The Final Jump | National Geographic

so now we're gonna go with my friend babbles behind the lens right now we're gonna go look where the Reds gonna be positioned for the this is our camp this is base camp you know like hollywood-style big hotel room $200 a night just piles and piles of gear trying to keep everything dry and secure and organized is a little challenging but we're doing it these guys are you know basically going to suss out in the next probably half an hour whether the flight decks good to go or not and that's going to be pretty interesting Dean things going forward pretty much she's gonna look but Wayne is I don't know all right let's go suit up so me and Brian's right now are founding our camera position and these are the kind of things that like for me anyways it keeps me up in the middle of the night I don't know any sleep my son like well how are we gonna do it is it going to work is that camera angle gonna work and and now we're here it's happening and it feels perfect Suns going to be there so I'm going to be you're on top filming with the red camera Brian's going to be where you're going to be Brian I'm going to be all the way down in the meadow at the landing zone so we've got kind of these two big camera angles from sticks that way well we're weird I'll just have to roll walking there though even though I had made that decision like like I was having some uncontrollable like bodily nerves going on like I felt like burping vomit and I'm shaking I usually don't do those things before I'm getting ready to do any of my art I'm very tired and I knew that I wouldn't fly at maximum I I couldn't like after you know climbing that route I was exhausted and had been sleeping very well kind of nerves so all those things made me question question but then standing on the ramp I something just comes over me really and I just make up my mind I'm going to do it and I just execute plan or stick with plan holy you Dean said altogether I'm gonna jump on top of you what made it happen was that rare Thank You Chuck and Matt but also they thanks to the crew also everybody put his effort into it that was a team effort that Ram and yeah would have not been possible without without everybody gone yeah I'm gonna get into oh come on man there's absolutely no way you he'll get in so that's a man so that's the making of right now

Channel: National Geographic

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Length: 4min 34sec (274 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 09 2012