Test of the Toughest was a sports series where we were involved with course design, rigging and safety. These Kellogs Ironmen are just about to start a 120m abseil down the slabs at Booroomba Rocks in the ACT.

We’ve been working with film and TV crews since the 90s when we worked with Imax film maker John Weiley for a couple of months filming in the Blue Mountains, NSW.

We are proud to support the White Ribbon Ultramarathon that starts on Friday 14th November. Kirrily Dear will run 860km over 12 days. Check the website to donate and help put a stop to violence against women.

ESS now produces high resolution topo maps with UTM coordinates and a custom overlay of the event course, marshal locations and other details. This sample snippet is for the Running Wild Narrowneck 20km Night Run on Saturday.

Four enjoyable days helping deliver a course for 25 medical professionals at the Expedition Medical Course course in the Blue Mountains. ESS presented on expedition planning, comms, first response and set up a search and rescue training scenario.

The ESS Land Cruiser is equipped with advanced real-time computer mapping, satellite phones and internet, GPS and radio systems.

ESS is supporting a film crew from NHK, Japan’s national broadcaster while they make a doco on the geology and nature of Blue Mountains Canyons. Director of Photography Hidekazu Sasaki gets a long shot of the canyon film crew on the first two abseils of Kanangra Main canyon.

Adrian Bailey, Laura Impey and Lucas Trihey discuss plans at the Big Red Run, Simpson Desert July 2013