Tasmania Footage days 3 and 4.

The work we have been doing here in Tasmania for days 3 and 4 of the race. Enjoy!! I did! Production by NothinButShorts:International

Today's Camera Positions

Each picture is a different camera position from today. Just today. Another sweet day in Tasmania.

On the Coast, Finish and the Race goes On...

 As the race leaders rounded Rocky Cape, Tasmania yesterday and today I was fortunate enough to be stationed on the section of coast in the picture. This is the actual GPS report from my spot tracker as I was sitting there waiting for teams.

Film location on Rocky Cape Tasmania, Spot Tracker

The race winner and leaders came in last night and this morning. I apparently showed up in a Live UStream feed. The pictures are screen captures of you friendly unshaven, stinky cloths, three days without a shower, starving, Tasmanian cameraman in action at the finish. The race goes on for the mid field of racers for the next 4 days. I go back out into the field tomorrow to record the carnage Tasmania has wrought on the racers. There is suffering everywhere.

Mugging for the camera.

Interviewing the 1st place team.

More Footage from the AR Worlds in Tasmania

The following clip was from Day two of the race. Most of the ground shots are from my 10hr trek down to the rappel and out the Canyon. This was one of the most epic sections of the race. I am still impressed my Sony NX70 survived the 7 hours of river crossings. I was also impressed I was able to keep up with the 5th place team in this bush and on the river.

Jurassic Park and Deep in Middle Earth, just Another Day at the Office

AAAARGGGHHHH!!! AHHHHH!! Grimacing yells broken by hyperventilating gasps shattered the sounds of a waterfall setting that could only be in Jurassic Park. They plunged in and crawled out, from rock to rock, crossing the base of the waterfall. Nearly naked, all of my clothes and gear in a dry bag, I commit to the river. I jump in after the team, the shock of the cold water forcing wails and gasps for air. There is not turning back now. I will travel the next 7 hours down the Vale River, near hypothermic, falling, bashing my knees and shins on the rock, swimming, crossing the river nearly 20 times, forcing my body though thick bush and filming. Yes, filming the whole way trying to stay with a world class adventure racing team in 10th place. I am moving so fast not even the leaches can stay with me. My latest passenger burst, spilling my blood, when he is smashed as my arm collides with a rock catching my fall.

Cameraman Erik Nachtrieb turns the camera on himself while swimming the canyon

The day before, I climbed deep into middle earth. The cavern opened into a beautiful display of dripping limestone, and I went deeper. Pushing myself through a gap in the rock about the size of, well about the size of me. I slip though, crouch and move forward, alone in the pitch black. The ceiling begins to drop forcing me to my knees, forcing me into the water running along the bottom of the passage, the ceiling pushed more as I dropped to my belly in the water and scurried along the bottom holding my camera out in front of me. In one foot of water with about a foot and a half of air between the water and the rock above me I found my camera hovel to wait, in the pitch black, in the water, in 2.5ft of space, waiting for teams to slither by.

What will tomorrow bring?!?!

The video I shot in the cave can be seen in the embedded video.

8inch Cave Spiders, Beach Training and we are off!

Test running my bush gear.

Ready to head out to film the race today. This is about how my work day breaks down, starting in the AM. The race begins.

I will start out filming on a boat off the shore of Tasmania, among Great White Sharks and Whales for the first kayak leg. I will then be heading into thick bush for a few hours. Coming out of the bush, I will then make my way down into a limestone cave where I will shimmy my way through narrow spaces, to film in the pitch black, chest deep in water for two hours with spiders the size of dinner plates. No kidding!

All business on the Tasmanian beach

Not a bad day at work I would say.

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