The Day I Almost Died. 

You lived, you learned. And now others can avoid your mistake. This video is precious because of that.

Love your honesty

So glad it's all worked out okay. And wise words after. I definitely learned some important lessons from this video. An honest and also beautiful video - thanks for filming, editing and posting it :)

My heart was beating so fast.. so grateful that you are ok and safe!

Awesome contribution to paragliding my friend. Genuine

Great Video - Thank you!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Bravo Bruno!

Thanks for sharing Bruno. Back in the 1980s I learned how to fly hangliders. One of the lessons I hold to this day is when it comes to flying always minimise your variables. That means just do one new thing and master that before you go on. Don't go to a new site with a new wing or harness and so on. As your video suggests it's a rule that could save your life.

man, I was expecting a serious disaster... this is not "almost died" but "could have died" which is very different. Anyhow, good learnings and thanks for sharing your experience

Amazing adventure and flight! And I so much appreciate your honesty in sharing the both sides of this story. Indeed, para-alpinism is a high risk activity and shall never be underestimated, but the high number of "hero videos" on the social medias may give a misleading impression.

As an experience mountain guide and wilderness paramedic, I have some helpful advice for you. Stop doing things where you can’t control the outcome. There’s other ways to be excited and live life to the fullest other than killing yourself these activities do not allow you to control what’s happening this is a dissociative method of coping with excitement stop using it it will not allow you to evaluate the risk level, good luck man

Maybe just practice ground handling 🤗

Props to you for your honesty Bruno. I’m guessing I’m about twice your age, & I can say for certain I didn’t have the type of self-reflective insight you’re showing here when I was your age. All you can do is learn from your mistakes & keep trying to make better & more informed decisions. This is true with every aspect of life. But as someone who’s seen quite a bit in my time, you certainly appear to be better suited at handling all the highs & lows your future holds than most. Thanks for another great video! Ciao (that’s how you spell it, right?😂) from the Arizonan desert in America. Keep up the great work!

Wow. Your were really rocking back and forth. Perhaps weight and balance was the issue

Hai tratto da solo le giuste conclusioni.

Dopo questo video ti stimo ancora di piu, bravo!!

La seule erreur ici, au delà de pretendre decoller en haute montagne avec une aile que tu n'as jamais touchée. C'est la maîtrise du gonflage proche de zéro et ça peu importe la voile. La main de Dieu est parfois bienveillante...

I say , if you can not think the risk..than don't take the risk..i prefer Hike and Fly part looks fun..

Quelle étrange mode que de faire des vidéos avec des erreures de pilotage ou des défauts d'analyse aérologique. Au lieu de vous filmer et de diffuser vos aneries sur les réseaux formez vous mieux, faites de la pente école, apprenez à décoller avec du vent, acceptez de redéscendre quand les conditions sont trop fortes. Le parapente pardonne beaucoup, ce n'zst pas une raison pour jouer avec les limites.

Great video with great lessons. Thanks for posting it and being honest about the risks you ignored so that others can learn and live. Enjoy, keep having fun, and be safe.

Okkio...ti vogliamo vivo e vegeto per raccontarci a parole ed immagini le tue "esperienze". Mai sottovalutare la montagna, mai. Penso che tu lo sappia bene, ma te lo ripeto ugualmente. Ciao! :-)))

Very good video.

I love the Italian accents omggggg

Thank a lot for sharing your story. Glad you made it and we can still watch your future adventures! :)

Congratulations, Bruno you did it! Marvelous adventure....

I really appreciate how you described the whole story. Doing mistakes is normal, but in these enviroment could be fatal. Learning from it is the best you could do. And sharing it is even better. Looking forward for new footage because as this one was as always very beautiful.

Fantastic Bruno !! 🙂

So glad you're ok man!

Congratulations for this big adventure!! We all learn from our mistakes, as you did perfectly, the most important thing is to admit it, learn from it and share it!! 👌

great job Bruno ! Thanks ! 👏👏👏 thanks for this !

I bet you enjoyed that pizza! Low risk, high enjoyment.

complimenti per i video, aggiungo il mio punto di vista, dopo aver fatto decine se non centinaia di escursioni in montagna ti posso assicurare che dopo un po si arriva a un punto "che non ne vale la pena", infortuni anche gravi sono sempre dietro l'angolo molte volte per disattenzione altri per sfortuna. dalla mia esperienza ho capito che si cerca sempre di aggiungere piano piano un po di pericolo per il semplice fatto che ormai l'escursione non ci piace più e abbiamo bisogno di quel brivido per sentirci appagati. il mio consiglio anzichè salire è quello di scavare in profondità, dentro noi stessi, per capire davvero di cosa abbiamo bisogno e cosa ci fa stare bene. mandi bruno

Thanks to shere your mistakes! It could help people to learn! And also you learn! We are looking forward for the next adventures of Bruno!!! Big hug man!!! ^_^

Wonderful. I was speechless seeing the breathtaking landscape.

Thanks for sharing. I've had some "epics" a few years back in climbing and hiking in Scotland, Pyrenees and The Alps. Paragliding looks easy but this video showed me just how that the wing that it your ticket to freedom can easily drag your off a steep mountain to your death. Really thought provoking.

Glad you survived! Thanks for sharing this experience with us!

Thank you for reflecting

Thanks for your honesty. I hope on reflection you find that you still did have a great day out - you climbed the Whimper Couloir which not many of us get to do. Clearly you didnt have a great flight down, but next time it will be awesome. Thanks for sharing, glad you didnt die.

So, the title is not click bait. Sure my friend, totally not a click bait 😂

Loved the video and thanks for your honesty? Please stay safe Bruce 🙌🏻

Nova Bantam 2 is the best

Your honesty is admirable. Your videos are amazing.

how did your friend take off? was he ok all by himself on the top take-off?

Thanks so much for sharing your story. Really happy that all of you made it back! ✨ Many greetings from Switzerland 🙋🏻‍♂

How is the second pilot doing?

Thanks for sharing your experience. It's true that takeoff was not easy. You took some risks.. but affortunally things end well. Greetings and good flights. I hope you refly this place in a future with more time, relax, and experience to enjoy it.

Thank you for sharing! so true about your comments on gears, training, skills, and experience! Couldn't agree more.

I noticed your videos and goals getting more extreme in the last year and before that you were already doing more extreme climbs than what most people would do to get beautiful images. It's just a matter of statistics before something goes wrong (horribly) if you keep increasing the risk of situations you are bringing yourself into. I really hope you take things a bit slower and get more experience so you can keep doing this for a long time.

Hey, big thumbs up for telling us exactly how close you came to an accident and what you did wrong. That takes courage. On a different note, I can relate to your retrospective stand of having overstepped your capabilities. Last year, I had a similiar experience hiking through the pyrenees. I scrambled up and down a 3000m pass (Cuello del Cilindro), to walk down from there to a plateau and a lake. I was sure there was a path down there. But when I came to the spot that would lead down to the plateau, I realized it was a 25m vertical wall. There were anchors for rapelling, but I was hiking solo and did not have any climbing gear with me whatsoever. Still, I climbed down, heavy pack and no rope. It wasn't a technical climb, but it wouldn't have required much to fall and die. During the climb, I had to actively and consciously calm myself in order not to lose focus and concentration. I didn't really enjoy it until I was down safely. All day I felt triumphant and pat myself on the shoulder for that descent, but when I lay in my sleepingbag and tried to sleep, I got doubts about what I'd done. Even though I was (and still am) certain of my climbing abilities, doing this alone and without climbing gear was sheer stupidity. Only in retrospection did I feel the appropriate amount of fear. Even so, it did make me appreciate being alive a lot :D Thanks for the video, and stay safe!

great analysis and recommendation!

you gotta lot to learn dude because that looked sketchy and pretty damn reckless. Get some high wind kiting in and find a good mentor.

Thank you for being authentic & taking accountability for the oopsies. Much respect!! I just found your videos & I absolutely love them!! Omg I have done some hiking in the states, but wow.. what you see up on these peaks is unreal. Thank you so much for sharing & safe travels🙏🏼

WISEDOM COMES EASY AFTER THE FACTS...AND MORE : A GOOD PILOT IS AN OLD PILOT STILL FLYING!!! Excellent way to show what we really feel or live...sometime because we all started like a DUD. thanks for sharing the reality. BIRDIE, an old pilot.

So glad you survived Bruno - keep on making those memories and yes to enjoy the moments

at last you're save bro thank GOD even watching video from here I'm pretty scared let that mistake be the last one always take care Greetings from Manipur

Super video. Have a look at James Reason's Swiss cheese model of accident causation. It will help you to foresee and manage these kinds of risks in the future.

One of the most important lesson in Human Factors and the Humanistic traps. Excellent job for pointing it out! Rather than celebrating the “we got away with it”…. Learn, analyse to ensure you never have to “get away with it” again! Big difference.

Beh... un po' clickbait lo è dai.... 🤣🤣 da "sono quasi morto" a "se fossi scivolato avrei potuto morire" ce ne passa. E tra l'altro, è una cosa che può succedere spesso in montagna: trovarsi in un posto dove "se scivolo muoio". Anche in cresta del Cuarnan. Per dire. 😂

I'm also quiet new in paragliding. And I was thinking while watching the video that you are very brave to do this kind of hike. It went well and you survive. But at the same time you was honest to your self, that this was not your best desicion to do this. Thank you for sharing your experience! Safe H&F

Come to Colorado, and I'll teach you how to have complete control of your wing in high-winds. Without that skill, you're destined to repeat that mistake. That is definitely NOT the place to learn, or fly with a new wing. You're one Lucky Bastard to have lived through that. But hey, just go for it - right???

Ridges and summits are bad for variable wind direction and gusts, the ridges around snowden in Wales have at least 8 aircraft wrecks visible.

While Bruno, I'm so happy you survived

Thanks Bruno for uploading such a video so that people who want to do these adventures (like me) do not make the same mistake you made!

I was always taught: at least two of the three chair legs need to be healthy. 1, Weather, 2, Terrain, 3, Equipment. If a new terrain, have weather and equipment known and so on. Always have just one unknown. Glad it turned out fine and lessons learned.

It literally doesn't matter what subject we are talking about. Never put your life in the hands of a thing you've never used before. Perform a real test in a safe situation. This applies to computer backups, tire chains, and every freakin other thing. Don't test your emergency things by creating a real emergency. Kudos on making a great teaching video.

Go spend some days doing high wind groundhandling at a nice sandy beach. Its going to massively increase your safety next time you will undertake an adventure like this. I really appreciate the video. Too many people would brush this off without learning from it.

Do you think a single skin would be a better idea?

Why can't I add this video to my "watch later" list? Now I gotta leave a tab open. 50 open tabs, thanks for nothing. ;)

Which paraglider did you use? I'm looking for a light but safe wing.

Never fly a wing you don't know. Not even a beginner hill. Always do ground handling prior to it. At least. But tbh it doesn't look like you have ground handling experience at all. Am I right? But in the end you were far away from dying :D luckily As I do see at many take off areas: People just don't give a f**k about ground handling and put their selves and other peoples around in danger. It is pretty annoying to see people trying hard in conditions which they can't handle properly due to lack of ground handling experience. And those people put all other pilots around in danger. I see it everywhere. There are more and more people in the community getting careless and selfish about security at take off zones.

A year of flying is not a lot of experience... you learned a valuable lesson.. I have nothing to add to your analysis... Being carried away and not prepping properly for any risky adventure is piling on more risk.. You got away with that 💯

Ajajajaja super adventure but first thing to do with new equipment is to go groundhandling

I followed another mountain adventurer from Poland a few years ago. He took more and more risks and started to get careless and sloppy. I pointed it out in one of his videos to which some replied ignorantly. Not long after he and a friend died in the mountains. Good you learned from your mistakes Bruno. I applaud your transparency and willingness to adjust your approach.

El alabeo lo amplificaste más por error de pilotaje, el roll control es cuando la semi- ala que regresará hacia arriba se frena, así parar ese alabeo, tu aplicas freno al contrario, cuando la semi-ala está arriba frenas, completamente lo opuesto, amplificas el alabeo, buen video, buena experiencia, sigue practicando, toma cursos SIV, verás que lo disfrutarás mucho, saludos, buenos vuelos

brooooooooo.... what a good time, good vibes! Amazing video and story, thanks for sharing.

Nice analysis, you really should do some pitch and roll exercises with a normal (not ultralight) wing, it is very formative, ultralight wings are dampening those oscillations a lot ! The roll problem you had could have been super easily solved with a small weightshift input at the right time 😁 but it is easy for me to say so, I was not the one in the air 🤙

A friend of mine died exatly like that, not too far away actually. Personally, Id recommend everyone to leave these kinds of sports be, its not worth it. But I also know that mountain folks dont wanna hear that.

Ci vorrebbero i sottotutoli... Un po' capisco ma certe volte no

Glad you survived to tell your story.

Hey Bruno. Next time you pop in Chamonix, let me know. I now live there! Cheers.

You know this, but I am going to repeat it for your benefit - as a reminder. "The closer you get to The Edge, the further away you become, and the nearer your final ride." a quote from Greg B. You use the analysis to help yourself, to remind yourself, that The Edge is there, and you must avoid it's fatal allure. Stay on the Sunny Side my friend. Do not take the chances that will kill you.

Thank you for sharing 🙏🏽

Congrats with your well earned knowledge and that you live to tell us about it. ❤

3:43 - Hard Facepalm - Certainly a great Idea to get a more reactive Wing 1year after starting paragliding - AND not checking it out in calm air But this is not "I almost died" this is "I had a bad Launch and need some Views" - Glad that you didn't run into real Dangers but this is a Clickbait.

Good on you for posting. I think most of us who've taken up alpinism have a story or two to tell from our early days when you knew just enough to get yourself in trouble. But they're opportunities to learn and it takes courage to share since many just won't understand and may see it as being reckless. Just comes with the territory so keep it up and keep learning!

very powerful and important message. don't overreach. and there's nothing to be ashamed of, if you're not fully able to do something. just enjoy what you can do, train more for the things you still aren't able to do, and go forward. in bocca al lupo, i tuoi video sono sempre spettacolari

You lived and learned but next time you’ll do so much better! And I hope you do again (within your risk tolerance of course)!

YES ur very Right u should definitely know what ur doing: Death doesn't Wait, B Careful Bruno and make Sure u show us how Good u R NOW !! 😅😅😊😊

I crossed the street today. If I fell cars would've ran over me and I would've died

I would love to know what your filming gear is when you hike these cold mountains! How do you keep your batteries charged?

Bruno. The mistake is the selection of this sport. There is no margin of error. The feel of control is an illusion.

now the influencer generation, with all of their "hard effort to being authentic and real", have reached paragliding.

watching the video, 13sec in : "With a paraglider you have never used before" I mean.... What?????

You need groundhandling!!

Yes, u are fortunate to be alive to analyze your mistakes. Taking responsibility for all of your thoughts and feelings helped you realize which ones were missing - THE GOOD ONES. WOW😢. Good video.❤ stay safe.

your rolling is self induced, typical beginner „mistake“.. as you can see in your video, with your steering inputs you induce the rolling even more. Try to get a better feeling for the wing and turns in general ✌️

U could have fly and go up at the top nxt time ake sure to c Unlock carribena

HI Bruno, thanks for your experience. Can you make another non-clickbait video of you cycling around knowing that cars can run over you. Maybe we can do a long series about "almost dying" on the street, in the kitchen, at the swimming pool....an so on. Thanks for your service.

Your self-criticism is great!

Wow great video!