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A rescuer ready to rappel down behind the waterfall, and another one on the shore with a lifeline. they also have multiple video cameras pointed at the falls ready to record what will happen. >> at that point i was fully prepared to be able to walk away from it and say, look, this isn't something that i want to do. as it was, i decided that it was something that i wanted to do. so i gave the team the go ahead signal that things were happening. i got in my kayak. >> then he pushes off. >> approaching palouse, it's flat water all the way up to the lip of the falls, so i have time for conscious t...

He was in this misty, windy, torrential cavern with the sun beaming through the curtain of the falls, and for a second there, yeah, he wondered if he wasn't just straight in heaven. >> but then pedro spots something jarring. ironically, it is just now he gets his only injury of the day. >> all of a sudden he sees the green form of a snake to his left. he stumbles back like, whoa. he sees another snake to his right, slips down, cuts his leg. >> pedro narrowly survives one of the most dangerous stunts only to walk straight into a cluster of boa constrictors. >> and he says he just waited there f...

Pedro olivia who ben first met in 2007. >> pedro was competing for the brazilian national team, and i was filming for a company that produces kayaks here in the united states. he started telling me about the amazing waterfalls in brazil. >> i'm just going to lean back out over. >> a year after meeting, the two planned the ride that would push them close to the danger zone. >> our hope is to establish the new world record for the tallest waller fall run on the kayak. >> the previous is 108 feet and to beat this they look for the perfect falls and come upon salto bello in southern brazil. >> we ...

Most, a couple of minutes to get pedro out of the water, so we needed to be ready for him to be unconscious and to be able to get him out of the river if he were unconscious. >> contingency plans are in place. pedro is ready to go and ben has his camera in hand. >> pedro was extremely confident right before the run. he had a feeling that everything was going to go extremely to plan. as we were waiting for pedro to come around the corner, come out of the trees paddling, i was nervous. i was anxious. i was excited. i was worried. it was definitely high anticipati anticipation, high anxiety for m...

In san diego. >> we have a lifeguard and a boat, so we had somebody in the water. we had a lot of friends. we ended up doing this stunt. from the time the ramp was on the bridge to off the bridge it was four minutes, 30 seconds, i believe. it was pretty quick. and we were just hoping no policemen would drive by in that time. >> since what they are doing falls somewhat outside general traffic safety rules, they move quickly. >> it's on. >> love you brothers. >> but, of course, the unforeseen obstacles are the one that is complicate things. in this case, it is something called speed wobbles. >> ...