Last summer we had an impressive run of shoots for the Nat Geo Amazing TV series that begins airing in a couple weeks. It is pretty ironic that we are off to Kamchatka right now on another National Geographic project and will miss seeing a lot of these shows live. I’m excited to see how they integrated a number of our short stories in this series that they describe as documenting our wacky world.  The Nat Geo Amazing site is expanding by the day and if you cruise around you will notice that we are included as field producers and contributors of stock footage in many of these episodes.

Reel Water Productions produced a total of 7 shorts for this series. It started with a piece on Matt Maddaloni free soloing Young Blood above a giant net. Then we filmed Robin Avery walk a several hundred foot high line between towers 3 and 4 of the Stewamus Chief. Next we shot a sea kayaking expedition to the Butze Tidal rapids just outside Prince Rupert, British Columbia. We then spent 3 days up at the Ashlu River doing some amazing stuff with the cable cam before finishing the summer out with a great trio of mountain bikers on some of the local trails here in Squamish.  Perhaps the most intense shoot was working with three local base jumpers and Randy Schultz’s flying his winsuit from the top of the Chief.  Over the winter we had the opportunity to shoot some ice climbing with John Ferneaux in Marble Canyon.  Everyone of these stories was a team effort, with 2-4 cameras, lots of rigging and some pretty epic days.  Most of the shoots involved the Sea to Sky Cam and we worked on both the Sony EX and RED platforms.  The series begins airing on July 9th and there will be a new episode every Friday for 10 weeks.

Paul Stevens, Chad Hendron and James Mcskimming

Eric Shertzel drops into the triple on the Ashlu.

Robin Avery hundred of feet off the deck

Matt Maddaloni soloing above a giant net.