Parry first appeared on television in 2002 in an episode of BBC1's Extreme Lives series entitled Cannibals and Crampons. Bruce planned, filmed, directed and presented the documentary episode with his friend Mark Anstice. The film was a first-hand account of their successful journey to climb Puncak Mandala in the Indonesian part of New Guinea. It is the second highest mountain of Australasia but is little known and rarely climbed.