Researching New Zones in Alaska - Higher Unplugged Episode 5

This week's Deeper Unplugged joins the Deeper crew and airplane pilot Drake Olsen in Alaska as he prepares to drop them in the remote Alaskan wilderness for the next 27 days. Olsen discusses the logistics and dangers of the mission noting, "Even though looking down on these cirques and glaciers they look flat but there's all these different features all the time. Pumps and rolls and crevasses….every place that we had looked at made me shutter with fear."

In this week's Deeper Unplugged, cinematographer Chris Edmands worries about his hair and sunglasses while taking us behind the scenes of Deeper and providing a glimpse into what it takes to document everything that goes on each day.

Taking his lifetime expedition to the next level, Jeremy Jones leads his crew of world class riders, cameramen and guides to the far corners of the earth in the second installment of the Deeper trilogy: Further. Drawing upon a lifetime of experience Jones seeks out first descents and exotic experiences in an effort to evolve not only his snowboarding, but himself. The relationships forged from isolation and travel are almost as intriguing as the maniacal descents themselves. Join Jeremy an...

Further Unplugged takes you behind the scenes of Jeremy Jones' two-year snowboarding film, Further. Get an inside glimpse of what goes on between the lines as Jones and other top riders including Terje Haakonsen, Xavier De Le Rue and Josh Dirksen travel to exotic locations such as Japan, the Arctic Circle and the Wrangell-St. Elias Wilderness. Challenges arise around every corner as this crew attempts to push their minds and bodies further. In the first episode of Further Unplugged, Jones...

In episode 2 of Further Unplugged, Jeremy Jones takes his crew to the island of Svalbard in Norway, in the Arctic Circle. In the town of Longyearbyen, they pack for their trip and meet up with snowboarder Terje Haakonsen. It takes three days to pack a week's worth of food and gear onto snowmachines, which they then ride 180 kilometers north. What they anticipated to be a relatively manageable commute to camp turns into a 30-hour ordeal as multiple sleds get stuck in the melting ice. But the t...

In this episode of Teton Gravity Research’s web series Moments, take a look at a stream of production snapshots from the filming of Further in Norway’s Atomfjella Mountains. Each behind-the-scenes shot is 1 to 1 ½ seconds long and edited together to give a sense of what it was like filming Further with Jeremy Jones. Inspired by Cesar Kuriyama’s “1 Second Everyday – Age 30” video, Moments is a web series by Teton Gravity Research that pieces together snapshots from the filming of The Dream...

Jeremy Jones teams up with TNF team members Jimmy Chin and Xavier De Le Rue for a late season mission into GTNP. The crew plans things out at Jimmy's house near the Tetons themselves and then they go into the park for a recon mission to get some beta on the area. After a successful descent of the sliver couloir the crew runs into some trouble… 2 part episode to be continued. Further Unplugged takes you behind the scenes of Jeremy Jones' two-year snowboarding film, Further. Get an inside...

No matter how good you are, bad things can happen. In this episode of Further Unplugged, Jeremy Jones, Xavier De Le Rue and Jimmy Chin embark on a mission to ride The Sliver couloir in Grand Teton National Park. After the crew successfully rides the line, Jimmy gets caught in an avalanche. Dragged over 2,000 feet, Jimmy miraculously survives and learns from this frightening experience. Further Unplugged takes you behind the scenes of Jeremy Jones' two-year snowboarding film, Further...