Each week (or so) snowboard site Yobeat interviews someone on Wednesday. The interview is called Hump Day and this week they interviewed big mountain Jeremy Jones and got the lowdown on his unceasing quest for riding epic snowboarding lines.
We’ve always wondered where Jones’ big wall chasing would eventually end and in this interview he explains it pretty succinctly. In answer to interviewer Brad Oates question about a snowboard mountaineer who went missing in 2002 on Mt. Everest Jones had this to say:
Marcos Siffredi is a hero. Words can’t describe my respect for what he did with his snowboarding. The style that he did it – just on a whole different level. He went out in style and really did the biggest line in the world. For me -I don’t have a draw to that, I have a ton of respect for guys that are doing that stuff, it’s just that if I had gotten into real mountaineering maybe when I was 18 or something, maybe I would be on that plane, but my deal has been looking for these dream lines, meaning these ripple lines with perfect snow that can be charged, that can be ripped, so I’ve kind of stayed away from the really big, classic extreme mountaineering aspect of snowboarding and will continue to stay away from that stuff.
And we’re glad, because we like having Jones around in the long term. The rest of the interview is equally good and explains why Jones has had such a long, successful career in snowboarding.
[Link: Yobeat]
