After a failed attempt on the Sphinx in 2019, I talked to @steepskiing and he told me, "You know, you don't have to climb the lines in the Chugach. They were always meant as Heli-lines." Which in the context of the time the book came out, made a lot of sense. But for me, I still didn't want to be ushered to the top because times have changed. Sure there has been a long long history of skiers climbing and descending badass mountains and lines. But for me, the same year the Fifty book came out, @jeremyjones released Deeper and opened up my mind to the possibilities of climbing freeride lines in Alaska. So a decade later, after a career of filming in ski movies and riding lines in AK via machine, it felt like there was little challenge in using a whirly bird to go tag Pontoon, Meteorite and The Sphinx. So I stuck to my idea for the project and wanted to continue to attempt to climb and ski all the lines in the book. ⁠ ⁠ Now on Wednesday, you get to see how that return to the Sphinx went.⁠ ⁠ 📸: @bjarnesalen ⛷️: @edshanley ⁠ 🏂️: @nick_russelll