danger -- >> i've had some really good friends die out there. >> adrenaline. it's crazy. >> adventure. >> it's what's called sensory overload. >> it it's what drives these daredevils. a shark gets into a cage. >> i'm just looking at jaws of death. >> and that's only the beginning. >> the next thing that you know, knocks my regulator out of my mouth. >> a sky dive goes horribly wrong. a life literally hangs in the balance. >> we knew that the odds of someone surviving what andy was going through were possibly not good. >> extreme skiing.

becomes extremely scary. >> it was just horrendous. you just felt it was going to be a miracle not to lose your daughter. >> they are risk takers, they are thrill seekers, they have no fear. "caught on camera: daredevils." they live on the edge. they're addicted to adrenaline. they're daredevils and they're constantly pushing the limits to go faster and farther and higher than anyone else. but sometimes the rush is replaced by a jolt of pure terror. that's what happened to andy judy, a skydiver who ended up at 10,000 feet in a fight for his life. ♪ >> whenever you jump out of the door, it's not just adrenaline,

it's not just the fear, it's not just the excitement. it's what's called sensory overload. >> what kind of person would jump out of a plane streaking across the sky at more than 10,000 feet? hurling their body toward the earth at 120 miles an hour for fun? meet andy judy. he has a serious need for speed. >> andy was a skydiver. >> john vick runs a school in western pennsylvania where andy often skydives. >> he wasn't just someone who came to my drop zone to experience something that the crazy skydivers did. he's one of us and a good friend. >> it's labor day weekend 2002. andy decides to go skydiving with his dad, tim, and a few friends. >> it was a hot day. i remember joking around about jumping out and landing in somebody's swimming pool. >> the day couldn't be going any better. andy, his dad and his friends have made two successful jumps and for their third run, they'll

decide to try something a little different. they will do a four-way jump, locking arms and leaving the plane together. >> i was the one giving the count to leave together. to do that, i had one foot on the step. my right foot was hanging free. >> the plane races up to 11,000 feet and levels off above the jump zone. >> i gave the count. we all pushed off. my left foot remained in place on the step and my head went backwards toward the ground. everything was upsidedown. >> a piece of andy's jumpsuit gets snagged on the step, on a piece of metal. his fear doesn't settle in just yet. but his survival extinct does. >> i thought i could climb back up. i was in a 100-mile-an-hour wind blast. my parachute weighed 35 pounds. i didn't have leverage. >> the only person left in the

plane is the pilot. he can't leave the controls. as andy dangles 11,000 feet up with no one to help him, his dad and friends land safely on the ground, where don vick is working desperately to rescue his friend. >> we knew that the odds of someone surviving what andy was going through were possibly not good. >> but don isn't giving up hope, yet. >> it just wasn't an option for andy to perish. it wasn't going to happen. >> he calls andy's dad into his office to run through the rescue option. >> we talked about the different angles of the tack of the aircraft, turning it in different directions, to see if we could dislodge andy. we tried that. >> it doesn't work. andy still hangs under the plane, frantically trying to save himself from death, high above the earth. >> there was one time where i actually got my fingertips on to the step. i immediately slipped off. i kept trying to climb back up. >> with each failed attempt, andy gets more and more discouraged. >> as time progressed, that's when the sense of hopelessness or the sense of, this is not

going to work. i'm not going to get out of this situation. that's when the fear intensified. >> by now, he was hanging upside down for an unbelievable 40 minutes, and time is not on his side. >> the jumpsuit began to constrict around my upper leg. i can't think of another point in my life where i experienced more pain. i remember having thoughts of, am i going to lose my leg? >> on the ground, don and andy's dad, tim, are still trying to figure out the best plan to get andy down safely. >> the plane was going to land. the pilot was going to have to put it down. they were running out of fuel and it was time to make the serious decision. >> don knows what has to happen. he knows it could mean death for his friend, but he makes the most difficult decision of his life. >> at this point, i brought tim back into the office and explained i was going to land the aircraft with his son underneath it. and he pretty much said, no, you're not.

after a bit of talking, between the both of us, it was a teary moment, but we decided that that had to happen. >> andy doesn't know about the plan but he does sense that an end, good or bad, has to be near and prepares himself. >> i guess whenever you're faced with the potential of death for that long of a time, for 45 minutes, i mean, you kind of give yourself up to that possibility. >> preparations are made to bring the plane down. a rescue team, emt, fire department and fellow skydivers assemble on the landing strip, but the plan isn't to land on the runway. the pilot plans to touch down on a narrow strip next to the hard pavement. >> i organized having a stretch of grass cleaned meticulously. we lined people up to pick up anything that might possibly harm andy striking the ground. then, we called the pilot and

asked him to bring him in. >> as the plane approaches, don turns to andy's dad. >> we embraced. it was very heart felt. we talked about the fact we were confident andy was going to be okay. both of us knowing that that probably wasn't going to be the case. >> the men can't communicate with andy. but he begins to understand the plan. >> the ground was coming up at me, so i realized that we were going to land. i was honestly more exhausted emotionally, physically, mentally than i have been in my life. i was ready to deal with whatever the consequences were. i said to the pilot, make this the shortest and softest landing of your life. >> just before impact, andy shows enormous strength, tucking his legs up, contorting himself into a fetal position and bracing for the worst. >> and then he struck the

ground. that's when you quit breathing. a cloud of dust, then we all rush the aircraft. >> even though i was running flat out to see andy after the plane touched down, i was apprehensive about getting there. i didn't think anybody could survive that. >> but as don and andy's dad reached the now stopped plane, against all odds -- >> i opened my eyes. my first words to them were, god, i'm lucky. >> yeah, he was. it was incredible. >> andy's rushed to the hospital and miraculously, doctors find no major injuries. he's released and walks out with only minor scrapes and bruises. one lucky guy indeed. amazingly, he's back skydiving just three weeks later. >> people say live every day like it's your last. coming up -- >> whoo-hoo! >> people flying?

>> i was like this looks marvelous. my hair was like, in my neck. >> but, then, trouble. and -- >> the shark is splashing back and forth. >> a man fights for his life under water. >> the next thing you know, he knocks my regulator out of my mouth. >> no air. a shark on attack when "caught on camera: daredevils" continues. [ male announcer ] the more you lose, the more you lose, because for every two pounds you lose

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faster than a speeding bullet -- it's a bird, it's a plane, no, it's a man in a wing suit. that's right. it doesn't get much more daring than this. >> three, two, one -- whoo-hoo!

>> many of us have had that dream about flying. flying in your wing suit in the mountains is such a great feeling. >> wing suit jumpers reach speeds up to 150 miles an hour. >> it's life medicine for me. those two, three, four first seconds, they are just extraordinary. >> but, with big reward comes big risk. >> it's magnificent. it's crazy. >> for norwegian wing suit flier hans this day starts out like any other. >> it was a beautiful day. blue skies, no wind. perfect for wing suit flying in the mountains. >> after a long hike up a mountain in northwestern norway, hans and a few friends find the spot they have been looking for.

a little two-foot by one-foot ledge perched more than 5,000 feet above the ground. for hans, there's only one way down. >> when i jumped off, i gain speed and go vertical the first few seconds, then flattened out. >> so far, his flight is going as planned. >> after 10, 12 seconds of free fall, i said, okay, this is nice. i have a nice path i made. the rest curves. a slight one to lose some height and also gain speed. i made a sharp right turn, going pretty close there and then making a left turn into the neighboring valley. i was like, this was marvelous. and my hair was like, whooo. oh, on my neck and it was awesome. >> now, streaking along the mountainside at about 110 miles an hour caught on a helmet camera, a great jump turns

disastrous in an instant. he's getting too close to the mountain. he deploys his parachute. >> and when i open my parachute, i'm very aware that i have 30 meters to the wall to the right. >> if he crashes into the mountain, he knows it could mean death. so he fights with everything he had to turn the parachute away from that menacing wall. >> instantly when i saw the gate i'm going for, i did strike, it's going to be a fight for life and death. so i just put all my energy on hitting the wall. after the impact, you are only working. working, working, working, to survive. >> hans uses his legs to kick himself away from the rocks. and much to his surprise, it worked.

>> so i was like, wow, i'm flying out again! i got a second chance. >> but he doesn't immediately realize the lines attached to his parachute are twisted and he begins to fall, straight down. >> bam. i felt immediately that bang, my leg. >> his collision with the unforgiving rock breaks his leg. >> i felt instantaneously pain. then, i see the bushes and i'm into the bushes, luckily. >> hans sounds worse than his injuries actually are. the bushes provide a nice, soft, landing spot. >> that's in pure rocks or a shelf or something. i could have died. people have died in that situation before me. >> he's so happy to be alive. but as the pain of his broken

leg sets in, so does a whole range of emotions. >> i was so angry and so lucky in one moment. [ bleep ]. i was very angry because it was a lack of concentration. i don't think i said so many swearing words in a row. >> hans' anger is short-lived. a rescue helicopter is on the way. as he lays in his makeshift bed of bushes, he tries to make some sense of what happened to him. at first hans is having what he thinks is a great flight. but as he carves his way around the mountain, seemingly flying, it's on this turn that he says he makes an almost deadly mistake. >> the major error was that i was flying too close to the mountain. >> so close that when he tries to correct the mistake by deploying his parachute, he doesn't have room to turn himself around away from the

rock face and into open space. >> and i feel trapped. and i was very afraid of doing a turn. doing a turn you lose altitude. >> he sees only one choice. >> when i understood that there was only one way and that was into the mountain, i was scared. you just have to try to avoid what might kill you. and it goes very fast. >> luckily, he does survive. what could have been a deadly fall. >> the helicopter is coming right now to get me. >> the chopper arrives and hoists hans to safety. he's treated at the hospital for his broken leg and given stitches for his few cuts. but amazingly, has no life-threatening injuries. >> lesson learned, don't hit the mountain. coming up -- >> caught in an avalanche.

>> the further i get down, it gets dark and heavy and pretty soon, it's black. >> buried alive. will he be found in time? then -- >> the bonsai pipeline. >> big waves mean big trouble. >> he was face down, just in the death position. >> no pulse, no signs of life. a daredevil's brush with death when "caught on camera: daredevils" continues. capital one's new cash rewards card gives you a 50% annual bonus! so you earn 50% more cash. according to research, everybody likes more cash. well, almost everybody... ♪ would you like 50% more cash? no! but it's more money. [ male announcer ] the new capital one cash rewards card. the card for people who want 50% more cash. what's in your wallet? woah! [ giggles ]

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the waves get really big. that gets the adrenaline going. it makes it all worthwhile. it makes life worth living. >> larry haynes and ray hollowell are professional cameramen. you won't find these guys in a studio or on a set. this is their office. the world famous bonsai pipeline on the north shore of oahu, hawaii.

>> the bonsai pipeline is the "a" zone. i mean, this is the creme de la creme, one of the gnarliest waves on the planet. >> it's pretty much the most dangerous wave in the world. you have to be on top of your game to even think about paddling out to the pipe. >> this jagged reef, big rocks down there. it could knock you out. i've had really good friends that's died out there. >> dangerous work. the footage larry and ray capture makes these guys, the surfers, look like the daredevils. but make no mistake, as each 20-foot wall of white water crashes down with bone crushing force, there's an adrenaline rush for the guys behind the lens, too. >> the swell comes from very deep water. it hits the pipeline, it hits a shallow reef, with such power, it creates the huge barrel. to get in that barrel and make it in the barrel and to get spit out is the ultimate euphoric

feeling. to capture it on film is just great. >> shooting the pipeline long enough to know that ideal conditions don't always mean safe working conditions for them. >> it was one of those days. it was very low tide. very dangerous, 14, 16-foot faces. >> low tide means huge waves and amazing footage. watch this wall of water crashing right over ray as his camera catches all the action. >> it was a great day. it was pretty epic. this big set. we see it breaking on the outer reef. larry and i realize we're really deep in the pit, they call it, which is the impact zone where the wave breaks. >> caught between a crushing wave barreling down on them, and the jagged rocks on the reef below, ray and larry start frantically swimming as fast as they can with cameras still rolling. >> it's like doing the 50-yard

dash under the water. when i got under the first wave, i got tumbled for at least ten seconds. like a wash and rinse cycle. it was really intense. when i managed to pop up, i managed to get two deep breaths. and i look up and there is this this giant wall of whitewater coming at me. that's when the waves pile-drove me into the reef. head and shoulder first and i was knocked unconscious. >> i look back. he was face down in a death position with his camera a few feet away. i knew he was in a super dangerous situation. >> larry swims as fast as he can to get to his friend. three more waves batter into the coral reefs caught on camera before larry reaches it. >> he was huge. filled up with water, just massive. he was looking dead.

i grabbed him, swung him back, got his head out of the water, leaned him back. grabbed him and started squeezing his belly. >> another surfer sees larry swimming ray ashore and offers his surfboard. >> they start carrying him out. i came out behind him and laid him on the beach. he was blue. >> lifeguards and the paramedics frantically try to revive ray but he's flat lining. no pulse. >> ray was so close to death, he was knocking on the door. he was right there. >> ray swallowed more than a gallon of salt water. he's rushed to the hospital. clinging to life, he's in a coma for two days. and on the third day, against all odds, ray wakes up. >> i think i was probably as close to death as somebody can come. the doctors at the hospital all told me, i was the worst drowning victim they have seen that lived to talk about it. it was the worst day of my life. >> his injuries are severe. >> i hit so hard, i had two brain contusions with the helmet

on. my right collar bone was shattered in half in four places. i had a torn rotator cuff. two broken bruised ribs and chemical pneumonia. >> this cameraman can barely move but he's still directing action from his hospital bed. >> yeah, get that shoulder. you got it all? >> yeah. >> it was the most excruciating pain you could ever imagine. broken bones are like a picnic compared to the pain i felt that day. >> love you, larry. thank you, man. >> in pain? sure. happy to be alive? definitely. >> i'm forever grateful for my good friend larry who saved the day. >> ray spends nine days in critical care and it takes him a full year to recover. when he finally does get back in the ocean, he says he's not heading straight for the bonsai pipeline anytime soon. >> my main focus is creating ocean adventure programming for kids.

it just so happened it just wasn't my time. god didn't have plans to take me that day. i feel extremely lucky. pretty much -- not lucky, but blessed to be alive. extreme skiing can mean extreme danger. >> i got the whole ugly thing. it turned my stomach. >> it was just horrendous. you just felt it was going to be a miracle not to lose your daughter. also -- under water and trapped in a cage with a thrashing shark. >> i'm looking out at the jaws of death. this can't be happening. when "caught on camera: daredevils" continues. just one phillips' colon health probiotic cap a day

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people. one of two attacks on churches there today. a radical news lum sect claimed responsibility. a new poll shows mitt romney with a commanding new hampshire lead. 39% of republican voters. newt gingrich and ron paul have 17% each. a generous christmas gift dropped into a salvation army kettle. a $10,000 check. a very merry christmas to you. now back to "caught on camera." welcome back to "caught on camera," i'm contessa brewer. thrillseekers seem to be wired differently than the rest of us. it's almost as though they court danger. it takes a special kind of person to want to jump out of a plane, launch off a cliff, or the guy in our next story, dive with one of the fiercest predators on earth, the great white shark. he want to get really close to some sharks.

his story is a reminder, be careful what you wish for. >> the shark is thrashing back and forth. i have my hand on his nose and mouth. i'm looking into his mouth. >> jerry is fighting for his life as this huge, great white shark flashes its razor sharp teeth and rams through the very cage that's supposed to protect jerry. >> i mean he's shaking literally the whole cage and just surprised it doesn't break apart. >> terrified and trapped, his ordeal is only just beginning. it's a lot more than this 30-year-old banker from the midwest bargained for when he signed on for the shark dive off the coast of south africa. a self-described adrenaline junkie, he knew it would be dangerous, and it started as the thrilling experience he had hoped for. >> you couldn't have scripted it better. this once in a lifetime experience where huge, huge creatures just get so close to you. >> close, but this close? >> you know, stuff's going to happen. you've just got to live your life. you only have one life.

>> jerry decides he needs to live it to the fullest. as vice president at a large bank, he works long hours, nights, weekends and hasn't ever really taken a vacation. when he sees an ad in the paper for a trip to south africa, he makes a spontaneous decision and packs his bags. >> i was going to pull out all the stops, the piece de resistance was this cage shark diving. >> a couple months after seeing the ad in the paper, he finds himself in a diving capitol of the world. 30 miles outside of capetown at the southern most tip of south africa staring at a shark cage. >> you're shaking your head, looking at it, thinking, wow, that thing is so small. if one of these sharks wanted to get into it, there was no stopping it. >> and as jerry sizes up the shark cage, he notices an even bigger concern.

>> i kind of remembered noting that it seemed like there was a big hole. big holes around the side there. they had mentioned that they had removed a bar so a camera crew could swim in and out of it and they actually hadn't put it back. >> jerry thinks that that hole looks big enough for a shark to get through but captain assures him he'll be safe, so he nods cautiously and boards the boat. after all he didn't come halfway around the world to miss out on great white sharks. and when, out at sea, he finally gets a look at one of these massive creatures, he understands why the captain isn't concerned about that little gap between the bars. >> this thing looked like a submarine. it was huge. >> jerry loves it. he's hooked. >> they are inquisitive. coming up, swimming up through the bottom, swimming around the sides, getting really close. you can almost kind of play with them. >> but jerry never imagines the shark would get this close. >> then, bam, he hits the cage. just spot on. right into the opening where the bar was removed.

all of a sudden, this huge head with its teeth inching its way closer and closer. >> any diver's worst nightmare. jerry and another tourist are forced to the bottom of the cage to avoid the now thrashing shark. >> i'm looking at the jaws of death, looking at it, like this can't be happening and i just can't die. >> but the shark is forcing his way further and further into the cage. >> it was a few inches away because i remember looking into his mouth. i've got my hands on his nose. >> jerry is frantically searching for a way out. >> i wasn't going to be able to swim up to the top because he was just moving around too much. and more than likely, he was going to bite a leg or an arm. >> the situation is dire and almost unbelievably, it's about to get worse. >> the next thing you know, he knocks my regulator out of my mouth. >> with no air supply, it's do or die. >> i realize i have to get out of the cage or i'm going to drown or the shark is going to bite me. >> he has to think quickly. >> okay, he came in the side,

i'm going to go out the side. i'm trying to throw him off. throw him off. he managed to turn his head and realized there was an opening. i jet to the side. >> the other diver sees what jerry does and knows if he stays where he is, it could mean death. so, miraculously, he shoots out the other side of the cage. they're both out, thrilled to be alive. but the danger is far from over. jerry is out of the cage but he's not out of the water yet. >> i had 10, 12 kilos of weight on me so actually i start falling. >> no air. shark-infested waters, a dramatic fight for survival. and, at the world extreme skiing competition, an extreme accident. >> she wasn't moving at all. and i just broke down in tears. >> when "caught on camera: daredevils" continues. i'd race down that hill without a helmet.

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jerry loman, a banker from the midwest, was hoping for the trip of a lifetime when he booked his six-week vacation to south africa. when he finds himself under water without oxygen fighting fiercely with a five-ton great white shark, he knows he's one head thrash away from death. suddenly, he sees an opening and escapes the wrath of the great white. but as soon as he finds himself in open water, he realizes he's not out of danger yet. his lungs are burning for air. he can see the surface, but he just can't get there. >> i start falling and forgetting that i had 10 to 12 kilos of weight on me. because there was a big, strong current there and i needed to be weighted down. >> with 10 to 12 kilos or 25 pounds shoving him down, he manages to grab the bars of the cage. >> i need to get out of the water.

there's not a regulator in my mouth and other sharks around. >> he climbs up the cage, emerges from the water and finally, the air his body is craving. >> i remember laying face down saying, did this really happen. >> lucky to be alive, he rolls over and sees the other diver, who was in the cage with him, also with his limbs intact. >> he says, man you saved my life. i was just going to stay there. you actually made a decision and got out the side. it worked for you, so i thought i would try it. >> they're both safe on the boat now but realize the shark they escaped is now the one fighting for its life. >> you know great whites have to swim constantly to get the oxygen through the water so they can survive. if he stays in that cage he's going to die. >> despite his ordeal, jerry doesn't want to see the shark die, so the group works together to tip the cage and free it. and when he returns to land,

jerry can't seem to free himself of the memory of his close encounter. >> i mean, i had nightmares for probably four to six months after that just waking up. wow, put your arm somewhere and he bites your arm off. >> finally, he's at peace with what happened that day. >> i have kind of come full circle. before i was more in the corporate world and now actually for a living i'm a dive instructor. >> a dive instructor? that's right. perhaps the most surprising part of this whole story is jerry loman now runs his own dive company out of thailand. >> i'm surprised that i'm actually a dive instructor for a living. we don't see sharks on a daily basis. i don't see any residual effects from it but it was definitely a scary, traumatic event. now, from surf to snow.

nearly a mile high in valdez, alaska, bridgette meade is a favorite to win the world skiing championships. on her first run down the ski slope, disaster. >> she was right away flying across the top of the ridge line. >> bridgette's friend tony harrington is snapping photos of the event near the top of the mountain and immediately knows his friend is in big trouble. >> unfortunately, when she came into view, she was flipping, going through the air. she didn't have both feet on the ground. >> bridgette's dad is watching the terrifying scene from the bottom of the mountain. his daughter is tumbling over and over, smashing head over heels into jagged rocks. >> i was pretty numb, actually. i just dropped my binoculars. i didn't really think she survived.

>> it was about 300, 400 yards. i was just there, just freaking. she wasn't moving for the last 200 yards. she just slid on her back with her head facing down the hill. >> bridgette he's body is limp. she continues to slide down the mountain for what seemed like forever. finally, after about a minute and a half, she comes to a stop, nearly a mile from where she started. even the cameraman shooting this video is shaking. >> i got the whole, ugly thing. it turned my stomach. >> ten-four. we've got a guy approaching. there's no movement right now. >> it was just horrendous. you felt it was going to be a miracle not to lose your daughter. i didn't honestly expect her to survive it.

>> it was about 15 minutes, there was no sign of life. i had a big lens on her. she wasn't moving at all. i just broke down in tears. it was horrible. >> bridgette lies motionless for 20 minutes while paramedics work on her, and then suddenly, the first good sign. >> i'm looking through my camera at one of my best friends and at that point in time, i had tears in my eyes and everything. suddenly, i saw her leg move. i knew she was alive. >> rescuers stabilize her and are able to bring her down the mountain to a waiting helicopter. she's choppered to a local hospital. then airlifted to providence alaska medical center in anchorage. >> it's amazing that she was alive. >> e.r. doctor janet smalley is on duty that day. she's encouraged bridgette's vital signs are good but knows the extreme skier fell hard over some unforgiving terrain. >> we see skiers that hit their head and have severe brain damage or die because of the

trauma to their head. >> dr. smalley runs a battery of tests. fearing all kinds of things, broken bones or even worse, internal bleeding, life-threatening swelling, or bleeding of the brain. all the while bridgette's father never leaves her side. >> she was pretty quiet throughout the first 24 hours. and then she started to come around. >> amazingly, every test comes back negative. considering her spectacular fall, no broken bones, no internal injuries. it's nothing short of a miracle. the only thing doctors can't determine is how bridgette's brain is affected. >> i remember up to the start, three, two, one, go. and then i don't have any memory after that. >> it's determined that bridgette has amnesia. she remains in critical care for seven days. >> my first memory after the accident was waking up in the hospital and looking over my shoulder and seeing my dad sitting in a chair in the corner of the room.

i was very relieved to see him sitting there. >> doctors tell her it will be a long road to recovery. it could take up to three years for her brain to heal. but after two weeks in the hospital, she's free to head home to new zealand. it's there that she watches the tape of her accident for the first time. >> when i saw the footage, i thought it was very violent and i'm quite surprised that i didn't break any bones. quite surprised. i think the problem is that it being very windy up there and all the powder being swept off the mountain and the line i was skiing was very, very slick. and i think i was very excited and i was very keen to ski it hard and fast and i just skied it, i just went too fast. >> amazingly, after less than a year, despite the horrific fall, bridgette does get back on her skis.

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you get going speeds 100 miles an hour, your helmet will suck up against the bottom of your chin. it's awesome. >> trennis is one of the top extreme snowmobilers in the country. >> you feel like you can fly. >> extreme snowmobilers go fast, really fast, and they get big air, too. but while the others head down the mountain, the goal for these guys is to go up, to climb to the top of the mountain. >> it's called high marking. we try to ride where snowmobiles looking at it snowmobiles can't go. it's a huge adrenaline rush. >> trennis loves to be the top dog on the mountain but zooming up 1,000-foot cliffs is dangerous, so he takes certain precautions. >> we carry a back pack with a shovel in it and a transceiver so if you get buried they can find you. >> even though trennis takes precautions, he admits he takes more time pushing the limit than his safety.

>> it goes in one ear and out the other. it's something we never put a lot of stock into. >> one thing trennis does put stock into is finding the most extreme cliff and trying to snowmobile to the top of them. he heads to a place known as the snowmobiling capital of the world, west yellow stone, montana. >> i knew right away it would be a good day. the sky is just bright blue. that's a snowmobilers dream to ride on days like that. >> with fresh powder from a storm the night before and temperatures just below freezing when they hit the slopes at 8:00 a.m., the mountain is as challenging and extreme as trennis had hoped. >> we're sitting on this hill for a while making tracks going different angles. i kind of go over to the side where nobody has kind of been

and it gets really steep one part. it's probably 1,000 foot of just sheer rock right to the bottom, and from there right beside that rock is this huge chute and it's just clear the whole way to the top. one of my buddies talked, you're not going up there. and in my mind i wasn't. i had no plans of going up there. >> trennis has a great morning and with the sun shining down figures a great time to stop for lunch. >> it was getting warm by then. the sun was out. i usually wear a big, heavy coat, and i took that coat off and just walked over and hung it on a tree. >> as he eats a sandwich, trennis watches a friend take on the same chute that intimidated him just a few minutes earlier. the friend gets high up, but not to the top, and trennis said it

stirs the daredevil inside him. >> the path i seen up there, the sun was shining on it, just beautiful. that's when something -- i've got to go. >> so he heads to his sled. >> my sled was running awesome. okay, i'm running over the top. >> he passes the high mark but doesn't stop will. >> i'm going over. i was probably 20 to 30 feet below the top when it just got really soft and i went to turn my sled to come back down is when i seen it all start to crack all around me. [ bleep ] and at that point it's silent. i'm in an avalanche. my first thought is to get in front of the avalanche. the whole mountain is moving, there's nothing solid underneath. >> a second avalanche breaks off and now with tremendous power it overtakes him. >> you think of snow as soft, fluffy. when that avalanche hit me it was like earth, rocks hitting me in the back, hit me so hard. >> the now raging current of snow knocks trennis from his snowmobile. >> i was 20, 30 feet in the air when i landed, it just, boom, on the snow.

the first thing they tell you to swim. so that's what i tried to do, you know, kick and thrash, whatever you had to do. i did that the whole way down and i'm going down, it's getting heavier and heavier and just crushing my chest and hard to breathe. and then it gets darker. the deeper and deeper i go, the further down, it gets dark and heavy and pretty soon it's just black. >> the avalanche is over. trennis doesn't know how far down he's been buried but he does know if he doesn't get help soon, he'll die. >> there's no oxygen in that snow, and you can't breathe. >> his friends jump on their snowmobiles and speed to the area where they think their friend might be buried, but the task of finding trennis in this vast field will be a lot more daunting than they initially realized. before heading up the mountain, trennis took off his coat, and inside that coat is his safety

transceiver, the device enabling others to locate him if he's buried in snow. now it's useless hanging from a tree more than 200 yards from the very spot where trennis came to rest under the avalanche. >> and i can see the light through the snow. i can tell i'm, you know, close to the surface. i heard the snowmobiles fire up and people screaming. i'm laying there and my arm is up above my head and i can feel the wind on my fingers. >> his friends search frantically in the huge field of white. they know they have only minutes before trennis will suffocate. without a signal from the transceiver it seems almost hopeless. but then by sheer luck someone spots his arm in the air and within minutes friends are digging him out. >> i couldn't believe that i was alive. and that nothing real -- you know, i could walk. when i went to get out, to go over it, i just shot straight in

the air. i had that fear the next two hours i was going to fall over dead. >> remarkably, other than being shaken up, he's fine. he walks away without broken bones or internal injuries. he says he learns one very valuable lesson. >> i looked back and think why that avalanche happened. i think it was to slow me down, so i think it made life a lot more important to me. >> like so many daredevils we met, trennis' near death experience didn't scare him away from his extreme sport. after the avalanche he was back on his sled the next day. now he pays more attention to safety and lucky for us, he's still out there, shooting his exploits. if you have a video you'd like to send us, you can log system on to our website, caughtoncamera.msnbc.com. that's it for this edition of "caught on camera."