The question
How close have you come to dying?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A recurring Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
In a helicopter crash in Wyoming in 2005. My cameraman broke his back and both legs; the pilot broke his back. The helicopter didn’t catch fire, so I’m still here today.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 September 2016 source ↗
I’m convinced heartache almost killed me a few years ago.
A blood clot in my artery when I was 23.
Falling down a mine shaft in New Mexico while filming.
In 1989, in Cuba, about to board a plane for Milan, where I was going to school for a year. The visa didn’t arrive in time, so I couldn’t board. The plane crashed and people died.
For being genuine.
While tracking wolves in Idaho, we came across a wolf carcass. It was likely the pack had been poisoned in a deliberate act. I am a hunter, but I respect wildlife and I also respect predators.
The sound of nightingales, but it is the most lovely sound. If someone said it was an elf playing a flute, I would believe them.
Right now. I live in the present.
My wife, Ruth, because she holds the fort, making it possible for me to do what I do.
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