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By Sam Collentine, Meteorologist Posted 4 years ago December 26, 2019
WATCH: The FIFTY - Mt. Rainier
Mt Rainier is known as the North American training ground of mountaineering. This is why professional big wave surfer, Ian Walsh, joins Cody on Mt. Rainier in an attempt to prepare for his goal of climbing and riding Denali, the highest mountain in North America.
Rainier brings a bevy of lessons to the inexperienced Walsh and experienced Townsend as they navigate whiteouts, crevasses, altitude and the decision making on whether to continue and risk it all for a line or to turn around and call it a day.
'The FIFTY' is a project to climb and ski all 50 lines chronicled in the book, "The Fifty Classic Ski Descents of North America". Over the next three years, Cody Townsend will be chronicling the adventures, challenges, and travels as he takes on a collection of the most aesthetic, spectacular, and hardest lines in North America.
Line #1: Messner Couloir
Line #2: Mt. Superior
Line #3: Terminal Cancer
Line #4: Hypodermic Needle
Line #5: Mt. Currie
Line #6: Aemmer Couloir
Line #7: Joffre Peak
Line #8: The Sphinx
Line #9: Pontoon Peak
Line #10: Spearhead Traverse
Line #11: Giant Steps Couloir
Line #12: Grand Teton
Line #13: Landry Line
Line #14: Middle Teton
Line #15-16: North Maroon & Holy Cross Couloir
Line #17: Mt. Tukuhnikivatz
Line #18: Wilson Peak
Line #19: Meteorite Mountain
Line #20: Watson Traverse