as a tourist destination in the years ahead. The activity of local and visiting BASE practitioners has resulted in increased media coverage and good marketing of regionen.Eksempel is Imaxfilmen from Eikesdal, the number of films and film snippets created by amateurs and professionals, World BASE Race from Gridsetskolten and recently was the world famous "60 Minutes" in Romsdal to film base jumping. We talk about marketing that would have cost much inconceivable if we were paid for it, "says Paul Fortun.
- Is the base jumpers little 'crazy'?
- Yes we are a little crazy, and we live a little on the edge of the ordinary people think is reasonable and normal. I challenge the critics to be a little roomy. Base jumpers is no threat to society, and we wish of course not that rescue crews will put their lives in danger to save people who have failed under the exercise of extreme activities.

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It upsets the main readers about the risk we do putting the rescue people in to. Another main issue is about the cost of a rescue like this. Very often we bound up two helies for an rescue like this. The ambulance heli, which can not lift our people, and the army rescue heli.

All this together makes it a very hot issue! Try to understand it is not a job to make the base jumpers understand the importance about safety, but also a job to deal with the media, and try to inform the public what we do.

The job it selves is hard enough if not more high profiled jumpers do not come and contribute.

What do you guys want for the future? Where do you see this is going? Is it all about you, and how you think it will be with more jumpers arriving the scene? The problem is not the locals who conserve their illegal sites, it is when they travel to legal sites the problem starts. Nothing is more regulated than a illegal site with rules and restrictions!


Do not take the legal sites freedom for granted! Respect what we have, and keep it like that.! Preserve, behave, and Respect!

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http://smp.no/article/20090706/NYHETER/128110131/1002

The prohibition may be repealed as well. It is still to no avail, "says Nilssen - and think of the eight who now have lost their lives after Parachutist in the Troll Wall - Norway's highest vertical mountain wall at nearly 1,000 meters.

7. July 1984 jumped American Carl Boenish from Stabben on top of the Troll Wall. It will be his last. 43-year-old hit the mountain wall and killed.
Enka jumped
This scares apparently no one, not Widow Jean Boenish that a few days later jumps from the same place to honor her deceased husband.

Her jump was good. It did not for years after a 19-year-old Swedish and a 32-year-old find. Both lost their lives after the jump downward in the Troll wall with the parachute on his back.
Prohibition
And when a businessman from Australia the following year also killed the same place, the authorities had received NOK and Justice download prohibition of fall comes hopping in Troll wall.

Then politimester Ivar A. Oftedahl set himself up prohibition sign at the top of the steep mountain wall.

But the jumps continued, and accidents were more.

A 22-year-old from Australia, died in 1999, a 29-year-old man from Sweden suffered the same fate after a jump in 2003.

In 2006, killed a 30-year-old man from Australia, while a 34-year-old boy from Norway died after a jump in the Troll Wall in 2008.

Politimester Arnstein Nilssen wait for the next Emergency Room from the valley:

- The prohibition against parachuting has no effect. We do not have the capacity to monitor the mountain. And it made at least one thousand illegal jumps a year in the Troll Wall. Base Jumping become increasingly prevalent, and thus will be more inexperienced hoppere. So I more fatal accidents in the time ahead, "said the superintendent.
Fines
- Some have you managed to get in?

- Yes, we have been fined a few, and involved the parachute. But it means nothing, and that scares no one. So the ban has no purpose, says Nilssen.

- Can the ban have the opposite effect: to extract even more hoppere to Troll wall?

- No, I do not know. Those who jump here say they do it because it is something special time to jump in the Troll Wall.
Egoister
The superintendent in Nordmøre and Romsdal has long been clear on what he thinks about businessman environment:

- They are egoists who do not think about those who are sent up to rescue them. It's going to encounter situations where I must decide that we can not go in with a helicopter to get people, whether they are alive or dead, because it is too dangerous for rescue crews. There I see the dark, "says Nilssen.

- Have you even met the base hoppere?

- Yes, I have. One of them said to me that it was not dangerous to jump. A month later he was dead, "says Arnstein Nilssen, politimester in Nordmøre and Romsdal.
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I spoke to the Police chief today, and we had a good conversation, where we agreed to have a meeting with the media present. He do not dislike base jumpers, but had expressed his feelings about the egoistic jumpers who do jump in the illegal zone in Troll wall without thinking about those who is going to rescue them, or those who have to make the decision of a no go rescue!

He have a big responsibility the day he is going to say yes or no! The rescue personnel can only give advice about the situation, but it is the Police chiefs responsibility to give green light.