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I waubt are wasn t looking through both eyes during the jump. it reduces your depth perception a bit, plus the fact we re flying on snow. and in cloudy day, towards sunset, you can t make out the texture. it s just white. the plan is for boole to deploy his parachute at 600 feet, just after the lead wing-suit flier opens his. although it s dangerously low to the ground, boole is determined to capture as much of the flight as he can. so i was very committed to stay there until either he pulled or i just knew that we were at 600 feet. boole is more focused on getting the shot than his altitude until the other flier pulls his chute. i saw him reach for his parachute. but he immediately, in my peripheral vision, i saw the ground. rather than being at 600 feet, i was at more like 60 feet. i could see the texture of the snow and ice. so then i thought most likely i m about to die because 60 feet is not enough for a parachute to open. i m still doing over 100 miles ....
Altitude and crashes into a snow-packed mountain. it was a trip of a lifetime. and it nearly ended up costing me my life. april 10, 2009. kamchatka peninsula, russia. professional wing-suit pilot james boole is traveling to russia s far east to shoot a documentary on its extreme landscape. it s covered in snow for nine months a year. it has the most active volcanos than any place on the planet. they call it the land of fire and ice. it is the final of the trip and he s eager to make it one of the most thrilling trips. we had done three other jumps that day. and it was obvious to everybody this was going to be the last jump because it was getting dark. we were nearly out of daylight. boole follows the lead wing-suit flier as he jumps from the helicopter into an icy gorge. i was filming. to help me frame the video, i had a ring site on my left eye. ....
when they land, bland finds out that everybody in the group is okay. his legs and back are very sore from the impact, but more than anything, he s thankful the episode is over. it was a huge feeling of relief to finally get my feet back on the ground. there s a rule that it s better to be down here wishing you were up there, than to be up there wishing you were down here. but if you think this brush with death will cause scott bland to stop jumping out of planes, think again. a lot of people look at sky diving and say these people are just nuts. they have a death wish. this is not the kind of thing i could do. there s no payoff without some kind of risk. and if you take a graduated risk, the payoff can be well worth it. jumping from 6,000 feet above one of the coldest and most remote places on earth, a wing-suit flier misjudges his ....
Altitude and crashes into a snow-packed mountain. it was a trip of a lifetime. and it nearly ended up costing me my life. april 10, 2009. kamchatka peninsula, russia. professional wing-suit pilot james boole is traveling to russia s far east to shoot a documentary on its extreme landscape. it s covered in snow for nine months a year. it has the most active volcanos than any country on the planet. they call it the land of fire and ice. it is the final of the trip and he s eager to make it one of the most thrilling. we had done three other jumps that day. and it was obvious to everybody this was going to be the last jump because it was getting dark. we were nearly out of daylight. boole follows the lead wing-suit flier as he jumps from the helicopter into an icy gorge. i was filming. to help me frame the video, i had a ring site on my left eye. i wasn t looking through both ....
Eyes for quite a lot of the jump. you lose your depth perception quite a little bit, plus the fact we re flying on snow. and in cloudy day, towards sunset, you can t make out the texture. it s just white. the plan is for boole to deploy his parachute at 600 feet, just after the lead wing-suit flier opens his. although it s dangerously low to the ground, boole is determined to capture as much of the flight as he can. so i was very committed to stay there until either he pulled or i just knew that we were at 600 feet. boole is more focused on getting the shot than his altitude until the other flier pulls his chute. i saw him reach for his parachute. but he immediately, in my peripheral vision, i saw the ground. rather than being at 600 feet, i was at more like 60 feet. i could see the texture of the snow and ice. so then i thought most likely i m about to die because 60 feet is not enough for a parachute to open. i m still doing over 100 miles per hour. he pulls his parachute h ....