For the second year straight, the world title will be decided at Pipeline. After a carbon fiber year of consistency, Mick Fanning looks like the easy favorite. However, the other surfer vying for the crown happens to be the best of all time, Kelly Slater. Kelly must win Pipe Masters to earn the title. And even if Kelly wins, Mick has to lose before the semifinals in order for the king to grab his 12th crown. The odds like Mick, but miracles like Kelly. Two men of great wealth and taste squabble below.
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Ten-time Big Mountain Rider of the Year winner Jeremy Jones revolutionized backcountry snowboarding with DEEPER, his 2010 ode to splitboarding and human-powered adventure. His 2012 sequel, FURTHER, took him to the planet’s most remote mountain ranges and earned him a nod as a 2013 National Geographic Adventurer of the Year.
Now Jones and his crew are elevating their game and taking their quest to the next level for the third and final installment of the DEEPER, FURTHER, HIGHER trilogy. HIGHER–like the chapters that preceded it–is produced and co-directed by Jeremy’s brothers Steve and Todd Jones, who are the co-founders of Teton Gravity Research.
HIGHER traces Jones’ snowboarding journey from hiking Cape Cod’s Jailhouse Hill as a child to accumulating several generations’ worth of wisdom and expertise about thriving and surviving in the winter wilderness.