this one from the matterhorn.l heard of the matterhorn, but in case you're not familiar it's a 14,690-foot mountain on the board are of switzerland and italy. it's one of the most iconic mountains in the world. here valerie is jumping off the top of it. >> we're not talking about the ride at kdisney. >> no. >> or the old spice flavor. >> no. >> you've got the white snow caps and then the green valley below that he flies into. the video is perfectly still. valerie is an x games gold medalist. >> the reverse cam is always a little bit more terrifying than the frontwards cam because that gives us better perspective of what this guy is doing. >> this part is pretty neat. the point where he pulls his parachu parachute. >> that always looks very scary to me. to reach behind you to pull the chute. i want a button. >> like what if it's just too much and you couldn't get there. >> what if the button fails? what if there's a short? >> we'd have two buttons. we'd have a button and a backup button. fat arms, that's worse than

he had been working on it ever since he came home from vietnam, "matterhorn," the story of a young 2ndieutenant leading a rifle platoon of 40 marines on a remote jungle hill. critics called it "a powerhouse. tense, brutal honest," "unforgettable," "moving and intense." karl marlantes has now written a second book, a nonfiction memoir and meditation on what it is like to go to war. read it and you will be closer than you can imagine to the mind and heart of the warrior in battle and after. america has been at war for over a decade now. two million americans have served in afghanistan and iraq, and most of us here at home still don't get it. karl marlantes and his book will help immeasurably. karl marlantes, welcome. >> it's nice to be here, thank you. >> i haven't been sure about how to start this interview. i've never been to war. i've never looked a man in the eye, who was trying to kill me, and kill him before he could. i'm not even sure that i can ask a question that doesn't strike you as banal, against your experience. i guess what i'm saying is that there's this divide between the