Ken Hutt's death-defying bid to paraglide from Mount Everest summit to be captured on film to help end polio

Imagine you only had one shot. Just one opportunity to capture history.

That's the ultimate responsibility facing Brisbane filmmaker Joe Carter this May.

His job is to capture 62-year-old Australian Ken Hutt launching from the summit of Mount Everest and paragliding down from the top of the world.

«There's no way that if I miss that shot that I can ask him to go back and do it again,» Carter said.

It's a feat that's only been achieved by four people.

If Hutt manages to do it, he'll become the oldest.

He'll also be the oldest Australian man to ever reach the summit of Everest, and Carter is determined to capture every moment of the death-defying expedition.

«It's the ultimate extreme sports film and I only have one go at it,» Carter said.

«Maybe if I was filming BMX or skateboarding or something I could ask him to do it all again, but it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for him and definitely the pressure is on me to get that shot.

»I'm going to be there, I'll be ready don't worry … I'll have the camera set up and I'll be ready for anything."

Tomorrow, Carter, Hutt and his expedition team depart Sydney for Nepal.

Hutt's been preparing for the mission for years but Carter, who is head of Queensland University of Technology's film and screen degree, had just weeks.

«I had this crazy phone call about seven weeks ago, I was actually on ABC News Breakfast talking about another film of mine … and during the program, they saw me on there,» Carter said.

«And I get this phone call just after the show saying: 'Hey, we're going to Everest, do you want to come with us and make a film?'

»And I kind of thought it was a joke at first … but then I thought, wow, what an opportunity and of course, I said yes."

The film is a research project as part of