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What's my name. what's the name of my cat. >> what is the name of my cat? shlomo. are you hurt yourself, or you got a pain? no, no, i'm fine. we're looking at each other like, my god, this is crazy. >> fred is flown to a hospital for tests. terry returns to measure the cliff. it's 252 feet high, an unintentional world record for ski jumping. >> when the doctor called me back and said, fred, he's okay, and i tell him, okay, we were measuring the cliff. there's silence. then the doctor said, okay, i will check again. >> further tests reveal fred has a slight tear on his kidney. the cure is rest ...

African-american males. this follows a justice for all rally that just wrapped up in washington, d.c. now back to "caught on camera." on a mountain peak in the french alps, a wrong turn launches a skier over a 250-foot cliff. march 18, 2008, france. norwegian fred syverson is one of the world's top free-style skiers. he's also one of the oldest still active. he tests his skills on steep and untraveled terrain like this remote peak in the alps. >> so you want to push your limits a little bit because there is always a better chance when you're up there to try thing that you normally can't do e...

Fred and the filmmaker, terry dunard, have worked out a route down the mountain using landmarks like rock-out props. they decide on a trial run. the plan is for fred to lead the other skiers, but the filmmaker suddenly changes the plan, worried about fred's habit of taking big chances which could lead them all into disaster. >> and i said to my team, okay, sorry, guys, we go one by one. i have a sixth sense, like an alarm. i know fred for a long time. i know he's a charger. he's always want to push. >> a helicopter drops fred off on the peak. he will begin alone. >> i'm kind of focused on gett...

One mistake could send him over a deadly edge. >> then you're waiting for the signal from the helicopter to go. then you're just like, you blank out because then you're only concentrating on the line you're going to ski. so you're kind of very into what you're going to do and focusing on the right way to go down. >> fred pushes off. >> i felt like this is going to be like a cruising and really good warmup run to get the feel of the snow because it was the first run of the day. >> unintentionally, fred turns far off course. >> i thought i was at the right landmark. >> the filmmakers, all on hea...

So that's -- that was the force i was fighting. i was fighting that the whole way down until the very last meters. and then let the wind flip me over on my back so i could land like horizontally because i knew that this kind of height, if you land on your feet, on your head, you're done. >> fred slams into the snow. >> the impact is so strong that it's like an explosion. and then the sudden silence. nothing. just silence. and everything white. >> in the helicopter, terry dunard, the filmmaker, spots where fred disappears into the snow. while the pilot hovers nearby, dunard and an assistant jum...