On top of El Capitan, 3,600 feet above the valley floor, Yosemite National Park, October 1983. B.A.S.E. Jump

 

 

 

Bay City, Michigan, 1978.

Adjusting to life in freedom after being held 18 years

behind the iron curtain.

 

 

 

Linked with another 231 skydivers.

 freefall formation, Lake Wales, Fl, 1995

 

   

 

Taking a passenger along, Clewiston, Florida - 1998.

 

Parachute Stack, Clewiston, Florida 1994

Top to bottom: Ross, Betty, Bruce, Loes, myself, Marty,

Mitch, Are and Ron

   

Jerusalem, Western Wall, Nov. 2010

Bethlehem, Palestinian Teritories, Nov. 2010
   

Dead Sea, Nov. 2010

Security outside Jerusalem, Nov. 2010
   
 
End of the Men's Giant Slalom, Whistler, Canada, March 2010
 
Lucas, end of the Men's Giant Slalom, Whistler,Canada, March 2010 
   
 
Whistler Peak on the background
 
On the Peak to Peak Gondola, Whistler-Blackcomb
   

Powder Challenge 
Whistler At the Olympic Rings, bottom of the Men's Downhill Race Run
   

Stana's Spring Break in Paris

France most famous landmark
   

My girl in France 

Loes, Stana and Grandma Diny dining at a Champs-Elysees, Peris
   

With Lucas, at his school Fun Fair, 2004

2008 "motivational" tour

   


Top of the Rockefeller Plaza Bulding, NYC, Dec. 2009
 
NYC, December 2009
   


Skating at the Rockefeller Plaza Ice Rink, NYC, Dec. 2009


Stana and Lucas on Liberty Island, NYC, Dec. 2009
   

 

With Lucas - skiing at Snowbird, Utah,

January 2009 Click Here for more images.

 

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Lucas snowmobiling at Winter Park, CO. 2008 (Click on image)

 

   

Diving with Loes in the Galapagos.

Leon Dormido (Sleeping Lion),

off the coast of San Cristobal, 1993

 

Anna, Stana (daughter), Ben and Lucas (son)

at play at the sand dunes.

Kasouga, east coast of South Africa, June 2007

   
 

 

Stana, Jackson Hole, WY, 2003 

 

Lucas Nickolich, aboard the Eye of London, 2003

 

Loes and myself over Dillingham Airfield,

Oahu, Hawaii, 1995

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House where I grew-up and lived from 1953 to 1977.

Biltmore, La Habana. Click to enlarge.

   

The Vatican, 2006

Roma, 2006

 

  

With the Cuban National Team, III Panamerican

Parachuting Championships

Collique, Peru 1975

Two years before "bailing out of hell".

 

                                                       



Family portrait in Holland, January 2010
   

 

Scuba diving with Loes, Key Largo

 

A Sunday afternoon at the pool.

   

Kisspass with Loes at 10 Grand!
 
Mahi-Mahi prize trophy. Duck Key, August 2009
   

 

Our honeymoon in Dubrovnik

 

Lucas, Isla de Capri

   

Hiking the Napali coast trail,

island of Kauai, Hawaii

Ruins of Pompeii

   

 

Grand Place, Brussels, July 1, 2009

 
The Nickolich's arriving at NATO's Change of Command Ceremony,
Mons, Belgium, July 2, 2009 

 

     

 

The family outside the Franz-Joseph Palace,

Vienna, January 2008

 

Prague, November 2008

   

 

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Lucas favorite sport.

 

 

Stana practicing at home for the All State Audition

 

 

Stana Katrina Nickolich

at a figure skating competition.

 

   
 
With son Lucas on top of the Nohoch Mul pyramid,
Maya ruins at Coba, Yucatan, Dec. 2008


Groesbeek, Netherlands, July 2009
   
   
 
"Brigada Patria" Fuerzas Especiales, Latacunga, Ecuador
 
Playing over Z-Hills
   
   

Bled Cup, Yugoslavia, 1989

Docking on a 12 Stack with the NAVY SEALS and Tampa CREW, 1998
   
   


Barkley East, South Africa


Horseback riding with Stana, Sephton's Ranch,
Barkley East, South Africa
   
   
 
Enjoying Ceviche in Salinas
 
With Ted Strong and Ecuador Special Forces trainees in Salinas, Ecuador, 1998
   
   
   


Me, Alberto Alibrandi and Fernando Gallegos, Latin Challenge 1996

With my S.W.A.T Team Trainees, "Grupo de Intervencion y Rescate" (GIR) Ecuador, 1995
   
   
   

Klein Matterhorn. Zermatt, Switzerland

"Here's to your health"

 

 

 

 

Profession: Entrepreneur

4,165 skydives (BASE No. 91)

980 Tandem Jumps - 600+ AFF Jumps

USPA Instructor/Examiner, Senior Parachute Rigger

International Skydiving Competitions:

Szolnok, Hungary 1974 - Peru 1975 - Mexico 1977 - Bled, Slovenia 1989

Hobbies: Scuba Diving, Sailing, Skiing, Writing

Married 20 + years with two great children

 Contact El Lince  nick@heldbehind.com

 

"You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future"

 

 

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