Skydiver's near impact and landing on top of a mountain

The purpose of this video is to show the importance of spotting, no matter where you jump but in particular in the mountains.

The group was the 2nd to exit, the drop was at the wrong place (not a pilot error though) and nobody noticed until it was almost too late.
It was pure coincidence and only the quick reaction by the skydivers involved prevented injuries or worse.

I uploaded this video in order to allow anyone interested to learn from it and to help other people to prevent making the same mistakes.
Some of you might say: "of course, I always spot anyway" but in fact, a lot of people don't, especially if they're not the first (group) exiting.
Always spot!!! It doesn't cost you anything, certainly not your life!

Blue skies
N.

P.S.:
1. we know what went wrong so there's no need to remind us :-)
2. Audibles as well as AADs don't help in a situation like this as they are set to the pressure level of the landing area more than 4.000 ft lower.
3. Deploying the reserve would have been the right choice. However, as you can see, there was NO time for thinking and thus your body intuitively and automatically does what it always does: pull the main

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[tearsinraine]

Glad you're ok. Thanks also for posting it. It's easy to hide one's mistakes from the world by simply not posting it... and saving yourself the trouble of dealing with tons of comments telling you what you already know by now. But for the rest of us, it's always good to have a reality check and a reminder of what could go wrong and open up discussion on how to prevent it from happening again. At least I appreciated it. So thanks. And wow... what a video! :)

[nemoskyfish]

@tearsinraine

Many thanks. Exactly that was the purpose of posting it. If it prevents only 1 injury, it's worth the stupid comments and I'm glad that some people like you realize that!

[PanSmok]

great material to learn from...

ps.

opening and landing almost BASE style...:)

[2handle2hard]

One question. Was it your friends deployment that made you aware, or did you notice yourself?

[2handle2hard]

Thanks for sharing.

[PaddyHester]

You are simply blessed, blue skies

[Hunoghun]

you are so lucky!!

[DdeadPsy]

2-3 sec more and Splatch

[BAAAASJE]

GREAT Video !!!

[cryptoguys]

dude!!! pull the dang parachute!!!

[jaybeefun]

Where was this?

[Hungybever]

man, I bet that was intense!