These documentaries are always about the great effort of the skiers in front of the camera. But even more impressive is the effort of the film crew pulling off the same route while documenting it on camera. Carrying loads of gear, switching lenses in snow storms, managing power and always be one step ahead of the athletes to get the shot. I’m a filmmaker myself and this always blows my mind! There should be another documentary about the making of this film!

I work a 9-5 job, watching films like this brings me a tremendous amout of joy. Thank you.

These lady’s are dope. Somewhere there are people now saying I can or I want to or I will,because of people like them. Bravo!

I can’t believe I’m seeing these beautiful documentaries for free right now

I am a women's college soccer coach and for Patagonia to produce and share this means so much more than words to say... this story of course is not about Patagonia, I believe Patagonia would be the first to say that this is about 3 incredible and capable women, but i'm just so thankful and so inspired by this adventure and by the personal Experience I went on from start to finish of this video. Thank you Leah, Marie-France, Madeleine, and Patagonia for all of this.

This is the 1st female focused back country ski touring film I have ever seen! And it sets a high water mark. As a viewer I felt this emotional connection to the strong women in this film. It like a passion for nature is a network for folks that enjoy the testing them selves in the wildness of snowy mountain ranges. The ski culture runs deep in these folks and I am grateful to be inspired by them.

I’ve been guided by Maddie and have deep respect and love for her . She is a truly professional fully rounded guide and Mtn. Badass . Great guiding Maddie and stellar accomplishment to the team of 3 strong women . Also - ultra good film making and editing Sweetgrass !!

Really awesome quote from Marie talking about how truly challenging it is being a women in the outdoor sports industry and the World in the general. As a man, I never will fully be able to understand what women go through in this regard but thought this quote really brought home how amazing women in the outdoor industry are to a whole new aspect when looking at the difficulties women face not only in something like this traverse- where they are literally fighting for survival- but also against society as well. Truly amazing group and awesome film! Great job!

It's probably my bias of being a filmmaker, but... so much respect not just to the kick ass women here, but the camera crew! Unsung heroes of stuff like this.

I loved the soundtrack for this! The classical and folk music mixed really well. I felt like it helped strike a balance between the daunting mountain atmosphere and the joy of skiing with great friends!

Another inspiringly beautiful Sweetgrass Productions Film about three badass ladies showing us all how it's done. Amazing to see how far Madeleine has come since meeting her and sharing the Scott Duncan Hut with her over a decade ago on the Wapta Traverse-one of likely several traverses she forgot to mention in her long list of accomplishments. Congrats Ladies.

As a new guide myself I have to say Thank You. Thank you for being another beautiful and authentic example of what the future can hold.

What a privilege to watch these three amazing women: no "boo-yah" or any of that stuff. So impressed. "You weave a basket to hold the trip."

What a great documentary and so good to see a ski / mountain film about women. Thank you Patagonia.

This is 5 star content, what I come to youtube for. Simply fantastic.

The most amazing thing of all the amazing things we've seen in this amazing film is the eyes of these ladies.

Being a woman has nothing to do with how bad ass these humans are. EXHAUSTED having just watched this, I feel for them. "When Marie says I'm toast!" With that delirious laughter and a smile perfectly encapsulates these kinds of type 2 fun adventures. Well done ladies! 🤙🏼🍻

thanks for giving visibility to women adventurers!

Incredible as always. Patagonia has the best films.

I have loved Patagonia and what it represents my whole existence.

YES!!!! Love to see incredible women doing incredible things on a platform like this!!!

Beautiful photography. These women accomplished a very challenging terrain but they were honest and kept a good sense of humor.

From the first moment, we were given wings. The passion and drive in their hearts sits in stark contrast to the steely indifference of mountains that inhabit the very tip of existence. Inspiring. An otherworldly immense odyssey with the terror of night skiing that brings my mind back to my own fear of long ago night dives. Then... the exhilaration of pushing through to reach the flooding relief that comes at the end of a successful journey, and the inner peace that accomplishment bestows within. Awesome.

It's awesome to see 3 powerful strong women achieve their goal. Also cool that now days It's not that remarkable. Previously the thumbnail would have noted 3 woman. We're making progress. These ladies are bad ass. Had to come back in after finishing watching. Anytime you can say, my friends are making the world a better place. You are on the right track.👍☮

HalleluYAH A truly inspiring glimpse into the amazing lives of the beautiful souls. May YAH Most High protect you all and keep you safe. Thank you for helping me through my hardest traverse yet...

Strong women who show their vulnerability. Very inspirational and gives me courage to try harder

Incredible show of girl power! Awesome movie!!!

Radnesssssssssssssssssss RAD RAD RAD !!! takes me back to memories with friends that wanted to quit and we had to encourage ourselves... it's a powerful thing . Sa weet Back country clip !! Love it !! And PROPS to all these ladies !!!! My hats off to all of them

Simply an amazing film about the power of the human spirit.

What incredible women. Thank you for showing the rest of us how we can push our limits even farther, and for making the world a better place with your contagious joie de vivre.

LEGENDS!!! Great job ladies. Right in my back yard

Omg such a amazing trip and goal! These women!

Love the aspect ratio choice on this video. It looks amazing on an ultrawide monitor.

Soooo good and thoughtful!! I was fully absorbed for 40 minutes.

Awesome. The tone is a whole different world than you'd get from guys doing this.

A testament to teamwork and growth mindset. Anything is possible with the right attitude. Much respect!

Such a powerful video in so many ways, wonderful, ty. Madeline you never cease to be amazing. Our hiking group is blessed to have you as one of our summer guides, you make the hard stuff doable.

Patagonia, thank you so much for creating this!

That was a sick film. Great job and those ladies are inspiring af - very impressive, and it shows they are much, much more than incredible athletes

thank you for taking us along. :)

What a fantastic film and what an incredible adventure of a lifetime! Bonding over a journey of adventure and self exploration, there's nothing quite like it. Cheers to the women and the videographer!

Gosh! This group of women and what they went through and their honesty to how they were feeling and persevering was EPIC! ⭐️ Having done an all female traverse for 5 days in the Drummond Glacier traverse a few years ago, before the pandemic, I can totally relate to these spectacular women! Our guides were the outstanding people 💯of Sylvia Forest from Golden and Alison Cardinal. The editing of this video certainly captured the "real" experience of a long traverse...camping out like we did....weather changes, steep terrain, ice crampons, changing plans as the weather dictated...and..yes...those blasted trees doing down in the heat having just come off a freezing mountain or glacier top...learning to pace yourself...and then..there is the group effort to bring the team together...the challenges of looking for the success of the trip for all when the drive is so big to complete the trip to fruition...it really tests you out...all imperfections and strengths rolled into one! Then the reminder that it is in the mountains that one really finds out who they are and just what they can accomplish if you put your mind to it...and...most importantly how supporting each other is crucial to the over all team success...Gosh! How I miss those week long hut trips😉 Waiting for this pandemic to be over with so to get back to BC and Alberta for more back country skiing and trips with the Alpine Club of Canada🍁🇨🇦

The collaboration, connection and spirit between these three athletes is increible. So inspiring.

I can't put into words my admiration towards these women. Truly inspiring!

"Add a public comment," it says. Why? They did this! All I did was watch the video. My skills don't match what's required for this route, and that's fine. I've never even had on skis. I backpack in the mountains, and I've survived being whited out. The backcountry is not something you can imagine, if you've never been there--how the light shines through the rock. As another comment says, "These ladies are dope." I want to thank them and everyone connected with making this video! It truly inspires you to take on whatever challenge is right for you.

This was an amazing & powerful film. The amount of grit between these three ladies is incredible and truly rad.

The best skiing film of the year so far. Ski traversing is a bizarre blend of thru-hiking and ski mountaineering and its magic is undeniable. I got sick and broke a ski halfway between Wolf Creek Pass and Silverton last spring. Hiking out to near Creede was the hardest day I've had in the mountains and it was all downhill

Did this traverse in 2009 after two previous attempts. Thanks for the brilliant footage and fantastic story. I so remember reaching the pass after Midnight and being just as happy as these gals. Wonderful film.

I don't think I blinked - such an inspiring journey!!!

Respect them and this awesome movie!

What an amazing journey, powerful images and thoughts. Brought me to tears. There are so many layers. It's all about this achievement, willpower, a dream come true. But it is about so much more: friendship, spirit, the true human nature itself, why we need each other. Thank you for taking me along. Now i know i want, i can, and i will...

Thoroughly enjoyed the film, the sentiment and character shown . . . how many great aspirations have also delivered the question, "Who's idea was this? . . . ", well that's why they call it adventure and if you make it through together you're never the same. Congrats on completing your journey.

What I wouldn't give for a friendship as powerful as this.

✨🌎 Inspiration at Altitude & Attitude ☝️

This was just brilliant. I have been educating myself for a couple of months and watching stories from athletes. This has been my favourite and is on top of the list. Thank you for making this. Thank you for bringing stories from extraordinary people to us.

Amazing job by you three and terrific camera crew work and editing to get to the core of what happened. Best short adventure film I've seen in years!

Super inspirational, thank you all for sharing your story! Props to the filmmakers!!

I want a female friendship like this. These ladies are badasses! Great music in this video as well.

Amazing! Ladies, thank you so much for taking us on your journey. You are truly amazing women and athletes. I would be honored to travel the backcountry with you.

What a lovely bunch of people, makes me wish to be there to share the journey and get wrapped up in the passion.

Such an amazing trip and so cool it's documented for you ladies to look back at for you and your families! Well done!

Went Heli hiking in the bugaboos 20 years ago magnificent mountains and a great experience

What amazed me most about this movie was that these women who were essentially professional adrenaline junkies/athletes, and were able to ski things that would downright terrify me, themselves found this trip terrifying and difficult. I cant even begin to wrap my head around it. They genuinely look traumatized by the trip when being interviewed, though it could be because it was so fresh, it made the movie so much more real as well and heightened the emotional experience.

A wonderful story about these three wonderful ladies in a truly beautiful landscape. Camera work is great, drone shots are superb and editing and music are perfect! Thank you.

Those gals are the most amazing and raw people… that is an amazing film and I want to go condo a traverse now

I’m 75 y/o and paying the price of having had too much fun. I did what little of whatever of little consequence I ever did in the in mountains solo. It was easier than dealing with the level of testosterone common then. I sincerely wish there’d been women like these informing the world of mountaineering when I was active. Not that I’d expect them to want me to accompany them on any adventures, just knowing they were there would have been wonderful. Maybe next lifetime. Namasté.

Fantastic documentary! Sweetgrass x Patagonia productions are always the best 🔥🔥🔥

Incredible feat acheived by you all, much respect lady’s & film crew. Truly inspirational. ✌

Love this movie, love these mountains 😍❤️

Inspiring to see the connections you built through this trip, ladies. You can all be very proud of yourselves. @sweetgrass dope job as always ✌🏼

Outstanding! The shared experience of beauty and hardship on adventures like this truly bring out the most amazing qualities of the human spirit. Well done Patagonia and Sweetgrass !

This was fascinating. Props to these folks for enduring that sufferfest... Doesn't look fun but extraordinary

Very powerful, I loved it. It is midnight now, but I would only like to be up there, in my mountains.

Woooooo! Such a beautiful, inspiring lesson: everithing is like breathing SPREZZATURA. Congrats 🤟🤙🙌

very good documentary. Impressive journey between these three awesome girls. Thank you to Patagonia to make this possible.

That s a beautiful movie and a beautiful story. Thank you very much for sharing. LoL from the UK xx

Beautiful! I loved it. Thank you for sharing your adventure.

So damn beautifully exposed ! Amazing positive spirit. BRAVO !

Excellent watch thanks for sharing ladies

Wow!!! An inspiring journey and adventure.

Inspiring film, beautiful places and what a challenge! I cannot wait to get back in the mountains

Awesomeness. The athleticism, the collaboration, the cohesiveness and the love of pushing boundaries between these 3 was truly inspiring! Top notch location, editing and production! Major Kudos on a job so well done. 💪🏻☝️👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😁

I-N-C-R-E-D-I-B-L-E !!

This film is Amazing!!! How did I not see this until now?

Amazing and so well done. What an adventure you've taken us all on!

Always loved this kind of stuff. I was really drawn to being a skier / mountaineer when I was younger. Then life kicked in. I honestly don't know how anyone can live this kind of life. From this vantage, if you aren't rich, and without a care, there would never be any way to dedicate weeks / months at a time to just "going and playing" on an adventure. Just not worry about, rent, pets, jobs... The freedom to not have to care about those things like normal people.... Must be nice to have a lot of money.

amazing movie, thank you!

Bravo! You've created another masterpiece. I have dabbled in taking cameras on ski traverses, and developing characters and storyline is such a challenge it becomes a potential distraction from the actual staying alive on skis. Even the route itself gets developed as something of a character. This joins Treeline with some of my favorite outdoor movies.

Ladies, I take a bow.

Thanks for doing it team. .your hard work and honesty were incredibly powerful and my 12 year old loved the video. Patagonia thanks again for doing it like you do, you have all my support, thanks again and as always please keep give’n em Hell, eh🇨🇦👍❤️

absolutely love this film! beautiful shots and strong women... love to see it🏔♥️

Roller skiing and SpikeBoarding will give you all the base you need for this kind of endurance and strength demand ladies. A little more fitness makes for a lot more fun. Well done, enjoyed the film a great deal thanks for posting. Ski Hard Ski Often

Amazing film, thanks for sharing this incredible adventure

I totally love this!

inspirational. Awesome work girls!

This was simply fantastic.

Thank you for the inspiration 👌🏽

Wow, so freaking inspiring! I loved this so so much. Thank you for this content.

EPIC! Congratulations ladies, you are rock stars! So motivational and inspirational. Dig Deep, Don't Quit

An amazing story.. Thanks for sharing.