Date: 06 November 2006
From: stunmobile
Base jumping at the cave of S u00c3 u00b3tano de las Golondrinas. Challenging yet mystifying. Its like being on another planet. A truly amazing adventure. These are just a few of the words that past jumpers have used to describe S u00c3 u00b3tano de las Golandrinas Cave of the Swallows , a 1,400 foot, subterranean cave located deep in a Mexico rain forest. Nowhere else in the world can you jump such an object as formidable as this. With an opening of only 160 feet across at the top and a base of over 6 acres, this is truly an object to prize. Shaped like a bell and with such internal mass, the entire Empire State building could fit inside. And because the opening is completely overhung, one needs to rappel nearly 1,200 feet before reaching the mossy green cave floor, a task horrifying to the novice and mandatory to members of this expedition. Due to the caves unique structure, it looks at first assessment that to jump this object would be BASE suicide. The walls appear shear at best, leaving you with th...
    
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