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Higher is... is my story from growing up on Cape Cod and,
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really following my passions,
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letting nothing get in the way of snowboarding
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and culminating on the high peaks of the Himalayas.
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And along the way... I realized that,
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it's not about standing on the highest peak,
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or not about the descent,
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it's really... it's the journey, the emotions along the way,
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the people you meet along the way, and it's um...
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truly is, you know, the journey is the reward.
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Jeremy, like his two older brothers was very active,
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very interested in sports.
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We were all skiers in the family.
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I recall him getting his first snowboard
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from Shaw's General Store in Stowe, Vermont.
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I went to Shaw's, like, the day before Christmas
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and there were three of these boards in there.
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I didn't really know what it was,
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but I bought three of them and
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Jeremy, Todd and Steve, took them out.
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At an early age we got really into skateboarding and
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then surfing, and I was also into skiing at the time.
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And I first saw snowboarding in Thrasher Mag,
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my first thought was, 'Finally.'
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I had been on the mountain a bunch on skis and I always looked at the mountain going,
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'Man, it would be so cool to be able to ride down this thing sideways.'
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Three of us would get up, go shred the mountain all day on our skis,
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and then we'd come home and turn on the floodlights
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and he would go until he was called in to go to bed.
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We were away at school and Jeremy was still at home,
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and we came back up to Vermont one weekend and
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we're like, 'Where... where are our snowboards?'
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And he took all the boards and
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went down to the General Store
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and they let him trade those in for one with edges.
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I was the youngest of three brothers and,
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and definitely knew that I'd see some abuse for that decision,
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but I had to have that board.
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And if that meant taking a couple lumps, then, so be it.
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It wasn't allowed in Stowe to snowboard on the mountain for a few years.
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Jeremy just was relentless in his pursuit of getting a pass.
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He was the first person to ever get a snowboard pass in Stowe, Vermont.
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I went to my first snowboard contest on the East Coast
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when I was fourteen years old.
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I did thirty-five contests a year.
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We would live early Friday so we could get to the half-pipe by Friday afternoon.
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We would session the half-pipe and in the process find a couch to surf.
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Back East at that time,
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it was just a gathering of the tribes at this point,
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because a lot of us really were terrible.
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There was no itinerary other then get to the mountain to register at 7:00 AM
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on a coffee table in some broom closet at the ski resort.
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Everyone would have duct tape.
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You'd be inside the lodge, duct taping up your gear.
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It was raw. It was what snowboarding was back then.
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It was a full rebel sport. It was awesome.
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Next at the top, Jeremy Jones,
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sixteen years old out of Kingfield, Maine.
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Yeah, our youngest competitor hits the course...
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When I was sixteen, I went on the professional tour as much as I could afford.
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He said, 'If I don't do anything in two years, then I'll consider going to college.
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I knew early on there was no way I was going to college.
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Once I found snowboarding, it just took over my life.
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It seemed like Jeremy was going to do whatever it took
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to make snowboarding the focal point of his life.
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Along the way, going to my first race,
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I went to Jackson Hole to visit my brothers.
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And saw this world that I didn't know existed.
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I was surrounded by dishwashers and waiters, and real professional dirtbags,
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but they were riding every day, all day, in Jackson.
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I had no idea something like that existed.
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It changed my life right then and there.
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I was like, 'Wow, this is the snowboarding I want to do.'
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I'd go to Jackson every year, once or twice a year, if I had any break in my schedule.
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Throughout racing, it was always this fallback plan,
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if this gets to a point where I'm not having fun anymore,
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then it's time to go to this next phase of snowboarding, which is full time freeriding.
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I'm here with Bryan Iguchi and hoping to ride the Grand.
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It's something I've looked at for over twenty years now,
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and um... I spent time here.
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I wanted the Tetons to be in Deeper, I wanted them to be in Further,
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and we put in some hard time in the Tetons, got shut down every time.
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It's just been this, really a challenging range
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to try and get up and hit the major lines.
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This year I reached out to Z and Brendon,
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who are both Exum guides and have been spending a bunch of time high in the Tetons.
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The Tetons are truly the epicenter of big mountain skiing in the lower 48.
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Of course that culminated with Bill Briggs in 1971,
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having this wild imagination to go and click into skis on top of The Grand Teton.
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I had no doubts at all I could ski it.
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Climbing up there, I had my real doubts I had the strength to do it.
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The Otter Body as a ski line is really the dream child of Doug Coombs and Mark Newcomb.
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Once you finished skiing the East Face, you roll into a choke,
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and use that to repel onto another hanging snowfield,
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as referred to as the Otter Body.
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You then have a series of three, double rope repels
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and they end with free hanging repel, right onto the Teepee Glacier.
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Doug Coombs was a huge influence on my life.
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He was larger than life, like Superman,
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in the mountains and, you know, I always cherished my time with Doug.
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About a month before he died, he reached out and said,
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'Hey, I want to take you up the Grand.'
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You know, unfortunately we never got to do that.
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You know, the harsh reality of spending a bunch of time in these serious mountains,
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is they have consequences.
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It was a recon mission to check out the snow,
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and get as close as we could to our objective.
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And this is as physically close as we could,
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getting that kind of angle of perspective.
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And it really was right in your face.
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I mean you look out and it's just right there.
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You can't make mistakes on something like this.
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And that's the biggest thing, it has to go a certain way.
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You see how there's that wind lip, though?
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- On that little... - I like that
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It's a nice protection there, you just ride that little wave
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Protection from what, though?
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Comfort.
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Mental protection.
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At least you're not looking off onto the abyss.
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You see a little edge.
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Yeah, so you'll only have like a four hundred footer underneath you, instead of...
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A thousand footer.
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Bout time we're on that thing, it's going to have to be pretty settled.
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I think we all recognize we're hanging it out there on a line like this,
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and we're going to employ every single trick in the book, to mitigate the hazards.
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Mistakes are not easily forgiven up there, for sure.
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It's definitely way more real, being that close.
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The reality of how big and steep it is.
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The size, just the sheer mass.
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You know, that block.
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I wouldn't say I gained confidence by getting that close to it.
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You know, this is turned into a major snow event.
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This is definitely a major snow event, for sure.
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But we're not worried about any deep instability in the pack.
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Feel really good about the overall snowpack.
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It's really, like, shockingly right-side up, very unique.
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I'm totally foreign to the snowpack.
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We need to really be comfortable with backing down,
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unless it's absolutely perfect.
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This thing needs to be a hundred percent or I want nothing to do with it.
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We can't fool ourselves into thinking that we can eliminate the risk on a line like that.
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So, yeah, a little bit of a waiting game.
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In the middle of a little storm cycle in the Tetons.
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Going to stretch the legs and ride some pow, with my good friend Bryan Iguchi.
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We couldn't have come from more opposite ends of the spectrum of snowboarding.
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He was jibber, freestyle, and I'm in a speed suit riding hard boots.
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Over the last ten years, we've been on a similar path.
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Just getting educated and taking it further and further.
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Seeing the weather window calming, it looks like it's taking shape.
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It's definitely a lot more snow then I was anticipating.
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Going into something this serious, and big.
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We've climbed about 2000ft
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We're still doing, this, to see the top of the peak.
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She's a big one.
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My immediate anxiety is making it through the night warm.
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I'm in two summer bags, stacked together.
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A sleeping pad that seems like it got pulled off a lawn chair.
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And it's definite below zero action,
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it's a little different then California.
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The snow sure is better!
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Oh, we've got that going for us!
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Ah, it feels so good just to lay down for a second.
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Prior to the mission I had a lot of anxiety for the climb,
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then I woke up in the morning, and just was like,
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I got really excited for it.
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I'm like, 'We're going rock climbing, I got my snowboard on my back
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and I'm going to climb the Grand.'
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You're on belay, Z.
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You got Z leading.
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Going up there.
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This is the fun part.
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Climbing.
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Crawling.
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Come on keep it moving.
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The hardest 5.4 move I've done.
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We are getting close.
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Getting through some of the final technical climbing moves before the summit.
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Oh!
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Top of the Grand, long time in the making.
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The real deal heavy stuff is still below us,
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we're going to evaluate snow and see if today's the day or not.
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First time I've ever had this, where I had these light shakes.
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It was like my brain was trying to tell my body to calm down.
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Just trying to keep breathing.
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Yeah, Jer man.
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Let up, enjoy this!
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You've got to be kidding me.
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Alright, dropping!
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That was unbelievable!
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I cannot believe the pow!
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That gets me in the game, dude.
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No way!
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Are you kidding me?
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Oh, my God.
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It was kind of miraculous that it was just such a uniform, right side-up snowpack.
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Seeing all that and not being able to produce results on any of our tests,
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it still just felt like this is out there.
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At that point, I dropped in onto this huge hanging snowfield
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and skied into that anchor.
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Jeremy, this is Z, I'm into the first anchor,
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you can drop whenever you're ready.
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The snowfield dead ends at the anchor, at this pinch,
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so your position just gets more and more precarious,
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rather than better and better.
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As you roll into that anchor, if anything does start moving above you,
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you'd have no chance of surviving.
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- Watch the rock - Yeah.
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- I'm locked. - Alright, I'm in.
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Give me a little tension.
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Off!
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Jeremy's off belay, you can drop when ready.
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Up and lock.
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Okay, I need to switch to heels, hang on a bit, Z.
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Okay, cool.
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Off belay!
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I don't like that snow
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We had just pulled on to the Otter Body
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and Zahan had just pulled up to us and started to dig a pit.
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I was in the lowest position,
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trying to get an assessment of the stability on this next slope
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but then there was this, sort of, ominous sound.
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Sluff! Sluff! Sluff!
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Holy Shit!
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That was probably one of the heaviest things I've ever experienced,
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being on a steep, exposed face like this
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and having just a waterfall continue to come and pour over my head
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and over Z below me.
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That portion of the line, the actual Otter Body,
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is really just kind a far out there experience.
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You're on the East Face of the Grand, on this little patch of snow,
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that's totally disconnected from any other snow.
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It's kind of not even supposed to happen.
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I'll drop next and go straight to the anchor.
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It's warming rapidly, we got to go.
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Keep your eyes open for an anchor!
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Okay!
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K, right in here is the rocks.
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So, we're over a four hundred footer
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and we need an anchor to get out of here.
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I'm really happy to get on these final repels.
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Hey Bryan, this is Brendon.
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You can ski down to Jeremy and I.
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- Fully wait for rope - Yup.
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- Wasn't me. - Nope, that's spin drift.
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Okay, Jeremy's repelling!
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Okay, I'll lock you, come off repel.
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We're almost onto the second repel,
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we've got one more repel, Z's at the anchor.
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Fuck
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Off repel!
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Okay, Gutch, you can go ahead and repel.
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Whoa, it feels good to get off.
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All four down and clear, halleluiah!
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Copies, all four down and clear, strong work, fellas.
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Whoa, spin drift.
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Whoa.
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Alright, let's talk about it down there.
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Mountains are still talking to us.
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Party run!
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I love the fact that you've got other people, following along.
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They're not doing it necessarily my way, they're doing it their way.
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The idea is to have each person, doing his own creative thing.
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That's the valley here, that's Jackson.
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You have this expanding type of thing and what not.
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I think it's fabulous development.
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If I had anything to do with it, I'm proud.
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I'm kind of a train wreck out of the mountains.
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Meaning the wheels definitely come off
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the further away I get from the mountains.
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And when I'm in the mountains, it really feels like home to me
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and life is simpler and it's, it's really the world I'm most comfortable with
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and when I get out of that, it's not as natural.
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My snowboard is, it's like my art form,
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in the sense of it, with my snowboard in the mountains,
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is where I can kind of go to this space, this real special place,
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that is so different from the day in and day out of reality.
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I guess at the end of the day though,
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that's where life feels the most pure, the most rich, the most real to me.
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They told us in, I think, 93', that it was going to be in the Olympics in 98'.
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So, at that point, we definitely focused from 93' to 98' at the Olympic Dream.
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Instantly, it's like, sponsors are fired up, my parents are fired up.
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I mean I was excited and working hard.
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No matter what, if I made it to the Olympics that was going to be my last race.
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We had Olympic qualifiers leading up to it.
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On the last run of the last event,
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I would have needed to win the contest
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and I would have had a spot on the Olympic team.
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And I got third place at the last race
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and it was a really cool experience, because I was up there with my closest friend,
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Adam Hostetter.
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You could definitely see that his eye was on the prize,
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but it wasn't the Olympics, it was well beyond the Olympics.
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Where as, my eye was probably on the prize and it was just the Olympics.
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Didn't make the Olympic team, and never put on hard boots ever again after that.
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You get older and that whole, quote 'ski bum life,' becomes unattainable.
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You have to get a real job.
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If he didn't want to go to college
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then he knew that he had to figure out a way to make a living out of snowboarding.
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During the tail end of his race career, he would finish the race season
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and come up to Alaska with us.
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Steve and I, we had been heli ski guiding.
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We would spend all our money and then get on commercial fishing boats
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and replenish the coffers for the next winter of adventures.
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And during one of those cycles, we decided, 'Hey, lets buy a camera,'
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and that was when we started Teton Gravity Research.
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The first day we ever shot film, I dropped in with the camera,
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and went down and set it up and the first frames that I ever rolled were of Jeremy.
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We were having a blast, and just seeing where we could take it.
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Jer's first trip to Alaska, he had never ridden that maritime snowpack
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and he made his first couple of turns and I just saw him, all of a sudden, get it.
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And he just came down grinning, ear to ear,
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'Oh, my God, I've never seen pow stick to something that steep.'
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He started to really show his true colors, as an exceptional big mountain rider.
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It was a turning point for him.
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I think it was, it was a point where he had discovered Alaska,
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he'd discovered big mountain riding,
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he'd discovered a new path to continue to snowboard.
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My names Jeremy Jones and I'm into hanging out.
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I've been doing a lot of hanging out this year, especially in Alaska.
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Sick.
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When I stopped racing and focused solely on freeriding,
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the level of intensity was so much greater than when I was trying to go to the Olympics.
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And what I learned there was you can't go out and snowboard for someone else.
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It's not going to work and it didn't work. I didn't go to the Olympics.
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Because, I was doing it for other people.
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If you put everything you have into it, before you know it,
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you're going to meet your heroes. And that's what happened to me in Alaska.
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I mean I had full access to my heroes,
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like Tom Burt, Doug Coombs, Hatchett brothers.
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They're just sitting on a tailgate waiting for the clouds to break.
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The backbone of my snowboarding came from their approach in the mountains.
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Jeremy ends up with a mastered turn,
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and then he learns some freestyle, and he takes all of that
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and he just crushes.
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He's pushed the boundaries
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and peoples perception of what's possible on a snowboard.
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I can very clearly remember watching him riding spines
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on just straight, slick, rock walls.
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God, that stuff, that's really high consequence and he was just nailing it.
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Early 2000s, snowboarding really started shifting to almost all freestyle.
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You know, you had to be hitting a handrail or in the park
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doing some technical trick.
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That's what's so cool about Jeremy; He never followed,
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the snowboard industry. Never listened to the sponsors,
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who were probably harping on him, do this, or do that.
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I have a lot of respect for Jeremy for doing that, for just saying,
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'Hey, fuck you,' to those guys. I'm going to stay in the big mountains
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and if you want to sponsor me, sponsor me, and if you want to cut me, cut me.
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I don't think Jeremy even cared.
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I think he was like, 'I'm going to ride big mountains forever.'
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It's really cool to know that there's these lines
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that you couldn't possibly dream up being that perfect.
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And going into unknown, insane terrain.
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That is really a cool feeling and one that I continue to look for.
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Usually about three days before Jer takes off, tension gets high around the house.
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The kids start to sense it
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and they kind of understand now that Dad is going to be gone for a while.
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I think it just breaks his heart to say good-bye to them.
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-Are you strapped in? -Yes.
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Tell them that you're not going. That you don't want to go.
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But I like going into the mountians and snowboarding.
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But I don't want you too.
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It's very easy for someone to sit back and say,
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he's crazy, he's selfish, this guy's a jerk,
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to go out and do what he does with family at home.
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And I struggle with that.
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It's just hard for me to imagine living my life a different way.
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There's just so many different ways to die, and I think life is precious.
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Taking stupid risks is definitely irresponsible.
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But my kids need to see people living life and drinking life up as much as possible.
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This could be a cool time to go into an area that very few people go into.
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That's sick.
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-Isn't that sick? -Yeah.
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This year in particular, I feel like Jones, to throw another element of wildness to it,
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zero plan. Show up if you want and we'll figure it out.
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I've been to Alaska every spring for almost twenty years
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and all my riding has been focused on these coastal ranges.
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Going to the Eastern Alaskan Range was just so far out of my comfort zone.
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It's just a totally different geography and type of snowpack.
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Let's go see if we find our the Holy Grail.
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You guys are climbers?
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We like to climb mountains and snowboard back down them.
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00:35:42,224 --> 00:35:43,759
Oh, really? Awesome.
387
00:35:43,825 --> 00:35:49,564
It may be this big, blob mountain coming right out there.
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00:35:49,631 --> 00:35:52,501
If I'm going to Alaska, Ryland's coming with me.
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He rides those mountains as good as anyone in the world
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00:35:55,904 --> 00:36:00,609
and has that perfect attitude that's needed to deal with the highs and lows,
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that come with a long trip camped in the mountains.
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So, like, this guy.
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Which one?
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This face at, uh, kind of 9:30.
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00:36:10,118 --> 00:36:13,455
Oh, that face there? That looks crazy to me.
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00:36:13,522 --> 00:36:17,826
I think we have a good zone, but a ton of unknowns ahead of us.
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Definitely some anxiety.
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00:36:19,828 --> 00:36:21,830
Not as many epic faces,
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00:36:21,897 --> 00:36:27,235
but the faces that are epic, are so mind blowing, it's unbelievable.
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It's right in here, is what we call the super wall.
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00:36:30,973 --> 00:36:33,408
Your looking at some big walls.
402
00:36:33,475 --> 00:36:36,678
There's a couple of lines that we saw,
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00:36:36,745 --> 00:36:39,381
definitely be willing to think about,
404
00:36:39,448 --> 00:36:45,821
but a couple that Jones was seriously considering are absolutely game off to me.
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And at this stage of my life, I would rather,
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put a ton of energy into one line that's one of the best lines of my life.
407
00:36:58,100 --> 00:37:02,771
It happened in a flash, a deadly avalanche in Colorado Rocky Mountains.
408
00:37:02,838 --> 00:37:05,974
A group of snowboarders were buried alive,
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five of them died, only one survivor.
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00:37:08,944 --> 00:37:12,481
We're getting ready to launch into the mountains
411
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and I get word that five people died in an avalanche in Loveland
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and one of them is a close friend of mine, Joe Timlin.
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I met Joe through Jones Snowboards; He was one of the first reps I hired.
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And I think that was just because he had that pure love of snowboarding
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and set his life up around snowboarding and we shared that same passion.
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I mean it just rocked my world; I just could not believe it
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00:37:51,319 --> 00:37:57,259
and the last thing I wanted to do was go into the mountains and go snowboarding.
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00:38:01,229 --> 00:38:07,135
As hard as those lessons are, it gives me perspective and regrounds me,
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and kind of brings me back down to ground zero and it's the ultimate humility.
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My first impressions were... fear, I would say.
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Instantly the seracs start cracking down off the side of the mountain
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and its just echoing with,
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Boom! Boom! It's like, hitting rocks, blowing up, huge rumble
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and all of a sudden you realize the scale of the place that you're in.
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I picked the zone because of this one face that we're camped underneath.
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There is definitely a wide array of lines on it,
427
00:38:50,979 --> 00:38:56,918
but there is one real cherry line right off the summit that hopefully I can ride.
428
00:38:59,888 --> 00:39:03,291
We have no information on this range.
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00:39:03,358 --> 00:39:09,464
It's like that 'Alaska Snowpack Evaluation Handbook' is thrown out the window.
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So, we're out of our comfort zone for sure.
431
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That is a big face. If you do one turn
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00:39:16,571 --> 00:39:19,975
and 'Oh, shit, it's three inches of pow on blue ice,'
433
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don't want to be taking a ride to the bottom.
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At the base of our primary objective.
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Just going to look at some layers,
436
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maybe do a test or two, and then I think it's dinnertime.
437
00:39:37,058 --> 00:39:42,163
I think it's rideable. I'm just a little concerned about the ice.
438
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Like bulletproof. Like bulletproof ice.
439
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Really, I feel like the only way to find out is to just get on it. Start climbing it.
440
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We're at the base of the face.
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Looks upside down steep.
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Hoping it changes when we get on it.
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00:40:03,652 --> 00:40:06,555
So, moment of truth is upon us.
444
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Well, this is the blue ice, though, I think.
445
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Better than I thought.
446
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Who knows how it'll do with a day of wind on it,
447
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but definitely got potential.
448
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Why the fuck am I up here right now?
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00:40:32,113 --> 00:40:35,517
Well we still have questions about what's above us,
450
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we're going to be able to feel some real bulletproof stuff right here.
451
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So, I'm going to give it a feel and go from here.
452
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I think I'll ride the face today.
453
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I might come up and ride this lower flank again if the light is good
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or whatever,
455
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but I'm not feeling it.
456
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Whoa
457
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I'm afraid to look at my tent.
458
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It's not nearly as buttoned up as this one, and this one's shaking a lot.
459
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Riders on the storm.
460
00:41:24,666 --> 00:41:27,502
It's going to be a loud night.
461
00:41:27,569 --> 00:41:30,939
How well is this thing built?
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00:41:33,742 --> 00:41:36,444
Right now it's batting down the hatches
463
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and just, make sure stuff hold up in this wind.
464
00:41:39,948 --> 00:41:43,285
But as far as the line that we're camped here for,
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I can say that that's probably really good ice climbing.
466
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It's like, full blizzard. Temperatures changed
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00:41:56,965 --> 00:41:59,434
and we could be in this for a few days,
468
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So I don't know, it is what it is.
469
00:42:02,037 --> 00:42:05,573
We can't just get up and leave, kind of impossible.
470
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:08,610
Man, it just really came down last night, it's insane.
471
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Like, everyone's tents were completely buried.
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Every four hours we have to shovel out our tents.
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00:42:20,188 --> 00:42:21,589
It's still snowing.
474
00:42:21,656 --> 00:42:24,359
Snow most of the way up my tent.
475
00:42:24,426 --> 00:42:28,096
I'm pretty snowed in, right now.
476
00:42:34,436 --> 00:42:37,038
Unbelievable.
477
00:42:37,105 --> 00:42:39,808
Wow, can't believe my tent stayed up.
478
00:42:39,874 --> 00:42:42,177
Yeah, well not all of them did.
479
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Really?
480
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Sad day.
481
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Sad day, what happened?
482
00:42:48,116 --> 00:42:50,051
-Did the tent collapse? -Yup.
483
00:42:50,118 --> 00:42:51,519
-The big one did? -Yup.
484
00:42:51,586 --> 00:42:53,855
That's why I can't see it?
485
00:42:53,922 --> 00:42:55,657
Oouuuu...
486
00:42:55,724 --> 00:42:57,158
Owe.
487
00:42:58,193 --> 00:43:00,228
That's hard hitting.
488
00:43:02,831 --> 00:43:10,805
Snowed 2ft last night, no wind, stright down, collapsed the tent, broke every pole.
489
00:43:10,872 --> 00:43:16,144
That was one of the first moments where I've been like, this isn't worth it.
490
00:43:16,211 --> 00:43:20,148
I just knew that there were these massive amounts of snow up overhead
491
00:43:20,215 --> 00:43:23,518
and if something happened you wouldn't even hear it coming.
492
00:43:23,585 --> 00:43:26,054
If there was a massive, large scale avalanche,
493
00:43:26,121 --> 00:43:28,623
it would just, could take you out like that.
494
00:43:28,690 --> 00:43:32,594
It's been a wild twenty-four hours,
495
00:43:32,660 --> 00:43:36,564
I've heard a lot of avalanches, serac falls.
496
00:43:36,631 --> 00:43:39,834
We wanted a storm but not like this one.
497
00:43:41,469 --> 00:43:47,976
First time we haven't heard snow in at least three days.
498
00:43:56,518 --> 00:44:00,622
-Got spines. -Got spines.
499
00:44:02,657 --> 00:44:07,428
I'll never forget, coming out of my tent that morning and looking up,
500
00:44:07,495 --> 00:44:13,935
and seeing, like, the most incredible spine wall I've ever seen.
501
00:44:14,002 --> 00:44:16,204
Oh, my God.
502
00:44:16,271 --> 00:44:21,776
Somehow we found one of the sickest faces on the planet and we didn't even know it.
503
00:44:21,843 --> 00:44:27,415
For the first time of the trip, I realized, like, wow, we might be riding this thing.
504
00:44:27,482 --> 00:44:34,088
Time to really start evaluating this and seeing if we can figure this mountain out.
505
00:44:34,155 --> 00:44:37,759
We've seen a lot of, um, avalanche activity,
506
00:44:37,826 --> 00:44:41,029
which is good, we want to see the face shedded.
507
00:44:41,095 --> 00:44:45,567
It's wild, though. It's a long process, you got to enjoy it.
508
00:44:45,633 --> 00:44:52,106
You got to be really patient and be totally willing to walk away if it's not right.
509
00:45:47,362 --> 00:45:52,734
Waiting over two weeks to see what's on the other side of this thing.
510
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:55,837
Oh, Gorgeous.
511
00:45:56,871 --> 00:45:58,673
What's it like up there?
512
00:45:58,740 --> 00:46:05,813
It's deep and forty-five degrees on either side.
513
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:09,751
I think it will be really fun walking.
514
00:46:09,817 --> 00:46:11,219
-Sick. -Yeah.
515
00:46:18,426 --> 00:46:20,328
Out of this world.
516
00:46:20,395 --> 00:46:23,097
Out of this world.
517
00:46:25,366 --> 00:46:27,402
Oh, my God.
518
00:46:27,468 --> 00:46:29,938
Nice work Ryland.
519
00:46:30,004 --> 00:46:35,209
I would at least like to make it to the top of this ridge
520
00:46:35,276 --> 00:46:38,379
and see what happens.
521
00:46:40,448 --> 00:46:44,285
These bootpack spines are too good to pass up.
522
00:46:44,352 --> 00:46:49,057
I mean, my God, look at this. 3000ft of vert.
523
00:46:49,123 --> 00:46:52,727
3, 2, 1.
524
00:47:16,451 --> 00:47:18,052
Woooo!
525
00:47:18,119 --> 00:47:22,924
Your going to like those spines Jones, they're just playful.
526
00:47:22,991 --> 00:47:26,327
I'm going to switch over and start heading up.
527
00:47:26,394 --> 00:47:27,595
Copy
528
00:47:27,662 --> 00:47:29,597
I'm gonna keep getting up the ridge.
529
00:47:29,664 --> 00:47:32,633
Enjoy that second lap.
530
00:47:32,700 --> 00:47:35,269
We got some decissions to make.
531
00:47:35,336 --> 00:47:40,708
Do we go up that cornice or do we hike up this old slide.
532
00:47:40,775 --> 00:47:43,077
Hard call.
533
00:47:44,178 --> 00:47:45,980
God that is firm.
534
00:47:46,047 --> 00:47:49,517
Dude, should we do the traverse?
535
00:47:49,584 --> 00:47:51,419
Get out of this ice?
536
00:47:51,486 --> 00:47:52,687
-Not a bad Idea -Yeah
537
00:47:52,754 --> 00:47:55,223
I think we get out of the ice.
538
00:47:57,125 --> 00:47:59,093
Okay.
539
00:48:01,729 --> 00:48:05,800
Alright... Traversing.
540
00:48:16,678 --> 00:48:19,781
Oh... Fuck.
541
00:48:24,552 --> 00:48:26,754
Not good.
542
00:48:56,250 --> 00:48:58,853
Oh man.
543
00:49:11,432 --> 00:49:16,037
That's got major problems we can't figure out today.
544
00:49:16,104 --> 00:49:21,542
Can I boot back up and ride a line on this main face.
545
00:49:24,078 --> 00:49:27,648
He really brushed it off a lot better than I would have thought.
546
00:49:27,715 --> 00:49:33,354
Pretty cool, I don't think a lot of people would bounce back from something like that.
547
00:49:33,421 --> 00:49:37,625
I reached my high point but I was not able to top out,
548
00:49:37,692 --> 00:49:41,195
but I'll get down and just, kind of, reevaluate.
549
00:49:41,262 --> 00:49:46,367
But I, in the meantime, I got a super tasty line, this way.
550
00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:07,054
Whoa.
551
00:51:10,918 --> 00:51:14,455
-What a day, dude! What a day. -Right?
552
00:51:14,522 --> 00:51:16,857
Hell of a backyard you have here.
553
00:51:16,924 --> 00:51:19,627
Yeah we found a rowdy zone.
554
00:51:19,694 --> 00:51:21,262
I had this way up.
555
00:51:21,329 --> 00:51:24,999
For a month, this is how we're going to climb the mountain.
556
00:51:25,066 --> 00:51:28,936
Did that, got denied about 100ft from the summit.
557
00:51:29,003 --> 00:51:32,673
Now we're hiking the line I want to ride.
558
00:51:32,740 --> 00:51:34,842
We got major white ice.
559
00:51:34,909 --> 00:51:36,277
Huge maybe?
560
00:51:36,344 --> 00:51:40,081
If I was a betting man, I"d put the odds on 50/50.
561
00:51:57,999 --> 00:52:04,038
You go out there with him and you're like, where's he going to take his riding next.
562
00:52:04,105 --> 00:52:10,244
I guess, riding 6 spines over death exposure.
563
00:52:10,311 --> 00:52:14,148
I was willing to get that exposed.
564
00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:39,173
It is steeper than I thought, for sure.
565
00:52:46,647 --> 00:52:51,719
This ridge is... oh, yeah.
566
00:52:56,857 --> 00:53:00,361
Into the chest, deep.
567
00:53:25,586 --> 00:53:27,054
All right!
568
00:54:13,901 --> 00:54:17,505
This is where the ice is.
569
00:54:26,447 --> 00:54:29,583
Oh, not bad, not bad!
570
00:54:29,650 --> 00:54:31,685
Sweet!
571
00:54:49,069 --> 00:54:51,639
Whoa!
572
00:54:52,606 --> 00:54:54,809
Whoaaaa!
573
00:54:56,911 --> 00:54:59,146
-Yeah! -Yeah dude!
574
00:54:59,213 --> 00:55:03,184
Line of my life man!
575
00:55:11,792 --> 00:55:16,897
I can't believe, I cannot believe it man.
576
00:55:19,333 --> 00:55:21,268
Teary eyed.
577
00:55:24,405 --> 00:55:28,843
You think of everything that goes into it.
578
00:55:28,909 --> 00:55:33,180
Awe. It's just, oh.
579
00:55:37,351 --> 00:55:40,921
You know, I thought about Joe a lot on that trip,
580
00:55:40,988 --> 00:55:44,592
and some of the other guys who passed away in the avalanche,
581
00:55:44,658 --> 00:55:50,097
and it was my little piece to honor my fallen friends.
582
00:55:50,164 --> 00:55:54,068
I respect life, but I really feel like you got to live it.
583
00:55:54,134 --> 00:55:58,205
I mean nothing feels more alive than, than at that time,
584
00:55:58,272 --> 00:56:04,378
and just think of how siked they'd be to see us sending like that.
585
00:56:12,486 --> 00:56:15,289
You know, you look at my journals and stuff;
586
00:56:15,356 --> 00:56:18,926
I can talk about the way up over and over again
587
00:56:18,993 --> 00:56:23,697
and write these long pages of the way up.
588
00:56:23,764 --> 00:56:28,035
And the way down, is um, there's no words for the way down.
589
00:56:28,102 --> 00:56:33,240
It's uh, it just kind of, every journal entry ends once I strap in.
590
00:56:33,307 --> 00:56:40,447
That's where I really at times, go to this place, that's hard to get to.
591
00:56:40,514 --> 00:56:44,585
And it's just, you're mind and physical body are,
592
00:56:44,652 --> 00:56:50,958
just at the top, top, top, peak form in communicating together.
593
00:56:51,025 --> 00:56:54,862
It literally feels like your, your snowboard comes to life
594
00:56:54,929 --> 00:56:59,800
and it takes you for a ride and takes you to a place that,
595
00:56:59,867 --> 00:57:07,408
you don't have control of, but are in total control.
596
00:57:07,474 --> 00:57:11,011
That's what we call the white moment.
597
00:57:18,152 --> 00:57:22,022
Jeremy was in four, five films a year for awhile,
598
00:57:22,089 --> 00:57:24,458
but it was always about adventure,
599
00:57:24,525 --> 00:57:29,330
and it was always about looking over the next ridge and finding the next thing.
600
00:57:29,396 --> 00:57:33,534
As Alaska and the heli world blew up, up there,
601
00:57:33,601 --> 00:57:35,703
it got smaller and smaller
602
00:57:35,769 --> 00:57:39,506
and I think he just started to loose that energy and excitement.
603
00:57:39,573 --> 00:57:44,812
And he could go in and bang out multiple movie segments in a two-month chunk.
604
00:57:44,878 --> 00:57:47,314
Sponsors were happy, people were happy.
605
00:57:47,381 --> 00:57:51,085
His career was at its' pinnacle, basically. He was peaking.
606
00:57:51,151 --> 00:57:56,390
I knew of all this awesome terrain that was outside the snowmobile boundaries,
607
00:57:56,457 --> 00:57:58,292
it was outside the heli boundaries.
608
00:57:58,359 --> 00:58:01,895
He came to us and was like, I'm sick of the boundaries,
609
00:58:01,962 --> 00:58:04,164
this isn't doing it for me anymore.
610
00:58:04,231 --> 00:58:08,769
I want to start, going over those borders and camping and hiking these lines
611
00:58:08,836 --> 00:58:11,805
and getting into stuff that hasn't been done.
612
00:58:11,872 --> 00:58:14,241
Jeremy walking away and doing his own production,
613
00:58:14,308 --> 00:58:16,777
I questioned that.
614
00:58:16,844 --> 00:58:20,447
'You know, during that year you're still going to film with Absinthe or Standard?'
615
00:58:20,514 --> 00:58:22,816
And he was like,
616
00:58:22,883 --> 00:58:28,522
'No. For me to do the next phase, I have to do my own thing and separate it.'
617
00:58:28,589 --> 00:58:30,758
At the time, it definitely was a risky move.
618
00:58:30,824 --> 00:58:35,295
He could have done that one movie and had his whole snowboard career be gone.
619
00:58:35,362 --> 00:58:39,400
Jeremy said, 'The heli is limiting my access to the mountains.'
620
00:58:39,466 --> 00:58:41,935
That is the redefining moment
621
00:58:42,002 --> 00:58:45,072
that you can find in other athletes in other sports.
622
00:58:45,139 --> 00:58:48,042
When people refine who they are and what they do,
623
00:58:48,108 --> 00:58:50,911
that's when you take notice again and again.
624
00:58:50,978 --> 00:58:55,282
All of a sudden, I had ninety-five percent more terrain to choose from.
625
00:58:55,349 --> 00:58:58,786
It's not an anti-heli deal, it's not an anti-snowmobile deal,
626
00:58:58,852 --> 00:59:00,854
and it's not an anti-resort deal.
627
00:59:00,921 --> 00:59:05,392
It's about going past the existing boundaries, finding new terrain
628
00:59:05,459 --> 00:59:08,495
and riding those epic, dream lines.
629
00:59:08,562 --> 00:59:12,700
Some of the places, that he wants to access, the way that he does it,
630
00:59:12,766 --> 00:59:15,202
that's the utmost dedication right there.
631
00:59:15,269 --> 00:59:16,837
It's so beyond snowboarding.
632
00:59:16,904 --> 00:59:20,140
Coming from someone who came from Cape Cod, with no hills,
633
00:59:20,207 --> 00:59:25,379
to hiking some of the biggest hills on the planet, and snowboarding down them.
634
00:59:25,446 --> 00:59:31,018
It's the ultimate, like, pursuing a dream and getting there.
635
00:59:40,728 --> 00:59:43,397
I don't think it's possible to eliminate the worry.
636
00:59:43,464 --> 00:59:46,700
You know, you're still dealing with Mother Nature out there
637
00:59:46,767 --> 00:59:51,004
and you can't predict, a hundred percent, what Mother Nature's going to do.
638
00:59:51,071 --> 00:59:54,108
I know that. I've spent enough time in the backcountry,
639
00:59:54,174 --> 00:59:59,847
you're never one hundred percent guaranteed of anything out there.
640
00:59:59,913 --> 01:00:02,716
You can come right up this shoulder,
641
01:00:02,783 --> 01:00:06,120
and then this side of it, these are lower angle.
642
01:00:06,186 --> 01:00:11,158
We'll get dialed in on this, to a point where hopefully we can move to that.
643
01:00:11,225 --> 01:00:15,295
I first saw Shrangri-La when I got a text from one of my main cameraman,
644
01:00:15,362 --> 01:00:16,497
Chris Figenshau.
645
01:00:16,563 --> 01:00:18,699
I was in the Jackson Hole Library
646
01:00:18,766 --> 01:00:21,101
and paging through a book on Nepal
647
01:00:21,168 --> 01:00:24,505
and came across a photo that was really striking,
648
01:00:24,571 --> 01:00:26,140
and really aesthetic mountain.
649
01:00:26,206 --> 01:00:29,843
I talked to climbers, who talked to meteorologist,
650
01:00:29,910 --> 01:00:32,579
trying to just get some snow beta,
651
01:00:32,646 --> 01:00:37,284
if we were crazy to think about riding something like that in the Himalayas.
652
01:00:37,351 --> 01:00:42,823
It was for sure the greatest gamble I'd ever taken.
653
01:00:42,890 --> 01:00:46,693
But to me, at this point in my snowboarding,
654
01:00:46,760 --> 01:00:53,167
I was willing to accept that there was a good chance I might not be able to ride it.
655
01:01:18,392 --> 01:01:23,197
Sensory overload, everywhere you look. Oh, my God.
656
01:01:23,263 --> 01:01:26,767
The streets are just bustling with people,
657
01:01:26,834 --> 01:01:30,671
so much humanity packed into one little street.
658
01:01:30,737 --> 01:01:34,741
Just a real interactive city,
659
01:01:34,808 --> 01:01:38,545
no one on their phones, no one, like, headphones on
660
01:01:38,612 --> 01:01:41,982
just really, happy people.
661
01:01:52,292 --> 01:01:54,461
Really, Luca was a no-brainer,
662
01:01:54,528 --> 01:01:58,799
very comfortable in the mountains, both climbing and riding,
663
01:01:58,866 --> 01:02:02,069
comfortable with hard snow, has been to altitude.
664
01:02:02,135 --> 01:02:06,506
Really, just found the best, true, big mountain snowboarder I could
665
01:02:06,573 --> 01:02:09,676
and that's Luca Pandolfi.
666
01:02:09,743 --> 01:02:12,779
I met Jeremy for the first time in Switzerland.
667
01:02:12,846 --> 01:02:14,948
He is a rider that I respect a lot
668
01:02:15,015 --> 01:02:18,485
because he influenced my way of riding from the beginning,
669
01:02:18,552 --> 01:02:20,854
from where I started as a boy.
670
01:02:20,921 --> 01:02:23,457
About to hit my city max,
671
01:02:23,523 --> 01:02:26,593
which is about, seventy-two hours.
672
01:02:29,730 --> 01:02:33,066
The plan is to fly to Lukla,
673
01:02:33,133 --> 01:02:36,570
at which point we will start a two week trek to basecamp,
674
01:02:36,637 --> 01:02:38,272
and from there,
675
01:02:38,338 --> 01:02:43,744
we'll be a day or two away from the first view of the face.
676
01:03:06,733 --> 01:03:08,302
On the trail coming in,
677
01:03:08,368 --> 01:03:11,371
it winds up and down these really steep mountains
678
01:03:11,438 --> 01:03:13,707
and it's their main highway
679
01:03:13,774 --> 01:03:19,813
and the way they access and supply these towns is through these trails.
680
01:03:43,637 --> 01:03:48,775
We just got our first glimpse of the alpine and it is shocking.
681
01:03:48,842 --> 01:03:55,048
We definitely got a lot of walking to do. It is a big, big, big world.
682
01:04:14,167 --> 01:04:20,674
You move up this valley, just getting, just ramping up.
683
01:04:23,643 --> 01:04:27,881
Come around the corner and it was right in front of us,
684
01:04:27,948 --> 01:04:31,284
, Ama DaBlam, Lhotse, Mount Everest.
685
01:04:31,351 --> 01:04:34,788
You feel the energy of the mountains,
686
01:04:34,855 --> 01:04:37,391
it's a peaceful place.
687
01:04:37,457 --> 01:04:40,560
It's kind of being too much spiritual or worry?
688
01:04:40,627 --> 01:04:44,097
Can just make your own experience. You can feel it.
689
01:04:44,164 --> 01:04:48,602
I've been hit, by a bad thing, you know.
690
01:04:48,668 --> 01:04:51,538
I discover my mom was a terminal,
691
01:04:51,605 --> 01:04:53,607
she was year, she had bad cancer.
692
01:04:53,673 --> 01:04:57,044
Then, she was doing well again, so I got motivated.
693
01:04:57,110 --> 01:04:59,479
I went into climbing again.
694
01:04:59,546 --> 01:05:03,350
But then suddenly, four days before leaving here, she passed away.
695
01:05:03,417 --> 01:05:06,453
That has been a pretty tough moment for me.
696
01:05:06,520 --> 01:05:09,356
I just fell down, I was emotionally destroyed,
697
01:05:09,423 --> 01:05:14,828
but I knew that Nepal was a good place to refresh my mind
698
01:05:14,895 --> 01:05:17,030
and to get in touch with nature.
699
01:05:17,097 --> 01:05:21,001
Nature is the best way to get into the flow again.
700
01:05:27,474 --> 01:05:29,910
Traffic Jam.
701
01:05:35,348 --> 01:05:40,020
We hope to start snowboarding in here on small stuff,
702
01:05:40,087 --> 01:05:43,423
but we'd like to snowboard this.
703
01:05:43,490 --> 01:05:46,426
Are you direct to come down? Or just...
704
01:05:46,493 --> 01:05:52,999
We, you know... No, we turn... you know.
705
01:05:53,066 --> 01:05:56,336
Nima Tasi has been on Everest, 10 times,
706
01:05:56,403 --> 01:05:58,004
Ama DaBlam 12 times.
707
01:05:58,071 --> 01:06:00,707
All the big peaks he's been on them multiple times.
708
01:06:00,774 --> 01:06:05,378
Whenever you see someone his age that's been on this serious of mountains,
709
01:06:05,445 --> 01:06:08,448
I have the utmost respect for a person like him.
710
01:06:08,515 --> 01:06:14,221
I wonder if they will be successful or not.
711
01:06:14,287 --> 01:06:20,494
If they make it to the top, how will they ride down?
712
01:06:30,437 --> 01:06:33,140
Yes, off and away.
713
01:06:41,047 --> 01:06:43,583
Definitely giving it ample time,
714
01:06:43,650 --> 01:06:44,885
to get acclimatized.
715
01:06:44,951 --> 01:06:47,220
We're not trying to march on up,
716
01:06:47,287 --> 01:06:50,290
spend a little time at 20,000ft and get out of here.
717
01:06:50,357 --> 01:06:55,162
20,000ft for us needs to feel like our home town.
718
01:06:55,228 --> 01:06:57,364
I feel like I'm doing good,
719
01:06:57,430 --> 01:07:00,767
then a little hill comes and I'm instantly out of breath.
720
01:07:00,834 --> 01:07:04,704
It keeps going through my head, how am I going to snowboard?
721
01:07:04,771 --> 01:07:07,007
When it's this hard to walk.
722
01:07:08,542 --> 01:07:12,546
Nice, to be home for awhile.
723
01:07:16,283 --> 01:07:18,985
I woke to a clear morning,
724
01:07:19,052 --> 01:07:20,954
have some breakfast and then head up
725
01:07:21,021 --> 01:07:24,858
and hopefully get a view of the peak we're hoping to ride.
726
01:07:24,925 --> 01:07:26,359
Nervous for sure,
727
01:07:26,426 --> 01:07:28,595
to see if it's at all in the cards?
728
01:07:28,662 --> 01:07:31,698
If it's a maybe, if it's who knows.
729
01:07:31,765 --> 01:07:35,302
The first time I saw the picture, I shit in my pants.
730
01:07:35,368 --> 01:07:40,207
I love that balance between fear and excitement.
731
01:07:40,273 --> 01:07:44,010
I want to see it; I can't wait to see it.
732
01:07:44,077 --> 01:07:46,313
It was really exciting,
733
01:07:46,379 --> 01:07:50,784
because here's this face that I'd played over in my head a million times
734
01:07:50,850 --> 01:07:52,719
and looked at photos,
735
01:07:52,786 --> 01:07:57,891
and it was pretty surreal to finally be that close to it.
736
01:07:59,626 --> 01:08:02,429
We're here exactly when we want to be.
737
01:08:02,495 --> 01:08:06,766
It's the right aspect; It's the right elevation, but...
738
01:08:06,833 --> 01:08:09,502
still one big maybe.
739
01:08:09,569 --> 01:08:12,072
We got a lot going for us,
740
01:08:12,138 --> 01:08:15,575
but it's still a 65 degree spine wall in Nepal.
741
01:08:15,642 --> 01:08:18,712
Maybe it's not, I hope it's not 65 degrees,
742
01:08:18,778 --> 01:08:20,947
but it looks like it from here.
743
01:08:21,014 --> 01:08:23,216
It looks as steep as it gets.
744
01:08:23,283 --> 01:08:29,322
That's what has me freaked out a little bit. Just massive.
745
01:08:29,389 --> 01:08:31,291
That one.
746
01:08:32,592 --> 01:08:36,129
Yeah. You understand?
747
01:08:36,196 --> 01:08:40,333
Mingbo La may be practice, but the main objective?
748
01:08:40,400 --> 01:08:41,668
Over there.
749
01:08:41,735 --> 01:08:45,472
We are going to spend a lot of time at high camp.
750
01:08:45,538 --> 01:08:49,542
The acclimatization process is to go, get up high,
751
01:08:49,609 --> 01:08:52,679
spend a bunch of time up there, sleep down low.
752
01:08:52,746 --> 01:08:54,214
And ideally you recover
753
01:08:54,281 --> 01:08:57,183
and each time you go back up to higher elevations,
754
01:08:57,250 --> 01:08:59,686
you are that much stronger.
755
01:08:59,753 --> 01:09:02,622
Higher... and feeling it.
756
01:09:02,689 --> 01:09:07,627
I feel like I'm three hundred pounds... crawling.
757
01:09:10,764 --> 01:09:14,567
So we've been here, I think approaching, three weeks
758
01:09:14,634 --> 01:09:17,304
and I've yet to strap my snowboard on,
759
01:09:17,370 --> 01:09:20,407
but we'll get there. Patience.
760
01:09:26,212 --> 01:09:28,515
We're hoping to top out on Mingbo La
761
01:09:28,581 --> 01:09:30,817
and ride our first line of the trip.
762
01:09:30,884 --> 01:09:34,688
If we can just get up in the 19,000 foot range,
763
01:09:34,754 --> 01:09:42,228
it'd set us up for snowboarding 19 to 20,000 feet in a couple of days.
764
01:09:42,295 --> 01:09:44,764
Hey, you can lower me Luca.
765
01:09:44,831 --> 01:09:46,666
It's just this little curb,
766
01:09:46,733 --> 01:09:51,004
going zero vision. Wish me luck.
767
01:09:58,545 --> 01:10:00,013
Yeah dude.
768
01:10:01,748 --> 01:10:03,583
Tiring, huh?
769
01:10:06,753 --> 01:10:08,321
Snow's good.
770
01:10:08,388 --> 01:10:11,691
-Snow's perfect, I think, for steeps. -I need to see.
771
01:10:11,758 --> 01:10:13,360
Me too, yeah.
772
01:10:17,263 --> 01:10:19,299
Coming this way? Or...
773
01:10:19,366 --> 01:10:22,936
We don't know, the first day we go up here.
774
01:10:23,003 --> 01:10:26,239
We look at the ridge.
775
01:10:26,306 --> 01:10:28,975
We don't need any fix signs,
776
01:10:29,042 --> 01:10:31,077
we just climb.
777
01:10:31,144 --> 01:10:33,246
So, before we go up today
778
01:10:33,313 --> 01:10:36,850
we can have good look at glacier one more time,
779
01:10:36,916 --> 01:10:38,118
with the sun.
780
01:10:38,184 --> 01:10:41,521
Okay? You like the plan?
781
01:10:41,588 --> 01:10:43,556
Oh, sure, sure.
782
01:10:44,424 --> 01:10:47,160
We are going up to high camp,
783
01:10:47,227 --> 01:10:50,497
I think it's probably our fourth lap up there.
784
01:10:50,563 --> 01:10:53,533
Kind of our first real high pressure of the trip,
785
01:10:53,600 --> 01:10:57,670
and we're hoping to go up there, stay up there for a while.
786
01:10:57,737 --> 01:10:59,472
Still so many unknowns,
787
01:10:59,539 --> 01:11:03,309
but we'll start figuring out exactly what the challenges are,
788
01:11:03,376 --> 01:11:06,212
and just one step at a time
789
01:11:06,279 --> 01:11:09,682
and hopefully get a chance to ride this face.
790
01:11:20,960 --> 01:11:24,464
It's about to get real these next couple days,
791
01:11:24,531 --> 01:11:29,102
because now we're focusing on Shangri-La spines.
792
01:11:29,169 --> 01:11:33,640
This afternoon, hopefully we can punch a line through this glacier.
793
01:11:33,706 --> 01:11:36,843
That's the first order of business.
794
01:11:40,413 --> 01:11:42,582
I really need to think about it,
795
01:11:42,649 --> 01:11:45,285
because it is not my type of terrain.
796
01:11:45,351 --> 01:11:47,587
I am more used to, to ski couloirs.
797
01:11:47,654 --> 01:11:50,690
I'm open to suggestions, you are the Spine Master.
798
01:11:50,757 --> 01:11:53,026
I would come over that last spine
799
01:11:53,093 --> 01:11:55,261
and exit right next to the pepper.
800
01:11:55,328 --> 01:11:58,064
Because that would, that will stay clean.
801
01:11:58,131 --> 01:12:00,900
That over there? Whoa.
802
01:12:02,001 --> 01:12:04,270
Tomorrow we are going this way?
803
01:12:04,337 --> 01:12:06,706
Tomorrow we go up, yes.
804
01:12:06,773 --> 01:12:07,674
Not Mingbo La?
805
01:12:07,740 --> 01:12:09,275
No more Mingbo La.
806
01:12:09,342 --> 01:12:14,414
Tomorrow, we go up this and ride this side of all the rocks.
807
01:12:14,481 --> 01:12:17,684
The next day, we go to the summit
808
01:12:17,750 --> 01:12:20,987
and ride this side of all the rocks.
809
01:12:21,054 --> 01:12:22,655
No.
810
01:12:25,692 --> 01:12:29,295
It's been amazing seeing the porters and Sherpas,
811
01:12:29,362 --> 01:12:31,364
operate in the mountains.
812
01:12:31,431 --> 01:12:33,800
They spend their whole life in the mountains,
813
01:12:33,867 --> 01:12:36,402
half the year they're on an expedition
814
01:12:36,469 --> 01:12:39,138
and just seeing how they move through the mountains
815
01:12:39,205 --> 01:12:44,077
and the speed at which they do it has been mind boggling.
816
01:12:44,143 --> 01:12:49,082
You know, they weren't really used to seeing people climb,
817
01:12:49,148 --> 01:12:51,317
not on fixed lines.
818
01:12:51,384 --> 01:12:55,822
Their whole deal is always fixed lines on anything,
819
01:12:55,889 --> 01:12:57,590
you know, over 40 degrees,
820
01:12:57,657 --> 01:12:59,859
so we said, 'thanks,'
821
01:12:59,926 --> 01:13:03,263
and they sat back and watched us do our thing.
822
01:13:24,651 --> 01:13:26,319
Lining.
823
01:13:34,327 --> 01:13:35,495
Relentless.
824
01:13:35,562 --> 01:13:39,232
We were gaining six inches at a time,
825
01:13:39,299 --> 01:13:42,669
clawing our way up and to gain that ridge.
826
01:13:42,735 --> 01:13:46,873
I think it probably took us two hours of full battle,
827
01:13:46,940 --> 01:13:50,543
to go the final two hundred feet.
828
01:14:05,291 --> 01:14:07,427
Yeah!
829
01:14:08,461 --> 01:14:10,463
Finally getting up there
830
01:14:10,530 --> 01:14:13,666
and just revealing the most science-fiction,
831
01:14:13,733 --> 01:14:16,603
foreign, mountain vista I had ever seen,
832
01:14:16,669 --> 01:14:19,772
was an incredible feeling.
833
01:14:21,140 --> 01:14:22,675
Nice dude.
834
01:14:23,977 --> 01:14:25,411
Yeah dude.
835
01:14:26,079 --> 01:14:26,145
Good job.
836
01:14:28,314 --> 01:14:32,952
I defintely want to make it a couple hundered yards up the ridge.
837
01:15:02,982 --> 01:15:04,584
On belay.
838
01:15:09,455 --> 01:15:12,458
Left or right or center?
839
01:15:15,294 --> 01:15:16,996
This way.
840
01:15:17,063 --> 01:15:19,098
Looks good.
841
01:15:19,165 --> 01:15:20,867
Going off.
842
01:15:32,845 --> 01:15:35,915
Hey guys, I'm thinking of starting from here,
843
01:15:35,982 --> 01:15:39,018
does that look kosher to you guys?
844
01:15:39,085 --> 01:15:42,555
You're gonna wanna fade rider's right.
845
01:15:42,622 --> 01:15:44,190
If you go rider's left,
846
01:15:44,257 --> 01:15:45,591
that big spine below you,
847
01:15:45,658 --> 01:15:48,261
has got a huge cliff right in the middle of it.
848
01:15:48,327 --> 01:15:50,029
Sounds good, brother.
849
01:17:31,330 --> 01:17:32,999
All good!
850
01:17:42,508 --> 01:17:46,279
Pretty much a first experience for me on big spines like that,
851
01:17:46,345 --> 01:17:48,281
with a lot of sluff management,
852
01:17:48,347 --> 01:17:51,651
and you imagine the feeling to be at the top of these spines
853
01:17:51,717 --> 01:17:55,455
and you're not sure what you are doing, it is your first experience,
854
01:17:55,521 --> 01:17:57,824
and you see Spines Master get sluffed out.
855
01:17:57,890 --> 01:18:00,126
I was like, 'what the fuck I do now?'
856
01:18:00,193 --> 01:18:03,229
and then I just like to unplug the brain
857
01:18:03,296 --> 01:18:04,730
and be in that zone.
858
01:18:04,797 --> 01:18:08,167
When you just react to what is coming your way.
859
01:18:41,834 --> 01:18:45,471
It's what was not the imagined line,
860
01:18:45,538 --> 01:18:49,675
but I'm pretty happy for my, my first experience in this kind of terrain.
861
01:18:49,742 --> 01:18:53,279
You guys show me another world.
862
01:18:53,346 --> 01:18:55,815
Tomorrow is another day.
863
01:18:59,552 --> 01:19:03,489
Definitely, freaked me out getting sluffed off that thing
864
01:19:03,556 --> 01:19:06,726
and I don't know, I had gotten away with a lot of,
865
01:19:06,792 --> 01:19:09,862
playing with a lot of sluffs on a lot of steep faces
866
01:19:09,929 --> 01:19:12,765
and it was kind of like my chips were finally up
867
01:19:12,832 --> 01:19:15,568
and I think it was the first time in 6 or 7 years,
868
01:19:15,635 --> 01:19:17,970
that I've gotten sluffed off a face.
869
01:19:23,476 --> 01:19:25,845
How's it going, Jer?
870
01:19:25,912 --> 01:19:27,046
Oh...
871
01:19:28,214 --> 01:19:30,483
That's how I feel.
872
01:19:30,549 --> 01:19:33,686
Basically going as slow...
873
01:19:33,753 --> 01:19:37,523
as possible without stopping is the pace,
874
01:19:37,590 --> 01:19:40,626
I'd say. First skier.
875
01:19:42,395 --> 01:19:43,362
Nice!
876
01:19:43,429 --> 01:19:44,463
Yeah.
877
01:19:44,530 --> 01:19:46,632
Into the sunshine.
878
01:20:16,329 --> 01:20:18,097
Close to the top!
879
01:20:18,164 --> 01:20:19,532
Clouds came in,
880
01:20:19,598 --> 01:20:21,100
got a little window,
881
01:20:21,167 --> 01:20:23,202
hopefully we get some clearing,
882
01:20:23,269 --> 01:20:26,405
but we're on the roof of the world man.
883
01:20:43,923 --> 01:20:46,359
Really... High.
884
01:20:48,194 --> 01:20:50,229
Yeah... Jones.
885
01:20:51,297 --> 01:20:54,333
Yeah, edge of the world.
886
01:21:00,139 --> 01:21:03,075
So some where about 20,000ft.
887
01:21:08,614 --> 01:21:11,283
But there's one problem.
888
01:21:15,988 --> 01:21:18,424
Clouds just snuffed us out.
889
01:21:18,491 --> 01:21:21,761
But I have hope.
890
01:21:21,827 --> 01:21:23,763
So we'll see.
891
01:21:30,236 --> 01:21:33,039
We still got 3 more hours of daylight
892
01:21:33,105 --> 01:21:35,875
and I've crafted a little bed here.
893
01:21:35,941 --> 01:21:37,843
I'm in it for the long hull.
894
01:21:37,910 --> 01:21:40,079
I'll take a nap, what have you,
895
01:21:40,146 --> 01:21:43,149
I feel pretty good as long as I don't move up here.
896
01:21:43,215 --> 01:21:45,651
Wake me up when it's sunny!
897
01:21:45,718 --> 01:21:47,920
Top of the line, waiting.
898
01:21:47,987 --> 01:21:51,657
It is already one house and a half I am here.
899
01:21:51,724 --> 01:21:54,493
I'm freezing.
900
01:21:54,560 --> 01:21:58,330
The whole time I've been sitting here for three and a half hours,
901
01:21:58,397 --> 01:22:00,833
I thought for sure we would get a window.
902
01:22:00,900 --> 01:22:05,171
I was staring down my line in the sun.
903
01:22:05,237 --> 01:22:07,540
I was off by about ten minutes.
904
01:22:07,606 --> 01:22:11,210
It's going to be serious getting off this thing on foot.
905
01:22:11,277 --> 01:22:15,548
I will be crawling to camp tonight, in the dark.
906
01:22:15,614 --> 01:22:18,484
Down climbing.
907
01:22:18,551 --> 01:22:20,786
Freezing!
908
01:22:37,503 --> 01:22:38,971
Fuck!
909
01:22:40,740 --> 01:22:44,143
It's getting dark, we got to move.
910
01:23:00,459 --> 01:23:04,163
I was at the top of my line, it was in the shadows,
911
01:23:04,230 --> 01:23:08,000
so I was in the half in the fucking cold.
912
01:23:08,067 --> 01:23:12,238
Up above, you know, 20,000 feet for probably,
913
01:23:12,304 --> 01:23:15,941
um, I don't know, close to five hours today.
914
01:23:16,008 --> 01:23:19,345
And I'm definitely cooked.
915
01:23:19,411 --> 01:23:22,882
It was heartbreaking to walk off that peak.
916
01:23:22,948 --> 01:23:25,084
I had worked so hard to get there,
917
01:23:25,151 --> 01:23:28,020
the snow was killer, the terrain looked awesome,
918
01:23:28,087 --> 01:23:30,022
I felt really comfortable.
919
01:23:30,089 --> 01:23:35,327
But I realized on my way down, how tired I was.
920
01:23:35,394 --> 01:23:38,931
I couldn't make more than two turns without having to stop.
921
01:23:38,998 --> 01:23:41,934
So, it was probably a good thing that,
922
01:23:42,001 --> 01:23:44,970
I didn't get to ride the face that day.
923
01:23:47,873 --> 01:23:51,010
You know what it takes to get up there.
924
01:23:52,144 --> 01:23:54,580
My throat is on fire.
925
01:23:54,647 --> 01:23:57,983
If you're not a 100%, you obviously can't.
926
01:23:58,050 --> 01:24:00,553
You need to be a hundred percent.
927
01:24:02,054 --> 01:24:04,256
Sorry to hear that, dude.
928
01:24:04,323 --> 01:24:05,157
Yeah.
929
01:24:05,224 --> 01:24:08,093
It's just... the fucking shit.
930
01:24:09,662 --> 01:24:11,230
I wish you good luck.
931
01:24:11,297 --> 01:24:12,565
Thank you.
932
01:24:14,033 --> 01:24:17,136
I totally respected his decision
933
01:24:17,203 --> 01:24:20,906
and you've got to listen to you're gut on these serious lines
934
01:24:20,973 --> 01:24:26,178
and I think his gut was telling him not to go up that day.
935
01:24:26,245 --> 01:24:30,015
It's been pretty much a successful trip for me.
936
01:24:30,082 --> 01:24:32,284
I learn a lot, have a lot of fun.
937
01:24:32,351 --> 01:24:36,388
But... there's a moment where you need to pull the plug.
938
01:24:48,634 --> 01:24:52,438
If I passed away and could say one thing to my wife,
939
01:24:52,504 --> 01:24:54,006
I'd say 'I'm sorry'
940
01:24:55,908 --> 01:24:57,676
It's just,
941
01:24:58,711 --> 01:25:00,679
the kids change everything,
942
01:25:00,746 --> 01:25:05,884
my world made a lot more sense before I had kids.
943
01:25:05,951 --> 01:25:11,490
Leaving kids behind without a father would be devestating.
944
01:25:11,557 --> 01:25:15,327
I think it would erase all of my successes,
945
01:25:15,394 --> 01:25:18,764
in the mountains or what have you.
946
01:25:18,831 --> 01:25:21,533
It would be irrelevant.
947
01:26:37,109 --> 01:26:41,814
It's taken so much energy just to get to this fourth run,
948
01:26:41,880 --> 01:26:45,384
it's just amazing how hard it's been.
949
01:26:47,353 --> 01:26:49,855
We're gonna build an anchor,
950
01:26:49,922 --> 01:26:54,827
I'm going to go over this top roll on a belay
951
01:26:54,893 --> 01:26:58,330
and then, go from there.
952
01:26:59,698 --> 01:27:05,537
1...2...3!
953
01:27:08,073 --> 01:27:10,576
Okay, that feels good.
954
01:27:34,800 --> 01:27:36,368
How much more rope?
955
01:27:36,435 --> 01:27:38,937
Yeah that's probably your last turn.
956
01:27:39,004 --> 01:27:40,806
Okay!
957
01:27:43,575 --> 01:27:44,843
Off!
958
01:27:44,910 --> 01:27:48,580
Alright, Jeremy! Be careful!
959
01:28:16,141 --> 01:28:18,277
It's pretty much an exposed line,
960
01:28:18,343 --> 01:28:20,512
there's bergschrund at the bottom,
961
01:28:20,579 --> 01:28:23,949
but then there's a short glacier and then there are seracs.
962
01:28:24,016 --> 01:28:25,317
So, conservative,
963
01:28:25,384 --> 01:28:29,188
and say, 'it's more like surviving.'
964
01:28:32,191 --> 01:28:34,059
You guys got a copy?
965
01:28:34,126 --> 01:28:36,295
-Yeah, barbi copy. -Go ahead Jer.
966
01:28:36,361 --> 01:28:38,330
It firmed up,
967
01:28:38,397 --> 01:28:44,803
and obviously can't really hold an edge on this.
968
01:28:56,381 --> 01:29:00,786
For sure, don't seek out these hard packs,
969
01:29:00,853 --> 01:29:04,156
steep lines that I have to pick my way down.
970
01:29:04,223 --> 01:29:07,392
But I knew I could get down the line safely,
971
01:29:07,459 --> 01:29:10,028
and I just really slowed everything down
972
01:29:10,095 --> 01:29:12,097
and focused on inch-by-inch
973
01:29:12,164 --> 01:29:13,799
and picked my way down.
974
01:29:13,866 --> 01:29:17,369
Made sure I wasn't coming off that face.
975
01:29:26,979 --> 01:29:28,714
Oh
976
01:29:30,148 --> 01:29:33,252
That was the hardest run of my life.
977
01:29:35,787 --> 01:29:38,423
Forty-five minutes.
978
01:29:50,802 --> 01:29:55,507
This trip to the Himalayas wasn't a stepping stone,
979
01:29:55,574 --> 01:29:57,509
to like, 'I want more.'
980
01:29:57,576 --> 01:30:00,679
The entry fee into the Himalayas is hard.
981
01:30:00,746 --> 01:30:05,551
If I had seen what I saw on this trip fifteen years ago,
982
01:30:05,617 --> 01:30:09,621
yeah, I could have set my life up around that.
983
01:30:09,688 --> 01:30:13,191
I do think there is a ton left to be done there.
984
01:30:13,258 --> 01:30:15,027
I won't be the one doing it,
985
01:30:15,093 --> 01:30:19,264
but hopefully the future generations take it from here.
986
01:30:21,066 --> 01:30:24,603
With these films I hope,
987
01:30:24,670 --> 01:30:28,206
I really hope I inspire people to get out there,
988
01:30:28,273 --> 01:30:29,808
to challenge themselves,
989
01:30:29,875 --> 01:30:33,979
not in the challenge, go hit the biggest cliff of your life,
990
01:30:34,046 --> 01:30:39,618
I mean challenge, in like, go on that great adventure.
991
01:30:39,685 --> 01:30:42,387
Just really follow your passion.
992
01:30:42,454 --> 01:30:45,424
That's a scary thing and a challenging thing.
993
01:30:45,490 --> 01:30:49,828
That means making some tough choices along the way.
994
01:30:49,895 --> 01:30:50,729
K
995
01:30:52,130 --> 01:30:55,000
That's just such an exciting part of life,
996
01:30:55,067 --> 01:31:00,739
I know this a far out there dream, but I'm all in on it.
997
01:31:00,806 --> 01:31:04,343
It's the only way I know how to live my life.
998
01:31:50,322 --> 01:31:53,759
Snowboarding is just a part of Jeremy.
999
01:31:53,825 --> 01:31:56,261
I would never want to change that,
1000
01:31:56,328 --> 01:32:00,799
I would never want him to do anything but what he's pasisonate about.
1001
01:32:00,866 --> 01:32:04,903
When he's 80 years old, he's going to be out in the mountains.
1002
01:32:04,970 --> 01:32:06,004
As much as possible.
1003
01:32:06,071 --> 01:32:08,040
It's his heart and soul,
1004
01:32:08,106 --> 01:32:11,810
and that's what we love about him so much.
1005
01:34:29,881 --> 01:34:32,384
What's your cooking resume?
1006
01:34:32,450 --> 01:34:34,186
My cooking resume,
1007
01:34:34,252 --> 01:34:38,557
Um, there we're a lot of questions involved.
1008
01:34:38,623 --> 01:34:42,527
Well, I'll tell you how you get to be a cook on a trip like this.
1009
01:34:42,594 --> 01:34:45,897
You actually need a super stacked resume,
1010
01:34:45,964 --> 01:34:48,733
that has nothing to do with food.
1011
01:35:19,097 --> 01:35:21,032
Have a good run man.
1012
01:35:22,033 --> 01:35:23,134
Woo!
1013
01:35:29,274 --> 01:35:31,810
That was probably pretty good.
1014
01:36:11,182 --> 01:36:18,356
Ama Dablam, Cho-oyu, Nuptse, Everest, Lhotse,
1015
01:36:18,423 --> 01:36:23,228
a lot of the worlds highest mountains right here.
1016
01:40:01,012 --> 01:40:03,748
To go up and narrow the safety margin,
1017
01:40:03,815 --> 01:40:05,617
I don't care how you do it!
1018
01:40:05,683 --> 01:40:09,754
Man, I think that's great adventure and I think that's super,
1019
01:40:09,821 --> 01:40:13,825
and Im glad to see anybody doing anything that way.
1020
01:40:13,892 --> 01:40:16,928
But you have to move off the stage
1021
01:40:16,995 --> 01:40:20,198
and let somebody else do the performing.
79920
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