Hellos From Under and Over
- March 2009
- Hi Steph Simple Living Climb Fly Travel
Hi Steph,
Just thought I would add another email to your many emails from the site.
Your philosophy on life is eye opening and just what I needed to read!
I live in Australia but I work a job I don’t like, doing things I am not
interested in, paying a mortgage that feels like a burden – though I am
lucky enough to have a very low mortgage, and am able to rent my house out
and that should cover the costs.
But now, my boyfriend and I have decided to up and leave our life – it is
cushy, we have a few luxuries such as a nice TV, mobile phones, dinner in
restaurants occasionally (not much else though!) and we have steady jobs in
this economy. But, we want to see our beautiful country for what it is, and
live and breathe as true Australians enjoying the landscape.
Your site just reinforced to me that this is the right decision for my life,
and if you can make it on a low wage job and still be able to afford your
health insurance then there is nothing stopping me as well.
Thank you for just BEING on the internet so I can now do the same with my
life.
warmest regards, and stay safe.
Rebecca in Melbourne Australia – Soon to be in Mission Beach, Australia
scuba diving with the fish!
hi steph:
well hell. when i got home from your slide show tonight, i remembered the question i
wanted to ask and the conversation i wanted to have. but my memory skipped a beat,
probably because you are so damn gorgeous. (don’t mind me. it’s been one of those
years.)
i said how much i enjoyed your presentation, but then i forgot – i wanted to ask if those
very green-grassy base-jumping pictures were from norway. they have a rock out there
called kjerag in lysefjorden, outside of stavanger. it’s a kilometer high, and it’s a
base jumper’s dream. i figured you must know about it and you probably jumped it, so i
wanted to ask you about the experience … but i forgot.
i imagine you get too many emails to be able to read and respond to them all, but it was
worth a shot, i figured.
you’re cool. you’re alive. thanks for being you and sharing with others (for only $10).
🙂
-joe
– apes have opposable thumbs (on their feet)
– otters use tools, as do other animals
– what makes humans special, i think, is our need to push the envelope; keep pushing the
envelope steph
Hi Joe 🙂 I have never been to Kjerag yet, but I have a friend who lives near there, and I hope to go climb with her and get to jump there. It is definitely one of the most beautiful places I’ve seen in photos, for climbing and wingsuit flight! I can only imagine it will be an amazing experience to visit there–with some luck, I will go this summer or next! The wingsuit pictures in my show with the grassy meadows were from Lauterbrunnen in Switzerland, which is another BASE mecca. I’m going back there in a few weeks, so I am really happy. I love flying as much as climbing….
Thanks for coming to the show in Boulder 🙂
xxS
Steph, You are among the legends to me…johnny copp, house, warren…you too are one…thanks for the inspiration to keep on keep on…because the true always choose the backcountry. Carry On Mason Robison
