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♪ Out a flash made of time, my new form blasted out ♪

♪ And it startled me so and I burst out a shout ♪

♪ At which my legs ran frantic like birds from a nest ♪

♪ And I ran until drained, leaving no choice but rest ♪

♪ So I fell asleep softly at the edge of a cave ♪

♪ But I should have gone in deeper but I'm not so brave ♪

♪ And like that I was torn out and thrown in the sky ♪

♪ And I said all my prayers because surely I'll die ♪

♪ As I crashed down and smashed into earth, into dirt ♪

♪ How my skin did explode, leaving only my shirt ♪

♪ But from shirt grew a tree and then tree grew a fruit ♪

♪ And I became the seed and that seed was a brute ♪

A lot of parents to this day don't like me

because I turned their kids on to skiing.

♪ And I tore up the shirt and I ate up the sleeves ♪

I Never really considered myself as a bum

because the whole time I was living in the parking lots,

I was drawing cartoons.

I wrote three books while I was in the parking lot.

I never even considered that it wasn't

and I never considered that it was.

It's what I love to do

just like you'd like to take pictures.

We soon realized it's particularly at Sun Valley

that the management considered Warren and I local color.

They thought, gosh, I want to talk to these two crazy guys

that are living in the parking lot.

And you're laying there

and the window's right here outside is right there

and you look out and see the stars and Orion

and just nothing could have been better.

The cafeteria, I thought, boy,

that'd really be a keen place to paint murals.

So I went to Pappy Rogers and told him my idea.

I said, "I'll trade you for a season pass."

He said, "Okay, you got a deal.

And by the way,

why don't just eat your three meals a day there

as long as you're painting the murals."

Took me all winter to paint the murals.

I painted them very slowly.

(When I Was Done Dying continues)

And when I'm gone I'll pull a lid open

and say, "Did you get the closeup in the cutaways?"

♪ Hate ♪

♪ If I want to ♪

♪ Love ♪

♪ Who I like ♪

♪ Hate ♪

♪ If I want to ♪

♪ Psychic Television and Death in June ♪

♪ Jim Jones, painting in a blue bedroom ♪

♪ Hate ♪

♪ If I want to ♪

♪ You can't shame me, la dee da ♪

♪ Give or take me, how bizarre ♪

♪ Keep your pretty promise to yourself ♪

For me,

I just really wanted to kick my heels up and go skiing

and I did after answering the same question 253,000 times,

"What do people really get out of skiing?"

♪ Hate ♪

♪ If I want to ♪

♪ Love ♪

♪ Who I like ♪

♪ Hate ♪

♪ If I want to ♪

♪ Love ♪

♪ Who I like ♪

♪ Hate ♪

♪ If I want to ♪

♪ Love ♪

♪ Who I like ♪

♪ Hate ♪

♪ If I want to ♪

♪ Love ♪

♪ Psychic Television and Death in June ♪

♪ Jim Jones, painting in a blue bedroom ♪

♪ Hate ♪

♪ If I want to ♪

♪ Love ♪

♪ Keep your pretty promise to yourself ♪

(water splashes)

- [Band Member] All right,

we're gonna take another 20 minute break.

- [Narrator] A night out in Rossland, BC,

is like a night out in any ski town.

Great music, fun times

and lots of good looking people

who only get better looking as the night goes on.

(rock music playing)

But there's a flip side to all the fun

and Rossland is lucky to have a crew of local heroes

who do the hard work of keeping people safe on a mountain

that doesn't exactly make their job easy.

We came to ride with a few of it's members,

Duncan Browning,

Jill Magney,

and Andrew Duncan

♪ Who wants to dance, who wants to slow dance ♪

- A fantastic community to be part of with a bunch of dogs

that crap all over the trails.

And if that's the biggest problem in town,

then I think we're doing pretty well.

♪ I want a chance, I want to slow dance ♪

- Ski patrol is my free time.

When I'm not working ski patrol,

I have three kids.

Six, three, and a year and a half.

Raising them in the ski town.

♪ Lipstick like dynamite ♪

♪ Seven sticks of dynamite ♪

- [Duncan] Very tightly knit group of ski patrollers here.

Yeah, just cliche, but they are my family.

It's pretty clear who the lifers are

and who leaves after a year.

Pretty obvious like anything else in a small town,

if they don't fit in, they don't fit in.

- [Andrew] You start wrapping your shots in the morning

and things get serious.

We keep each other safe up there, I trust any of them.

- We gonna do the coolest. We're going take seven.

Seven should do the trick.

♪ To that racket down the hall that racket down the hall ♪

- Thirteen plus.

Cab drivers are saying it's kind of slaby.

Pretty reactive,

so we're gonna chuck some bombs in some shoots

and we're gonna rock and roll.

(dynamite exploding)

♪ Lipstick like dynamite ♪

- [Jill] When I first moved to Rossland,

I started as a volunteer ski patroller,

so I decided that I was going to prove myself.

(dynamite exploding)

I had the knowledge to perform the skills

that I needed to perform,

was able to show that I was dedicated to the team

- [Dynamite Expert] Fire in the whole super cooler.

- [Jill] I get a lot of enjoyment out of the suffering.

It's kind of weird but...

♪ Come on ♪ (dynamite exploding)

- [Andrew] Snow's looking good, let's open the mountain.

Have fun skiing guys.

- [Duncan] The outdoors, having fun

and you getting to ski and hike

and this community sports app gets behind that.

♪ Seven sticks of dynamite ♪

♪ Fuse the morning fuse the night ♪

- To be a ski patroller,

you can't be one thing or the other.

You gotta be able to adapt, react to different situations.

And you got to like sliding on snow.

And you gotta be pretty good at it ideally.

♪ Seven sticks of dynamite ♪

- [Narrator] Andrew spends his summers

as a parks Canada ranger.

- Ten seconds.

- [Narrator] Duncan grew up in England skiing on plastic,

but if BC powder is all he can get, he'll make due.

(dynamite exploding)

♪ Give me seven sticks of dynamite ♪

Jill is the newbie on the team.

- I was the lucky recipient of the auger this week

and you have to put $5 into a beer fund.

Even worse because I got augered on film

so I'm expected to put $10 in the jar, not five.

But since then it's been passed on to a different patroller

and he augered yesterday.

- They open it up and then they don't wanna ski it first.

Rossland is truly a ski town

where the people that come to live here and stay here,

it's because they love these mountains.

There's all these layers of stories

that make it's such a cool tapestry of people

- [Narrator] Joining Olympian Kaylin Richardson on this trip

are a couple of new friends,

free ski champion Dennis Risvoll of Norway

and Red Mountain local phenom, Simon Hillis.

- [Kaylin] Simon Hillis is the key to the city.

Velvet ropes up, oh go ahead, get on the chairlift,

like come on in.

And it was really fun to see someone that is so young

that the community has so much pride in.

I've been putting ski boots on for ages.

Thousands of times.

And the cool thing is is that,

it's something that the moment I slip them on,

there's this switch that flips

where this is where I'm happiest.

I loved during my time here just to take it all in.

♪ Come on ♪

♪ Don't be cruel ♪

♪ The morning sun is rising here for you ♪

♪ Cheer up ♪

♪ Come around ♪

♪ Don't let it break you down ♪

♪ Come on ♪

♪ Count down ♪

♪ Getting closer now ♪

♪ Time to wear it like a crown ♪

♪ Back-seat ♪

♪ Leave the heat ♪

♪ Sometimes you got to jump to lift your feet ♪

♪ Homebound ♪

♪ All around ♪

♪ Time to leave the battleground ♪

♪ Come on ♪

♪ Don't be cruel ♪

♪ The morning sun is rising here for you ♪

- [Skier] Red Mountains has, yeah,

looks like everybody's skiing.

Everybody that lives in town or our skiers almost,

it's almost like my hometown.

I think it's a good tradition.

♪ I want to sit on the moon ♪

♪ A pie in the sky ♪

♪ In my minds eye ♪

♪ I want to sit on the moon ♪

- [Skier 2] Growing up in Rossland is really good.

It's a really supportive community

and it's really close to the ski hill.

- [Kaylin] In every ski town I go to,

you meet these kindred spirits.

I don't know, it's like a secret handshake

of the skiing community where it's like, yeah, you and me.

♪ The lights were out on Houston ♪

♪ And empty streets betrayed the sound ♪

♪ Of leaves and stones held singing ♪

♪ The hand we held still holds us down ♪

- So I've been a ski bum for about eight years

and when I moved to Rossland

I really felt a different vibe.

I felt like the community just welcomed me in.

♪ But oh the smoke's still breathing ♪

♪ From ashes firm beneath our feet ♪

♪ Like hope still unforgotten ♪

♪ And grass that grows where once lay streets ♪

♪ The house that keeps out secrets ♪

♪ The floor that bore out humble steps ♪

♪ These walls like arms embrace us ♪

♪ The door we smashed to get back in ♪

♪ We will run back home ♪

Simon is the age that I was when I made the US ski team.

It brought me back when I was on the national team.

It was fun to look at him and know the next 10 years

he's just gonna have a ball.

- [Narrator] A lot of this terrain

would be roped off at other resorts,

but Red Mountain is a different kind of place

owned by a collective of real skiers.

- Anything can change, there's a lot of variables.

As time goes on, the town can change,

the ski hill can change, but the terrain can't change.

And that's kinda what things that people here

who've been coming here for a long time

and who choose to live here.

And so I think there's always gonna be a real core scene

of real skiers here.

- [Jill] Warren Miller has affected so many lives

and he's affected so many lives that have affected mine.

To be a part of something he created is such an honor.

And trying to look at the world like he did

just a little bit in that adventure is worth pursuing.

And here at Red Mountain it seems like everyone here

loves the same thing.

Thanks, Warren.

- Here we go, 20 years.

Would've never thought my wildest imagination

we'd make 20 years as a heli-ski operation.

So many memories, so many highlights,

15 years of Warren Miller.

It's a celebration, it's incredible.

- [Narrator] Kevin Quinn has lots of reasons

to love his job.

Among them, meeting new friends like Jim Ryan

and Dash Longe.

- [Kevin] I've seen Points North Heli so many times

in the Warren Miller movies

that getting here is kind of surreal.

- [Dash] Those moments in those films

that stuck with me my whole life,

these faces out here are iconic.

Dan Treadway and Hugo Harrison

showing us how it's done.

Well, let's just start talking about Micah Kralier.

Kent flashing the Sphinx in less than 20 seconds.

That was a pretty monumental moment in skiing.

And then Micah skiing the fin right next to that.

- [Kevin] He wasn't afraid to admit he was scared.

He performed it anyways.

- [Dash] That's as good as he gets.

The story goes at Seth Wescott decided to come here

after he had won his gold medal

and this was his way of celebrating.

That was really cool.

- Our very first Warren Miller film

that was a celebration in itself,

being able to say "Holy smokes,

Warren Miller's coming to film Charlotte Modes, Jen Berg

and my wife, Jessica Storm."

I mean that was the first Warren Miller film

we were part of.

And from there they just started to unfold.

- [Dash] The Chrisp Brothers, Zach and Reggie.

- [Kevin] One that really stands out to me

is Kevin Bramble, Monty Meyer,

getting waist deep conditions.

Man that segment, they blew minds.

- I'm just one little part in the middle

of this evolution of skiing in Alaska.

The coolest figures in skiing in my mind,

Ingrid Backstrom and Jess McMillan,

they kind of closed down the Sphinx.

Rip that thing in minimal turns,

that was as sick as it gets.

I think it's a rite of passage for a skier

to be able to get to AK

and ski some of these insane lines that you've seen

and you've grown up watching.

- Twenty years ago,

this young fellow by the name of Kevin Quinn

comes and knocks on my door.

- He probably thought I was just some knucklehead.

- He was going like, "Yeah,

I'm gonna start, you know, a heli-skiing operation."

- He raised an eyebrow and said, "Yeah,

I think we could do something."

- I saw it like these nice long glacier runs

that were just beautiful and flat as could be.

He was looking at what looked to me

like straight up and down cliffs

so I had a lot to learn about what they were gonna do here.

- Did some pretty wild country up here.

I can just imagine what it was like in the beginning.

- When I met Kevin, he had just done his first season

and he convinced me to come up here that summer

that he had two bedrooms with two beds

and I'd make a ton of money.

I was 21 years old so I listened to him.

I came up, little did I know there was one bedroom

with one bed and 20 years later,

you can figure out what happened.

When I met him,

I don't even think I knew what helicopter skiing was,

let alone Alaska.

- [Kevin] She's really made Points North what it is.

- [Jessica] I didn't even know what powder was.

- I think Kevin said it best in '05.

Something about the odds being good and I don't know,

it's pretty odd that the odds will be good.

- Alaska, where the goods are odd

and the odds are good that you'll get the goods

and the goods are good.

Did I already say that?

- A lot of people say in Alaska

that the goods are odd just due to the weather factor.

But I can tell you when the weather works out,

the goods are good and the odds are good

that you're gonna get the goods

just for the sake that there's no place like it.

- That is the most confusing quote ever.

It's hard to forget that I'm the rookie here.

Lots of pats on the back saying, "How you doing, rookie?"

- [Dash] When we first got off the plane he looked nervous.

He's never been heli-skiing.

He's never shot for a ski movie.

- A lot of these guys you see up here,

you know, it's like it's year 12

and they're coming back for a reason.

It's gotta be a good one.

I like to think that they were a little nervous

'cause I'm a little nervous.

- [Kevin] We're just gonna fly 'em out there

and drop 'em off on some real nar.

♪ Mm, mm ♪

♪ Mm, mm ♪

♪ Mm, mm ♪

♪ Mm-mm, mm ♪

(helicopter engine roaring)

♪ I can't see where you comin' from ♪

♪ But I know just what you runnin' from ♪

♪ And what matters ain't the "who's baddest" but ♪

♪ The ones who stop you fallin' from your ladder, baby ♪

♪ And you feel like you feelin' now ♪

♪ And doin' things just to please your crowd ♪

♪ When I love you like the way I love you ♪

♪ And I suffer, but I ain't gonna cut you 'cause ♪

♪ This ain't no place for no hero ♪

♪ This ain't no place for no better man ♪

- [Dash] Skiing these lines in AK is that salvation

that you've worked towards your whole life

and once you had a taste,

you come back for more 'cause it's so good.

Then again, I'm a skier and all I wanna do is ski. So.

♪ But I know just what you're runnin' from ♪

♪ And what matters ain't the "who's baddest," ♪

♪ But the ones who stop you fallin' from your ladder, 'cause ♪

♪ This ain't no place for no hero ♪

♪ This ain't no place for no better man ♪

♪ This ain't no place for no hero ♪

♪ To call home ♪

♪ This ain't no place for no hero ♪

♪ This ain't no place for no better man ♪

♪ This ain't no place for no hero ♪

♪ To call home ♪

♪ This ain't no place for no hero ♪

And when I think about it,

it's really just these moments,

these little moments that carry with us.

They're like little placeholders

and until you get to come up here

and fill those in, you know,

just one little memory at a time.

- [Jim] I think there's something cool about a place

where you don't know what you're gonna get

but you know it's gonna be something

and you know that it's gonna be

one of the stronger experiences of your life

and you have to take it on faith.

- [Kevin] I remember growing up in Anchorage,

going to Warren Miller ski films.

It was like the celebration of winter.

Warren was up on the stage narrating and we miss you.

We think about you, we celebrate life

because of you Warren, thank you so much, man.

- [Narrator 2] Something ski people can all do is

slow down just a little bit.

Go ski touring and look around.

(peaceful music)

- [Narrator] Slow down and look around, not these guys.

- Set.

Go.

♪ Watch me now ♪

♪ Fill the room ♪

♪ Into something ♪

♪ Gonna make you move ♪

- [Narrator] August is the heart of winter

on New Zealand's South island,

and the US cross country ski team

is here to make the most of it.

- Skiers are made in the spring and the summer.

Having the opportunity to get on snow

and work together here as a team is huge.

- It's mid-winter conditions here, which is awesome.

It really helps prepare us for the season.

♪ Here we come ♪

♪ On the run ♪

♪ Don't know what ♪

♪ We're running from ♪

- What's up guys?

Yep, nice dude. Good work.

Yeah, him, race faster than a week or two ago.

- Put kind of back on your heels a little bit.

- Our job as coaches is really to break these athletes down.

If they tell us they're tired,

that's when we start succeeding.

- [Narrator] Coach Matt Wickham and his staff

are actually pretty nice guys,

but they wanna win and winning takes work.

♪ Day or night ♪

♪ Dynamite ♪

- Spring racing, it's a little bit like NASCAR with spandex.

- [Narrator] That's Aspen's Simi Hamilton.

And yeah, people only wanna see the crashes.

- I can't imagine any job I'd want more

than being a professional cross country skier.

I love racing and competing and being part of a team.

- [Narrator] Jessie Diggins gets it.

She knows about teamwork, she knows about dedication,

and she knows what it takes to win.

♪ But it's just begun ♪

♪ It's just begun ♪

♪ It's just begun ♪

♪ It's just begun ♪

♪ It's just begun, gun, gun, gun ♪

On the wall of her Minnesota bedroom,

a teenage Jessie Diggins had a poster of her hero,

Alaska's Kikkan Randall.

At Pyeongchang, Jessie and Kikkan

would pair up for the women's team sprint.

- A huge part of success in cross country is being,

it's all in your head

because you can have all the talent in the world,

but if you are not willing to push yourself

all the way to your limits,

it's not going to be enough.

♪ I love you most, I love you more now ♪

♪ I love you, I love you most, more now ♪

I was so focused

and it was like someone had turned the volume down

and I didn't hear the crowd,

and it was like nothing else existed.

After I passed the line,

I was like, did we just win the Olympics?

Did that really just happen?

And that's when I realized what it is

that we had all accomplished together as a team.

Because you can't do it without coaches and wax techs

and staff and teammates pushing you in training.

Everyone on this team

knows that they are a part of that medal

and that it belongs to them too.

- Nice dig.

♪ I love you most ♪

♪ I love you most, I love you more now ♪

♪ I love you, I love you most, more now ♪

♪ I love you most, I love you more now ♪

♪ I love you most, I love you more now ♪

♪ I love you most, I love you more now ♪

♪ I love you, I love you most, more now ♪

♪ I love you most, I love you more now ♪

♪ I love you most, I love you more now ♪

(A Moment Apart ends)

♪ Monday ♪

♪ Tuesday ♪

♪ Wednesday ♪

♪ It's all the same day ♪

♪ I wake up ♪

♪ I go to work ♪

♪ And I try my best to just forget about ♪

♪ Everything that's bringing me down ♪

- [Narrator] There ought to be a law against boredom.

Or maybe a voter referendum to legalize weirdness.

Until there is though,

Rob Kingwell and Seth Wescott know just where to go,

high in Washington state's cascade range

when life starts feeling a little too normal.

- So my first trip for Baker was in '96

and I got a random ride up here with this guy

that was passing people the whole way.

Total sketchy trip, I can't remember who the dude was.

This was the event

where you basically got to race against your heroes.

- There's a lot of history here.

So many facets that are important to snowboarding

and just important to your soul.

- [Seth] The early years there was a group

called the Mount Baker Hardcore

and Craig Kelly was the ringleader of it.

- [Rob] Just this free-spirited badass snowboarder

that inspired our whole generation for sure.

- [Seth] We won the Mount Baker bank slalom

a whole bunch of times

and so there's always this sense of feeling

like this whole week is a tribute to Craig in a lot of ways.

It's the oldest running event in snowboarding.

It started in 1985.

Everyone still comes from all over the world

and it still has that drop.

- [Rob] Surrounded by this really true snowboard vibe.

- [Seth] Like a who's who of the all time greats

of snowboarding.

- [Rob] Duct tape is a symbol of our heritage

and the roots of snowboarding.

When I started, we literally had to use duct tape

to make our boots work to keep our bindings on.

- [Seth] The mother of all invention in snowboarding.

- [Rob] If you were a snowboarder,

it just was part of the kit.

- [Seth] That's the way that they attach the bibs

and just part of the tribute to duct tape

being an early form of innovation in snowboarding.

- [Announcer] Racer ready!

- Three, two, one. - Say prayers right there.

- [Narrator] How do they get 400 racers

down the same course in a day?

About 10 seconds apart, no time for self-reflection.

- One, go. - Racer ready!

- Three, two, one, go!

- Hello, good morning. Welcome to the legendary bank slalom.

- Came to say hi. - Oh hi, Tom, good morning.

- Yeah, want you here. We all make the gates.

- It's really cool to, you know,

have started with a sport when it was so in its infancy

and to now see the multi-generational families

that are riding in the race,

the shared stoke and catching up with everyone

what's been going on in their lives.

And I truly believe the most unique thing

that happens in snowboarding.

- [Narrator] As Warren always said,

"If you want it to snow, schedule a race."

- Racer ready! Three, two, one, go!

♪ We all know this is nothing ♪

♪ We all, we all, we all, we all know this is nowhere ♪

♪ There is no one ♪

♪ Here ♪

♪ It moves like a virus and enters our skin ♪

♪ The first sign divides us ♪

♪ The second is moving to Berlin ♪

- [Rob] My strategy on day one is cruise it.

Feel out, know the trouble spots.

Get all the bugs out of your system.

- [Narrator] Finals day arrives with fresh snow.

Nerves are tight.

But the course is in prime condition.

- You doing it.

♪ The old guys are frightened ♪

♪ And frightening to behold ♪

♪ The kids come out fighting ♪

♪ And still doing what they're told ♪

♪ But you're waking a monster ♪

♪ That will drive you from your hoary holes of gold ♪

- I would suggest getting high on the wall

because there's bumps and rubble down the middle.

- [Rob] There's something special to know

you're here at Mount Baker

and just be surrounded by all snowboarders.

You feel like you're home,

especially at the top of that course.

So many good riders

and so many people that really love the sport snowboarding.

To think that the best snowboarders in the world

have all challenged themselves at the bank slalom.

Craig Kelly did it, that Terry did it, that Seth did it.

All these incredible champions of snowboarding's

really a cool experience for me.

♪ Your head is on fire ♪

♪ Your hands are getting weak ♪

♪ We all, we all get stupid in the heat ♪

♪ You've basted your brains with the shatter ♪

♪ And defeat up on the street ♪

- [Seth] I still get butterflies every time

on the morning for this one.

It's never an easy thing just to get down top to bottom.

So battle in there.

♪ The early years were boring ♪

♪ The quiet, unhappy punk ♪

It's always a challenge.

And in some ways it's a full on survival riding.

♪ So we do the best we can ♪

It's as organic of an event as you can get.

(crowd cheering)

The artisans that make the trophies and prizes every year,

it's all labor of love.

(crowd cheering)

It was more important to have a culture around snowboarding

and just the prize money that came into the sport.

- Throughout the history of the bank slalom,

there's always been these little side events

really inspired by this legend

that Terje Håkonsen rode the course switch

and backwards on snowboard.

It's called "fakie" but it's also another name

which is riding switch.

It's been quite a few years

that we've been doing the switch race

and I decided that we really needed a trophy

so I was like we gotta make this a legit category.

You're going the wrong way!

Yes!

I always feel like this is the family reunion

of snowboarding.

All these people that just build their lives around it.

So I feel like this is my tribe.

That energy that we get here,

that stoke of riding together, racing together,

all of us charging, trying to win the same thing,

that silly golden duct tape trophy.

- [Announcer 2] Three, two, one, go.

- [Announcer 3] Racer ready! Three, two, one, go!

- [Narrator] In Iceland, there are no misbehaving children

because the trolls eat them all.

(waves gently rustling)

So if Anna Segal and Amie Engebretson wanted to go there,

I insisted that they have a chaperone.

♪ Spent 24 hours, I need more hours with you ♪

- Coming to Iceland with someone that you don't know,

coming on this kind of long ski trip, an adventure,

you know, it feels a little unknown at the beginning.

- [Narrator] Somebody mature and responsible.

- Skioadalur.

Skididly doodle.

- And fun to be around.

Let's go.

♪ Roll that back wood, babe ♪

♪ And play me close ♪

♪ 'Cause girls like you run 'round with guys like me ♪

♪ Til sun down when I come through ♪

♪ I need a girl like you, yeah yeah ♪

- I've traveled the world to ski and to compete,

and to be honest, Iceland's never been on my radar.

Mom.

Mom. (goat bleating)

Staying out here on the farm

feels like I've been invited into the Bergmenn family home.

It's really comforting

and I feel like we're assimilating

more into a Icelandic lifestyle

rather than just being outside observers.

(speaking Icelandic)

- [Narrator] Our host, Jökull Bergmenn.

- I think it's important in a small community

like we have here to create and nurture something

where people have a sense of belonging.

I grew up with my grandparents on the farm,

which is now Klaengsholle Lodge

where we run our heli-ski programs.

Basic farm boy life tending to sheep

and it came naturally when I started skiing

that we obviously had a huge playground

right in our backyard.

- Hot springs and geysers and waterfalls and trolls

and out the window of this beautiful barn,

the lodges that they built,

are these incredible mountains.

♪ I need a girl like you, yeah yeah ♪

Jökull's family has farmed this land

for a thousand years.

He'd rather ski it.

- [Jökull] The area that we ski in is big.

We're still discovering new terrain and skiing new runs.

♪ Not too long ago, I was dancing for dollars ♪

♪ Knew it's really real if I let you meet my momma ♪

♪ You don't want a girl like me, I'm too crazy ♪

♪ But every other girl you meet is fugazy ♪

♪ I'm sure them other girls were nice enough ♪

♪ But you need someone to spice it up ♪

♪ So who you gonna call? Cardi, Cardi ♪

♪ Come and rev it up like a Harley, Harley ♪

♪ Why is the best fruit always forbidden ♪

♪ I'm coming to you now doin' 20 over the limit ♪

♪ The red light, red light stop (stop) ♪

♪ I don't play when it comes to my heart ♪

♪ Let's get it though ♪

♪ I don't really want a white horse and a carriage ♪

♪ I'm thinkin' more white Porsches and karats ♪

♪ I need you right here 'cause every time you call ♪

♪ I play with this kitty like you play with your guitar ♪

Anna and Amie bring so much enthusiasm.

It's fun to watch them deprive in their

careers going for it.

♪ Cause girls like you run 'round with guys like me ♪

♪ 'Til sun down when I come through ♪

♪ I need a girl like you, yeah yeah ♪

♪ Yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah ♪

♪ I need a girl like you, yeah yeah ♪

♪ Yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah ♪

♪ I need a girl like you ♪

♪ Yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah ♪

♪ I need a girl like you ♪

It is totally normal, just like a married guy hanging out

with a couple, you know, girls half his age.

It's just your normal ski trip.

♪ Blow my mind ♪

♪ Blow my mind ♪

♪ Blow my mind ♪

♪ Blow my... ♪

♪ I found a potion for fixing passion ♪

♪ Go tell your homegirls, get their reaction ♪

- [Amie] In Iceland,

it's like you're coming up on a little toy town,

like a little train set or something like this.

Cute little picturesque, colorful buildings

and we have eaten sandwiches

and soup in the most beautiful places

that anyone has ever eaten.

Sandwiches and soup.

♪ You got a little you could use much more ♪

♪ Pa-pa-pa-passion ♪

♪ Pa-pa-pa-passion ♪

- [Narrator] On the troll peninsula,

You can make a 4,000 foot descent

to the edge of the Arctic Sea.

Sometimes on lines that have never been skied before.

And with days that stretch 20 hours in May,

there's still plenty of time to take in the sights.

- Quiet,

I gonna find the puffins.

- I think we came in three feet proximity

to these beautiful puffins

that only live in this area of the world.

♪ I'm sorry happy belated birthday ♪

♪ Go tell the whole world ♪

♪ Wonder what they'll say ♪

♪ You got a little you could use much more ♪

♪ Pa-pa-pa-passion ♪

- This is the type of trip

that I watched in a Warren Miller film when I was a kid

and I was like, I want to do that.

Going to a place that's very unique,

way off the beaten path,

having a cultural experience at the same time

as having a ripping ski time.

♪ Pa-pa-pa-Passion ♪

♪ Blow my mind ♪

♪ Blow my mind ♪

♪ Pa-pa-pa ♪

♪ Pa-pa-pa ♪

♪ Go, Go ♪

♪ P-p-p-please good God, would ya blow my mind ♪

♪ Blow my mind ♪

♪ Blow my mind ♪

♪ Blow my mind ♪

- [Amie] I'm gonna say I think I always prefer my skiing

with a side of ocean views.

♪ Blow my mind ♪

♪ Blow my mind ♪

♪ Blow my mind ♪

- It's really good.

- Two blondes, drinking blonde in a tub of blonde.

- [Narrator] Wait, it gets better.

- I've always loved horses and coming to Iceland,

I had this picture in my mind

of galloping on a beautiful horse

through some rugged countryside

with snowy mountains in the background and did exactly that.

♪ Not all horses are gonna need blinders ♪

♪ Not all seekers will be finders ♪

♪ Even the gurus only yet to know ♪

♪ Yet there is a path you call your own ♪

♪ Seekers ♪

♪ Finders ♪

♪ Which one are you ♪

♪ Which one am I ♪

- We're out at 11:00 PM with the sun setting.

I feel like I'm in a storybook.

♪ Some crack right through ♪

♪ Some only try ♪

- I had never been to Iceland

and this place was way beyond what I expected,

what I imagined it would be like.

Waiting for the heli,

felt like an episode of "The Bachelor" or something

except Amie then turned to me and said,

"Yeah, but you'd be the host."

♪ Seekers ♪

♪ Finders ♪

- We didn't have the Icelandic prince,

that's all that was missing.

Was I gonna get the final rose

or was Anna gonna get the final rose?

And Johnny knew but he wouldn't tell us.

♪ Inside one all-seeing eye ♪

- You got something slimy in your hair.

- [Narrator] And now,

a story about two different ways to fly in Alaska

and what two Jackson Hole skiers discover there.

Jess McMillan and Forrest Jillson

are accustomed to big landscapes,

but as they find out Alaska just messes with your head.

Their first stop, the Tordrillo Mountains.

- I had the weirdest dream last night.

The mountain house was like this chalet.

- Really? I had the same dream.

But I woke up at Tordrillo Mountain Lodge.

Al Pacino was there and he had beer.

- What?

♪ Days we were young ♪

♪ We took photographs of everything we could see ♪

♪ We knew we were ♪

♪ Impervious no matter how we'd bleed ♪

♪ We never fought for breath ♪

- [Jess] We hopped in the heli, we skied incredible lines.

Just kuwar after kuwar and perfect snow and ribs and spines.

- [Forrest] Sounds like heaven

♪ Oh oh ♪

♪ Awake, awake ♪

♪ Oh oh, this is a dream state ♪

- [Jess] And then you do a lot of eating.

You work on your heli belly,

so you get up, you eat, you ski,

come back, you drink, you eat, you plunge,

you ski again.

- [Forrest] I almost forgot,

there was this point where you're driving a dog sled.

You almost looked like you knew what you were doing.

- [Jess] In the dream, I did.

♪ Oh oh ♪

♪ Awake, awake ♪

♪ Oh oh, this is a dream state ♪

♪ Will we survive in this, our new wilderness ♪

♪ We have nothing on our feet ♪

♪ We had to run from it ♪

Mike Overcast, another Jackson Hole local,

who built this incredible lodge and has helicopters there

and he's game for anything.

- [Narrator] Could even Warren asleep in his camper

at the back of the Sun Valley parking lot,

dream of a ski experience like this.

At Tordrillo Mountain Lodge,

he might for once have been lost for words.

♪ Oh oh, this is a dream state ♪

♪ Oh oh, though we were wide awake ♪

♪ Out of the dark day, into the brighter night ♪

♪ Out of the dark day, into the brighter night ♪

♪ Out of the dark day, into the brighter night ♪

♪ Out of the dark day, into the brighter night ♪

♪ Out of the dark day, into the brighter night ♪

♪ How do we feel? (oh oh oh) ♪

♪ How do we feel in that photograph ♪

♪ And how do we feel it again ♪

♪ How do we feel? (oh oh oh) ♪

Go ahead, pinch yourself

- [Jess] And then I think you even got me a beer.

That was when you were really nice.

- That must have been a dream.

♪ This is a dream state ♪

♪ Days we were young ♪

♪ We took photographs of everything we could see ♪

- [Narrator] Next stop, the doorstep of Denali.

- When we last saw Charles Kuralt,

he was on the road in Alaska

that is in the air in Alaska,

flying with a pilot who specializes in landing on glaciers.

Don Shelton, a Bush pilot, who for 25 years

flew a single engine plane

over some of Alaska's most treacherous

and beautiful mountain areas.

- The mountain is like a mad woman.

When the woman is wild, stay away from the women.

When the mountain is wild, stay away from the mountain.

(plane engine roaring)

- Why ski touring? Why do people do it?

Why do they love it?

For me, the neat part of ski touring

is losing yourself in the mountains.

♪ Can you walk on the water if I ♪

♪ You and I ♪

♪ 'Cause your blood's running cold outside the familiar, ♪

♪ True to life ♪

♪ Can you walk on the water if I ♪

♪ You and I ♪

♪ Or keep your eyes on the road and live in the familiar ♪

♪ Without you and I ♪

♪ It glows with gates of gold, true life ♪

You feel like an explorer

and I think there's a part of the human spirit

that wants that and and needs that.

And Denali National Park,

there isn't a better place to do that.

Don Sheldon was the first person to fly in

and land on the Ruth Glacier.

He was here before Denali was a national park.

He built the Sheldon Hut.

What we're doing compared to that is laughable

compared to those guys.

They were living it.

- You're lucky the wind didn't put you over the other side.

♪ And the love is a ghost that the others can't see ♪

♪ It's a danger ♪

♪ Every shade of us you fade down to keep ♪

♪ And in the dark who we are, ooh ♪

♪ Gonna be the death of me, it's a danger ♪

♪ 'Cause our love is a ghost that the others can't see ♪

- Coming up here and hearing of the legends

that led the charge into the mountains

via airplane like Don Sheldon or on foot like Ray Genet

were doing it decades ago.

Hats off to these guys.

It's unreal. It makes my hair stand up.

Just fearless, right?

- Well, I don't consider it dangerous.

I consider it a pleasure.

♪ Took a walk to the summit at night ♪

♪ You and I ♪

♪ And burn a hole in the old grip of the familiar ♪

♪ You and I ♪

♪ And the dark was opening wide ♪

♪ Do or die ♪

♪ Under a mask of vermilion ♪

♪ Ruling eyes (eyes) ♪

♪ Eyes (eyes) ♪

- [Pilot] Really close. Forced stability.

- [Forrest] Coming in here for the first day

on the first flight,

had seen some pretty big mountains along the way,

but these dwarfed everything.

Ruth Glacier was basically straight out of a dream.

I was like starstruck.

♪ And love is a ghost that the others can't see ♪

♪ It's a danger ♪

♪ Every shade of us you fade down to keep ♪

♪ And in the dark, who we are, ooh ♪

♪ Gonna be the death of me ♪

- There's always one peak

that you can see off in the distance

and it's like she's always watching you,

always keeping an eye on you.

And there's something about her

always being over your shoulder in your peripheral

that makes you wanna go shake her hand, you know?

Go say, "Hey Denali, what's up?" What do you have?

- [Narrator] In the mid sixties,

Don Sheldon became the master of glacier landings

in Denali National Park.

Sheldon flew in enough lumber

to build a six-sided hut on the Ruth Glacier

about 10 miles from what was then known as Mount McKinley.

With the Sheldon Mountain House as their base camp,

self-propelled adventures like Jess and Forrest

can ski and explore deep in the Denali wilderness.

- [Jess] Alaska's full of legends.

It's like coming to superhero camp.

All the pioneers, all the adventurers hang out

and it's been that way for forever as far as I can tell.

Don Sheldon was the explorer of this range.

He claimed this little slice of land

as opposed to seeing Alaska as just this ice cap

and, you know, forbidden land.

They saw it as the promised land as a place for adventure

and to test yourself

and probably a little bit, you know, lose yourself.

♪ I know I'm maybe young, but, I got feelings too ♪

♪ And I need to do what I feel like doing ♪

♪ I know I'm young, ♪

He got here, put his ski boots on

and it was game on for Forrest.

He didn't know if he'd ever be back here again,

but he was gonna boot pack up any peak, ski any line,

just savor every single moment that he had.

♪ All the warning lights ahead ♪

- [Forrest] I had done a little bit of glacier travel,

nothing of this type though,

where the glaciers were so huge.

You really had to have your wits about you

and assess all the risks far in advance.

- Yeah. - Yeah.

- [Forrest] You weren't just gonna go meander anywhere

without really thinking about things.

- Nice one - It was awesome.

- [Forrest] But it was also like, whoa,

this is unlike anything I've ever really done.

♪ I wait for love here ♪

♪ I wait for love here ♪

♪ I wait for love here ♪

♪ I wait for love here ♪

♪ And you'll find meaning in your life ♪

♪ I tried, I tried, I tried ♪

♪ But I wait so long ♪

♪ I wait for love here ♪

♪ I wait for love here ♪

- [Jess] When we set out in the morning,

we're not following anyone's tracks or anything like that.

We may look at a peak and say, hey, let's go check that out.

And there's no guarantees.

We could speak to her for three hours over there

and the snow could be terrible,

but that's part of exploring.

- [Forrest] When I think of skiers

skiing Alaskan lines a couple decades ago,

doing all this on skinny skis, huge 210s.

And here we are out here on pontoons,

skiing the same things.

And you just think back how those guys ever did it

is just beyond me.

♪ Yeah that's you rotting in your room ♪

♪ I wasn't in love I was here ♪

♪ I was an abomination ♪

♪ And there was a call, there was a high ♪

♪ There was a heaven dawned in roses ♪

♪ I'm giving up getting over you ♪

♪ I'm giving up getting over you ♪

♪ I wait for love here ♪

Waking up in the morning

and having the mountains around you, greet you,

it's just otherworldly.

And I think for anybody in this world

to not be amongst the mountains,

I think they're long overdue

to come ski with us some huge peaks.

It's good medicine.

- [Jess] It's hard to describe it until you're here.

Your imagination starts, you know, dreaming

what would it be like?

Would I wanna climb that?

Am I strong enough? Am I tough enough?

What does it feel like to be on Denali?

- [Narrator] Most ski instructors insist every good turn

starts with a pole plan.

Heidi Knaus, Portillo's senior ski instructor

seems to do just fine without it.

In Portillo, Chile, American instructors,

Francesca Pavillard-Cain and Brennan Metzler

find a way to beat the heat.

- I am so excited to just have more winter.

I don't know why I haven't done this earlier

because my ideal summer is winter.

- Yeah, summer's cool and all,

but I just really love snowboarding.

I'm grateful there are places in the southern hemisphere

of this caliber.

It's just that sensation experience that resonates with me.

Doing it in the summer is even better.

(Mas by Kinky playing) (singing in Spanish)

- [Francesca] Endless lines, endless mountains,

and you're just pinching yourself.

- [Brennan] There's so much terrain that you can access

that you can keep hiking further out and further out

and finding that line.

(Mas by Kinky continues)

- [Narrator] Styles and fashions have changed

since Warren's first visit here,

but thankfully, little else has.

(Mas continues)

- [Francesca] Portillo hasn't changed

in the best way possible.

- [Narrator] Owner, Henry Purcell,

is the guardian of that legacy.

- That's the building that was here when I got here.

Well, it's a little cleaner than it was when I got here.

When Warren first came here in the 1950s,

I think he really enjoyed skiing in the summer.

- [Narrator] And while you're here,

dare to meet another Portillo icon,

the infamous Roca Jack.

- [Brennan] It's a cross between water skiing

and sheer terror.

In a few minutes here, you know, a thousand vert higher.

Portillo is the coolest adult summer camp ever.

- I like skiing so much

that I'm willing to skip the summers.

I prefer the snow.

- [Narrator] Heidi and Francesca

and their Portillo colleagues

can probably make you a better skier here,

or if they can't, at least have fun trying.

♪ Yeah, it feels like summer ♪

♪ Yeah, it feels like summer to me ♪

♪ Yeah, it feels like summer ♪

♪ Yeah, it feels like summer to me ♪

♪ And she was a lover to me ♪

- [Brennan] Warren recognized his fellow instructors

as being pretty darn good on their skis.

I believe in the power of instructing

and coaching and guiding.

♪ Yeah, it feels like summer ♪

♪ Yeah, it feels like summer to me ♪

♪ Yeah, it feels like summer ♪

- [Francesca] PSA really allowed me

to not only have the knowledge of what I'm doing,

but the knowledge to also improve what I'm doing.

As instructors, we're all on that same page.

Everyone's really excited about skiing.

Brennan and I are in Santiago.

It feels like summer again.

We're super appreciative of the time that we had,

but you can't help but feel a little bit down

that the skiing might be done.

- What's up?

- [Narrator] Maybe not quite done

if you have friends in high places.

- If you don't fly off the top of a skyscraper this year

in a helicopter,

you'll be one year older when you do.

Oh, we'll see you later, Santiago.

I like ya, but your mountains look a heck of a lot more fun.

- [Narrator] Hit your ride with Outer South

and beat the morning rush.

- [Francesca] Kind of reminds you you're doing

exactly what you want to do,

not heading to the office, you're heading to the mountains

(helicopter engine roaring)

- [Narrator] In minutes, Outer South heli skiing

whizz you from downtown Santiago to the roof of the Andes

so you can squeeze every last turn

out of your endless winter.

(Meridian by ODESZA playing)

- [Francesca] You're not just enjoying the skiing,

you're enjoying the heli ride flying like you ski.

You're enjoying half fray with everyone after.

And it's that whole experience.

It's just out of this world.

(Meridian continues)

- [Narrator] Warren spent a lifetime chasing winter

and with its playful spirit, Chile always charmed him.

- You can't fake that smile that Warren has.

It's pretty contagious and that's kind of the feeling

that we're all going for.

That pure joy, the excitement of the whole sport.

- I remember specific segments from Warren Miller films

that I saw when I was 10, 11 years old

and you see enough of 'em

and all of a sudden you're like, yeah,

I'm gonna make skiing part of my life

and well, here I am sitting in the Andes in August.

So thanks Warren, really appreciate it.

(Meridian ends)

- [Narrator] Chamonix, France,

it casts a spell on high mountain adventures.

♪ I let the nights ♪

♪ Put them all to a mountain ♪

And to live and play in mountains like these,

it helps to have wings.

Meet Michael Shaffer, his friends know him better as "Bird."

- The idea wasn't for me to be bird.

Bird is following your own passions,

believing in what you want to do with your own life

and that's freedom, you know?

I first arrived 1997 and I've been coming back ever since.

This place opened my mind up to explore

where my own boundary lies and changed me as a person.

Helped me grow as a person, really

- [Narrator] Meet Bird's feathered friends.

- My name is Bruno Compagnet.

I'm from the Pyrenees, south of the France.

Basically in the winter, Chamonix is my base camp

and I have a van and I'm moving a lot.

I'm a kind of a modern nomad.

- I'm Kami Jacquot, I grew up in Chamonix,

and I used to be a model skier French ski team World Cup

and I've been lucky to ski like in many places in the world.

- [Narrator] Bird's buddies, Bruno and Kami,

are the in congress duo who conceived

and founded their own Chamonix base ski company.

- [Bruno] I have the luck to traveling all around the world

and there is not any place to compare to this place.

We are on the top of Aiguille du Midi 4,000 meter high.

Chamonix is living on the edge.

- [Michael] Spring is the time when the snow sticks

to those special places in the ice

and we can ride places that we've only dreamed of.

Just coming out that ice tunnel,

it's a whole new world.

The north face of the du Midi,

you're looking 9,000 feet down into the valley.

It's immense.

♪ That is if he existed ♪

♪ And we just can't help ourselves ♪

♪ And we just can't help ourselves ♪

- [Kami] Chamonix is the place

where extreme skiing is born.

You imagine the courage you need for going the place

you're not sure if it can be possible.

♪ Obsolete, insignificant ♪

- [Michael] He's like the Scotch Schmidt of Vieira,

Pirate in the mountains.

I've always looked up to him.

Kami Jacquot, I always thought it was funny, you know,

I was this mountain hippie kid connecting with a guy

that looks like fashion model from Paris.

♪ We wound up building this we deserve ♪

♪ With illusions of enlightenment ♪

We shared this common bond of skiing and really living life.

♪ Obsolete, insignificant ♪

♪ Antiquated, irrelevant ♪

- [Kami] The vibe, the energy in Chamonix is very special.

The unlimited festival people, they can come, they ski also.

They can have some big amazing party.

♪ We got ahead of ourselves, we got ahead of ourselves ♪

♪ We got ahead of ourselves, we got ahead of ourselves ♪

♪ We got ahead of ourselves ♪

♪ We got ahead of ourselves, we got ahead of ourselves ♪

♪ We got ahead of ourselves, we got ahead of ourselves ♪

♪ We got ahead of ourselves, we got ahead of ourselves ♪

♪ We got ahead of ourselves, we got ahead of ourselves ♪

♪ We got ahead of ourselves ♪

♪ We got ahead of ourselves ♪

- In Chamonix, there's a level

that's just been accepted and accentuated

and just when you think it can't go any farther, it does.

Being able to imagine something and go there,

to me that's extremely beautiful

♪ We got ahead of ourselves, we got ahead of ourselves ♪

♪ We got ahead of ourselves ♪

- [Narrator] In Bird's world,

beauty and danger are constant companions.

Risk has its rewards and sometimes consequences.

♪ We got ahead of ourselves ♪

♪ We got ahead of ourselves, we got ahead of ourselves ♪

- [Michael] Ended up in the hospital, you know,

with some broken bones,

but it could have been a lot worse.

This was really something

that woke me up to the fragility of life

and how important it is to realize where you're at.

- [Kami] I remember when I was a kid,

some good friends of my dad, they did some crazy thing

and they made some combination of not only climbing

but also extreme skiing and extreme snowboarding.

- We have to repel into the kuwar

It's 260 meter repel

and then we ski about 200 meters inside big walls,

which we need to be quick on

because there's a lot of exposure

that can drop into the kuwar.

And then we have a small repel

down to the powder fields below

and then we are full wingspan.

(Hypothesis by The Flashbulb begins)

- You have discussions about live happy today

because maybe tomorrow is too late.

At this time, the mountain is really a big challenge.

People die here every winter.

You need to trust completely about the people

because can save your life.

(Hypothesis by The Flashbulb continues)

Another rock, okay?

(Hypothesis by The Flashbulb continues)

- There's all these things going on in our lives

and when you get to make that turn in any steep place,

really everything becomes more quiet and more clear

and it's the turns that matter

and it's the people you're with.

I think we bring each other to our higher selves.

♪ Stick with me Jesus through the comin' storm ♪

♪ I've come to you in search of something I have lost ♪

♪ Shine down a light on me and show a path ♪

♪ I promise you I will return if you take me back ♪

♪ Let 'em get high ♪

♪ Let 'em get stoned ♪

♪ Everything will be alright if you let it go ♪

- [Kami] I Swear I ski for a long, long time.

It's not skiing, it's surfing.

- [Narrator] Getting down without ever coming down

is the trick in Cham.

For Bruno, Kami and Bird,

life lived with risk is the only life imaginable.

(helicopter engine roaring)

If starting your day with a brisk face

full of Bell 212 rotor wash sounds like a good thing,

you are in the right place.

Mike Wiggly's heli ski, Rob Kingwell and Seth Wescott,

have come to one of Warren's favorite places,

Blue River, British Columbia.

(Wild World by Space Invadas playing)

- [Rob] Every year Seth and I

come up with a way to go somewhere

and do what we call free ride camp,

which means we get away from our regular day

ride powder with each other.

- [Seth] Rob and I came here together back in 2000

and so we've ridden icy halfpipe contests all over the world

and we've just always had that commitment

of wanting to go ride powder together

because we have a lot of fun doing it.

(helicopter engine roaring)

- [Rob] We were standing at the top of this glacier

and we had this perfect slope

that's got no tracks in front of you

and we were just so grateful to be up there.

♪ Switch my iPhone in a flight mode and lean back ♪

♪ Staring at the sky with my eyes closed ♪

♪ Thinking about the world blues ♪

♪ Not spreading on BBC world news ♪

♪ While in ice smoke ♪

♪ Given the death toLL rises in Syria ♪

♪ Juda the local government and sky drums ♪

♪ Sending to protect status 200,010 ♪

♪ Like the casualties brother my mind's blown ♪

♪ But with the bird's eye vision ♪

♪ I can see there's a bigger picture ♪

♪ And know where you just surrounded by draft picks ♪

♪ We'll get through this Cat Stevens Wild World. ♪

♪ You know what I'm saying ♪

(Wild World continues)

♪ That smell ♪

♪ The only place we maybe searching for ♪

♪ The one we could never leave ♪

♪ The one where we first breath ♪

♪ The place in between ♪

♪ Humanity ♪

♪ Oh baby, it's a wild world ♪

♪ Oh baby, it's a wild world ♪

What Mike created here is unparalleled from anything

that I've seen of world class places to go

and access the mountains.

- [Seth] It's right in this perfect snow belt

surrounded by these absolutely incredible mountains.

- [Rob] The vastness of their tenure here

and what they have to offer, it's limitless.

- There's a lot of ways to be a ski bum

and I think Mike Wiggly probably nailed it better

than just about anybody in the world.

- Yeah,

- I'm from Austria originally,

but I live here in Canada now for 50 years,

so I didn't speak a word of English.

In the first Christmas, I didn't know anybody,

but I thought I'd meet somebody

and open up the door right at midnight

and there was Bonnie standing right in front of me

and which she said, "Happy New Year."

and we bonded right away.

- I thought he was crazy.

Just keeps moving along in his little dream.

- But she wanted to learn to ski

and I think it was a good move from her side

because I was not gonna give up skiing.

The first year, nobody signed up,

but I spent $10,000 of my wife ski shop made,

so she was broke.

- Every time my store made a bit of money,

he would snap it and do a ski brochure.

- I did it again the next year

and then it really increased, had two guests.

And then I thought,

well, this is really booming that business year.

- I thought he was a little cuckoo.

- [Mike] Well, I was 22 years old when I met Warren

and he was a big hero for me right from the beginning

- [Narrator 2] Here you could ski

the whole rest of your life and never turn in a track

if you ski with Mike Wiggly and one of his guys.

Mike and Bonnie Wiggly are two ski people

who have devoted their lives...

- He's told the world who we are and what we do.

The biggest message is you gotta go heli skiing.

If you don't, you'd be one year older when you do.

♪ She wanted to find a way ♪

♪ To be someone else for a day ♪

♪ Major league chemicals make her grave ♪

♪ Miracles in a bathroom stall ♪

♪ She knows, she knows, she knows ♪

- [Rob] What's cool about this place

is they fly their helicopters into the mountains

even if it's just puking snow.

Seth and I just looked at each other

and couldn't believe how insanely good the snow texture was.

- [Seth] Based on people's short term memories

and how every next day of heli skiing

is the best day of heli skiing we ever had.

But I also think the snow

is just really damn good here all the time.

- [Rob] Has this kind of energy to it.

This magic sparkling atmosphere

- [Seth] Couldn't hurt yourself if you tried out here

when the snow's that good.

You just take a tumble and knock it back outta your goggles

and start over and try to stomp the next one.

(Major League Chemicals continues)

- [Rob] We both built our lives around the art of the glide.

We're basically snowboard bums, just like Mike is a ski bum.

- I think the sun's coming toward us.

Pack up your stuff, let's go.

Let's go back up, let's get in.

- [Narrator] Maybe Mike is a little cuckoo.

but it's the kind of cuckoo

any powder loving free rider would understand.

Mike's million acre corner of Monashee

and Bugaboo Mountains is hard to beat.

- Eighteen years later,

back to the first place that I ever got to do a heli trip,

you just realized the best friends that you create

enjoying the mountains together

are really unique relationships.

Some of the moments in life where I feel most alive

and I really owe all of that to Warren.

You know, like these experiences that I've had

of going to Nepal, going to Greenland,

spending more time in Japan,

other years in Alaska, coming to places like this.

Rob and I'll joke around when we're on the shoots,

well, if you don't do it this year,

you're gonna be one year older when you do

and some of those quotes.

But for all the generations of people that he influenced,

he was really sincere in that.

He just wanted to show people

that it was important to take the time in life to have fun

because if you don't, you know,

it's like, what else do you have?

- [Narrator] Maybe we won't all get to ride

prime BC powder this year,

but Warren's philosophy

applies even on the humblest of hometown hills.

The point is to get out there and get after it.

- Is this gonna be recorded? It's not clean.

Is that okay?

- [Narrator] Switzerland is the heart of the Alps,

home of the majority of its highest peaks,

but for all that incredible beauty,

it's something else that lures adventurous skiers here

to Engelberg, Switzerland.

Sheer excitement.

- Yeah, on time, like always.

I first came here in 2002,

I was just going here for a week.

I've been here for more than 15 years.

Yeah, I don't want to go anyplace else.

- Engelberg is this magical snow globe

that you buy at the tourist shop at the airport,

and you shake it and it's snowing

and there's mountains and trains everywhere.

It's Engelberg, man.

(USA I: Is A Monster by Dan Deacon begins)

- [Narrator] If you time it right,

you might have Engelberg all to yourself .

For guys like Johann Jansen and Marcus Caston,

the perfect playground.

(USA I: Is A Monster continues)

- Yeah, man, I love skiing with Johann.

- I think it's really inspiring to ski with Marcus.

In a caption a while ago, I called him a princess,

but not in a negative way.

It's just sometimes it looks like

he just dances very carefully down the mountain.

Five seconds later he can just explode in this power.

He's a pretty nice guy too.

(USA I: Is A Monster continues)

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Racing is like the basic knowledge for the Swiss people.

They might not know much about world politics,

but they sure know about the World Cup standings.

- Everybody watches ski racing here.

Even the farmer, you know, he said,

"Oh, you're professional skiers." Yeah.

He says, "You race World Cups." No.

He says, "You're not a professional skier."

- [Narrator] At storied venues like Crans-Montana,

Wengen, Adelboden and St. Moritz,

Switzerland hosts some of the World Cup's

most historic races.

- I'm anticipating some face painting,

and some drunk Europeans, and some fast skiing,

and at least one drunk American.

Just start like what? It's pretty cool.

(upbeat club music begins)

- [Narrator] Crans-Montana is a peaceful, beautiful valley.

It's also one of the toughest tests on the World Cup.

(upbeat club music continues)

- I don't totally get what I'm supposed to...

Help me out, man.

(upbeat club music continues)

Is this still working?

(upbeat club music continues)

I know. Oh, I know, I know.

There's no such thing as Swiss cheese.

You say Switzerland has the best cheese.

They don't have Swiss cheese here.

It's like a Swedish massage.

You can't get a Swedish massage in Sweden either.

It's a scam, man.

Is that what you wanted?

No, that's it. I'm out of thoughts now.

I don't know what else to say.

Switzerland, man, I...

The best part of being in Switzerland...

I dunno if I've ever seen mountains like this.

You got the Steinberg and then Lao,

that's like Jackson Hole on top of Snowbird.

You know, behind those mountains there's more mountains

and they're even bigger.

It takes one lift

and you can be in the middle of the craziest mountains.

Take you right to space.

(uplifting music)

- It feels like it takes so much effort

to get these words out.

Trying to explain my very warm feelings

for Switzerland, Engelberg,

and Warren Miller is just like...

It's like a workout getting this stuff out.

But it's big in my heart for sure,

but it's just, it's hard for the words.

(uplifting music continues)

Here in Engelberg,

there's also something that's hard to explain.

I think it's often like that with places

that you really love.

(uplifting music continues)

- So maybe that's the spirit of skiing, it's eternal youth.

You get on a pair of skis and you're forever 10 years old.

Except my knees, they're like 60.

- [Recorder] We're doing a 48K session, 16 bit mark.

- This is the start of Warren Miller's journey.

I think that's my journey, isn't it?

We lived in this trailer in the parking lot

for 18 cents a day.

You can see that I actually had hair

when I was 22 years old.

- [Narrator] So Warren, anything else you wanna say?

- How pretty my babysitter was when I was five years old?

(And Now by Ola Kvenberg begins)

(And Now continues)

Journey continues, starting south...

(And Now continues)

Let's get our freak on.

- [Narrator] And winter starts now.

♪ One, two, three, four ♪

♪ Do you realize ♪

♪ That you have the most beautiful face ♪

♪ Do you realize ♪

♪ We're floating in space ♪

♪ Do you realize ♪

♪ That happiness makes you cry ♪

♪ Do you realize ♪

♪ That everyone you know someday will die ♪

♪ And instead of saying all of your goodbyes ♪

♪ Let them know you realize that life goes fast ♪

♪ It's hard to make the good things last ♪

♪ You realize the sun doesn't go down ♪

♪ It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round ♪

♪ Do you realize ♪

♪ Ah-ah-ah ♪

♪ Do you realize ♪

♪ That everyone you know someday will die ♪

♪ And instead of saying all of your goodbyes ♪

♪ Let them know you realize that life goes fast ♪

♪ It's hard to make the good things last ♪

♪ You realize the sun doesn't go down ♪

♪ It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round ♪

♪ Do you realize ♪

♪ That you have the most beautiful face ♪

♪ Do you realize ♪