Patagonia film is a tool for expressing and disseminating messages from patagonia, which actively engages in global environmental protection activities. A new film has just been released.
It is a record of the backcountry adventure of three women who completed the traverse strip of about 130 km from the Bugaboo Mountains in British Columbia, Canada to Rogers Pass in the Selkirk Mountains in eight days.
Traverse stripping is a type of mountaineering that uses skis, telemarks, and splitboards to walk from the starting point to the destination, and is a very popular style of mountaineering in Canada. From one day to several nights to one month, it is enjoyed according to individual levels and preferences. In Japan, it's like a hotaka traverse in summer.
The title is "Memory over the mountain Bugs to Rogers"
The Bugaboo Mountains and Bugaboo mountain range, which is the stage of this work, is very famous among climbers around the world because there are 12 sharp spires (pointed peaks) exceeding 3400m above sea level. It is also popular as a heli-skiing area in winter, and CMH, which is well known in Japan, has a base lodge here and also conducts heli operations. On the other hand, Rogers Pass is also well-known to backcountry skiers because of its annual average snowfall of 10m. This time's work is a documentary film in which a patagonia ambassador and his three female companions skied across these two famous spots.
Bugaboo and Rogers Pass are about 130km apart, and there are about 20 large and small glaciers along the route, and countless passes come one after another. While traversing the glacier, which has the risk of cracks, it repeatedly crosses the mountain pass in the extreme cold. The total elevation difference of this traverse strip is nearly 10,000m.
It's easy to imagine that it's a hardcore adventure just by hearing it. What kind of nature did the three female skiers see and feel while walking the 130km traverse strip? What did they share with their friends, and what did they learn and gain in the harsh natural environment?
Now that it is difficult to go abroad due to the corona crisis, why not enjoy this documentary film in a mode that makes you feel as if you are traveling with us?
[Overview of adventure]
Patagonia Snow Ambassadors Marie-France Roy and Leah Evans, along with Leah's old friend Madeleine, are on an eight-day backcountry adventure. The route is 137km from Bugaboo to Rogers Pass.
Our guide for this trip, Madeleine, has done countless traverse strips in the past. Marie and Leah are natural freeriders, and speaking of the backcountry, most trips are day trips or ski trips, and this is the first time for a long trip like a traverse (crossing a mountain range). Challenge the Bugs to Rogers traverse of 137 km and a cumulative elevation difference of 9,150 m, and draw a dense travel record and a deep friendship between the three.
