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How Travis Rice Survived an Avalanche (Full Episode) | Edge of the Unknown with Jimmy Chin | Nat Geo
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0:01
(helicopter rotors).
0:06
CREW (over radio): Is anyone not ready?
0:12
TRAVIS: Yeah.
0:14
This is going to be (bleep) sick.
0:18
CREW (over radio): Travis dropping.
0:20
TRAVIS: Come on!
0:21
CREW (over radio): In 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
0:33
(crack and rumble).
0:48
MAN: Holy (bleep).
0:52
(muffled screams).
0:58
JIMMY: When you are on a quest to redefine what's humanly possible,
1:02
the line between triumph and tragedy is razor-thin.
1:07
I'm Jimmy Chin.
1:09
From Mount Everest to Antarctica, I've had the privilege of sharing
1:14
adventures alongside the world's most daring athletes.
1:18
In the pivotal moments, when life hangs in the balance,
1:22
what drives the greatest to keep pushing,
1:26
to stare down fear, to risk everything?
1:32
These are the stories from the Edge of the Unknown.
1:42
(wind)
1:51
TRAVIS: Hey guys, I'm moving into position.
2:04
Snowboarding is something that I've trained and worked
2:06
and ridden for so many years.
2:11
There are so many little mini breakthroughs.
2:16
I, to this day, continue to chase that feeling that gives
2:23
me a sense for living.
2:29
JIMMY: Travis Rice is one of the greatest
2:30
snowboarders of all time.
2:33
He's elevated the sport to the world stage through
2:36
his films and his absolutely outrageous level of riding.
2:45
It's incredibly beautiful to watch,
2:47
but it's hard to understand kind of the scope
2:51
and the scale of what he is actually doing.
2:55
Travis has been facing both physical and creative
2:58
risks his entire career.
3:05
But there was one moment that made him question how
3:07
much he was willing to risk:
3:10
when he got caught in a massive avalanche in Alaska.
3:17
(overlapping chatter)
3:19
TRAVIS: Yeah, yeah. We are here in Valdez.
3:26
It is 7:35, 5 minutes behind.
3:31
Um, bluebird morning, we got some snow yesterday,
3:35
gonna ride some lines,
3:37
do some flips, it's gonna be a good day.
3:50
I was up in Alaska with my crew,
3:52
working on this film The Fourth Phase.
4:06
TRAVIS: You need a canvas to put your work on and
4:09
the type of art that I like to make demands a very
4:13
large canvas and that is Alaska.
4:21
You find snow features in Alaska that you don't find
4:24
anywhere else in the world.
4:29
On my first couple trips,
4:31
I was really scared, and scared, not just on a
4:35
"I might get hurt,"
4:37
but like there was a death component.
4:40
You have cornices on the ridges,
4:42
you have crevasses, there's a lot of big cliffs.
4:46
You get out of a helicopter on top of a ridge
4:50
and you look a couple of thousand feet down and
4:54
there's an absolute moment of leap of faith.
4:59
And then you drop in and surrender to the unknown.
5:13
Everything in your body is like,
5:15
speed check, speed check,
5:17
you're going too fast, slow down.
5:21
And you can't.
5:26
You have to just try to override the body's natural
5:29
ability to protect itself.
5:36
Avalanches, of course, are a constant thing that
5:40
you're thinking and talking about.
5:45
JIMMY: I've been skiing in the big mountains for over 25 years,
5:48
and I've seen a lot of bad things go down.
5:52
If you get caught in an avalanche,
5:53
on a big Alaskan face,
5:55
you're not stopping until the bottom.
6:00
TRAVIS: You have control in an avalanche if you have
6:03
more speed than the snow.
6:08
'Cause once you're going the same speed as the
6:09
snow you're essentially in the avalanche.
6:13
Until then you're riding on top of it.
6:26
TRAVIS: And so we try to pick terrain that have really big
6:30
fanned-out runouts.
6:33
So that if you were in an avalanche,
6:34
you're not going to be deep, and a rescue is still possible.
6:46
TRAVIS: Okay.
6:48
With all these dangers.
6:49
Why put yourself out there?
6:52
For me, riding in Alaska, it's the art that I have worked
6:56
towards for so many years and all of the little subtleties
6:59
and the nuances and the details,
7:01
like that's where it matters.
7:08
BECKY: Hi honey. Some packages for you.
7:12
TRAVIS: Look at all the good stuff.
7:15
BECKY: Travis' brain works slightly different in how he
7:18
sees the world and how connected he is with the
7:22
natural world around him.
7:27
TRAVIS: Oh my gosh come on, this is the shot!
7:31
Are you kidding me?
7:33
Becky Rice was a award winning downhill skier.
7:37
BECKY: Please.
7:39
Growing up, Trav has always been creative,
7:42
and he's always been a real perfectionist.
7:46
He could walk into a room and see the angle
7:49
of a wall that was slightly off balance,
7:53
and it really bothered him.
7:55
But he just had difficulty in school.
7:59
TRAVIS: You know, I was told that I had ADHD in middle school,
8:04
and you know I probably came close to even being kicked out of school.
8:09
I ended up getting prescribed Ritalin.
8:15
But what I found over time was I lost a
8:17
bit of creativeness.
8:19
You know I was very robotic.
8:21
And so, I stopped taking it.
8:26
BECKY: But that's when he discovered snowboarding.
8:34
And I would say that that is basically what saved him
8:39
because he had that focus.
8:42
TRAVIS: I just fell in love with snowboarding.
8:45
It was all I could think about.
8:48
There is a physical, emotional, and even spiritual release.
8:52
For me it's art.
8:58
JIMMY: Travis can be a little scattered,
9:00
because he just has so much energy,
9:04
but when he's snowboarding,
9:05
it's like he takes that energy and can hyper-focus it and
9:09
perform the sublime.
9:17
TRAVIS: Tempting, voluptuous, beautiful snow.
9:22
JIMMY: Watching Travis snowboard is a beautiful thing to witness.
9:29
But when you're going in the big mountains,
9:32
it can all go wrong at any moment.
9:40
(helicopter rotors and wind)
9:44
TRAVIS: We might do a little wide circle to go look at that chute.
9:47
There's 2 or 3 lines that are pretty bad-boy.
9:50
And also, right over this thing um there's a crevasse gap that
9:53
actually looks pretty good.
9:55
Pretty good.
10:01
To ride any type of big mountain terrain is really hard.
10:05
But the filmmaking piece ups the complexity quite a bit.
10:11
I'd spent three and a half years working on this film.
10:17
We are isolated to these opportunistic windows of
10:20
weather to try to get a couple good days.
10:27
And we had been skunked,
10:29
we're talking storm for three weeks.
10:33
JIMMY: By the time you get a weather window,
10:35
you've got a full camera crew, probably four different angles,
10:39
and an aerial team on standby.
10:46
So when Travis is actually standing on top of 3,000-foot spine line,
10:51
he has to compartmentalize all of that
10:53
pressure from the production and then perform as a
10:57
world-class snowboarder.
10:58
The amount of pressure is extraordinary.
11:04
BOTH: Ohh!
11:06
VICTOR: Scary feature.
11:08
TRAVIS: Scary feature?
11:12
Dude, how's this then?
11:16
When we finally got the window to go,
11:18
there was a component “this is my chance” and
11:22
everything has to go perfectly.
11:33
Ya know, when accidents happen in the mountains so
11:35
rarely is it like one bad decision that led to that.
11:40
VICTOR: Oh my God, so much snow here.
11:43
That's what I feel the most sketchy about.
11:46
TRAVIS: Yeah.
11:47
I was up there with Victor De La Rue.
11:49
We were trying to make a best guess assessment of
11:52
how much new snow we thought there was.
11:56
I mean, it seems like the cornice right here
11:57
is pretty supported.
11:58
But it has that same look, you know, where like,
12:01
the cornice has been breaking,
12:03
making the avalanches close to the rocks.
12:08
We got there and the light looked so good and the face
12:11
itself was so stunningly sexy.
12:20
And oftentimes I'll strap in and kinda jump on the top and
12:23
try to get a little bit of snow to run down the mountain to do
12:26
a quick assessment of the slope.
12:29
VICTOR: I mean worst case you can go check it out.
12:32
TRAVIS: No, I feel pretty good about it.
12:33
VICTOR: Cool.
12:36
TRAVIS: And this time because I was so entranced by
12:39
how pretty the face looked for the filming,
12:42
I didn't want to scuff it up.
12:45
You know, had I done a quick assessment
12:47
I would have not gone.
12:53
(bleep) yeah, dude.
12:58
Just commit to the 7, just commit to the 7.
13:06
TRAVIS: Just Commit to the 7.
13:10
I wanted to do a backside 720 into the
13:13
middle of the face,
13:14
which is inverted two spins with a flip,
13:19
and then I was going to do two turns and then I was gonna
13:21
exit over like a small cliff, rider's left.
13:38
(heartbeat and heavy breathing)
13:46
(muffled clap)
13:48
(inaudible prayer)
13:54
MAN (over radio): Travis dropping in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
14:09
(crack and rumble).
14:18
CREW: Holy (bleep).
14:23
(heavy breathing).
14:30
(rumble)
14:35
(muffled groans)
14:45
CREW: Holy (bleep).
14:49
(muffled screams)
15:06
CREW: He (bleep) went off that cliff?
15:10
Holy (bleep).
15:12
Where is he?
15:14
(bleep).
15:16
Where is he?
15:18
Does anyone have eyes on him?
15:28
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15:44
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15:59
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16:07
TRAVIS: I started to feel the light collapse right as
16:10
I was taking off.
16:15
And in my head my exit was rider's left.
16:19
But I just see big rocks and so I can't go any more
16:23
in that direction.
16:25
The next thing I tried to do was self-rest into the bed
16:28
surface but there was too much snow above me and it kinda
16:31
just swept me off my feet.
16:35
Next there was a cliff below me I didn't want to hit the rock
16:39
with any part of my soft body and so I really just
16:43
tried to get in like a backstroke position,
16:47
keep the nose up and make sure it's the board that
16:50
hits the rock going over the cliff.
16:54
(bleep).
17:03
The minute I went into open air it was a
17:05
time dilation experience.
17:11
It's just a really excruciatingly long time that
17:15
you're waiting to hit.
17:20
(thud and muffled screaming).
17:48
I didn't think it was gonna pop that big.
17:55
I definitely took quite a bit of a kinda side impact.
18:05
TRAVIS: I mean (bleep) dude, I should have known better.
18:21
It was absolutely a near-death experience.
18:28
JIMMY: When I asked Travis about, ya know,
18:30
what was the first emotion.
18:32
He said he was angry. He was angry at himself.
18:43
JIMMY: And, I mean, I get that.
18:45
I mean, I've been caught in an avalanche before.
18:47
It's embarrassing, because it means you made a bad decision,
18:52
and you're supposed to be a professional athlete.
18:55
And Travis is really the ultimate mountain professional.
19:02
TRAVIS: But in this avalanche, I made a couple bad decisions.
19:07
I let myself down. I let my team down.
19:11
You know, Nothing good.
19:15
BECKY: I was unaware of the avalanche until I saw the film.
19:18
And when I asked him about it, after seeing that,
19:22
his comment was,
19:23
“It wasn't as bad as it looked.”
19:26
I think he kept from me whatever feelings he had.
19:34
TRAVIS: The reality that you're doing something
19:36
where there is, you know, risk of death.
19:39
I think to do it properly, you really have to have that
19:42
conversation with yourself.
19:45
CREW: Spleen?
19:48
No. Down here?
19:50
TRAVIS: I mean it's taken me years to have that
19:53
internal conversation, right?
19:55
Yeah dude.
19:57
CREW: Glad you're okay. TRAVIS: Me too man.
20:00
(bleep) stupid.
20:02
I learned at the end of the day,
20:04
nailing the sweetest line of my life against possible death,
20:11
no, I don't think it's worth it.
20:15
You get a little cavalier with the decisions you make and
20:18
for me that day it was underestimating how much new snow had fallen,
20:23
wanting to get the footage,
20:26
and deciding not to do a quick assessment of the slope,
20:30
you know, led to me getting, getting
20:33
into that avalanche, getting swept over the cliff.
20:40
My recovery took a lot of work.
20:48
And then I actually went back up to Alaska.
20:55
FRIEND: How you gonna take out speed?
20:58
TRAVIS: Respectfully.
21:03
I make decisions differently, but I will never retire.
21:10
FRIEND: Alright, best of luck.
21:17
JIMMY: Travis took in what happened,
21:20
and then he moved on and then the next couple years,
21:23
you know, he's still out there charging.
21:28
BECKY: I just have the most respect for Travis,
21:31
forcing himself to take a deep breath and learn
21:37
from this experience.
21:42
JIMMY: At the cutting edge of adventure sports,
21:45
the risks are always there.
21:47
But each athlete has to make a very personal decision,
21:51
and sometimes that shifts.
21:54
It's about what they're willing to risk in that moment
21:57
to achieve their dream.
22:00
Captioned by Cotter Media Group.
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