[ 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
[ waves lapping fishing boat ] epic. look at the glacier over there. we re in it now. jer s been in the game for 25 years, and he s kind of the guru of this style of trip. on belay? i don t know if there s any other person in the ski or snowboard world that i look up to as much. and his approach to planning a ski trip more like a climbing expedition really changed the game. whew. [ panting ] okay. at a very young age, i just fell in love with going really fast on a race board. next at the top, jeremy jones, 16 years old. by 21, i had success at every level. but pretty quickly, i got burnt out on it.
i m going to go walk through the mountains and figure out the rest of my life. like, [chuckles] this is it. on the last day, i realized i hadn t thought about it much any of it, at all. i know, you could stay out here forever. it was a new focus for me, beyond competition, that i had never had before. that trip completely altered my future. this is definitely what i want to do. [ waves lapping fishing boat ] woke up to that. look at that. [ soft, dramatic music plays ] the storm is here. this mellow boat ride turned into quite the experience. we hunkered down for a couple days, because there was no way