Good we're like 20 seconds out
So here's the deal
We came down to Chile, winter just started.
In about five six days, the great Chilean eclipse is streaking across the
Andes about five hundred kilometers north of Santiago
And we're here to capture it. I will say it's gonna be super challenging. It's early season
It's like mid December if you want to compare it to our winters
so there's not a lot of snow in the mountains, but I think we have enough and
with Manuel Diaz help and
3rd ed Shelly Greg harms, we kind of got a dream team
You know, I think it's probably safe to say it's the most technically challenging photo I've tried to make
You see they don't you see
Today's our first Scout day. So right now we're about to fly up in the mountains and take a look around
Really don't see any snow
Don't see much snow
Up on top of some of these ridges we're hoping for like a not very steep kind of outer area. I
Mean at Eclipse the Suns twelve point five degrees above the horizon. Okay, that's pretty low
This looks like maybe one of the more challenging hunting situations. Absolutely, but I think
This
Welcome to the
surface of the Moon looks like we got a
really optimal snow conditions gonna have to really
Earn we have to really earn this one say that much
Yeah, I think pretty hardcore pretty pretty hardcore but makes sense and he's doable
Be careful the rocks
I'm gonna go check another one before the Sun gets Evo
How much
highly reactive wind flop pretty loud
So there's definitely being you know, probably one of the more ambitious things I think we've ever tried to do I
Mean as you can see, that's super low snow and our goal is to get up in the air
You know, it's definitely a little hollow underneath but
Luckily Travis had a couple of areas identified that he thought were too far away that actually ended up
Being the right amount of distance that I need
well, we got tomorrow and we got a day of the Eclipse to get it completely dialed and I was really hoping to have
You know, whatever feature we're gonna hit
Set tomorrow
Countdown is rapidly taken away
Day before the day feeling good splitter Bluebird day, you can million people expecting blue whether
Through skies for this eclipse is really helping us with the weather out here
We're doing all the red stuff putting the time and effort in
Today we go practice see if we can pull this off
It's a dress rehearsal dressed
We have one more day. That's the camera is the flashes
So we be super ready for tomorrow and hopefully it works out
This build is
I've never done anything like this. We're like sandwich and rock with you know
Five hours just farming sugar to get the inrun covered
Kind of crazy honestly, I mean basically we have to get this build right now. Otherwise the snow really doesn't set up
These guys crushed it got the jump basically done I
got
all of my repeaters set up and we did testing and it worked but when I set up my camera and the flashes
nothing
We got no
Tamar's game plan Groundhogs Day day for go up in the mountains and get ready to
Go like this and see if we can make it work
Today's day me miss me a meatless prepared ready. See this no concern on this face
See this face, there's some concern on it
Still have a full day for sure
We have to get the in run better dials if to get the jump finished and then we have to work on the landing
So right now it's the landings just this like hard wind slab over sugar
So we have to go in and try to break up the wind slab without
Popping the wind slab and our landing slides away
This deep on rocks so good luck and wait for the darkness
Was there any signal received at all right there?
the relay system
Tested fine
Until we set it up with flashes
And then for whatever reason that decided it didn't want to work
Travis came up with a good idea where during totality and I'm gonna open the shutter
The moment somebody leaves the lip and then we have Greg harms up there who's gonna fire the flashes up from the top?
So all the sudden it's turned into a really collaborative photograph
All right, are you ready for me to go
This is terrible impossible to move
Dude we're like 20 seconds out
I'll tell you what man. This is easily the most stressed out
No, no, it's
All right, let's get we are losing it really rapidly we gotta go go go sorry
Cig this juice to buy hell. Yeah. Yeah
It was worth trying but it didn't work that's all she wrote
Keep your session finished. That's the quote, right?
Success is not final and failure is not fatal. So
You know
Keep shooting. Maybe come up with some other harebrained thing
We got the big
Now really, oh, sorry
Well one hell of an effort hell of an effort
And one unique moment of life I will never ever forget God you guys got to jump during totality. Oh
Yeah
full
scent kicker during totality
Incredible and the Eclipse is almost kind of just finishing right now
this I think I think one of the beautiful things about
Challenging yourself to do really complicated or difficult things and putting kind of an artistic vision in place. Is that uh,
You know oftentimes there's more failures than there's successes
And I think it's for me it's always gonna hat hats off for
Those willing to take the risks and we took the risk
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