UNC student, filmmaker, and adrenaline junkie Josh Neuman facing fears head-on

Posted Sep 14, 2020
Skydiving from planes thousands of feet in the air. Dangling off the edge of skyscrapers. Flying down mountains in the Alps. Over 750,000 subscribers later, UNC junior Josh Neuman never could have anticipated that the tutorials he shot at 12 years old on his dad’s video camera would lead to some of the most-watched skateboarding videos on YouTube. (Daily Tar Heel)

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