featheredfriends Posted February 15, 2008 Posted February 15, 2008 Featured on National Geographic and the BBC, David begins his show by sharing his stories, shows slides and short video clips of film jobs that he's done as a buildup to his mountaineering exploits. It includes helicopter filming over the frozen Arctic Ocean, filming grizzly bears, wolves and lions in the Rocky Mountains and filming cows in Texas (yes, there is a story that goes along with the cows). As a part of the adventure theme he will also briefly tell of sailing on a tall ship for five months from Scotland to Greece and of a 3000 mile, 175 day backpack trip along the Continental Divide from Mexico to Canada.After a six part series on K2 he filmed for National Geographic, he was hired as the hight altitude cameraman for the Italian "Everest Speed Expedition" in 2003, putting the first Italian woman on the summit. In 2006, he shot the first video footage of Everest's West Ridge on a British Army Expedition, and will conclude with images from one of the most intriguing expeditions on Everest. The Medical Research Expedition's (Xtreme Everest) conducted medical research never done before, and at elevations higher than ever before. The film, "Everest: Doctors in the Death Zone" was broadcast in England this fall and reported the highest ever audience approval rating of any BBC Horizon program in Horizon's over forty year history.
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