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Wall. his torn parachute snagged on a rock. the only thing keeping him from falling a thousand feet to the ground. >> can you break that away? >> reporter: a state trooper drops from a hovering rescue chopper. >> its the best place to cut it. you got me clipped in? >> reporter: quickly working to cut frankson out of his parachute harness. >> thanks, man. >> reporter: finally, the helicopter lifts frankson and his rescuer to safety. >> hey, buddy. >> reporter: this is franksons second dangerous c...

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To welcome you and mrs trump. the queen hosted the us president — first for a full state visit and then again at natos 70th anniversary. and the cambridge children enjoyed getting back to nature in a garden designed by their mother. the headlines accompanying a royal year normally revolve around babies, marriages and colourful pictures from the various countries visited by the family. this year has been somewhat different. another annus horribilis? well, only the queen can truly answer that qu...

Anna taylor is here now. just watching that makes me nervous! well done to you. fantastic. just tell us about the difficulty of the climb first of all. yes, the rock face itself is 400 metres high and it took us two weeks to reach it in the first place and it is incredibly steep so the climbing is really physical. it was quite a challenge. just give people an idea. you are going up the face here thatjust

500 metres to go, 100 metres to go. hope we get there before the rain. what ladder‘s this? last ladder. the last ladder? this looks like the summit. isnt it? the summit, yes. we are here, guys. oh, wow, yeah. and there are so many of them. this is beautiful. yep! just daggersjutting out of the forest canopy.

"caution, a high degree of physical fitness is required past this point." eight hours round—trip. lead the way. lets go. i havejust 60 minutes to make it to the mini pinnacles, the first checkpoint. you werentjoking. what was that? how is it? steep. the checkpoint is less than a kilometre up the slope but the humidity makes it feel a lot further. panting weve only just started and im already exhausted. and were here, the pinnacles! not quite, right? mini pinnacle. that is...not a joke.

Of the worlds most remote food festivals. this week on the travel show, im in the jungles of borneo exploring malaysias biggest state — sarawak. in the western corner of malaysian borneo, sarawak has some of the most spectacular and diverse ecosystems. but it can be overlooked by tourists drawn to the bright lights of kl and the resorts of its neighbour state sabah. so im going to discover for myself the sights and inhabitants of this remarkable state. along the way i will be hanging out with ...

Real—world purpose is. well, this can take any instrument — this ones for a little micro imager, so we can do any science that youre looking to do wherever you want to go. these arent the only wheels we have for our two—wheeled robots. ok, so, if consumers were to buy one of these, because that is the aim, isnt it, what exactly would they be doing with it? well, we can do citizen science, so they can take them out into the field, they can have different sensors on them and then we can get ...

Exactly sure what those are, but what we do know is that theres a lot of geological history thats exposed there on the side of this crater wall. if axel does make it to the moon, it will be attached to a lunar rover, which will land a few hundred feet away from where the team wants to explore. through that tether, axel will get its power and instructions from the team and itll act like a rope as it abseils down into the moons depths. today, we, of course, dont have the lunar rover with us, and s...

The most ambitious financial and political change ever attempted has got under way with the introduction of the euro. tomorrow in holland, were going to use money we picked up in belgium today. and then well be in france and again, it will be the same money. its just got to be the way to go. george harrison, the former beatle, is recovering in hospital after being stabbed at his oxfordshire home. a 33—year—old man from liverpool is being interviewed by police on suspicion of attempted murder...