In The Fifty, Cody Townsend sets out to ski all 50 lines in the classic ski book, The Fifty Classic Ski Descents In North America. In Episode 1, Cody Townsend starts ticking off these 50 classics starting with the Messner Couloir.
Watch The Fifty: Messner Couloir
Official Description From YouTube:
Introducing The Fifty. A project to climb and ski all 50 lines chronicled in the book, “The Fifty Classic Descents of North America” by Chris Davenport, Penn Newhard and Art Burrows. Over the next three years I, Cody Townsend, will be chronicling the adventures, challenges and travels around North America skiing a collection of the most aesthetic, spectacular and hardest lines in North America. Episode 1 details out the plans and the first line ticked off on the adventure, the Messner Couloir on Denali, the highest mountain in North America.
