Chris Dewhirst

In 1992, Glenn Singleman set a world record for altitude BASEjumping when he jumped from the Great Trango Tower in Pakistan. When Glenn discovered a higher cliff, his wife Heather challenged his belief and her fear and asked him to train her to climb and BASEjump the highest cliff in the world, on Ama Dablam.

The risky expeditions and events filmed by Leo Dickinson are challenging and death defying in themselves, but filming these events can prove to be just as challenging and dangerous. This documentary answers the often asked question, 'how did they get those shots?' providing a foreshortening of the techniques used and the dangers run by Dickinson while he filmed his adventures and explorations. Among others, the film features Eric Jones' solo ascent to the Eiger, the ascent of the Matterhorn north face in winter by Eric Jones, Brian Molyneux and Eddie Birch, and the first ascent of Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler in 1978.