The plan
My first solo overnight hike-and-fly, above Voss in Norway. Hike up, sleep high, launch the speedwing in the morning and fly back down to the van.
The storm
The weather closed in and there was nowhere to go. The only shelter was a concrete bunker, so that is where I sat it out. Twenty-four hours.
Four concrete walls and a storm outside. The confinement reminded me of solitary in prison. It had been ten years since my release, and I spent a lot of that storm thinking about it.
What you do with that
Nobody tells you that the monster can find you in a beautiful place. It does.
So I waited. When the weather finally broke, I launched and flew past the waterfalls back down to the van.
Why we make these films
Battling Monsters is the mental health movement Jamie Leibert founded. PTSD is the monster. A wingsuit is how he manages it. Not a recovery story. A daily fight, filmed. Every film on this site is free because the people who need it most are the ones who cannot pay for it.