The camera-wielding owners and athletes behind Crested Butte's Matchstick Productions had been eyeing a line in Alaska's Tordrillo Mountains for years.
Last winter, snow conditions were perfect in the mountain range 75 miles northwest of Anchorage that includes volcanic Mount Spurr and 11,413-foot Mount Torbert, and the crew put the line on the to-do list. Professional skier Cody Townsend stepped up and dropped into the ridiculously narrow chasm, plummeting more than 2,000 vertical feet through a cliff-lined choke that seems too tight. The 31-year-old skier's segment in MSP's "Days of My Youth" is storming the Internet, with more than a million views and Townsend's debut on ESPN's SportsCenter. Stories appeared nationwide, including this one in The Denver Post.
-- The Denver Post
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