Pete died from a wire strike, nothing to do with getting out of the helicopter.
It was 2 years and 1 day ago. A picture of the wreck of his helicopter is used in the Aviation New Zealand wire awareness program that is trying to educate the public about the danger that wires pose to aircraft pilots.
Pete would have been in and out of his helicopter, with it at idle, thousands of times in his career, and never had a problem with it, along with 99% of commercial pilots in New Zealand that do it safely on a daily basis.
The 1% that don't would be HNZ pilots, due to customer requirements (OGP ops), and probably a few of the guys that fly the VIP type missions.
And if you watch a bit of the vid, you will see that he did most of the important things correctly, the weather was good, the aircraft was on solid ground, it wasn't leaning backwards so it didn't fall on its arse when he got out, the tail was away from people, or over an edge, he wound the engine back to ground idle, then he got out. In a couple of the clips you can hear him winding the engine back up to flight once he has got in.