18-04-2025
'Scary Stuff': Watch Live from Massive Cape Solander
'How the fuck do they even get out there? It's so gnarly.'
Hannah Anderson – photographer, videographer, media maven etc. – butt-dialed me while coordinating this live video feed from Sydney, Australia's infamous widow-maker slab, Cape Solander, and this was amongst the chatter that gurgled through the phone, transmitting through satellites in space, all the way on the other side of the world, then into my rectangular digital device.
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Isn't technology incredible? I can be sitting at home in Los Angeles, tuning into real-time footage from thousands of miles away. Still baffles the mind. And so can you! Hit play above.
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'It's bigger and heavier than anything we've ever seen since the Red Bull event in 2016,' says Hannah's partner-in-crime, the inimitable Nick Carroll. 'Waves are breaking off the ledge. It's extremely heavy here today, like, really risky. Waves are bending around the side, and wrapping down the line. I suspect it's going to get a lot better throughout the day. It's having that classic morning sickness, that wobble in it right now. This swell has only just really filled in. It's gonna bulk up, get stronger. The wind's really clean. We're expecting to see some magic here today.'
Stay tuned to Hannah and Nick's latest endeavor, We Shouldn't Be Friends. And in the meantime, kick back and watch the carnage above.
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