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Patagonia, the Southern end of South America, where the border bewteen fantasy and reality disappears. Between deserts and mountains, Arc’teryx athlete Johannes Hoffmann and Thibaud Duchosal are embarking on a 1500 km journey to the end of the world in company of local gaucho skier Lucas Swieykowski. But penetrating a territory where the wind reigns as master is not an easy task and reserves lot of uncertainties.
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00:03I didn't see many places in the world like this part of Patagonia, no?
00:12These mountains for me are incredible.
00:20They have all the history of bad weather that made them famous, no? From the beginning.
00:27If you are lucky, you will ski maybe one day, but if you are unlucky, you won't even ski.
00:56We are going to drive more than 1,500 km through Ruta 40, exploring the mountains and the mountains.
01:03The massive land of Patagonia.
01:17All of a sudden we are driving nearby this lake with these huge icebergs, and in the very end you
01:22see the big mountains.
01:29It's far from everywhere. You don't have anything, access is difficult.
01:34At the end your backpack is quite heavy and you need to carry it.
01:39We are right in the position where you rely on your own skills.
01:43You have to check the weather, you have to go out there, you have to dig a snow pit, you
01:46have to see how the snow is.
01:49Here you still have the sensation, the feeling of a pristine mountain.
01:54The weather here is like, you can have the four seasons in one day.
01:59It changes so fast and the wind is so strong that...
02:03The gusts, you can really feel them far away and then they are like...
02:07Variable, crazy wind, crazy Patagonia is like...
02:11Wind-talking, it's another planet. I have never seen a place like this.
02:16Yeah, we gambled, currently we lose, so...
02:23The mountains more or less tell you, come here, come here, come here.
02:26And as soon as you are in the mountains...
02:28Boom!
02:30You got hit hard.
02:32I think that's a part of the game. You have to suffer sometimes here.
02:50You must experience this kind of weather, otherwise I think you don't deserve it.
03:01You are virtually enough.
03:02Or if you have...
03:02You're not trying to get it, you know?
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