“I look back and I realize I have given my life over to this—this one feeling…” Jeremy Jones begins in the 2017 Teton Gravity Research short film, Life of Glide.

The big line wrangler, master of non-mechanical missions and environmental activist is one of the most inspiring people in the world of snowboarding. He has little trouble articulating the love and fear that drive us to pursue a life in the mountains. With this meditative film, Jones traces his snowboarding trajectory and how surfing played an integral role in his “relationship to glide.”

“The goal was, and still is, just to ride, to find new lines, new frontiers, new feelings,” Jones explains.

Take 15 minutes and watch the short flick prompted by a poem Jones wrote.