[ 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
is just voracious studier of maps and routes and weather and just every little detail on a mission like this. big-mountain skiing has that combination of being in nature, that adrenaline rush, and that challenge. it checks all the boxes of what really does it for me in life. it s like we finally see the sun for really the first time since we ve been here. and we got a really stiff wind that we can t really move in. all we can do is try to be right on the doorstep, and we re on the doorstep right now. i think we re at the start of the driveway. yeah. [ chuckles ]
but i was the opposite of that. i didn t even really become a pro skier until i was 23 or 24. before that, it was all about, you know, going to school. i got my mba from the university of denver, which gave me a lot of good assets to approach the business and skiing world. it was only the last couple years of college that i realized that there could be a different path. [ crowd cheers ] the first freeskiing contest i entered, i won. i was like, oh, maybe this skiing thing can, you know, work out. griffin has made major descents in some of the most remote places on the planet and is just voracious studier of maps and routes and weather and just every little detail on a mission like this. big-mountain skiing has that combination of being in nature, that adrenaline rush, and that challenge. it checks all the boxes of what really does it for me in life.