a police officer showed up at the gate, and he said, hey, does anybody have some rope or anything? we kind of got down and said, well, yeah, we re a trapeze school. what do you need? a man has just fallen into the hudson river, which sits next to the trapeze school. without blinking, jonah and co-instructor paul cannon grab rope and other rescue equipment and take off toward the river. when we get there, we saw a body floating down the river about 25 or 30 feet out. somehow a man, later identified as james q., has fallen into the river and now appears unconscious and needs saving. a small crowd is building, but nobody seems to be doing anything. with no time to waste, paul jumps in. jonah ties a rope to the edge of the rail and jumps off the eight-foot ledge after him. i was scared of jumping in the water. i didn t know what was under there, i didn t know if i was going to impale myself on
i m home. a lot of guys didn t come home. that s the emotional part for me is my friends who didn t make it home. i never want to see a friend die like that again. tiny s friends watched the video of him pulling that helicopter up, and they tell him they wish he would have pulled up something else as well. they joke to me about my pants because my pants were so low, they said the moon was showing over hawaii. a normal day at a trapeze school turns upside down. oh, my god. we saw a body floating down the river. can they get to the victim in time? and an incredible force literally ripped me from the mountain. nine climbers tumble into a crevasse at mt. hood. this is kind of tricky flying
but anyone can help a foster child. september 22nd, 2005. class is in full swing at trapeze school new york. beginners are learning to fly and catch from instructors, including jonas speer. it was i think it was our first class of the day. sweep, legs not so high and back. we spend two hours with them working on the ground and in the air on flying trapeze tricks. one of the students takes his
turn on the bar. a classmate films him with his digital camera. we were flying on the trapeze, i was up on the board getting ready to do my flight, and emergency personnel came in. a police officer showed up at the gate, and he said, hey, does anybody have some rope or anything? we kind of got down and said, well, yeah, we re a trapeze school. what do you need? a man has just fallen into the hudson river, which sits next to the trapeze school. without blinking, jonah and co-instructor paul cannon grabbed rope and other rescue equipment and take off toward the river. when we get there, we saw a body floating down the river about 25 or 30 feet out. somehow a man, later identified as james q., has fallen into the river and now appears unconscious and needs saving. a small crowd is building, but nobody seems to be doing anything. with no time to waste, paul jumps in. jonah ties a rope to the edge of the rail and jumps off the eight-foot ledge after him. i was scared of jumping
a lot of guys didn t come home. that s the emotional part for me is my friends who didn t make it home. i never want to see a friend die like that again. tiny s friends watched the video of him pulling that helicopter up, and they tell him they wish he would have pulled up something else as well. they joke to me about my pants because my pants were so low, they said the moon was showing over hawaii. a normal day at a trapeze school turns upside down. oh, my god. we saw a body floating down the river. can they get to the victim in time? and an incredible force literally ripped me from the mountain. nine climbers tumble into a crevasse at mt. hood. this is kind of tricky flying when you re that close to the edge of a mountain. and when rescuers try to save