The chances of finding the hidden cache were, admittedly, low. A film crew and athletes from Teton Gravity Research, alongside glaciologists from the University of Ottawa, were deep in Canada’s Kluane National Park, near the Alaska border, looking for mountaineering equipment left behind 85 years earlier on a glacier that was both moving and melting.
“I had my doubts for sure,” says Griffin Post, a pro skier and POW Athlete Alliance member. The far-fetched mission was his idea. “Considering the sheer amount of things that have disappeared on the icecap, including entire airplanes, and looking at the amount of crevasses, you’re definitely not going into a mission like this with a ton of confidence.”
The resulting film, “The Lost Cache,” premieres this fall. Years in the making, the project has had POW’s support from the beginning through its Advocacy & Adventure Alliance Grants. It will screen at California’s Coast Film Festival in late October and the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival in early November.