The Fourth Phase Page #4

and seeing as how this year is already

really challenging out there,

and not looking all that safe from what

we've been able to collect so far.

Maybe we go out next year

when we hope conditions

are better than they are this year.

We grow into that.

TRAVIS:
It was looking really bleak.

We were talking about

pulling out of the field.

We did two weeks waiting

for a good snow and then we saw

a mass of low pressure,

way off the Aleutians,

coming from Russia

and watched it for days,

and it just turned into this incredible,

stable snowpack.

So Far Gone is not happening,

but there are places that

you can go and still find...

somewhat normal conditions.

So it's just the two of us, so we're gonna

definitely be shredding

with the third in spirit.

Yeah.

Um...

But, you know, a little bummed

that he had to, he had to bounce.

[HELICOPTER WHIRRING]

["A KNIFE IN THE OCEAN" PLAYING]

[MUSIC]

[MUSIC]

Looks like AK.

I'm scared, finally. [CHUCKLES]

[MUSIC]

[MUSIC]

[MUSIC]

[INDISTINCT]

You've got to cross the slough.

I was thinking about coming

in the middle here.

[MUSIC]

[MUSIC]

[WHOPPING]

Travis pushes the limit so hard,

but when we look at decisions that he makes,

they're very calculated.

That's probably what

I respect the most about him.

He sees that he could ride it and he will.

[ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYING]

[OVER RADIO] Trav, you got this, buddy!

[MUSIC]

[MUSIC]

[MUSIC]

[MUSIC]

- Dropping.

- Go on, man.

[MUSIC]

Look at that, buddy. Get this. Get this!

Oh!

Yeah! [LAUGHING]

MAN OVER RADIO:
Good job, boys.

[LAUGHING]

That makes it all worth it, right there.

- Amen.

- That's what we live for.

A beautiful day. [CHUCKLES]

Seriously. Yeah, buddy. [GRUNTS]

MAN 4:

You land things and you don't land things.

I guess if you're Travis,

you usually land things

that you probably shouldn't have landed.

[MACHINE BEEPING]

[RESPIRATOR PUMPING]

DOCTOR:

The fragment's the size of my finger.

The CAT scan on top of the MRI

shows a little old injury

and then the new injury

on top of the old injury.

No question.

On the right side that's normal

volume to the nerve holes,

but if you look at the left side

almost all of its disc.

Most people would be laying on the floor,

carrying him on an ironing board.

They wouldn't be up walking around

smiling with that kind of rupture.

If you look at this, which is the paraspinous

muscle and the belly muscle, the soleus.

His muscles around his spine

are the single biggest ones

I've ever seen.

His core muscles

are literally like this...

- I mean, I've never see this. It's insane.

- It's huge.

WOMAN:
Travis Rice, a left L 4-5

posterior lumbar microdiscectomy.

No known drug allergies,

two grams of Ancef is in.

PROFESSOR:
What's the fourth phase?

When water meets a surface,

the molecules undergo massive change.

They become structured,

they acquire charge...

All you need is light.

DOCTOR:
Waking up.

The surgery is done. Went perfect.

You in there?

Open your eyes up.

You're going to be back.

TRAVIS:
When we set out on a goal,

follow through means a lot,

and you push it a lot,

regardless of how

the outcome might end up.

["RITUAL" PLAYING]

[MUSIC]

Yep.

VICTOR:
My phone rings and I was like,

"Why is Travis Rice calling me,

telling me all about his trip,"

and he wants to go to the sickest place

he's ever seen in Alaska.

Then at some point he tells me,

"Yeah, I would be stoked

if you could join in."

I could not truly believe it.

TRAVIS:
So Far Gone finally feels

like it's coming into alignment,

but living and snowboarding in an area like

this comes with a lot of heavy exposure.

I'm just gonna get my legs and mind

warmed up to this style of riding again,

reconnect with

the mountains here in Alaska.

[WIND BLOWING]

VICTOR:
In Valdez, perfect warm up

before a big mission in the glaciers.

[HELICOPTER WHIRRING]

TRAVIS:
I don't feel like I chose Victor,

it's what he's done in snowboarding,

the ways he's tried

to express his own riding.

He wrote his own destiny.

MAN OVER RADIO:
Victor in three...

two... one... dropping!

[ROCK SONG PLAYING]

Travis, dropping.

[MUSIC]

That's it.

[BOTH CHEERING]

[MUSIC]

Whoo-hoo-hoo!

Victor and his French rules.

[MUSIC]

TRAVIS:
It's been about ten years

since I went out with Jones

and camped on a glacier for a month

and totally changed my perspective

on ways to operate up here in Alaska.

It's great to have him up here

so we can kinda get aligned for

our approach into So Far Gone.

Jeremy Jones, and he's right there.

JEREMY:
Rice, I'm 100 percent.

TRAVIS:
Copy that.

Give her heaven, buddy.

[MUSIC]

[MUSIC]

F***, yeah. Dude, get this.

[MUSIC]

[OVER RADIO] Good job, Victor.

MAN OVER RADIO:
Travis, just give me

a circle when you're ready.

Three... two... one...

Travis, dropping.

[RUMBLING]

[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]

[WIND WHISTLING]

TRAVIS:
I find myself infatuated...

with a vision of doing something

in such a specific way.

[INAUDIBLE]

I have not figured out how to separate...

reckless optimism...

from a healthy appetite to pursue things,

until it becomes impossible.

To be able to know the difference...

Yeah, it'd be amazing.

[MUSIC]

I've been lucky to have

a few glimpses into...

what this idea of letting go really is.

I know it's possible.

[WIND BLOWING]

[TRAVIS GROANING]

[SNOW RUMBLING]

[TRAVIS GROANS]

[MAN ON RADIO SPEAKING, INDISTINCT]

[TRAVIS GROANS]

[HELICOPTER WHIRRING]

[GROANING CONTINUES]

[SOFT INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING]

[MUSIC]

TRAVIS:
I was laying there,

very upset with the decisions I made.

Angry that I'd just injured myself,

knowing that So Far Gone wasn't

going to happen, and I had a shift.

I was given this gift of humility

and appreciation for life.

And everything that happens to me

is this opportunity for learning.

Really, the greatest journey

is the one that you take towards

a better understanding of yourself

and this incredible life

that we get to live.

Now we get the wind back.

Okay.

There she is.

[UPBEAT ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYING]

[CHEERING]

[MUSIC]

Yay, Lando!

[CHEERING]

[MUSIC]

[CHEERING]

F***, yeah, Rice.

You're gonna be bouncing right over.

[LAUGHING]

PROFESSOR:
We feel free

when a new understanding appears.

So, that's where we get great pleasure.

We stumble and we try and finally

something comes together.

It's beautiful.

[RAIN PATTERING]

[MUSIC]

TRAVIS:
This process we follow...

This cycle we ride.

[MUSIC FADES]

[ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYING]

PROFESSOR:
There was a series of

letters from Einstein to his daughter,

and they weren't to be released

until many years after her death.

And one of them was a charming story,

he said, "Take my equation, E = mc2

and replace the 'm,'

replace the mass with love."

He said, "You put love into the equation,

and love times the speed of

light square gives you energy."

He says, "The real energy

comes from love."

Who's got a phone? I have to call my mom.

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