[ soft, dramatic music plays ] the trip started in juneau, alaska, which is theres roads here, but its not connected to anywhere. The mountains are so radical that the only way to get here is on boat or plane. [ fish pouring into ship ] so were going to get on a boat from here, take that boat about 25 hours up into Glacier Bay National park. Were going to get dropped off at the edge of a glacier, and then were going to walk 15 miles to a base camp and, ideally, go and ride one of the most beautiful mountains in the world mount bertha. I mean, this is certainly one of the most ambitious missions ive ever attempted. You dont just walk into these serious mountains and be like, thats where we want to go. Its sunny. Were going to walk up to it. Its this process. Having the right crew is critical. When youre this far out on the edge, you have to rely on your team to make it back. Very few people have tried trips like this before, and, i think, probably for good reason, where youre going in f
[ sighs ] yeah . holy shit. i just went from everything s fine to, like, we need to move. doing something that nobody has ever done before, there s no guarantee that your plan s going to work. agh. [ rapids rushing ] once you commit, there is no turning around. [ waves crashing ] we re entirely removed from civilization. look at this one. we know once we get there, we re on our own. climbing. we ve chosen to live a life that does have risks. [ rock rolling ] oh, my god. [ sobbing ] one mistake, and you re dead. come on, now. if you harness that fear, you can do something that you never thought possible. whoo! [ water rushing ] is the pursuit worth the risk? [ wind whistling ] [ soft, dramatic music plays ] the trip started in juneau, alaska, which is there s roads here, but it s not connected to anywhere. the mountains are so radical that the only way to get here is on boat or plane. so we re going to get on a boat from here, take that boat
[ soft, dramatic music plays ] the trip started in juneau, alaska, which is there s roads here, but it s not connected to anywhere. the mountains are so radical that the only way to get here is on boat or plane. [ fish pouring into ship ] so we re going to get on a boat from here, take that boat about 25 hours up into glacier bay national park. we re going to get dropped off at the edge of a glacier, and then we re going to walk 15 miles to a base camp and, ideally, go and ride one of the most beautiful mountains in the world mount bertha. i mean, this is certainly one of the most ambitious missions i ve ever attempted. you don t just walk into these serious mountains and be like, that s where we want to go. it s sunny. we re going to walk up to it. it s this process. having the right crew is critical. when you re this far out on the edge, you have to rely on your team to make it back. very few people have tried trips like this before, and, i think, probably for go
i had been wanting to get past the heli boundaries to expand my snowboard universe. that s what led to this new phase, which was this foot-powered snowboarding. it s feeling more and more real. a little bitter. swell in the ocean. [ seagulls calling ] gulf low continue to bring onshore flow. thursday, friday, bigger storm with 3 to 4 feet of snow. we know we got a significant storm coming in. and the question is, is there an end to it to come? yeah. and if there s not an end to it, things get more complicated. we thought we were getting on the boat for like a 25-hour boat ride to where we were going to launch. and then this small storm that
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