11/30/2022 0 Comments Man vs wild online![]() ![]() He walked away from something which would have killed less experienced jumpers. He hit the branches of the only tree in the entire landing zone (which probably helped save his life), and performed some sort of textbook roll on landing. He pulled the ripcord on instinct and the chute got about halfway open. So when he turned on 8, he was very, very close to the ground. He didn't check the altimeter on his wrist because he was focussed on getting the shot and his hand would have gone into frame. ![]() He was supposed to be jumping from I think 3000 feet, and being very experienced was going to count and turn on 8, but because of a miscommunication jumped at 2000 feet. He was jumping face up, to catch Bear jumping out behind him, so couldn't see the ground. ![]() It's a long one, but basically it was a combination of treacherous weather meaning that the emergency automatic chute-opening thing (sorry, I don't know the technical term), which was supposed to pop at 800 feet, I think, was set in different atmospheric conditions to the ones the jumper experienced in the dive. So we had our mountaneering safety guy, Dave (the other unsung hero of the series) put a harness on Simon and keep a hand on him at all times, ready to pull him back if he looked like he was getting too close. We shot Bear walking along the edge of a 600-foot cliff in Copper Canyon, and Simon was following him with the camera, but could not see the edge because his eye was on the eyepiece and the camera was obscuring his field of vision towards the cliff. We would try to control the risk where possible, though. He would have to negotiate exactly the same terrain as Bear (so would we all), but lugging a heavy camera which obscured his vision making it much more dangerous for him, and having to keep up with Bear (while the director AP and I would usually lag a little way behind). We had proper food packed with us, but I would occasionally try some stuff Bear had - like live fish, or the rocks in Mexico.Īrguably Simon, the cameraman (not crew, one man) has the toughest job of anyone. There is not a snowball's chance in hell I would drink elephant poo juice. ![]()
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