"Further" teaser released!

Jones, TGR release 'Further' teaser

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It's that time of the year again. Teaser season is upon us. Jeremy Jones and TGR are here to kick things off for us with a new trailer for 'Further,' which if you don't know about by now, you really haven't been paying attention. (Don't worry, you can catch up on all the behind the scenes action from the making of the movie in the 'Further Unplugged' web series.) The bigger news is that a date has been set for the 'Further' premiere. It's set to make its debut in Jones' home of Tahoe, Calif., at Squaw Valley on September 7. Check the TGR website to view the full list of tour dates. In the meantime, sit back and enjoy a taste of the epic adventure Jones and friends have in store for us come fall. 

Transworld
Jeremy Jones is back with his new film, Further. Further will explore some of the world’s most remote mountain terrain while continuing Jones’ mission to camp deep in the backcountryand on the summits of unridden lines to access nearly vertical spines and wide-open powder fields. Join Jeremy and his crew as they push their minds and bodies Further.
Further is featuring riding from: Jeremy Jones, Terje Haakonsen, Ryland Bell, Lucas Debari, Forrest Shearer, Josh Dirksen, Mitch Toelderer, Bibi Pekarek.
Filmed on location at : Japanese Alps / Atomfjella Mountains, Norway / Karwendel Range, Austria / Wrangell Mountains, Alaska / Sierra Mountains, California

Snowboarder, EWallstreeter

As nine-time SNOWBOARDER Magazine Big Mountain Rider of the Year, Jeremy Jones is one of the most acclaimed snowboarders to ever strap in. With his new movie, Jones and his band of big mountain bandits aim to ride some of the most remote peaks in the world's most exotic locales. From the makers of Deeper comes Jeremy's second film Further, where Jeremy travels to the ends of the earth to get the goods. Watch the trailer and hold your breath now.

  
Outside TV, OnBoard
For the last two winters, Jeremy and the crew at Teton Gravity Research have been working hard on producing their follow up to the acclaimed Deeper so, without further ado, here’s the first proper look at Further. It’s dramatic.
You’ll have seen glimpses of what they’ve been cooking up in the Further Unplugged webisodes and this looks like it’ll be following a similar M.O. but taking it, ahem, further. Deeper was certainly an engrossing experience and we’ve got a feeling Further is gonna be equally epic. Stay tuned for premiere tour info and more.
Here’s how TGR break it down: “Further will explore some of the world’s most remote mountain terrain while continuing Jones’ mission to camp deep in the backcountry and on the summits of unridden lines to access nearly vertical spines and wide-open powder fields. Join Jeremy and his crew as they push their minds and bodies Further.”
  
Frequency
The second film from Jeremy Jones and TGR, "Further" builds upon 2010's "Deeper" and expands the range and commitment of Jones and crew's explorations. From Norway to Austria to Alaska's unexplored Wrangell Mountains, from Jones to Haakonsen to Debari to Dirksen, here's the teaser--we can't wait to see the full feature this fall.   

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Deeper, Further, Higher: Jeremy Jones Interview

By SamPetri | July 23rd, 2012

Jeremy Jones’ Further trailer drops Wednesday, July 25, on TetonGravity.com. The two-year snowboard film project produced by Teton Gravity Research and presented by O’Neill is the second installment of the Jeremy Jones trilogy: Deeper, Further, Higher.

Shot in Japan, Norway, Austria, Alaska and California’s Sierra Mountains, this is Jones’ most ambitious film to date. Further explores some of the world's most remote mountain terrain while continuing Jones' mission to camp deep in the backcountry and on the summits of unridden lines to access nearly vertical spines and wide-open powder fields using only human power to get up and down.

In light of the trailer release, we caught up with the boss of big mountain snowboarding to give you some insight on the movie, the trilogy and his company Jones Snowboards.


What Further trip stands out the most in your mind and why?

Jeremy Jones: All the trips were really special to me. It's hard to pick one. I think going up to Svalbard [Norway] with Terje Haakonsen stands out because I was really out of my comfort zone and in a place that I knew very little about. And, I had never ridden with Terje, and I had all this anxiety going on that trip. It was the only time in 17 years that I didn't go to Alaska, and chose to go to this island right next to the North Pole instead, and I just didn't know. … I had heard that there were decent mountains there, but, you know, really didn't know what to expect, and we ended up scoring really good conditions and riding some of the best lines of my life in the middle of the night under pink skies. We were there in the spring, and it never gets dark at that time of year, so three weeks of not seeing the sun set was a trip.

What was the biggest challenge you faced while filming Further?

JJ: Hiking these lines is the biggest challenge. Primarily because we're trying to get these serious faces, and get them in powder. And there's just no room for error on the calls that you have to make in the mountains. We're on these faces for hours, and if you have one little pocket break on you on the way up it could kill you. And on the contrary, if we were on our boards riding and a little pocket breaks, it’s no big deal. So that just adds this major intensity. Every day. You'll look in the film and see all this happy, cruiser powder and it's … um … That stuff is really serious. Because we're on those slopes for hours, and if something happens, the consequences are high.

What do you look for in a location when planning a trip for Deeper, Further and Higher?

JJ: I’m looking for places with a safe snowpack. So that could be … a lot of these locations are maritime snowpacks. Austria isn't, but they had a great winter. A place like Austria can go either way. Some years it's a very dangerous snowpack, some years it's a much more manageable snowpack. This year was a very good snowpack for them. It was still tricky, but not the deep instability that would shut down a location for me. That, good terrain, and a place that still holds a lot of first descents.

What Jones snowboard do you ride the most?

JJ: I ride the Solution 161 the most.

Why?

JJ: It's just a great, versatile, all around board that works in all conditions. When you go on these trips, you have no idea if you’re going to be riding bulletproof or bottomless pow, and that board kills it on everything. Actually, in the Japan segment, I'm on a Hovercraft because I had some inspiration from Japan when I designed that board, and I felt like that was the place to ride it.


What's your favorite place to ride in the Tahoe backcountry, if you're just going to go for the morning, or on an average Wednesday?

JJ: When ever I'm out in the mountains with someone I tell them to tell their friends that we're on Donner Pass.

[Laughs] Nice. Over the past two years while filming for Further, who did you ride the most with and why?

JJ: Well, I probably ride with Ryland Bell more than anyone just because in the winter we live in the same town, and Ryland is … He rides every day. And so it's just a guarantee. If I need someone to call to go ride, to go do some mission, to go ride bulletproof ice at the resort, a rainy, slushy day in the backcountry, whatever. Ryland's down. He's happy. He's charging.

What do you hope to show with the whole trilogy of Deeper, Further and Higher?

JJ: I would say in general, just a general kind of vibe, is to get people fired up to go into the mountains. Inspire them to push themselves. Wherever you are on that spectrum, that could mean different things. I want to give the viewer a really good taste of the mountains, and also hopefully educate some people on the mountains. Because I think that's important. If you're inspiring people to go into the mountains, it comes with a responsibility to also educate them about the mountains.

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Further Unplugged Episode #9 / ESPN

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Further Unplugged heads to Austria

Updated: July 11, 2012, 5:55 PM ET

By Seth Lightcap | ESPN Action Sports

 

Chapter nine of Jeremy Jones and Teton Gravity Research's Further Unplugged series shares a glimpse at a unique splitboard expedition to the Karwendel Range of Austria. For this frigid cold February mission Jones is joined by 2011 Freeride World Tour Champion Mitch Tölderer and female freerider Bibi Pekarek. The crew braves a record cold snap to bag multiple first descents in the spine-filled playground of one of the largest wilderness areas in the Eastern Alps.
The Karwendel Range looms large on the skyline above Pekarek and Tölderer's hometown of Innsbruck, Austria. Despite it's proximity to a major metropolis this slice of the Northern Limestone Alps sees virtually zero traffic in the winter. Something about the unforgiving and avy prone slopes keeps backcountry skiers away, says Tölderer.
"The Karwendel is not very inviting for most people in the winter," Tölderer remarked. "The limestone slopes are steep, rough and exposed. You also need very solid snow conditions not to get trapped by avalanches in the deep valleys."
But of course, Jones is not most people. The primordial alpine landscape of the Karwendel proved to be yet another perfect canvas for the freerider to paint first descents.

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Mitch TöldererMeet Bibi Pekarek, the first female snowboarder in a Jeremy Jones movie.

"We rode a lot of first descents on this trip and it wasn't because we were way out in the middle of nowhere," said Jones. "It's just an example of the acreage of incredible terrain in the Alps. It's mindblowing."
The long approach into the heart of the range meant the Further crew had to tow in sleds loaded with their gear. A little extra huffing and puffing up slope treated the team well however. Moving and shaking helped them battle off the double digit below zero temperatures.
"You could pour water in your water bottle and then watch it freeze in front of your eyes," said Jones. "It was unrelenting cold."
Such brutal temps were also a challenge to Pekarek.
"Camping out at minus 20 degrees Celsius made me switch more towards survival mode than ride mode," said Pekarek. "Hats off to the camera crew who were setting up time lapses when it was so cold. I didn't even consider taking off one of the three pairs of gloves I was wearing. It took a couple months before I could feel my toes again after that trip."
Pekarek's feet must not have been too frozen for freeriding. Her work ethic and talent for riding a spine line scored her the first female part in one of Jones' films.
"I wasn't hellbent on finding a female rider, just to have a female rider," said Jones. "Bibi was a natural addition because she belonged in the film. She's super fit and a huge asset in the mountains. She helped put in as many skin tracks and boot packs as I did and delivered 'A' grade action shots. I'm really excited to have her in the film."
The hometown opportunity to become an international female ambassador of the backcountry snowboarding ethic is thrilling for the Austrian freerider.
"It's an honor to represent the female splitboarding community as a part of the movie," said Pekarek. "I know a lot of girls who are into hiking and exploring so it's good to show the audience that women love the quietness of nature and being away from the hassle of busy resorts too. I hope this will encourage more girls to hike 'deeper' and 'further'."

Further Unplugged Episode #8 / ESPN

Further Unplugged: Polar Bear Handplants

Updated: July 11, 2012, 5:55 PM ET

By Seth Lightcap | ESPN Action Sports

Chapter eight of Jeremy Jones and Teton Gravity Research's "Further Unplugged" series comes to us again from Svalbard, Norway, where expedition photographer Dan Milner painstakingly snow sculpts a polar bear and a walrus that become the base camp mascots. The ice sculptures attract the eye of Terje Haakonson who sees their curvy lines as the perfect transitions for a trip ending mini-shred session complete with a few signature Haakon handplants.

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Dan MilnerWhat else would you expect out of Terje on a down day?

ESPN caught up with Milner, the ever-witty British photog, to hear more about Philip the polar bear and Rachel the walrus (Yes, he named the pair.) and how it felt to have his beloved sculptures slashed to bits by the Viking shredder.
ESPN: What inspired you to build the animal sculptures?
Milner: I have a degree in Marine Biology, so camping on a remote Arctic island that has such an abundance of marine wildlife, snow-sculpting these two marine mammals just seemed like the thing to do. We were hoping to see Polar bears or Walrus during the trip, but never did, so I thought why not build my own?
It helped having a three-day storm roll in with little else to occupy my time and 24/7 hours of light to work with. I never sculpted snow before. These were my first. They won't be my last I am sure.
Where did the names Rachel and Philip come from?
Svalbard has 3,500 polar bears and who knows how many walrus, so it seemed to me that if they all had names, some at least would have that kind of mundane, run of the mill kind of name like Rachel or Philip or Kevin or something like that. Maybe even a Reginald.
We might think they are incredible animals, but I bet if you knew some personally you'd think some of them were right boring.
How long did it take you to build the sculptures?
I made the mistake of starting with the polar bear. That's quite an ambitious sculpture, first off. I think it took me about four hours in all, including shoveling what amounted to about a ton of snow. Rachel followed up on day two at around two hours in all, including the coloring with cocoa powder.
How did the idea of Terje sessioning the sculptures come about?
The day before we left camp we thought it right to 'sacrifice' them to the Norse god of the Arctic. Who better to do than Terje? I'm just hoping that they made it onto Google Earth or street view before they got hammered.
How did the amazement of watching one of the most famous shredders ever handplant them stack up against the sadness of their destruction?
To this day I still don't know how Terje can ride like that and pull one-footed handplants. But then again, I never saw him build any snow sculptures, so maybe that makes us even?
Seeing them get nailed was a little sad, as it signaled the end to the Svalbard camp session. The two weeks we were camping out were two of the most incredible weeks of my life. It's a stunning place, full of beauty and incredibly unspoiled wildlife. We should make sure it stays that way.
 

Further Unplugged Episode #7 / ESPN

Further Unplugged: Jones' Jet-A

Updated: July 11, 2012, 5:57 PM ET

By Seth Lightcap | ESPN Action Sports

Chapter seven of Jeremy Jones and Teton Gravity Research's Further Unplugged Series digs into Jones' backpack and takes a look at the super food he carries with him on big days in the mountains. We're not talking about his mom's secret meatloaf recipe though. To fuel Jones' dawn to dark splitboarding missions he passes on the cold pizza and turkey sandwiches, choosing instead to eat like a competitive triathlete -- strictly energy gels and energy chews.
Watching Jones climb nearly every line he rides these days it makes perfect sense why finding the human equivalent of Jet-A heli gas was so important to him. The exhausting multi-hour approaches and gut wrenchingly steep descents were enough to deal with, feeling queasy from eating the wrong food only made matters worse.
"I used to eat a sandwich in the middle of the day but I would feel too full and then get a crash a couple hours later," said Jones about his pre-DEEPER diet. "So I talked to a bunch of trainers and other alpinists about the food that worked best for them and everybody agreed that energy gels were the most efficient and easiest to digest fuel you could eat."
The nutritional science behind why all snowboarders, and any athlete for that matter, should pay attention to Jones' performance tip is simple. Your body burns between 500-1000 calories an hour while exercising depending on your weight, metabolism, fitness level and the intensity of the workout. For maximum energy you need to replace half of those calories an hour with food -- about 200-400 calories. You don't have to replace all the calories you burn because you have some stored calories known as glycogen. When the glycogen is gone and you haven't eaten anything is when you bonk.

Jones powers up for a 6 hour hike, straight up.

The honey-like energy gel packets and gummi bear-like energy chews are made of simple carbohydrates, sugars and electrolytes that melt in your mouth and deliver an instant punch of about 100 calories to your bloodstream. Feeling weak after a mega long pow run? Pop an energy gel when you get on the chairlift and you'll likely feel stronger by the time you unload says Jones.
"I can absolutely feel the effects after eating an energy gel," Jones said. "I set my clock by it. Five minutes after I eat a gel I get 25 minutes of power."
To sustain that power requires Jones' to consume about two energy gels or packets of energy chews an hour when he's on the move. On long backcountry tours Jones admits to eating the gels and chews "non-stop" and reaches for the gels that contain caffeine at the end of especially ruthless days.
"If I'm really hammered the turbo gels with the extra caffeine will pick you up off the ground and get you running," says Jones. "I always keep an extra one of those in my pack."
Jones is quick to clarify that this Further Unplugged episode is no infomercial though. It's just the reality of what it takes him to pound the peaks, day in, day out and feel strong.
"If you could have seen the amount of Clif products that have fueled my films than you would understand that we are just stating the facts," said Jones. "We don't believe in these products because they pay us. We eat this stuff because it works. These are the calories that have given us the energy to climb all these mountains." 

Further Unplugged Episode #6 / ESPN

Further Unplugged: Polar bear prank

Updated: July 11, 2012, 5:58 PM ET

By Seth Lightcap | ESPN Action Sports

Further, Unplugged: Polar Bear Prank

The latest episode in Jeremy Jones' behind-the-scenes web series takes us to the Arctic, where the crew learns how to face the danger of polar bear attacks.

Chapter six of Jeremy Jones and Teton Gravity Research's "Further Unplugged" series details a close encounter with a 'man-eater' that had TGR cinematographer Dan Gibeau running for his life. After Gibeau accidentally sets off the polar bear alarm surrounding the camp in Norway, Jones and the TGR crew trick him into thinking a polar bear is actually coming to eat him. Gibeau's desperate reaction to the prank is classic basecamp comedy.
Despite the 'down day' humor, the premise of the polar bear prank is based upon a reality that's not so funny. The island of Svalbard where Jones and Terje Haakonson filmed for "Further" in April 2011 is home to over 500 polar bears and has been the scene of dozens of polar bear attacks. Six people have been killed by polar bears on Svalbard since 1973. The most recent was in August 2011 when a starving bear attacked a British youth group, killing one student and injuring four others.
During the Further crew's three week stay in Svalbard they were accompanied by an Austrian guide named Gigi who took the lead in protecting their camp from intruding polar bears. Gigi's two lines of defense were a rifle that he carried with him at all times and a rigged trip wire surrounding camp that blew off a flare when tripped. Gibeau mistakenly set off the trip wire not once, but twice in their first two weeks at camp, inciting Gigi, Jones and TGR production director Jon Klaczkiewicz to plot revenge on him.
The prank unfolded with Gibeau dead asleep in his tent. The bear wire was tripped on purpose and Gigi began screaming about a bear in camp. Gibeau woke suddenly to Gigi's yelling, only to hear what he thought was a polar bear scratching at his tent walls. The bear was actually fellow TGR camerman Chris Edmands, down on all fours, scratching and snorting around next to Gibeau's tent.
What happened next is the stuff of basecamp legend.

TGR/MilnerPolar bear tracks, and the "bear alert" wire surrounding the Further crew base camp rigged to blow off a flare when tripped. Snow camping in Svalbard is no joke.

"The night before this all happened I had a vivid dream that a polar bear was at my tent," explained Gibeau. "I escaped the bear in my dream by cutting my way out of my tent and running away. So when the bear alarm went off the very next day and I heard scratching at my tent, I thought this was definitely real. I started to panic so I went with what had worked in my dream. I grabbed my knife, cut my way out, ran as fast as I could in my long johns and socks across the snow and dove head first into the group tent."
Photographer Dan Milner witnessed Gibeau's mad dash to safety.
"I don't think I ever saw eyes that wide when Dan burst into the group tent, Leatherman in hand, having slashed his way out of his own tent," said Milner. "Of course he was pretty spooked and soon came round to cussing us all when he realised it was a prank. It took him a little while to calm down, days I think, which made us feel a little guilty, but we all admired the way he actually dealt with the perceived threat, both slashing his way out of the safe side of his tent and going for the guns when he got to the group tent."
Gibeau was indeed bent out of shape by the prank, but has since found some humor in it.
"In retrospect it's pretty funny, but at first it wasn't at all," said Gibeau. "I knew that a polar bear wouldn't be coming into my tent looking for food. It was coming in looking for me. Edmands is lucky he didn't get hurt actually. One of my first thoughts was to stab towards the polar bear with my knife. But then I thought that might just piss him off. It definitely wouldn't have been such a funny webisode if Edmands had been stabbed!"

TGR Interview - Further with Jeremy

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Interview: How To Go Further With Jeremy Jones

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By ryandunfee | June 26th, 2012

It won’t surprise you to hear that Jeremy Jones is really good at snowboarding.  What might surprise you is that Jones, at 37 years old, is riding the most serious terrain he’s ever ridden, a product of 25 years reading the mountains and building his skill set.  That should give any rider cresting into middle age hope that the best days are still yet to come.  But what’s the key to making sure that happens?   Stay at your fighting weight.  Protect your days on the hill.  Don’t be afraid to back down when it’s not the right conditions.  Don’t ride through pain.  Get out of the resort and splitboard more.  And don’t bomb frozen moguls.  Follow these directions, and your biggest days won’t be at 25, but at 35, 40, even 50 years old.
Interview by Ryan Dunfee

Jeremy Jones summits a peak this past spring in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park in Alaska while filming for his two-year snowboard movie Further. Photo by Chris Figenshau.

As I’ve had more success, I’ve had to deal with more business.  When you’re coming up trying to make it as a pro, no one’s asking you to do anything, and you get to snowboard all day, everyday, and go home and get ready for the next day.  As you have success, you start getting pulled in all different directions.  You have to really protect your days on the hill. …  I’ve always been pretty good about blowing off the real world and prioritizing snowboarding everyday, and I’m still really good at doing that.

From a risk perspective, I’m much more selective on the days that I hit serious lines, but I’m riding bigger, more serious terrain than I’ve ever ridden.  I’ve always tried to stay away from secondary exposure… and in general, I’ve gotten really good at turning my back on the mountains and backing down and waiting ample time for lines.  I turn back way more than I used to.

For me, I’ve been able to look at guys that are 10 or 15 years older than me, you know, Laird Hamilton-type guys (48), or Jim Zellers (47) or Tom Burt (48) who all continue to kick my ass in the mountains and I see that people have gotten smarter about how to get in shape, how to recover, what’s going to hurt you down the road, what’s not, etc.  Having these phenomenal athletes who are farther down the road than me, and studying them, has been a huge help for me.

You have to stay fit.  Weight is a huge deal with a lot of people.  There’s a lot of people that put on an extra 10 or 20 pounds [as they get older].  That’s going to do more harm than anything.  That’s that much more stress on your ligaments.  Trying to stay at your fighting weight is something that is really important.
Jeremy Jones drops in to a line this past spring in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park in Alaska. Photo by Jeff Hawe.

I’m also being really selective on airs and charging in hard snow.  I ride a lot of hard snow, but I’m not bombing hard moguls like I used to.  That kind of abusive riding will catch up with you.  I can watch a lot of guys who are 25 and know that unless they change their riding style drastically, it’s only a matter of time before they start getting injuries.  That’s, generally, just guys going big to flat and stomping flat landings.  That eventually catches up with you, and as soon as you have an injury, you blow your knee or wreck your back, it becomes very hard to go back to being able to go 40 feet to flat again. 

I listen to my body and I don’t push it.  If I’m in pain, I really back off my riding.  I won’t ride through pain. 

I spend so much time splitboarding now that I actually have a lot less aches and pains than I used to have 10 years ago. …  I used to ride about 70 percent resort freeride days, and even on pow days there’s still a lot of abuse if you’re riding in-bounds. [While splitboarding] it’s generally smooth conditions, it’s not a lot of chattery, hard, moguly conditions.  And [by virtue of splitboarding], the vert I’m getting in a season is way down.

The stuff I’m doing now, I couldn’t have gotten here five years sooner.  I look for terrain and mountain scenarios that require my full skillset, and I’m doing stuff now that I couldn’t have done even two years ago.  I’ve spent a lot of time progressing in steep terrain, and you can’t ever skip steps.  It’s so much about reading the mountains — the riding is almost secondary. 

Outside TV - "DEEPER"

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Jeremy Jones' Deeper

A collaboration between legendary snowboarder Jeremy Jones and the award winning production specialists Teton Gravity Research instill The Deeper Project with a baseline of epic suspense and athletic greatness. This 10 episode series will take you on an all encompassing journey through untouched snowboarding meccas as Jones and the TGR crew unlock the secrets to mastering some of the greatest lines on earth. A far cry from his humble beginnings riding golf courses in Massachusetts, Jeremy Jones is now one of the most influential snowboarders in the world. He forged his own path in the industry and now sits at the top of his game as not only a snowboarder, but an entrepreneur, environmentalist, and an icon to his thousands of fans. Over fifteen years of riding from helicopters, Jones felt he had exhausted the resources around him. Frustrated with heli boundaries and inspired by earth consciousness, Jones decided to forego the use of fuel powered machines and go deeper into the mountains using a simpler, less traveled method -- the human body. But achieving the lines Jeremy wants is no walk in the park. It requires the crew to camp miles from civilization in brutal conditions, waiting out the weather for the perfect moment to strike. Completely off the grid, anxiety, fear, and excitement are just a few of the emotions whipping through the tents as storms engulf their ephemeral world, trapping the riders and testing their sanity. With food supplies low and no escape in sight, the severity of their situation sets in... is this even possible? When the skies open up the adventure kicks into high gear and the real danger begins. Leaving before dawn the crew skins by headlamp to climb isolated peaks for hours on end, only to summit and descend within minutes, completing the emotional roller coaster they subject themselves to. Rather than the sole focus be Jeremy and his team of snowboarders, the cameramen and production crew propel the story even further as they struggle with their own issues: carrying gear, planning logistics and climbing the same lines with a fraction of the glory. These unsung heros of the production industry are brought into the light as the same caliber mountaineers as the riders themselves. The beautiful thing about Deeper is that it is just the beginning. Jeremy’s complete vision is a trilogy: Deeper, Further, Higher. The entire project spans six years creating extreme adventure.

SHOW CLIPS

3:00 Jeremy Jones' Deeper: Tahoe Deep	4:40 Jeremy Jones' Deeper: Haines Part 2	3:23 Jeremy Jones' Deeper: The Tour Ronde
4:58 Jeremy Jones' Deeper: Tahoe Deep	3:06 Jeremy Jones' Deeper: The High Sierra	3:32 Jeremy Jones' Deeper: The Bivy
4:19 Jeremy Jones' Deeper: Haines Part 2	4:16 Jeremy Jones' Deeper: Haines Part 1	4:11 Jeremy Jones' Deeper: The Spine Institute
3:50 Jeremy Jones' Deeper: The Swiss Face	2:33 Jeremy Jones' Deeper: Glacier Bay	4:36 Jeremy Jones' Deeper: The High Sierra
3:04 Jeremy Jones' Deeper: The Swiss Face	3:18 Jeremy Jones' Deeper: The Blanche De Peuterey	3:24 Jeremy Jones' Deeper: The Spine Institute
4:40 Jeremy Jones' Deeper: The Blanche De Peuterey	4:04 Jeremy Jones' Deeper: The Bivy

Further Unplugged #5 / ESPN

Further, Unplugged: Cold cameras

What it takes to 'get the shot' in the sub zero temperatures of the arctic

Originally Published: March 17, 2012

By Seth Lightcap | ESPN Action Sports

The latest chapter of Jeremy Jones and Teton Gravity Research's Further Unplugged series celebrates the unsung heroes of the movie project: the cameramen. The episode details the gruesome cold conditions and nerve rattling exposure that TGR cinematographers had to suffer through to bag the banger shots on their 2011 expedition to the Arctic Circle in Svalbard, Norway.
The efforts of his production crew on the Arctic trip, and every other frozen adventure he has taken, are not lost on Jeremy Jones.
"You can't even fathom what the cameramen have to deal with on our expeditions," said Jones. "Just keeping the cameras operating in the cold is a huge challenge, let alone the weight they have to carry up the mountain to get the shot. It's incredible what they do. It's an art form."
Teton Gravity Research's head of production, Jon "JK" Klaczkiewicz, was one of the cinematographers who joined Jones in the Arctic. Maintaining battery power and steering clear of unstable snow were Klaczkiewicz's two biggest obstacles on the trip.
"Batteries were a constant day-to-day battle because we only had solar power to charge," Klaczkiewicz said. "On overcast days we never knew if the batteries would last and the cold made it worse. There were a couple times that we had a hard time getting the laptop to spin up because it was so cold."

Christoph Schimpføssl(left) JK, Chris Edmands and Dan Milner at a shooting perch in Svalbard. (right) JK using a splitboard dolly.

The avalanche danger wasn't extreme while the crew was in Svalbard but the potential for a slide was never far from Klaczkiewicz's mind when he was shooting on-slope.
"Avalanche danger is the most unsettling aspect of shooting in the backcountry," Klaczkiewicz said. "When you have a 50-pound camera pack on you just can't move as fast to get to an island of safety."
Shooting between a rock and frozen place does have it's rewards though. Photographer Dan Milner who also accompanied the crew in the Arctic says the shots he has to work for are often the most fulfilling.
"It's often hard for the viewer to appreciate the 5 a.m. predawn starts and 1000-meter climbs needed to reach the shooting spots, but the shots where I had to put in more effort fill me with more personal pride and fulfillment," Milner said. "Perhaps it's due to having your own personal limits pushed, your own comfort zone threatened, to get the best you can. I'm not saying that I'd necessarily want to repeat some of those crampon-and-ax climbs though!"
For Jones, finding cameramen willing to push the limits of their bodies and their equipment in the backcountry was the initial challenge, but after successfully filming "Deeper," the focus of "Further" is simply to get better at it.
"For years I had cameramen tell me 'You just can't winter camp with cameras,'" Jones said. "It has taken us four years of dedicated work to figure out how to do it, but were getting there. The only way we've learned is to make mistakes." 

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Further Unplugged: Miracle in the Tetons

Part two of the 'Further Unplugged' Tetons avalanche episode with Jimmy Chin, Jeremy Jones and Xavier de Le Rue

By Seth Lightcap

ESPN Action Sports

Chapter four of Jeremy Jones and Teton Gravity Research's "Further Unplugged" series finishes a two-part story about a backcountry mishap that nearly ended in tragedy. The webisode catches back up with Jones, Xavier De le Rue and ski mountaineer Jimmy Chin in Jackson, Wyoming while the crew is still reeling from an avalanche accident that, all things considered, should have killed Chin.
The avalanche occurred when the group was heading back to the trailhead after shredding the Sliver couloir in Grand Teton National Park. The route home mandated riding a sunny mid-elevation slope. When Chin dropped into the pitch he set off a massive wet slide that took him for a harrowing 2,000-foot ride before spitting him out unscathed in a debris field of rock hard snow boulders below.
Needless to say, the avalanche took the experienced crew by surprise.

Tero RepoJones, Chin and De le Rue plot their trip into the Tetons.

"Between Jeremy, Xavier and I, we have a pretty good foundation of knowledge about moving in the mountains," said Chin. "We made our assessments and thought we were doing the right thing, but the mountains don't care if you're a pro or not. If you make a miscalculation at the wrong time in the wrong place, you're gonna go down.
"It's hard to make perfect decisions out there all the time. You do your best. I used to always judge other people's mistakes in the mountains. I think a bit differently now. Everybody's gotten away with a mistake or poor decision out there at one point or another, but sometimes it catches up to you or sometimes you're just plain unlucky."
De le Rue recalled that when he started his avalanche beacon search, he was certain that he was looking for a dead friend.
"I remember being shocked at the size of the huge field of big snow boulders and thinking that even if Jimmy hadn't been crushed to death, it would take way too long to find him and dig him out," said De le Rue. "A few seconds later, I heard him shouting and realized that miracles in the mountains do happen."
The miracle of his survival was not lost on Chin.
"Getting crushed by tons of snow and watching stands of trees blowing up in front of you as your moving down the mountain is pretty scary," said Chin. "Seeing the massive debris field and how far I'd gone, I shouldn't have lived -- but apparently, it wasn't my day to die."

Outside TV picks up "Deeper" as 10 Episode Series

Check out Jeremy on the front page of Outside Television!
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 Teton Village, Wyoming — The award-winning producers from leading multimedia action sports brand Teton Gravity Research (TGR) announce the production of an original, exclusive Jeremy Jones' Deeper television series for Outside Television, the only television network dedicated to the active outside enthusiast.

Jeremy Jones' Deeper, a 10 episode series from legendary snowboarder Jeremy Jones and TGR, will premier exclusively on Outside Television this year. The series will give viewers an intense look at the personalities, adventure, drama, and excitement from two years of filming Deeper, showcasing some of the greatest snowboarding adventures on the planet. Pushing the limits, Jones and the crew forego the use of fuel-powered machines and go deeper into the mountains using a simpler method - the human body.

"We're really excited to partner with Outside Television and bring action sports to a larger audience with Jeremy Jones' Deeper," says Steve Jones, TGR co-founder. "The series is about challenging the human spirit, and the desire to go deeper and look around the corner. Each episode will have a pointed goal from start to finish and, whether you're a snowboarder or not, viewers will be able to relate to the trials and tribulations experienced, including failure and success."

An independently owned network, Outside Television is currently available on cable in more than 110 premier resort destinations throughout the United States. The network, which broadcasts in full HD, serves those passionate about adventure travel and adventure sports, including skiing, mountain biking and surfing, and consistently ranks number one in Nielsen ratings in its resort markets. Outside Television is currently in negotiations with several major cable operators as it expands its footprint nationally.

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Further Unplugged: Mishap in the Tetons

Jimmy Chin, Jeremy Jones and Xavier de Le Rue get into trouble in the Tetons

By Seth Lightcap | ESPN Action Sports

 

Chapter three of Jeremy Jones and Teton Gravity Research's Further Unplugged series begins a two-part story about a backcountry mission that was epic for the wrong reason. The webisode meets Jones, Xavier de Le Rue and ski mountaineer Jimmy Chin in Jackson, Wyoming at the tail end of a storm cycle. The superstar freeride crew has their eyes on filming some big lines in the Teton backcountry once the weather clears, but fate has other plans for them when a recon day goes seriously astray.
The Teton trip was supposed to be epic because it brought together three of the world's foremost ski/shred alpinists with the potential goal of climbing and riding the tallest peak in the range: The Grand Teton. Jones brought the Teton-savvy Chin into the mix as the group's unofficial guide.
"I was just showing them around a bit," said Chin, a humble Jackson local and groundbreaking adventure photographer and filmmaker. "Jeremy and Xavier are very capable in the mountains so 'guide' would be a major overstatement."

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Mark FisherGrand Teton National Park's Sliver couloir.

The trip marked only the second time de Le Rue had been to the Tetons, so no doubt the Frenchman needed some help focusing his window shopping for possible film lines.
"The Tetons are very impressive," said de Le Rue. "Coming back to Jackson after a bunch of years definitely inspired me. There are a bunch of sick looking lines around there."
The crew wasted no time finding one such sick line on their first day exploring Grand Teton National Park after the storm cleared. The posse triple teamed the Sliver couloir, "A relatively mellow line with easy access from the valley," describes Chin.
"We checked out the Sliver couloir as a recon mission to see how things were looking higher up," said Chin. "We had been tracking conditions and taking our time getting a feel for the crew and the snowpack, but we all knew that we had to go up and check out snow conditions to really know what was going on."
As Chin recalls, the avy danger forecasted for that recon day was not too high.
"We weren't hesitant to go climb the Sliver," said Chin. "I can't remember exactly what the danger rating was that day but it was nothing out of the ordinary. Or, at least not a rating that had kept any of us from going out into the backcountry before. Avy ratings are only one indicator of many that we pay attention to."
The descent of the Sliver goes as planned with all three athletes safely ripping the line, but the day's adventure doesn't end with the high fives at the bottom. A serious sucker punch from the mountain gods awaits as the crew makes tracks for the trailhead. Tune in for the conclusion to the story in the fourth of TGR's Further Unplugged series, coming next month.

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Further Unplugged: Svalbard

Jeremy Jones takes Terje on his first splitboarding mission ever up in the Arctic Circle

By Seth Lightcap | ESPN Action Sports

 

The second episode of Jeremy Jones' "Further Unplugged" web series delivers an introduction to quite possibly the most epic shred mission undertaken last winter. If backcountry snowboarding in a polar-bear habitat, or the 190-kilometer, 30-hour approach over sea ice didn't clinch that "epic" title, then the rarefied riding partner Jones brought along on his adventure sure did.
In April, Jones connected with the legendary Viking shred Terje Haakonsen for an expedition to Svalbard, an archipelago of mountainous islands in the Arctic Circle off the coast of northern Norway. The pair of pioneers spent three weeks camped out on a glacier snowboarding lines they had climbed. The trip marked a lot of firsts. Namely, it was the first time the two had ridden together, and it was the first time Terje had ever been splitboarding. As you can imagine, some heavy first descents went down.
While waiting for the snow to fly in the Sierra Nevada, Jones spoke to ESPN about what made the trip a dream come true, despite a shaky start.

ESPN: What drew you to Svalbard?
Jones: I had heard rumors of this island with really good steeps, really close together with flat run-outs. Turned out it was all true and then some. Svalbard has amazing terrain, 24-hour sunlight, you can cross most valleys in 10 minutes, and the maritime snowpack sticks to the mountains, making for a relatively safe [avalanche] cycle. There is also a lot of glacier ice, which is key. If you don't have glaciers, you're not going to find cold pow that close to the ocean.

Jeremy JonesSvalbard: where the mountains meet the ocean in the Arctic Circle, the polar bears outnumber humans, and people use sleds instead of cars to get around.

 

Getting into the mountains proved to be the catch. What made the approach such an ordeal?
The zone we wanted to ride was a 190-kilometer snowmobile ride away from the nearest town. We weren't sure how long it would take but we estimated about 10 hours. It took us 30. At the 10-hour point it started raining and a river formed in the glacier we were trying to climb up. The snow scooters kept getting stuck in the slop, so we decided to set up camp and get some sleep. When we woke up and started moving, we immediately got stuck 100 yards out of camp. It took us another eight hours to go up the glacier.

“ The first time I saw Terje was at the U.S. Open in 1990. I was a groveling am and he nearly won the pro halfpipe contest. I was blown away. If you had told me on the side of that pipe that in 20 years we would be riding together for the first time, filming for my movie in the Arctic Circle, I would have never believed you.
” -- Jeremy Jones

What are snow scooters?
Snow scooters are like nothing I had ever seen. They are really beefed up and geared down snowmobiles made for hauling. It's how everyone gets around, gets to work, gets everywhere in Svalbard. We were able to put two people and all our gear on each one. You're traveling on a frozen ocean so we averaged about 30 miles an hour when the ice was smooth.

What did it take to convince Haakonsen to join you on the trip?
I talked to Terje right when "Further" became a reality. He was down from day one. Over that next year I would get random calls from him from the mountain shop: "Do I need crampons? What kind of ice axe should I get?" He was new to it all but came in really gung ho.

How did he take to climbing lines with you?
Terje is an insane athlete and super fit. He had never been on a splitboard or climbed with an ice axe or crampons, but he adjusted to the climbing really well. He was running around the mountains in no time.

Jeremy JonesJust a mellow little 190 km sled slog.

 

Had you ever ridden with him before?
No. The first time I saw Terje was at the U.S. Open in 1990. We were similar ages, but I was a groveling am and he nearly won the pro halfpipe contest. I was blown away by him. If you had told me on the side of that pipe that in 20 years we would be riding together for the first time, filming for my movie in the Arctic Circle, I would have never believed you. Every run we took on this trip I was still that little kid on the side of the pipe excited to watch him ride. He's hands down one of the best snowboarders to ever strap in. I still can't believe he was on the trip.  

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Jeremy Jones unplugs

The first of twelve "Further Unplugged" webisodes takes us to Japan

Last year Jeremy Jones took us "Deeper" -- into the wilds of Alaska, the heart of the Alps and the steeps of Antarctica -- but that was only the warm-up. Now the big mountain snowboarding pioneer is poised to shred right off the map in "Further," the second installment of the backcountry snowboarding video trilogy from Teton Gravity Research that will debut in the fall of 2012.
Jones and the TGR crew had a stellar season filming last winter, bagging productive trips to Japan, the Arctic Circle and the California High Sierra. Good weather and even better company bolstered Jones' success, with the likes of Terje, Josh Dirksen and Forrest Shearer riding along with Jones on the expeditions.

Those who can't wait to feast their eyes on these rarefied backcountry adventures are in luck, as the TGR "Unplugged" videos are back in action. The teaser series will offer a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the challenges Jones and the crew face as they venture into the unknowns of the alpine.

LightcapDirksen, Shearer and Jones cherish the sun filming "Further" in Hakuba, Japan.

 

Press play on the first episode, "Exploring Japan," and you'll join Jones, Dirksen and Shearer as they mob through hip deep Ja'Pow and battle gale force winds splitboarding in the Kita Alps above Hakuba, Japan. With the help of local backcountry guide, 'Yeti' Dave, the crew gets a taste of the terrain before setting their sights on bigger, badder lines. For a quick lowdown on the mission, we caught up with Shearer for a couple questions:

ESPN: How would you describe the terrain in Hakuba?
Shearer: It was pretty similar to the Wasatch range in Utah in a sense. There was great forested terrain just outside the resort boundaries, but the high alpine lines we were after were more challenging to get to. Picking lines was tough as the avy danger on the open terrain was serious. Storms hit the high peaks hard so the snow conditions were constantly changing.

Heavy winds seemed to change a few plans on the trip. How was it dealing with the wind?
It was crazy. Gusts would blow you straight over and the wind-packed snow was difficult enough to climb up as it was. The winds were probably 60 plus mph one of the times we tried to push up the ridge. We turned back pretty quick at that point. It was not a good day to be climbing any higher.
Look out for a new "Further Unplugged" episode every month until the film drops Fall 2012.

 

Further - Trailer and Press Release

http://www.tetongravity.com/further/

Award winning producers Teton Gravity Research are pleased to announce the production of Further, the second installment in the Jeremy Jones trilogy, Deeper, Further, Higher presented by O'Neill. Further will explore some of the world's most remote terrain while continuing Jones' mission to camp deep in the backcountry and on the summits of unridden lines to access nearly vertical spines and wide open powder fields.

Teton Gravity Research's Deeper rocked the snowboarding world in September 2010 as Jeremy Jones pushed himself and his crew to summit world-class lines in remote backcountry zones. Experimenting to see if this backcountry camping approach would work for the level of riding Jones was after the TGR Deeper crew executed amazing first descents around the world. Through research, patience and hard work, the crew was able to live in caves and on glaciers to ride untouched lines without another human in sight.