Background
Driftmier was born in 1982 in Calgary, Alberta to parents David Driftmier and Sophia Language.
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John Driftmier
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He graduated from Simon Fraser University in 2007.
Career
Driftmier married Carolyn Allen in 2010. They lived in Ottawa. Driftmier worked in more than 30 countries.
He shot a company of northern Canadian pilots in the television series Ice Pilots NWT. In Highway Thru Hell, he documented the stories of a towing company involved in salvage operations in the British Columbia interior in extreme weather conditions.
He co-created Pyros, a television documentary series looking at people who create firework displays. In 2013, while in Africa to film an episode of Dangerous Flights, documenting the experiences around the world of pilots delivering used commuter airplanes, Driftmier was killed at age 30 in a plane crash in Mount Kenya Forest.
The documentary series Cold Water Cowboys, which Driftmier co-conceived with Tyson Hepburn, debuted in February 2014.
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Canadian