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Matthias Giraud:
The cliff right over there,

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straight into the valley.

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In the shoot, make a couple
of turns up there, turn left,

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get on the ridge, point it,
and then straight to heaven.

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Matthias: Do you see
that avalanche?

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It was so sweet.

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We just skied this, oh my God.

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Speaker 1:

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Matthias:

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Yeah!

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Aiguille Croche, here we go!
Oh yeah!

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Matthias: My
name is Matthias Giraud,

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and my life's mission
is to promote the sport

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of skiing and BASE
jumping in a professional

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and humble manner to
inspire human adventure.

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The risk involved, potentially
life-threatening injuries

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or even death,

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and I'm still doing it aside
from all the risks

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because I believe it's a great
way to live a fulfilling life,

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and I'm a firm believer
that you can't let fear

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stand in the way of your dreams.

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Skiing has been a big influence
and driving force in my life,

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I started skiing when I was
18 months old,

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so it's pretty much
my first love.

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Josephina Giraud:
Before he could even talk,

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he put his finger up on the hill

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where his sisters left
and he said, "Huh,

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huh, huh, huh."
He wanted to follow them.

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I carried him uphill, I said,
"Wait for Mommy until I'm down."

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And here he came and that was
20, 30 times,

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he could not stop it.

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Robert Giraud:
He loved risky things

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and also a charming child,
I mean a very interesting child.

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Matthias: My first big jump,
I was four

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years old, I remember it
like it was yesterday.

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I was following a ski instructor
and right behind her house,

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there was this kicker, just hit
that jump and I just felt

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I was on top of the world, man,
just

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just flying, soaring through
the air and then I landed

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and it was super painful.

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So I had two realizations
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is amazing, but the landing
hurts.

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That was my first
experience of flying.

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From there, it was over,
that's all I wanted to do.

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I love speed and I love
air, to this day,

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I don't think that has changed
much.

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I think it's just getting worse.

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Josephina:
When he was in the ski school,

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the ski teachers told me

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they all have to follow you know
those little children, which

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is really cute to see,
but he always made

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a detour, he looked for
little bumps to jump

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already, very, very
young, so always looking

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for challenges, and danger,
and huge sensations

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since he was young and still,
he continues.

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Matthias:

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It's not like you wake up
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and you're like, "You know,
I'm passionate about jumping

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off stuff. I think I'm going
to do that."

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It's something that is
inside you.

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I've been jumping off stuff
since I was a kid, and all these

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moments felt like it was just
going through a major milestone.

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And since then, it's just like
you're always looking

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for a new milestone to
achieve and go through.

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I want to see if we can jump
from that waterfall

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way up there.

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There's a big ledge,
I don't know if we can, but

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we may be able to jump straight
from that rock up there.

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I'm pretty sure that's it, man.

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This right here, this is what
life is about,

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being in an intense situation,
it's about intense moments.

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Ya know this beautiful sun
poking through this waterfall,

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this amazing setting,
and aside from fear,

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there's not really anything

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telling me no,
so I think we got to go.

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Alright, three, two, one,
see ya.

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When I was nine years
old, I saw a movie called

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Pushing The Limits, it's kind of
like a cheesy '90s movie.

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I went back to see it
at a theater four times

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in a row because I was so
inspired by those guys.

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It's kind of
like the adrenaline junkie kind

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of movie but it had
soul, he had spirit.

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Those guys had a higher
purpose than just seeking

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the rush, they had goals,
they had daring objectives, but

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they weren't going to
compromise to reach those

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and for me, that became
the definition of being a man.

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If you are a man,

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you do everything to realize
your dream.

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Jessie Hall: I met Matthias
big-mountain skiing

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at a Big Mountain competition,
just skiing and jumping

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off big cliffs and we started
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and he knew I was into it too,
and he was just

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really excited and fired up
about it

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and would not stop
asking questions.

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Matthias: This is gonna be good,
all right. Let's do it man.

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Matthias: My jumps started
in 2007,

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Jessie Hall took me to
the Perrine Bridge in Idaho,

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and it was just a beautiful
sunrise over the Snake River.

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It was 7:00 in the morning,
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and Jesse was like, "All right,
climb over the rail."

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I remember climbing over
the rail and Jesse was like,

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"Hey, look at the horizon,

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take a deep breath"
and then you give the count.

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I remember looking at
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"Oh yes, I'm ready.
This is beautiful".

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I just took a deep breath,
three, two, one, see ya.

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Parachute opens and you're like,
"Oh my God,

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this is just the most beautiful
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I've ever done in my life."

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Jessie: His first day
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we did nine jumps,
which is crazy.

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Most of the time you do
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to the bridge in Idaho
and just rallied that thing

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and did more jumps than
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ever on his first day
jumping, and he did awesome.

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One, two, three.

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Matthias:
Three, two, one, see ya.

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Matthias: Oh la la la
Twin Falls, Idaho.

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Todd Davis:
It's just the guy

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is intense, he's like taking,
if you're lucky,

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80 years of a life and just

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squeezing that 80 years
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It's just the guy is the most
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completely psychotic,

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friendly, crazy athlete
you could ever imagine

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and ever hang out with.

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If you ever cross paths
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you're never going
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Matthias: Being yourself
gives meaning to your existence.

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And jumping stuff is part of me,
and whether I'm scared of it

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or whether I don't feel good
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if I force myself to push
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I feel like I'm evolving as an
individual, and I feel at peace.

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If I haven't jumped in
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I don't know what's
important and what's not.

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Everything just becomes
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The second I jump, everything
just has its place again.

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Suzanne Montgomery:
There's so much involved.

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A lot of people probably watch
Matthias on TV and think,

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"Okay, well, he's hurling
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but they don't realize how
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time it takes, and how many
elements are involved.

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When you do jump something,

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well, you need to plan it out

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very thoroughly, because there
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You have to be on point,

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everything has to work
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You have to know where
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that you still have enough time
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if you can't just land right
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It's a lot of things happening
in a very short period of time.

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J.T. Holmes: You step off that
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and you start accelerating,

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and you're going to get
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like you fell down
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or like you're on the diving
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When I do a BASE jump, I'll jump
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three seconds into it,
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"We've really done it now.

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We're really moving, can't take
that back." It's like you took

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the bottle of champagne,
you popped that bottle,

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and it's going.

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Matthias: BASE jumping,
you can't just really

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just run off a cliff
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There's a lot of hazards
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a lot of boulders,
a lot of trees.

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I think it is tall enough
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but I got to measure
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to make sure that I have enough

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altitude to make it
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I got to calculate all this with
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and see if it adds up or not.

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Jessie:
It's kind of strange how you

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gradually move in to
doing crazier and things.

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I grew up skiing and
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so I was used to being on cliffs
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and then you start sky-diving
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You think it's crazy
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then you just start
getting used to it.

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You just get desensitized
to the danger and start

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doing more and more dangerous
things, I guess.

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Matthias: Ah-haa!

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Todd: You can't help but have
that level of progression,

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whether you're skiing
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or no matter what you're doing,

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you always have to
up the ante and yes,

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it's a little bit dangerous,
but that's why it's fun.

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Matthias: I started thinking
about ski BASE jumping

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when I moved to the US.

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I was driving to the ski
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on the horizon with a huge
couloir and a 300-foot

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cliff at the bottom,
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can ski that mountain,
you're going to die.

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I started thinking, "Well, if I
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I could just jump off and pull
the parachute and fly away."

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This kid comes up to me
and is like, "Hey, I heard that

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you want to jump this mountain,

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ski it, and then open
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Come and check this out."
He played ski video

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and I saw these guys
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Standing off this 600-foot
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A parachute opens
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and his name was Shane McConkey.

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After that, this guy became
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I've watched every single
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and it's like, "This guy is
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This is where I need to be."

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Jessie:
It's pretty amazing

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to combine skiing
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It really can take your
skiing to the next level.

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You can ski lines that
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and just go flying off of them
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You, obviously, can't do that
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just opens the world up
to so much more stuff.

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Holmes: If you start combining

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disciplines,
you tend to complicate things.

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It doesn't mean it's a bad idea,
it's actually a wonderful idea

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and a superb feeling,
but when things go wrong,

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they can go wrong really
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and the path to safety becomes
a lot more complicated

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because your whole situation
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Matthias: Iwent to Mount Hood,

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and it looked there was
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Nobody had ever
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I'm like, "It could be
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a first ski BASE jump
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Why not, you know?"
I called Shane McConkey

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and I was like, "Hey,
Shane, I think I found

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a cliff to do a ski
BASE jump on Mount Hood."

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He said, "Good luck, man.

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I looked for something
for like six years up there.

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There's nothing you can
BASE jump on Mount Hood."

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I was like, "No, I think
I found something."

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He was like, "All right."

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A month later,
there was an opening,

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so I just jumped in my car,

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and I got there and hiked up
and found this cliff.

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The game plan is going to be,

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of course, going up top
of the cliff.

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I'm going to laser
straight from the top down

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so I'll get a pretty
precise idea of how big

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the cliff is, then if it's not
windy, right now,

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it's dead calm, these are
the two factors: I want

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to know how big it is,
and I want to make sure,

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of course, that the wind
is not too strong because

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that could collapse your canopy
or slam you into a wall

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or that could be pretty much
deadly.

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If all these factors are
good, then climb up,

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put my fear on the side,
point it, and send it.

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Matthias:

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I just hiked up and then
put my rig on and took

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a deep breath,
and it took forever to relax.

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This cliff had never
been jumped before.

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I had only 20 BASE jumps,
and I'd never ski BASED before.

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I called Shane the night
before and he said,

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"Hit it like a normal ski jump,

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pull your parachute,
and don't die."

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That's pretty much the only
instructions I had.

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That was perfect.

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Matthias:
That was sweet, man.

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Speaker 1: That was sick.

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Matthias: It's
a pretty big cliff, man.

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Speaker 1: How was it?

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It went the way you expected
or what?

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Walk me through it.

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Matthias: It was a,
It was beautiful, man.

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I don't even really
know how to explain it.

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It just came so fast, then I saw
the edge

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and was like, "All right.

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Dude, you've committed.
There's no going back."

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And then the edge comes

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and your just like the perfect
nob, just like a little "poof",

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you know, like you air
just a roller at ski resort

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but you look down and you
got like,

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it felt like you had 250 feet
and pulled

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and then I was just chilling.
I'm like,

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"All right, stay stable
I didn't want to flip on my back

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and get my skis tangled
in the lines."

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All I did was just wait,

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be super calm,
and it was awesome dude.

283
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This activity, what he has found

284
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some years ago,
fits him perfectly

285
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because he is individual,
he is looking, alone,

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for challenges,
and this is total extreme.

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I think he has been looking
for that without knowing that.

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Robert:
My boy, he's a clever boy.

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And also, he's a philosopher.

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He's trying to find the sense
of life, the meaning of life.

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I think his experiments
are reflecting

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a philosophical thought.

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Erik:
There's a lot of people

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who can talk about it,
but actually

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going through the steps
to properly do it

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and get to that stage
where you are

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scending cliffs and making
your own decision

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and opening up new
areas, he obviously

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wanted to do it, took the steps,

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and he's still doing
it and alive today.

301
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So that's a good sign.

302
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Chad Labass: It's hard
to relate

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with what Matthias is doing.

304
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It's freaking,
it's next-level stuff.

305
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Not everyone's wired even to
think about doing that stuff.

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He's like, "Oh yeah, I'm going
to go do this." I'm like, "Okay,

307
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sounds crazy." There he is,
off another cliff.

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Matthias: Booyah!

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Julian Carr: I think Matthias
is borderline a genius

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and borderline a mad man.

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I think most breakthroughs
in life from brilliant

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thinkers and scientists
have been half-mad anyway.

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I think he's mostly a genius.

314
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Suzanne:
What kid has not gone

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up to their mom, saying,
"Will you please

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safety-pin a towel around
my neck so I could

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run around the house
and act like Superman"?

318
00:20:12.608 --> 00:20:17.380
We all want to fly and here's
Matthias doing it.

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Matthias: I heard
somewhere that you only

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need three things in life,
and one of them is something

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to do right now, the second one
is something to look

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forward to, and the third
one is someone to love.

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Having a passion gives you
two out of those three.

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Then once you have to someone
to love to go back to, then

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that's the third element
of that triangle of happiness.

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I mean basically, we were
set up on a blind date.

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We met and we went to
go to a bar and then

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he wooed me with the offer
of making me

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dinner and then that
eventually led to us

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spending everyday
together ever since.

331
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I think food,
that was what got me.

332
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Matthias:
Truly, this person

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helps me become a better person.

334
00:21:45.536 --> 00:21:47.778
I hope I can help her become
a better person too, I guess.

335
00:21:47.802 --> 00:21:50.341
We inspire each other.

336
00:21:50.376 --> 00:21:52.079
Life is about being inspired,
and she makes me want to be

337
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romantic, but she makes me also
want to go and pursue my dreams.

338
00:21:55.843 --> 00:21:59.713
Joann: Our
fourth date was here.

339
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I took his dog out for a walk,
and I watched him jump.

340
00:22:04.555 --> 00:22:06.918
Matthias: Three, two, one.
See you.

341
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Joann: I think
that was a breakthrough

342
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because I got to see
something that

343
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he was passionate
about and I enjoyed it

344
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but also could understand
why he does it.

345
00:22:17.931 --> 00:22:19.766
I think that moved him
a little bit.

346
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Matthias: Nice little
family date with the family,

347
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the doggy, the most beautiful
woman in the world, got

348
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to do a little BASE jump
on the rock right behind me,

349
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and I'm going to go get another
parachute and do it again.

350
00:22:30.108 --> 00:22:31.976
That's how you spend your
Saturday, people.

351
00:22:32.011 --> 00:22:33.417
Hell yes, jumping off shit.

352
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Joann: We
share core principles,

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and we value each other's
character,

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but we're completely different
people

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with completely different
purposes in life.

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The good thing is that
our common purpose is that

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we want to make sure
that each other's happy.

358
00:22:48.863 --> 00:22:51.765
I know that BASE jumping
or whatever his passion

359
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is will make him happy,
that'll make me happy.

360
00:22:55.705 --> 00:23:00.070
He can run around naked all he
wants if that makes him happy.

361
00:23:00.710 --> 00:23:02.138
It doesn't make me happy though.

362
00:23:03.977 --> 00:23:05.977
Matthias: With
Joann, I found balance.

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I think, before, with all
the chaos I had in my life, I

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wrapped myself too much
in passions and within skiing

365
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and jumping, and it was my
answer to all my problems,

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but it can't be your answer
to all your problems.

367
00:23:17.694 --> 00:23:20.530
Eventually, reality strikes back
and you have to confront it.

368
00:23:22.567 --> 00:23:24.809
Joann: I know that he'll never
be totally satisfied because

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he's ambitious but,
at the same time,

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he's done so much,
so I trust him.

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00:23:30.971 --> 00:23:34.005
All of the projects he
has, I have absolute

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confidence that he's
done his research.

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00:23:36.240 --> 00:23:38.977
I feel like he's so committed
to our relationship that

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he would never want to
jeopardize himself or us,

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00:23:43.148 --> 00:23:45.489
so that makes me
trust him a lot,

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00:23:45.524 --> 00:23:46.853
and that's why I don't think

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00:23:46.888 --> 00:23:48.987
that he would do any sort
of project

378
00:23:49.022 --> 00:23:50.857
that would put us at risk
either.

379
00:23:58.735 --> 00:24:01.010
So what I'm hoping to do is get
on the ridge, climb here,

380
00:24:01.034 --> 00:24:04.574
then maybe rappel down, click
in my gear here and then ski

381
00:24:04.609 --> 00:24:06.686
that line, which is a short
line, but it's one of the very

382
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prestigious peaks in the Alps
that are really beautiful.

383
00:24:08.943 --> 00:24:12.142
I like to map out things
like that on pictures

384
00:24:12.177 --> 00:24:14.210
and also on satellite pictures
like

385
00:24:14.245 --> 00:24:16.245
Google Earth or things
like that because it

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00:24:16.280 --> 00:24:17.950
gives you a good idea
what you could do.

387
00:24:17.985 --> 00:24:20.029
You never know until you fly
up there with a helicopter.

388
00:24:20.053 --> 00:24:22.185
You might go and be,
"Man, it's not

389
00:24:22.220 --> 00:24:24.528
possible." I'd rather
lose 500 bucks and not

390
00:24:24.563 --> 00:24:26.255
jump than be there and be
like, "Okay,

391
00:24:26.290 --> 00:24:27.960
I'm going to try
and see if it works."

392
00:25:10.675 --> 00:25:12.587
Matthias: We just
got dropped by the helicopter.

393
00:25:12.611 --> 00:25:14.303
We're going to go
straight down below.

394
00:25:14.338 --> 00:25:15.909
There's a little pointy ledge,

395
00:25:15.944 --> 00:25:19.143
ski between the rocks
and then jump into the abyss,

396
00:25:19.178 --> 00:25:21.948
open the parachute
and fly into the valley.

397
00:25:22.148 --> 00:25:23.884
And I spent
a fortune on heli time

398
00:25:23.919 --> 00:25:25.655
but you know what,
it's worth it.

399
00:25:25.690 --> 00:25:28.086
You have one life.
Live your dream. Let's do it.

400
00:25:28.121 --> 00:25:30.891
Have a good time.
See you guys at the bottom.

401
00:26:17.335 --> 00:26:19.071
Matthias: All right.
That was it. Ski BASE

402
00:26:19.106 --> 00:26:21.843
at the Matterhorn. I got
extremely lucky on this jump.

403
00:26:22.681 --> 00:26:24.307
I just skied down between
the rocks,

404
00:26:24.342 --> 00:26:26.375
snow felt pretty good
and then right

405
00:26:26.410 --> 00:26:28.212
as I jumped and tapped
that ledge

406
00:26:28.247 --> 00:26:30.346
to jump into the face,
my ski came off.

407
00:26:30.854 --> 00:26:33.756
That was almost a disaster,
so I decided to go

408
00:26:33.791 --> 00:26:36.924
into a big front flip to
get out of it and then

409
00:26:36.959 --> 00:26:39.223
once I found my ski was
out of the way, I just

410
00:26:39.258 --> 00:26:42.666
pulled my parachute
and then it worked out.

411
00:26:42.701 --> 00:26:44.635
I got a good flight,
I couldn't believe it.

412
00:26:44.670 --> 00:26:48.265
I had just a few line twists but
I was able to get out of them

413
00:26:48.300 --> 00:26:51.301
It was a close call but
hey, I'm alive.

414
00:26:51.336 --> 00:26:52.676
I'm not hurt.

415
00:26:53.812 --> 00:26:57.714
We did it, not in the cleanest
manner, but we did it.

416
00:26:57.749 --> 00:26:59.089
I don't know if I'd
do it again though.

417
00:26:59.113 --> 00:27:00.113
This mountain is gnarly.

418
00:27:02.688 --> 00:27:04.380
It's really gnarly but
yes, we got it.

419
00:27:07.121 --> 00:27:08.923
Josephina: I'm not proud.

420
00:27:09.288 --> 00:27:14.159
I respect what he does,
but it's also something which is

421
00:27:14.194 --> 00:27:20.297
rather selfish because he needs
to perform this, to do this.

422
00:27:21.773 --> 00:27:23.674
Matthias: I grew
up in a good family, my

423
00:27:23.709 --> 00:27:26.039
dad being a doctor and
my mother staying at home

424
00:27:26.074 --> 00:27:28.008
and technically doing
everything for,

425
00:27:28.043 --> 00:27:29.845
they were everything
for their kids but

426
00:27:29.880 --> 00:27:31.781
a lot of instability at home.

427
00:27:31.816 --> 00:27:35.983
My mother was overbearing,
manipulative woman,

428
00:27:36.018 --> 00:27:37.853
really hard with my
sisters, especially.

429
00:27:38.449 --> 00:27:41.791
Josephina: When you
have children, you love them,

430
00:27:42.728 --> 00:27:46.763
you have the duty to care for
them to help them become adults.

431
00:27:48.063 --> 00:27:53.165
I would only give the advice
to other parents to respect

432
00:27:53.200 --> 00:27:56.938
their choice because many
parents make that mistake.

433
00:27:58.777 --> 00:28:02.405
We all make mistakes, and we
learn from those mistakes.

434
00:28:08.413 --> 00:28:09.819
Matthias:
The mountains were

435
00:28:09.854 --> 00:28:11.293
always my escape to
be able get away a little

436
00:28:11.317 --> 00:28:13.724
bit from the family
atmosphere that was

437
00:28:13.759 --> 00:28:15.319
just getting really,
really heavy.

438
00:28:18.764 --> 00:28:20.368
Then I started learning
more things about my

439
00:28:20.392 --> 00:28:23.393
family's past,
my aunt committing suicide, my

440
00:28:23.428 --> 00:28:26.132
grandmother being very
depressive, and then my

441
00:28:26.167 --> 00:28:28.398
sister Birgit tried to commit
suicide several times.

442
00:28:28.433 --> 00:28:29.593
She was clinically depressed.

443
00:28:30.875 --> 00:28:32.820
I was aware of it at the time,
but I didn't really choose

444
00:28:32.844 --> 00:28:35.174
to confront it because you're
a kid, you have so much

445
00:28:35.209 --> 00:28:37.847
stuff happening in your head,
and the way to deal with it

446
00:28:37.882 --> 00:28:40.080
for me was to go and escape
in the mountains and ski.

447
00:28:43.184 --> 00:28:44.458
I wanted to take my skiing
further

448
00:28:44.482 --> 00:28:45.822
because that's what I loved.

449
00:28:45.857 --> 00:28:47.483
That's always my drive
to kind of

450
00:28:47.518 --> 00:28:49.760
get away from home
was to go skiing.

451
00:28:49.795 --> 00:28:51.322
The mountain's were my shelter.

452
00:28:51.357 --> 00:28:52.862
I mean I felt good there.

453
00:28:54.030 --> 00:28:56.030
Nature is unpredictable,
but it was way

454
00:28:56.065 --> 00:28:57.768
more predictable than
being at home.

455
00:29:00.267 --> 00:29:02.465
Eventually,
my sister just killed herself.

456
00:29:03.039 --> 00:29:04.467
She couldn't take it anymore.

457
00:29:04.502 --> 00:29:06.513
She jumped out of her window
in the apartment in Paris.

458
00:29:06.537 --> 00:29:07.877
I was 18 at the time.

459
00:29:10.178 --> 00:29:12.783
It was really a hard experience
for the whole family.

460
00:29:13.412 --> 00:29:16.248
Somehow, she couldn't find what
was important to her in life.

461
00:29:19.121 --> 00:29:21.451
I have the chance to
have a passion and even

462
00:29:21.486 --> 00:29:23.068
though I was broken
at a time it was happening,

463
00:29:23.092 --> 00:29:25.125
it gave me extra motivation
to get strong again

464
00:29:25.160 --> 00:29:27.127
and follow my passion
and follow skiing.

465
00:29:28.163 --> 00:29:31.461
So I guess, her death made
me more alive, in a way.

466
00:29:35.170 --> 00:29:37.302
The other side of it is
doing dangerous things.

467
00:29:37.337 --> 00:29:39.535
It made me realize
that what I'm going

468
00:29:39.570 --> 00:29:40.436
to do is going to
have an impact on my

469
00:29:40.471 --> 00:29:42.439
family, obviously,
I saw it, firsthand,

470
00:29:42.474 --> 00:29:44.375
on my sister's death,
it affected everyone.

471
00:29:44.410 --> 00:29:46.245
That's it.
You change forever.

472
00:29:48.414 --> 00:29:51.085
Josephina: I said,
"Matthias, I'm very scared.

473
00:29:51.120 --> 00:29:55.056
If I would not be scared,
I would not be a good mother.

474
00:29:55.388 --> 00:29:59.489
A mother gives birth, a mother
doesn't want a child to die."

475
00:30:08.236 --> 00:30:09.576
Matthias: It's hard, I go back
and forth.

476
00:30:09.600 --> 00:30:11.402
There's nights I wake up
in sweats,

477
00:30:11.437 --> 00:30:13.503
thinking about a project
and telling myself,

478
00:30:13.538 --> 00:30:15.945
"Man, you could die,
you're not ready for this."

479
00:30:15.980 --> 00:30:19.344
But somehow when I get into
the situation itself

480
00:30:19.379 --> 00:30:22.083
and it's time to go,
I'm able to realize

481
00:30:22.118 --> 00:30:26.021
that if I don't do that now, my
life is not really worth living.

482
00:30:26.419 --> 00:30:28.991
To live a true life,
you have to actually control

483
00:30:29.026 --> 00:30:32.896
your fear and accept
death whenever it comes.

484
00:30:33.162 --> 00:30:35.030
At the same time,
I don't want to be reckless.

485
00:30:37.496 --> 00:30:39.199
All right.

486
00:30:39.234 --> 00:30:45.436
Three, two, one. See you.

487
00:30:54.216 --> 00:30:57.085
Josephina: He said yesterday
to me, "Mommy, you know,

488
00:30:57.120 --> 00:31:00.154
when I take a plane to go
somewhere in the world,

489
00:31:00.189 --> 00:31:04.125
I often think perhaps
I'm not coming back."

490
00:31:04.688 --> 00:31:08.459
So he's aware of the risk,

491
00:31:08.494 --> 00:31:11.968
seeing his friends die,
seven died last year.

492
00:31:13.268 --> 00:31:15.972
I understand why he does
what he does,

493
00:31:16.007 --> 00:31:19.404
but if he were not to come back
to me alive,

494
00:31:19.439 --> 00:31:21.604
I definitely would find that
pretty unforgivable.

495
00:31:23.443 --> 00:31:25.113
Matthias: Taking risk like that

496
00:31:25.148 --> 00:31:26.642
for a living
when you have a family

497
00:31:26.677 --> 00:31:28.611
could be viewed as selfish,

498
00:31:29.218 --> 00:31:32.417
but it's not selfish because
I'm not reckless.

499
00:31:32.452 --> 00:31:35.222
Stefan Laude: The thing is,
when you push your level higher

500
00:31:35.257 --> 00:31:39.391
and higher and higher, it's
difficult not to think about

501
00:31:39.426 --> 00:31:42.031
"One day it will go wrong,
and I will die."

502
00:31:42.066 --> 00:31:43.934
Of course, when you
live out of it,

503
00:31:43.969 --> 00:31:45.562
when you have that social
standards

504
00:31:45.597 --> 00:31:48.466
and you make people dream,
it's hard.

505
00:31:48.501 --> 00:31:51.700
I hope he's going to stop
at the good moment,

506
00:31:51.735 --> 00:31:54.010
I hope, I really hope.

507
00:31:54.342 --> 00:31:55.605
Todd: Things go wrong.

508
00:31:55.640 --> 00:31:57.354
It's just human nature,
things will go wrong.

509
00:31:57.378 --> 00:32:00.478
In BASE jumping,
particularly ski BASING,

510
00:32:00.513 --> 00:32:03.415
you can't have anything
go wrong.

511
00:32:04.418 --> 00:32:06.165
Matthias: In the world of skiing
and BASE jumping

512
00:32:06.189 --> 00:32:08.486
we, unfortunately,
lose a lot of people.

513
00:32:08.521 --> 00:32:10.653
In the world of BASE jumping,
particularly,

514
00:32:10.688 --> 00:32:14.426
when somebody dies,
we call it going in

515
00:32:14.461 --> 00:32:18.001
because a lot of the time,
people go into the ground.

516
00:32:20.137 --> 00:32:21.543
It's pretty dark
and self-explanatory,

517
00:32:21.567 --> 00:32:23.468
but it's to the point.

518
00:32:26.044 --> 00:32:27.244
Todd: What sucks is the people

519
00:32:27.276 --> 00:32:28.737
that I've known that have
gone in

520
00:32:28.772 --> 00:32:30.508
were the reason why
I got into the sport,

521
00:32:30.543 --> 00:32:32.213
they were the Jedis
of the sport.

522
00:32:32.413 --> 00:32:34.215
You're just getting
away with something

523
00:32:34.250 --> 00:32:36.118
that shouldn't be humanly
possible, and yet

524
00:32:36.153 --> 00:32:38.516
you keep doing it
because it's so damn fun.

525
00:32:40.751 --> 00:32:43.158
Matthias: But then...
then Shane passed away.

526
00:32:43.721 --> 00:32:46.326
Reporter: Influential
skier and BASE jumper Shane

527
00:32:46.361 --> 00:32:49.362
McConkey became famous around
the world for defying death.

528
00:32:49.397 --> 00:32:52.332
While performing a stunt for
cameras in Italy on Thursday,

529
00:32:52.697 --> 00:32:55.302
the sport he helped
popularize took his life.

530
00:32:55.667 --> 00:32:58.437
McConkey leaves behind
his wife, Sherry, and their

531
00:32:58.472 --> 00:33:00.340
three-and-a-half-year-old
daughter, Ayla.

532
00:33:02.509 --> 00:33:04.542
Todd: Then it's like,
"Whoa, wait a minute.

533
00:33:04.577 --> 00:33:08.513
That guy was the sickest guy
on the planet, had so much

534
00:33:08.548 --> 00:33:12.748
experience, did everything
right and then went in.

535
00:33:13.619 --> 00:33:15.025
He's my hero.

536
00:33:15.357 --> 00:33:20.360
Where does that leave
us?" It's brutal.

537
00:33:20.395 --> 00:33:26.069
Here we are still doing
it, but I don't know.

538
00:33:27.831 --> 00:33:29.671
Jessie: Shane passing was
pretty hard because

539
00:33:29.701 --> 00:33:33.274
he was definitely just like
someone I always looked up to.

540
00:33:33.309 --> 00:33:36.475
He was the man just
innovating, ski BASE jumping.

541
00:33:36.510 --> 00:33:39.313
It's pretty hard to not
have him here anymore.

542
00:33:39.711 --> 00:33:42.019
He contributed a lot,
and he had a good run.

543
00:33:42.714 --> 00:33:44.417
He's a great man.

544
00:33:46.421 --> 00:33:48.289
Matthias: I didn't
even have 100 BASE jumps

545
00:33:48.324 --> 00:33:50.786
when Shane passed away; the guy
had probably 700, I think.

546
00:33:50.821 --> 00:33:52.326
He was my hero.

547
00:33:52.361 --> 00:33:54.196
It makes you think that
"Well, if that

548
00:33:54.231 --> 00:33:56.792
happens to him, it can
definitely happen to me."

549
00:33:56.827 --> 00:34:00.697
At the same time, you can look
at it in another way

550
00:34:00.732 --> 00:34:05.207
and tell yourself, "Okay, people
like Shane gave us a gift of

551
00:34:05.242 --> 00:34:07.275
being able to look at mountains
and life

552
00:34:07.310 --> 00:34:09.244
and possibilities a whole
other way.

553
00:34:09.279 --> 00:34:10.784
I can look at that mountain
this way

554
00:34:10.808 --> 00:34:12.313
or I can look at it this way

555
00:34:12.348 --> 00:34:14.447
and be, "Okay, I can ski
all this

556
00:34:14.482 --> 00:34:17.120
and then I can fly away,
and that's beautiful."

557
00:34:21.852 --> 00:34:26.690
After Shane passed away,
about a year later, I got to

558
00:34:26.725 --> 00:34:29.561
go to the Eiger and finally,
ski BASE jump it myself.

559
00:34:30.531 --> 00:34:33.235
Shane did it, JT did it,
you have to do it.

560
00:34:33.270 --> 00:34:35.369
If you want to call yourself
a ski BASE jumper,

561
00:34:35.404 --> 00:34:37.569
to me, you had to ski BASE
the Eiger.

562
00:35:34.727 --> 00:35:36.331
Joann: Yes, it's risky.

563
00:35:36.366 --> 00:35:38.333
Sometimes, I get a little
nervous, but his

564
00:35:38.368 --> 00:35:40.137
thing is the minute he lands
and when

565
00:35:40.370 --> 00:35:42.700
he gets service,
he usually texts me

566
00:35:42.735 --> 00:35:44.669
or calls me to let me
know that he's okay.

567
00:35:45.540 --> 00:35:47.375
Matthias:
You have the most

568
00:35:47.410 --> 00:35:49.278
beautiful woman that
you need to go back to.

569
00:35:49.313 --> 00:35:54.712
Then that love blooms into
fatherhood and you

570
00:35:54.747 --> 00:35:59.849
have a kid on the way,
my consequences are real.

571
00:36:00.654 --> 00:36:05.426
You have a beautiful
wife that depends on you,

572
00:36:05.923 --> 00:36:09.760
and you have a son
that is going to need

573
00:36:09.795 --> 00:36:12.532
a father figure,
so then you start questioning

574
00:36:12.567 --> 00:36:14.732
yourself, "Should I keep
doing this or not?"

575
00:36:15.999 --> 00:36:19.572
You realize, "Well, what kind
of example do I want to be?"

576
00:36:19.607 --> 00:36:22.707
For me, I think the biggest
example you can set

577
00:36:22.742 --> 00:36:25.710
is to have the courage to follow
what matters to you.

578
00:36:26.449 --> 00:36:29.450
This baby should be
a huge turning in his life.

579
00:36:29.485 --> 00:36:31.914
You have to forget
yourself to raise a child,

580
00:36:32.389 --> 00:36:36.325
but he needs this extreme
jumping, definitely.

581
00:36:37.724 --> 00:36:39.724
Joann:
This is a risky job,

582
00:36:39.759 --> 00:36:41.462
but he's going to be
an amazing father.

583
00:36:42.696 --> 00:36:44.762
I can't wait to just say,
"This is ours

584
00:36:44.797 --> 00:36:46.632
and no one else's."

585
00:36:46.667 --> 00:36:51.340
I think it's the moment when
we lock eyes with the baby.

586
00:36:51.573 --> 00:36:54.541
That's going to be probably one
of the happiest days of my life.

587
00:36:54.576 --> 00:36:56.510
Matthias: I'm actually a planner
and I

588
00:36:56.545 --> 00:36:58.941
wanted to get as much
my projects done as I

589
00:36:58.976 --> 00:37:01.779
could before the birth
of Sören so I could take

590
00:37:01.814 --> 00:37:04.254
a lot of time off and be
home and be a super dad.

591
00:37:06.016 --> 00:37:10.491
Joann: He just started to pile
on a lot of jumps and work

592
00:37:10.526 --> 00:37:13.659
stuff and just trying to get it
all done before Sören was born.

593
00:37:13.925 --> 00:37:17.366
Sören was just making all
kinds of fuss in my belly.

594
00:37:17.401 --> 00:37:18.642
I almost thought I was in labor.

595
00:37:18.666 --> 00:37:19.764
It was just crazy.

596
00:37:19.799 --> 00:37:21.667
I felt a ton of pain
and discomfort.

597
00:37:22.802 --> 00:37:25.473
Matthias, right before leaving,
said,

598
00:37:25.508 --> 00:37:26.947
"I don't know if I
feel good about this.

599
00:37:26.971 --> 00:37:29.873
I should probably stay.

600
00:37:29.908 --> 00:37:32.744
You look like you could need to
go to hospital or something."

601
00:37:33.846 --> 00:37:37.419
Instead, I just said,
"No, you've planned this.

602
00:37:37.454 --> 00:37:38.981
Let's just commit,
that's what we do.

603
00:37:39.016 --> 00:37:41.819
Just commit,
you're going," and he went.

604
00:37:44.527 --> 00:37:45.790
Matthias:
We're here in Megéve

605
00:37:45.825 --> 00:37:49.860
because I am going to
do a first descent.

606
00:37:50.467 --> 00:37:52.665
Ski BASE jumping descent
of this peak

607
00:37:52.931 --> 00:37:55.635
that is just outside
of town called the Pon d'Areu.

608
00:37:56.000 --> 00:37:58.770
This peak is really
the first mountain that

609
00:37:58.805 --> 00:38:01.773
welcomes you as you arrive
in this valley here.

610
00:38:02.611 --> 00:38:04.578
It's this pretty big mountain.

611
00:38:04.613 --> 00:38:06.481
We have to climb for 5,000 feet.

612
00:38:06.516 --> 00:38:08.593
It's going to take about
five hours to get up there.

613
00:38:08.617 --> 00:38:10.617
45 to 50 degrees slope.

614
00:38:10.817 --> 00:38:12.817
That slowly brings you
to a 700-foot cliff.

615
00:38:13.655 --> 00:38:14.885
It's gnarly.

616
00:38:14.920 --> 00:38:16.821
It's fun and it's
right here at home.

617
00:38:17.824 --> 00:38:19.659
This is where everything
started.

618
00:38:19.859 --> 00:38:22.431
I made my first turns here
when I was 18-months-old.

619
00:38:22.631 --> 00:38:23.927
Jumped my first cliffs.

620
00:38:23.962 --> 00:38:26.567
It's just this area is
so rich in features

621
00:38:26.899 --> 00:38:29.405
and places where you can
go and push yourself.

622
00:38:29.803 --> 00:38:31.407
Really push yourself.

623
00:38:32.710 --> 00:38:36.478
Let's just dare to dream big and
go all the way up there and ski

624
00:38:36.513 --> 00:38:39.547
this thing like it will probably
never be skied ever again.

625
00:38:40.484 --> 00:38:42.352
How are you doing?

626
00:38:42.585 --> 00:38:43.826
Alex: Hi, Matthias.
I am Alex. Nice to meet you.

627
00:38:43.850 --> 00:38:44.651
Matthias: Nice
to meet you, Alex, finally.

628
00:38:44.851 --> 00:38:46.422
How are you doing, dude?

629
00:38:46.457 --> 00:38:47.588
Stefan: Great to see you.

630
00:38:47.623 --> 00:38:48.633
Matthias: Ready
for another adventure?

631
00:38:48.657 --> 00:38:50.118
Stefan: Yes.
Ready to go.

632
00:38:50.153 --> 00:38:51.264
Matthias: Alright so what's
the plan, guys.

633
00:38:51.288 --> 00:38:53.429
Alex: Tomorrow morning,
I think we're going to leave

634
00:38:53.464 --> 00:38:55.057
at 2:30 form Megéve,

635
00:38:55.092 --> 00:38:57.829
and we're going to park the car
here at Romme.

636
00:38:57.864 --> 00:39:01.965
Around three o'clock we're
going to walk here,

637
00:39:02.770 --> 00:39:05.903
close to the ski lift,
take the Sallaz

638
00:39:05.938 --> 00:39:08.840
and we go there in this place.

639
00:39:08.875 --> 00:39:11.007
After we're going to
put on the crampons

640
00:39:11.042 --> 00:39:13.042
and climb this little couloir
here.

641
00:39:13.077 --> 00:39:16.947
After we do the top and here
my job is finished.

642
00:39:17.554 --> 00:39:20.885
After your job is to ski there
and jump the Tours d'Areu.

643
00:39:20.920 --> 00:39:22.656
Matthias: I have
to follow the ridge

644
00:39:22.691 --> 00:39:24.823
because I'm jumping past six,

645
00:39:24.858 --> 00:39:27.892
there's the surplomb right here,
overhang.

646
00:39:27.927 --> 00:39:29.663
I'm using the surplomb
as the jump.

647
00:39:29.698 --> 00:39:33.128
I'm jumping away from the tower
so I don't land in it.

648
00:39:33.163 --> 00:39:35.009
When I hit this because there's
another tower here...

649
00:39:35.033 --> 00:39:36.802
Alex: It's a small tower.

650
00:39:36.837 --> 00:39:39.409
You have a big overhang there.

651
00:39:39.444 --> 00:39:41.180
Matthias: That's why
because I think the overhang

652
00:39:41.204 --> 00:39:44.414
will position me about
already halfway down this.

653
00:39:44.449 --> 00:39:46.548
With the trajectory,
I'm going to be past all this.

654
00:39:46.583 --> 00:39:47.945
Alex: Exactly.

655
00:39:47.980 --> 00:39:49.188
Matthias: I don't
want to jump in that wall.

656
00:39:49.212 --> 00:39:50.948
Alex: There because
maybe you will touch.

657
00:39:50.983 --> 00:39:54.853
Matthias: Yeah, it's not
suitable for BASE jumping.

658
00:39:56.527 --> 00:40:01.123
I think I left a femur up there.
Yeah, so that's the idea.

659
00:40:05.536 --> 00:40:08.471
Matthias: I've been looking
at this mountain

660
00:40:08.506 --> 00:40:12.068
for about, really looking
in the area for about 15 years.

661
00:40:13.104 --> 00:40:17.777
I tried two months ago, got to
the top and had to turn around.

662
00:40:18.076 --> 00:40:19.076
It was too dangerous.

663
00:40:20.112 --> 00:40:23.046
Hopefully, this is it.
But you know that's the thing.

664
00:40:23.081 --> 00:40:25.048
Once you have some pretty
ambitious goals

665
00:40:25.083 --> 00:40:26.786
and big mountains like that

666
00:40:26.821 --> 00:40:29.459
it takes you sometimes two,
three,

667
00:40:29.494 --> 00:40:31.659
four, five attempts
to get it done.

668
00:40:31.958 --> 00:40:34.024
It's not just an overnight
thing.

669
00:40:34.059 --> 00:40:35.861
You just kind of
have to be persistent

670
00:40:35.896 --> 00:40:37.698
and try to go at it again
and again.

671
00:40:38.635 --> 00:40:40.995
So, let's cross our fingers
hopefully it will go down today.

672
00:40:46.874 --> 00:40:47.939
See you guys later.

673
00:40:52.176 --> 00:40:54.583
Once you get to a certain
point, your eagerness

674
00:40:54.618 --> 00:40:56.915
you get it done,
your ambition becomes

675
00:40:56.950 --> 00:40:58.950
so much stronger than your fear

676
00:40:58.985 --> 00:41:01.722
that it's easier almost
to be like, "Well, screw it.

677
00:41:01.757 --> 00:41:04.626
Let's just go." Then actually
stepping back and be like,

678
00:41:04.661 --> 00:41:06.056
"This is bad. This is bad."

679
00:41:06.531 --> 00:41:07.871
Once you have a parachute
on your back

680
00:41:07.895 --> 00:41:09.499
you feel like superman,

681
00:41:09.534 --> 00:41:12.568
and you got to remind yourself
that you're just a human.

682
00:41:12.603 --> 00:41:16.638
Sounds a little
crazy, but it's true.

683
00:41:16.673 --> 00:41:18.684
Your amped you've got your skis
on top of the mountain,

684
00:41:18.708 --> 00:41:22.006
your parachute like,
"What can possibly go wrong?"

685
00:41:22.239 --> 00:41:23.942
A lot of stuff can go wrong.

686
00:41:23.977 --> 00:41:29.079
You got to keep a cool head
and just be very pragmatic.

687
00:41:29.114 --> 00:41:30.784
I've gotta remind myself
this today.

688
00:41:44.261 --> 00:41:45.261
All right.

689
00:41:46.230 --> 00:41:47.999
It's about to get real here.

690
00:41:48.606 --> 00:41:50.606
Just traversed all the way
from the other side

691
00:41:50.641 --> 00:41:53.741
and we're about to tackle
this couloir right here.

692
00:41:53.776 --> 00:41:55.644
I can't speak anymore.
It's pretty cold.

693
00:41:56.977 --> 00:41:59.648
Probably have another couple
of hours to get to the summit.

694
00:41:59.683 --> 00:42:00.781
Alex: Yeah, two hours.

695
00:42:00.816 --> 00:42:02.321
Matthias: Two
hours we should be there.

696
00:42:02.345 --> 00:42:04.950
We should be summiting around
nine o'clock, quarter to nine.

697
00:42:04.985 --> 00:42:06.083
Let's get moving.

698
00:42:06.690 --> 00:42:07.887
Here we go.

699
00:42:08.824 --> 00:42:10.021
That's the beast.

700
00:42:10.694 --> 00:42:11.974
We gotta get to the top of this.

701
00:42:31.275 --> 00:42:34.045
Yes, brother.

702
00:42:34.718 --> 00:42:36.850
Stefan:

703
00:42:36.885 --> 00:42:38.082
Good conditions.

704
00:42:41.923 --> 00:42:44.825
Matthias: It's an insane process
when you jump.

705
00:42:45.256 --> 00:42:47.729
When Before you hit the edge
your heart is pounding

706
00:42:47.764 --> 00:42:49.995
and your instinct tells
you that it's so wrong.

707
00:42:50.030 --> 00:42:51.634
You should not be doing this.

708
00:42:52.769 --> 00:42:56.639
Somehow you tell
yourself that it's okay.

709
00:42:56.674 --> 00:42:59.004
Your gear is fine.
The weather is good.

710
00:42:59.039 --> 00:43:01.842
You know how to do this.
You visualize the right move.

711
00:43:01.877 --> 00:43:03.173
Then you force yourself to go.

712
00:43:05.408 --> 00:43:08.112
You just know that
fear of death is not

713
00:43:08.147 --> 00:43:09.982
a valid excuse to give
up on your dreams.

714
00:44:54.891 --> 00:44:56.891
Speaker 2: I was going
to put it here.

715
00:44:58.026 --> 00:44:59.157
Let's put right here, dude.

716
00:44:59.192 --> 00:45:00.356
You got to keep it real.

717
00:45:15.879 --> 00:45:18.011
Matthias: All right.
Fire away Gershitz.

718
00:45:19.509 --> 00:45:21.311
Speaker 2: What happened?

719
00:45:21.346 --> 00:45:23.786
Matthias: It
looks like I had a cliff strike.

720
00:45:24.316 --> 00:45:25.920
I'm in a hospital right now.

721
00:45:29.827 --> 00:45:32.894
I remember skiing
to the edge of the cliff.

722
00:45:32.929 --> 00:45:34.731
Then I don't remember
anything anymore.

723
00:45:39.804 --> 00:45:42.200
Stefan: I said, "Matthias,
the way that these birds

724
00:45:42.235 --> 00:45:44.873
are flying is the meaning
that it's windy down there.

725
00:45:44.908 --> 00:45:45.940
I'm sure.

726
00:45:46.976 --> 00:45:50.010
I'm not going." He said,
"Yes. Okay. I'm going."

727
00:45:51.211 --> 00:45:53.211
Matthias: I had
a doubt about the wind.

728
00:45:53.246 --> 00:45:55.917
I could tell there was
some thermals.

729
00:45:57.250 --> 00:46:00.449
I was afraid that this could
send me into the cliff.

730
00:46:03.289 --> 00:46:07.797
I decided to go and go big,
to get away from the cliff.

731
00:46:14.938 --> 00:46:17.004
A second and a half
after my parachute

732
00:46:17.039 --> 00:46:19.105
inflated I got slammed
into the wall.

733
00:46:19.140 --> 00:46:21.008
It knocked me out broke
my femur.

734
00:46:21.340 --> 00:46:24.506
Then normally when you
hit a wall, you slide down

735
00:46:24.541 --> 00:46:26.882
the whole wall and you
don't really go anywhere.

736
00:46:26.917 --> 00:46:29.918
I had a really slow flying
parachute

737
00:46:29.953 --> 00:46:31.546
that doesn't have
much forward speed.

738
00:46:31.581 --> 00:46:33.185
I think that actually helped me.

739
00:46:33.550 --> 00:46:36.221
The parachute turned away from
the cliff and did a full-on

740
00:46:36.256 --> 00:46:40.093
180 and then I flew 4000
feet completely unconscious.

741
00:46:51.238 --> 00:46:53.843
I was flying in and out of
the clouds and the guys filming

742
00:46:53.878 --> 00:46:56.307
from the helicopter were
like, "Well, he's

743
00:46:56.342 --> 00:46:58.815
probably dead but let's
see where the body lands."

744
00:47:22.401 --> 00:47:24.071
Right now honestly,

745
00:47:25.140 --> 00:47:28.537
I'm questioning myself whether
I should keep doing it.

746
00:47:29.540 --> 00:47:33.344
I just want to go home
and be a good father

747
00:47:33.643 --> 00:47:35.478
and be there for my wife
and my son.

748
00:47:39.583 --> 00:47:44.652
I know that down the road
that it is worth it because if

749
00:47:44.687 --> 00:47:49.459
it is a meaning to a life
it is a meaning to existence.

750
00:47:52.167 --> 00:47:54.200
You have to have the courage
to live it this way.

751
00:47:57.403 --> 00:47:59.238
Speaker 2: What's next?

752
00:47:59.273 --> 00:48:01.009
Matthias: What's next?

753
00:48:01.044 --> 00:48:06.982
Heal up and then hopefully
get this one done again.

754
00:48:08.645 --> 00:48:09.446
Speaker 2:
You want to go back?

755
00:48:09.481 --> 00:48:10.986
Matthias: Yes.

756
00:48:11.450 --> 00:48:13.054
I have to do it.

757
00:48:13.089 --> 00:48:19.896
I have to ski the Pon d'Areu
and do it in a safe manner

758
00:48:23.033 --> 00:48:25.701
because I have to.

759
00:48:29.567 --> 00:48:31.941
The first call
that Joanne got was:

760
00:48:31.976 --> 00:48:33.910
"Okay, we picked up Matthias.

761
00:48:34.308 --> 00:48:36.704
He's definitely way beat up.

762
00:48:36.739 --> 00:48:38.112
He broke a lot of stuff.

763
00:48:38.147 --> 00:48:39.520
He's not in good shape
and we don't know

764
00:48:39.544 --> 00:48:40.584
if he's going to make it."

765
00:48:42.184 --> 00:48:44.613
I felt so bad that she got
this call

766
00:48:44.648 --> 00:48:47.352
three weeks before giving
birth pretty much.

767
00:48:47.717 --> 00:48:49.585
Then she got a second call

768
00:48:49.620 --> 00:48:52.060
and the second call was,
"You know he's going to survive.

769
00:48:52.095 --> 00:48:54.095
He's okay,
but he has major brain damage."

770
00:48:54.295 --> 00:48:57.098
Then the third call she got was,
"Hey, he's back to normal.

771
00:48:57.133 --> 00:48:58.462
He's flying home tomorrow."

772
00:48:58.497 --> 00:49:00.398
Matthias: How are you doing,
sweetie?

773
00:49:21.784 --> 00:49:23.289
I was in the hospital
for two weeks

774
00:49:23.324 --> 00:49:24.686
and in a coma for three days.

775
00:49:24.721 --> 00:49:26.996
My brain was bleeding,
double fracture on my femur.

776
00:49:27.295 --> 00:49:29.229
I truly am given
a second chance.

777
00:49:29.264 --> 00:49:31.264
I shouldn't be alive after
something like that.

778
00:49:34.632 --> 00:49:38.469
This baby that is going to
be born is the most innocent

779
00:49:38.504 --> 00:49:41.472
and fragile thing ever and I
need to be there for it.

780
00:49:42.409 --> 00:49:44.706
But also I need to be
in the right place

781
00:49:46.248 --> 00:49:49.051
because this baby needs
a real dad.

782
00:49:53.222 --> 00:49:56.256
Finally, I made it home six
days before the birth of Sören.

783
00:49:56.291 --> 00:50:00.029
I was on crutches, but I was
still able to be in the OR

784
00:50:00.064 --> 00:50:02.691
and be there for Sörens'
birth, so that was great.

785
00:50:05.729 --> 00:50:07.729
Here's our latest
addition to the family,

786
00:50:08.336 --> 00:50:11.502
our little Sören,
Sören Reef Giraud.

787
00:50:11.537 --> 00:50:13.042
Here he is.

788
00:50:19.809 --> 00:50:22.612
Definitely super stoked that I
made it back on time for him.

789
00:50:23.681 --> 00:50:25.120
It's a big gift.

790
00:50:25.452 --> 00:50:26.583
It's awesome.

791
00:50:34.626 --> 00:50:37.330
He's a stud and right away
I was like, "You know what?

792
00:50:37.365 --> 00:50:39.112
This kid is just born,
went through something

793
00:50:39.136 --> 00:50:40.828
traumatic himself."
All three of us did.

794
00:50:40.863 --> 00:50:42.335
Joanne went through labor.

795
00:50:42.370 --> 00:50:44.337
I went through
a near-death experience

796
00:50:44.372 --> 00:50:46.108
and then he was going
through birth.

797
00:50:47.573 --> 00:50:49.573
He was just laying down
in his little incubator

798
00:50:49.608 --> 00:50:51.410
like nothing happened

799
00:50:51.445 --> 00:50:54.182
and right away I just knew
that he was a good little guy.

800
00:50:57.451 --> 00:50:58.857
Joanne: The minute
that personality came out,

801
00:50:58.881 --> 00:51:00.584
right around three months

802
00:51:00.619 --> 00:51:02.751
he just became more and more
like Matthias.

803
00:51:02.786 --> 00:51:05.688
He is so much like his father.

804
00:51:06.163 --> 00:51:10.627
He's one-track-minded,
super determined and hopefully

805
00:51:10.662 --> 00:51:14.664
eventually resilient,
exuberant, very charming, funny.

806
00:51:14.699 --> 00:51:16.369
He's got a great smile.

807
00:51:16.404 --> 00:51:20.076
Really this baby is just
so much like his dad.

808
00:51:22.179 --> 00:51:25.312
Matthias: I love hearing him
laugh and seeing him happy.

809
00:51:25.347 --> 00:51:30.383
Being able to see so much
pure joy is so refreshing.

810
00:51:30.418 --> 00:51:33.485
I don't know if I'm neurotic or
there's something wrong with me,

811
00:51:33.520 --> 00:51:38.160
but like I truly need to put
myself in difficult situations

812
00:51:38.195 --> 00:51:39.491
physically and emotionally

813
00:51:39.526 --> 00:51:42.362
to be able to reach a state
of happiness

814
00:51:42.397 --> 00:51:45.497
and peace in my life, but when
I see him it's so simple.

815
00:51:45.532 --> 00:51:47.895
It makes me so stoked
and so happy.

816
00:51:47.930 --> 00:51:51.206
It's a completely
different happiness than

817
00:51:51.439 --> 00:51:54.803
jumping or skiing,
but it's so pure and simple.

818
00:51:54.838 --> 00:51:56.310
That's beautiful.

819
00:51:56.345 --> 00:51:59.181
I guess that's what
being a dad is.

820
00:52:02.582 --> 00:52:03.889
Joanne: We used
to hypothetically,

821
00:52:03.913 --> 00:52:05.484
before I was even ever pregnant,

822
00:52:05.519 --> 00:52:07.519
"What would happen if you
had a kid

823
00:52:07.554 --> 00:52:10.159
and with this change
what you do?"

824
00:52:10.194 --> 00:52:13.921
He would get on a soapbox and
say, "No, this is my passion.

825
00:52:13.956 --> 00:52:17.265
I'm never gonna let anyone stop
me." I respected that.

826
00:52:17.300 --> 00:52:20.796
This is who he is and he's
very driven, but now that I'm

827
00:52:20.831 --> 00:52:25.306
a mom with a baby, if he
dies, what's going to happen?

828
00:52:25.341 --> 00:52:28.672
I think about it all the time,
but if that accident

829
00:52:28.707 --> 00:52:32.214
didn't make him learn something,
I don't know what will.

830
00:52:33.613 --> 00:52:36.482
Matthias: The question is, how
far do you want to go to pursue

831
00:52:36.517 --> 00:52:40.255
your dreams and how compatible

832
00:52:40.290 --> 00:52:42.488
with your family life
those dreams are?

833
00:52:42.523 --> 00:52:45.227
I'm just realizing that jumping
is compatible

834
00:52:45.262 --> 00:52:47.724
with having a family,

835
00:52:47.759 --> 00:52:51.926
but you have to be extremely
aware of your surrounding.

836
00:52:53.468 --> 00:52:55.600
I feel like I need to go back
out there because

837
00:52:55.635 --> 00:52:57.305
when you have a calling in life,

838
00:52:57.340 --> 00:53:00.671
you have to follow it no matter
what the consequences are.

839
00:53:01.839 --> 00:53:04.312
My first ski BASE jump
after the accident is going

840
00:53:04.347 --> 00:53:09.284
to be an intense one for sure,
and I can't wait.

841
00:53:12.916 --> 00:53:16.456
Big milestone today I
just got off crutches.

842
00:53:18.757 --> 00:53:21.791
I'm still walking with a little
bit of a limp, but I'm

843
00:53:21.826 --> 00:53:24.629
so happy to be able to
put weight back on my leg.

844
00:53:24.664 --> 00:53:28.237
Just saw the doctor
and he said that I

845
00:53:28.272 --> 00:53:31.537
should just ease back
into all activities.

846
00:53:31.935 --> 00:53:34.474
Just walking, I don't know what
to do with myself right now.

847
00:53:34.509 --> 00:53:37.213
This is amazing.
I'm so happy.

848
00:53:39.712 --> 00:53:42.647
Next stop jumping off cliffs.

849
00:53:44.288 --> 00:53:46.783
Being a pro skier and base
jumper, technically

850
00:53:46.818 --> 00:53:48.818
going to work is jumping
off cliffs

851
00:53:48.853 --> 00:53:50.358
and skiing down mountains,

852
00:53:50.393 --> 00:53:53.328
but at this point, because
the only thing I could do

853
00:53:53.363 --> 00:53:56.496
was train, training and
rehabbing was my full-time job.

854
00:53:58.830 --> 00:54:00.511
Denny Dragen: When elite
athletes get hurt,

855
00:54:00.535 --> 00:54:02.502
their world is more affected

856
00:54:02.537 --> 00:54:05.571
because they realize that's
how they make their living.

857
00:54:05.606 --> 00:54:08.607
It's kind of an eye-opener when
they go, "Oh my God,

858
00:54:08.642 --> 00:54:09.751
I'm not going to be able
to do this

859
00:54:09.775 --> 00:54:11.709
for a certain amount of time."

860
00:54:11.744 --> 00:54:14.943
Matthias: I was non-weight
bearing for three months.

861
00:54:14.978 --> 00:54:18.452
I had so much tissue
knotted up in my hip.

862
00:54:18.487 --> 00:54:20.586
A lot of the recovery at first

863
00:54:20.621 --> 00:54:22.786
was just to get some
body motions back.

864
00:54:22.821 --> 00:54:24.491
It was so stiff.

865
00:54:24.526 --> 00:54:26.889
I could barely hold
my balance on one leg.

866
00:54:27.496 --> 00:54:28.990
Denny: He had to be able to ski.

867
00:54:29.025 --> 00:54:32.400
He had to be able to load
that leg, bend it.

868
00:54:32.435 --> 00:54:34.897
It had to be able to
take lots of forces.

869
00:54:34.932 --> 00:54:38.406
Early on it was really
trying to restore motion.

870
00:54:38.441 --> 00:54:39.902
That's really slow.

871
00:54:39.937 --> 00:54:43.609
The first eight weeks is really
all about range of motion

872
00:54:43.974 --> 00:54:46.975
and then after that, we are just
adding strength stuff

873
00:54:47.010 --> 00:54:50.616
just like anyone does,
trying to restore him to

874
00:54:50.651 --> 00:54:54.356
be able to handle the pressures
on the big mountains.

875
00:54:56.085 --> 00:54:58.327
Matthias: It's a mental
and physical struggle

876
00:54:58.362 --> 00:55:02.463
to come back from
a super-gnarly experience.

877
00:55:02.696 --> 00:55:05.796
You spend so much
time fine-tuning

878
00:55:05.831 --> 00:55:08.799
that machine so it's really
precise and efficient,

879
00:55:08.834 --> 00:55:11.637
and then you have to do that
all over again

880
00:55:11.672 --> 00:55:13.870
in a very short amount of time.

881
00:55:14.609 --> 00:55:17.808
Being able to do it again is so
much more rewarding, I think.

882
00:55:48.676 --> 00:55:50.973
I started skydiving again
four months

883
00:55:51.008 --> 00:55:53.008
after the accident,
so that was pretty cool.

884
00:55:53.043 --> 00:55:54.581
Speaker 3: That was good times.

885
00:55:54.616 --> 00:55:56.011
Matthias: It's good to be back.

886
00:55:56.849 --> 00:55:59.454
I started base jumping
six months after.

887
00:56:02.492 --> 00:56:04.052
Three, two, one.

888
00:56:05.561 --> 00:56:07.055
Three, two, one.

889
00:56:07.090 --> 00:56:08.727
Send it!

890
00:56:10.797 --> 00:56:13.765
Oh yeah, stoked, yeah.

891
00:57:27.236 --> 00:57:29.610
Matthias: It's crazy but
now I'm like

892
00:57:29.645 --> 00:57:32.173
coming back pretty much
from the dead and getting

893
00:57:32.208 --> 00:57:36.782
pounded ski BASE jumping,
it's, every base jump or now

894
00:57:36.817 --> 00:57:38.982
I'm going to start ski
BASE jumping again.

895
00:57:39.017 --> 00:57:41.886
It's like no matter how many
times you've jumped the thing

896
00:57:42.559 --> 00:57:45.890
now it feels like your
first time again every jump.

897
00:57:46.860 --> 00:57:48.563
I'm feeling like I'm going

898
00:57:48.598 --> 00:57:50.532
from my first ski BASE jump
again now.

899
00:57:50.930 --> 00:57:51.930
It's gnarly.

900
00:57:53.603 --> 00:57:55.009
I've been having to go
to the bathroom

901
00:57:55.033 --> 00:57:56.582
like every 15 minutes
since yesterday.

902
00:58:09.916 --> 00:58:12.653
You can just traverse there and
then straight back down here.

903
00:58:12.688 --> 00:58:14.028
Bambam: Let's
go and do something stupid.

904
00:58:14.052 --> 00:58:15.986
Matthias: For sure.
Let's do it.

905
00:58:17.759 --> 00:58:21.024
Bambam: Not stupid, highly
controlled and thought out.

906
00:58:23.127 --> 00:58:24.632
Matthias: My last one
was stupid.

907
00:58:24.667 --> 00:58:26.194
Bambam: Let's not be stupid.

908
00:58:28.935 --> 00:58:30.572
I hate stupid guys.

909
00:58:30.607 --> 00:58:32.706
Speaker 4: The last time you
ski BASED was the one?

910
00:58:33.302 --> 00:58:34.686
Matthias: Yes, I
haven't ski BASED since then.

911
00:58:34.710 --> 00:58:36.350
Which is why I'm fucking
terrified now.

912
00:58:41.684 --> 00:58:43.783
It's easy to get into
a fight if you've never

913
00:58:43.818 --> 00:58:45.818
gotten your ass kicked
before you say, "I'm going

914
00:58:45.853 --> 00:58:48.821
to do this." Then stepping
back into the ring

915
00:58:48.856 --> 00:58:52.726
when you've gotten way
beat up is super hard.

916
00:58:52.761 --> 00:58:54.761
Now I've been ski
BASE jumping for six

917
00:58:54.796 --> 00:58:57.291
years and I've lost
a lot of friends.

918
00:58:57.326 --> 00:59:00.228
I've almost lost my life,
I've got a lot of injuries.

919
00:59:01.099 --> 00:59:03.330
You get up there and you
start thinking about

920
00:59:03.365 --> 00:59:05.200
all the shitty things
that have happened.

921
00:59:05.840 --> 00:59:07.807
Somehow you still
going back out there

922
00:59:07.842 --> 00:59:10.612
and you know you have all
this experience,

923
00:59:11.142 --> 00:59:12.680
but you can't take it
for granted

924
00:59:12.715 --> 00:59:14.649
because it's a new beginning.

925
00:59:14.684 --> 00:59:18.213
You're rediscovering it
but with all the good

926
00:59:18.248 --> 00:59:20.721
but then a lot of
the bad things too.

927
00:59:20.756 --> 00:59:23.119
So it just amplifies it
way more.

928
00:59:29.259 --> 00:59:33.261
I'm going to ski down from
that knob up there because

929
00:59:33.296 --> 00:59:36.033
I can't ski this super
fast the snow is variable.

930
00:59:36.068 --> 00:59:37.166
It's good snow.

931
00:59:39.203 --> 00:59:43.678
First ski BASE since my crash
and snow is a little variable.

932
00:59:43.713 --> 00:59:46.747
My goal is to have a clean
safe ski BASE jump.

933
00:59:50.918 --> 00:59:55.250
Josephina: What can I know about
his mind when he's going to jump

934
00:59:55.285 --> 00:59:58.957
the next jump and he's up there
high in the mountains,

935
00:59:58.992 --> 01:00:00.827
no return possible.

936
01:00:00.862 --> 01:00:02.796
It's all or nothing at all.

937
01:00:03.128 --> 01:00:05.095
What is he thinking
at that moment?

938
01:00:05.130 --> 01:00:11.739
To his wife, to his baby?
I don't know. I don't know.

939
01:00:12.203 --> 01:00:14.742
Joanne: Sometimes I think,
is this selfish,

940
01:00:14.777 --> 01:00:16.744
maybe because it's
a personal fulfillment

941
01:00:16.779 --> 01:00:19.978
but at the same time,
if we're not personally

942
01:00:20.013 --> 01:00:23.718
fulfilled as people,
then we can't fully

943
01:00:23.753 --> 01:00:27.381
take on roles as
a father or a husband,

944
01:00:27.790 --> 01:00:31.253
or what other roles
you play in your life.

945
01:00:34.225 --> 01:00:36.291
Matthias: Chest strap.
Leg straps.

946
01:00:37.063 --> 01:00:38.392
Good chunk of pilot chute.

947
01:00:48.943 --> 01:00:50.423
How's the wind down there,
Bambam?

948
01:00:52.111 --> 01:00:55.310
All right. Ready? Dropping.

949
01:01:23.912 --> 01:01:25.340
I'm back.

950
01:01:27.476 --> 01:01:28.948
I'm not a religious person.

951
01:01:28.983 --> 01:01:30.279
I don't believe in God.

952
01:01:30.314 --> 01:01:32.182
I don't believe in all
that but I do believe

953
01:01:32.217 --> 01:01:34.789
in the higher power
of nature itself

954
01:01:34.824 --> 01:01:36.362
because the ocean
can crush you at any time,

955
01:01:36.386 --> 01:01:37.836
the mountains
can crush at any time.

956
01:01:37.860 --> 01:01:39.827
Just having the mountains

957
01:01:39.862 --> 01:01:41.895
allow you that gift to be able
to get back to

958
01:01:41.930 --> 01:01:44.029
what is so dear and
important to you,

959
01:01:44.064 --> 01:01:46.933
is just overwhelming
and so good.

960
01:02:03.919 --> 01:02:06.513
Yes. Yes.

961
01:02:15.458 --> 01:02:17.194
Got my heart going so much.

962
01:02:17.229 --> 01:02:18.800
It felt like I was
ski BASE jumping,

963
01:02:18.835 --> 01:02:20.802
learning to ski BASE
all over again.

964
01:02:20.837 --> 01:02:23.398
Yes.
Yes.

965
01:02:43.156 --> 01:02:45.189
I got to pick up my little guy
from school

966
01:02:45.224 --> 01:02:46.828
and I got a surprise for him.

967
01:02:48.095 --> 01:02:50.832
He has no clue what he's
going to find in his backyard.

968
01:03:05.211 --> 01:03:07.178
Matthias:

969
01:03:19.995 --> 01:03:22.325
Joanne: Skateboarding started.

970
01:03:22.360 --> 01:03:25.163
Sometimes I wonder if Matthias
sort of spoon fed it to him

971
01:03:25.198 --> 01:03:29.002
a little bit but he was on it
one day and he seemed to

972
01:03:29.037 --> 01:03:31.202
be interested in Matthias's
skateboard

973
01:03:31.237 --> 01:03:33.303
and really taking to it
and turns out

974
01:03:33.338 --> 01:03:35.173
Sören's quite good at it.

975
01:03:40.147 --> 01:03:41.947
Matthias: We're going to
skateboard Academy.

976
01:03:42.050 --> 01:03:44.545
Sören goes to skateboard
Academy once a week

977
01:03:44.580 --> 01:03:45.920
so I pick him up from school

978
01:03:45.955 --> 01:03:47.475
and we go straight
to the skate park.

979
01:03:47.924 --> 01:03:50.089
Skateboarding school.

980
01:03:53.622 --> 01:03:55.160
Matthias: I'm already
mentoring him

981
01:03:55.195 --> 01:03:58.295
to have the correct mindset
to do this stuff

982
01:03:58.330 --> 01:04:01.232
because it's your mindset that
is going to keep you alive.

983
01:04:01.267 --> 01:04:03.147
Just like its your
mindset that could kill you.

984
01:04:03.500 --> 01:04:05.005
The other day I asked him,

985
01:04:05.040 --> 01:04:07.205
"What do you want to do
as a pro skater?"

986
01:04:07.240 --> 01:04:10.340
He looks at me like I'm an idiot
and he goes, "Well, mega ramp."

987
01:04:10.375 --> 01:04:13.178
Of course, he picks mega ramp,
the gnarliest, biggest thing.

988
01:04:21.958 --> 01:04:23.353
I love watching him skateboard.

989
01:04:27.656 --> 01:04:30.162
He's learning the concept
of dedication

990
01:04:30.197 --> 01:04:32.263
and having to pay your dues.

991
01:04:32.298 --> 01:04:35.266
If he gets hurt, he gets hurt
that's why we put pads on him.

992
01:04:35.301 --> 01:04:40.304
If you get beat up that's
part of the dedication, man.

993
01:04:40.339 --> 01:04:42.119
If you get beat up then
you've got to stand up

994
01:04:42.143 --> 01:04:43.571
and keep going again.

995
01:04:43.606 --> 01:04:45.309
Also, it teaches you how to make

996
01:04:45.344 --> 01:04:48.983
smart decisions too and
how to manage risk.

997
01:04:49.018 --> 01:04:51.953
I don't expect him to be
a pro skier like his dad.

998
01:04:51.988 --> 01:04:53.999
I don't expect him to be
a pro skateboarder either.

999
01:04:54.023 --> 01:04:57.321
I just want him to have
this one passion,

1000
01:04:57.356 --> 01:05:00.423
that becomes the driving force
of his existence.

1001
01:05:00.997 --> 01:05:03.998
And right now I feel like

1002
01:05:04.033 --> 01:05:08.365
skateboarding is getting him
in a really happy place.

1003
01:05:08.400 --> 01:05:09.597
It's awesome.

1004
01:05:14.340 --> 01:05:15.669
Joanne:
Skiing has been something

1005
01:05:15.704 --> 01:05:17.407
that he's always done too

1006
01:05:17.442 --> 01:05:20.476
and he's gotten quite good at
that as well in the last year.

1007
01:05:20.511 --> 01:05:23.215
I think that Sören is also
just intrigued in it

1008
01:05:23.250 --> 01:05:26.185
because it's a lifestyle
that his dad's a part of,

1009
01:05:26.220 --> 01:05:30.926
but I'd like him to have
his own life and his own career.

1010
01:05:31.159 --> 01:05:33.126
I would like him to have
his own interests

1011
01:05:33.161 --> 01:05:36.393
and feel no pressure to do
something as extreme as his dad.

1012
01:05:38.001 --> 01:05:40.628
Matthias: I don't know
if I want him to BASE jump

1013
01:05:40.663 --> 01:05:44.071
because every parent worries
about the safety of their child

1014
01:05:44.106 --> 01:05:46.304
and BASE jumping is
the worst thing you can do.

1015
01:05:46.339 --> 01:05:48.273
It's the greatest
sport in my opinion,

1016
01:05:48.308 --> 01:05:50.044
but it's the worst thing
you can do

1017
01:05:50.079 --> 01:05:52.123
just because I've been around
the good, the bad and the ugly.

1018
01:05:52.147 --> 01:05:54.180
And I just know
the reality of it.

1019
01:05:54.215 --> 01:05:56.380
I've experienced it myself.

1020
01:05:56.415 --> 01:06:00.285
I don't want my son
necessarily to get into this,

1021
01:06:00.320 --> 01:06:03.519
but if he wants to,
I will make it my duty

1022
01:06:03.554 --> 01:06:05.994
to mentor him and give him

1023
01:06:06.029 --> 01:06:08.062
as many tools as I can
for him to survive.

1024
01:06:10.033 --> 01:06:11.406
Joanne: I don't know
if any parent

1025
01:06:11.430 --> 01:06:13.199
would ever wish
that on their child.

1026
01:06:13.234 --> 01:06:15.146
I almost think that BASE
jumping is a compulsion

1027
01:06:15.170 --> 01:06:17.236
of Matthias's, he's always
felt it.

1028
01:06:17.667 --> 01:06:21.042
I don't think that it's
a compulsion of Sören.

1029
01:06:21.077 --> 01:06:23.374
Matthias has always said
he's been wanting to do this

1030
01:06:23.409 --> 01:06:25.310
since a really young age.

1031
01:06:27.116 --> 01:06:28.753
Matthias: You have
people that are dear to you

1032
01:06:28.777 --> 01:06:31.349
and people that care about
you and that you care about,

1033
01:06:31.384 --> 01:06:33.582
but I know this is what
I'm supposed to be doing

1034
01:06:33.617 --> 01:06:36.321
because this is what I chose
to dedicate myself to.

1035
01:06:41.460 --> 01:06:44.098
It was about three years
after the accident.

1036
01:06:44.529 --> 01:06:46.694
My timing was getting better
when I was base jumping

1037
01:06:46.729 --> 01:06:49.532
and skiing and I'm thinking
about a plan in my head

1038
01:06:49.567 --> 01:06:51.732
on how to do the Pon d'Areu
again.

1039
01:06:52.603 --> 01:06:56.110
One day, Sören looks at me
and he goes, "Papa,

1040
01:06:56.574 --> 01:06:59.377
when you'll be old, I'm going
to teach you how to skateboard.

1041
01:06:59.412 --> 01:07:01.577
When you'll die,
I'll bury you with your skis

1042
01:07:01.612 --> 01:07:02.745
and your skateboard."

1043
01:07:04.087 --> 01:07:06.252
So I asked him a question like,
"Sören, what made you

1044
01:07:06.287 --> 01:07:10.157
think about that?" Then he goes,
"It's because my heart

1045
01:07:10.192 --> 01:07:15.525
knows your heart." That gave
me so much peace and pride.

1046
01:07:16.660 --> 01:07:19.298
I think that's the peace
and pride that I truly needed

1047
01:07:19.333 --> 01:07:21.663
to commit to this project.

1048
01:07:22.567 --> 01:07:24.633
Joanne: I always knew
that Matthias would go back.

1049
01:07:24.668 --> 01:07:27.504
He's never made this
a surprise for me.

1050
01:07:27.539 --> 01:07:30.573
Every time you go anywhere

1051
01:07:30.608 --> 01:07:34.610
it's so weather dependent
and it's luck.

1052
01:07:34.645 --> 01:07:38.350
He could be doing the same jump
three times a day

1053
01:07:38.385 --> 01:07:41.122
and that one day
it could just be an off day.

1054
01:07:41.157 --> 01:07:44.224
For me it was just,
let's get this over with.

1055
01:07:46.261 --> 01:07:49.856
Matthias: The one thing
that I was struggling with was,

1056
01:07:49.891 --> 01:07:54.234
well, I could still go and do
this thing but not come home.

1057
01:07:54.500 --> 01:07:56.599
The mountains do not
discriminate.

1058
01:07:56.634 --> 01:07:59.602
It doesn't matter how
fit and ready you are.

1059
01:07:59.637 --> 01:08:03.243
If I don't come home,
what do I leave behind for Sören

1060
01:08:03.278 --> 01:08:04.475
except from a distant memory

1061
01:08:04.510 --> 01:08:06.378
and some cool videos
on the Internet?

1062
01:08:06.809 --> 01:08:09.315
So I wrote a letter.

1063
01:08:09.812 --> 01:08:12.516
It was the hardest thing
I ever had to do.

1064
01:08:20.658 --> 01:08:22.790
Matthias:
Sören, I wrote you

1065
01:08:23.199 --> 01:08:25.232
this letter in case
I'm not coming home.

1066
01:08:27.335 --> 01:08:29.335
You need to know that
I'm not abandoning you.

1067
01:08:30.602 --> 01:08:31.865
I love you with all my heart.

1068
01:08:32.604 --> 01:08:34.835
You are the son I've
always dreamt of having.

1069
01:08:37.477 --> 01:08:41.512
Every time I leave home
I miss you more and more.

1070
01:08:41.547 --> 01:08:43.217
You are with me wherever
I travel to.

1071
01:08:44.418 --> 01:08:46.550
I always have your passport
picture in my wallet.

1072
01:08:47.850 --> 01:08:49.916
When you were a baby
I never left home

1073
01:08:49.951 --> 01:08:51.423
without a pair of your
baby socks.

1074
01:08:53.196 --> 01:08:54.228
Death is normal.

1075
01:08:55.561 --> 01:08:57.330
We all have an expiration date.

1076
01:08:59.433 --> 01:09:01.136
A strong man accepts
his mortality.

1077
01:09:02.304 --> 01:09:05.140
A weak man is consumed
by his fear of the inevitable.

1078
01:09:07.672 --> 01:09:10.541
It's been six years
since I tried to ski BASE

1079
01:09:10.576 --> 01:09:12.312
jump the mountain
that almost killed me.

1080
01:09:13.216 --> 01:09:15.183
I hit the wall four times.

1081
01:09:15.218 --> 01:09:17.614
I had a double brain
hemorrhage, three days

1082
01:09:17.649 --> 01:09:21.156
in a coma, double fracture
on my left femur.

1083
01:09:21.884 --> 01:09:25.556
Part of me has always been
left on that mountain.

1084
01:09:27.428 --> 01:09:29.791
I decided that I
needed to do it again.

1085
01:09:31.333 --> 01:09:34.202
Do not get upset
if people criticize me.

1086
01:09:35.304 --> 01:09:37.436
People always criticize
what they don't understand.

1087
01:09:39.000 --> 01:09:42.474
Remember that missing someone
is wonderful

1088
01:09:42.509 --> 01:09:44.652
because it means you have
had the chance to experience

1089
01:09:44.676 --> 01:09:46.412
unforgettable moments
with that person.

1090
01:09:48.317 --> 01:09:50.251
But my journey is over as a man.

1091
01:09:56.952 --> 01:09:59.260
Live with passion, purpose,

1092
01:09:59.889 --> 01:10:02.329
and share these moments
with the right people.

1093
01:10:02.661 --> 01:10:04.760
I love you more than
words can explain.

1094
01:10:06.027 --> 01:10:07.367
My heart knows your heart.

1095
01:10:08.832 --> 01:10:09.897
From papa.

1096
01:10:26.388 --> 01:10:27.849
Good morning.

1097
01:10:27.884 --> 01:10:30.291
Stefan: Hello America.

1098
01:10:30.920 --> 01:10:34.328
It's 3:46 in the morning
right now.

1099
01:10:34.363 --> 01:10:35.725
The mountain is beautiful.

1100
01:10:35.925 --> 01:10:37.991
The air is calm so far.

1101
01:10:38.697 --> 01:10:40.697
We're going to start climbing.

1102
01:10:40.732 --> 01:10:42.336
We're heading towards
the mountain.

1103
01:10:43.636 --> 01:10:46.032
Hoping to get this thing
done today.

1104
01:10:46.067 --> 01:10:48.001
The mountain will decide.

1105
01:10:48.036 --> 01:10:51.477
In the meantime, we will pay
our dues and be humble.

1106
01:10:52.744 --> 01:10:53.744
See you guys later.

1107
01:10:53.778 --> 01:10:55.910
Stefan: Be humble, get down.

1108
01:11:16.768 --> 01:11:18.735
Matthias: We're
almost at the summit.

1109
01:11:18.770 --> 01:11:20.935
We got to go to the couloir
right there.

1110
01:11:20.970 --> 01:11:23.740
Climb up the couloir then
up the ridge and that's it.

1111
01:11:23.775 --> 01:11:25.555
We are on top of the face
so it's the last push.

1112
01:11:25.579 --> 01:11:27.348
Let's get going.

1113
01:12:30.974 --> 01:12:33.040
Stefan:
Hello, my name is Stefan.

1114
01:12:33.075 --> 01:12:36.417
I am the cameraman. I'm French,
you know I'm smoking.

1115
01:12:39.851 --> 01:12:43.424
Feel good here because I'm not
the one that's going to jump.

1116
01:12:43.459 --> 01:12:44.953
So, No problem.

1117
01:12:49.894 --> 01:12:52.730
Matthias: A man has to go and
experience his own adventures

1118
01:12:52.765 --> 01:12:55.931
so he can come back at peace
and be there for his family.

1119
01:12:55.966 --> 01:12:57.834
You want to have
a family if you do this.

1120
01:12:57.869 --> 01:13:01.134
Sounds maybe crazy to some
people, but Joanne and Sören

1121
01:13:01.169 --> 01:13:03.906
are an incredibly strong
foundation for this projects.

1122
01:13:03.941 --> 01:13:06.810
I want to come home. I want
to tickle my little monkey.

1123
01:13:06.845 --> 01:13:10.880
I want to kiss my wife. You have
something so huge to lose.

1124
01:13:10.915 --> 01:13:15.588
There's so much on the line
that you got to stick it.

1125
01:13:15.623 --> 01:13:16.853
You got to do it right.

1126
01:13:18.725 --> 01:13:20.857
3, 2, 1...

1127
01:14:01.163 --> 01:14:02.569
Matthias:
Part of me will always be

1128
01:14:02.604 --> 01:14:06.166
on this cliff forever
I got served.

1129
01:14:06.201 --> 01:14:10.775
But now I could look at it
and this place went

1130
01:14:10.810 --> 01:14:13.844
from being a dark
dungeon to being home.

1131
01:14:15.276 --> 01:14:17.980
The first thing that I
thought about after that

1132
01:14:18.015 --> 01:14:20.950
was, I want to bring
my son to this place.

1133
01:14:21.150 --> 01:14:23.018
It's not a place of darkness.

1134
01:14:23.053 --> 01:14:25.625
It's one of the most
beautiful spots in the Alps.

1135
01:14:25.825 --> 01:14:27.660
I want to be able to
share that with him.

1136
01:14:42.270 --> 01:14:44.105
Woo Hoo.

1137
01:14:51.719 --> 01:14:56.084
Matthias: That's it I did it.
Ski BASE jump of the Pon d'Areu.

1138
01:14:56.592 --> 01:14:58.658
I'm so glad I packed
for a fast opening this time

1139
01:14:58.693 --> 01:15:00.858
because I opened right above
the tower

1140
01:15:00.893 --> 01:15:02.255
that impacted six years ago.

1141
01:15:03.698 --> 01:15:05.797
But yeah, a successful jump.

1142
01:15:11.101 --> 01:15:13.970
I can close this chapter
of my life.

1143
01:15:17.910 --> 01:15:19.140
Thank you so much.

1144
01:15:20.275 --> 01:15:24.046
I love you mountains.