Watch This Guy in a Jetpack Ascend The Face of a 3100ft Mountain in Record Time

Here’s a cool video that features a man in a jetpack ascending the face of a 3100ft mountain. He does this in record time and this is a test for possible paramedic rescue missions. The video comes from Gravity Industries and it came along with the following note:

We proved you can scale a Lake District Mountain (3100ft Helveylln) in 3mins 30 seconds, despite very poor visibility that would have grounded a HEMS Helicopter. The Mountain Rescue foot response is over 70 minutes typically. The route was 1.2 miles and 2200ft of height gain.

This is the latest in a series of Paramedic Response Exercises to prove capability in parallel with training up real Paramedics to provide first response Critical Care in hard to reach geographies. Cardiac, breathing or blood loss cases are time critical and require rapid stabilisation to buy time for evacuation. This system, akin to the rapid response of a Paramedic on a motorbike in an urban environment, will be the difference between life and death for many critical cases.

This is pretty cool!