Defying the Law of Gravity

• Citation: Vol. 28 No. 6 Pg. 9
• Publication year: 2005
• Pages: 9
• Year: 2005

Wyoming Bar Journal 2005.

Vol. 28, No. 6 #9 (December 2005). Defying the Law of Gravity

WYOMING LAWYER
December 2005/Vol. XXVIII, No. 6

Defying the Law of Gravity

By Mary Angell

One balmy afternoon last September, two Laramie attorneys braved the law of gravity by jumping out of a plane and parachuting 12,500 feet to the ground

"It was the coolest 56 seconds of my life," mediator Amy Jenkins said of her free fall. "It was really a celebration and affirmation of life and birthdays and may there by many more."

Jenkins and her friend Becky Lewis, a sole practitioner and Bar Counsel for the Wyoming State Bar, went skydiving to mark Lewis' 50th birthday. Together, they talked about their experience and what it meant to them with the Wyoming Lawyer.

"It was way cooler than I thought it would be," Lewis said. "And when I say this is the coolest thing I've ever done, I have a lot to compare it with." Lewis has ridden an elephant through the jungles of Thailand, sailed up the coast of Malaysia, dived off the Great Barrier Reef. Even so, she wanted to free fall.

"I've been on a glider and in a balloon. I wanted not to fly or float. I did it to feel what it feels like to fall," she said. "My fear was when...