If you already have snowboarding season on the brain (trust me, I know a few who do), you’ll want to see this new documentary: The Art of Flight follows extreme snowboarders on a two-year tour of daunting backcountry, in pursuit of the freshest powder and the perfect backside 360. Led by pro boarder Travis Rice, these winter sport conquistadors helicopter onto Patagonia’s Darwin Range, Alaska’s Tordrillo Range, and British Columbia’s Kootenay Mountains, with high-definition Cineflex cameras (the kind used for Planet Earth) tracking their every move. According to an AP article, director Curt Morgan and crew captured some 2,600 hours of footage for the 80-minute movie—and the shots are spectacular (watch the trailer below).

Just don’t write this off as snowboarding porn, Morgan says. “There’s story. Porn is just action set to music.” The drama’s inherent when their helicopter’s running out of fuel over Chile and the boarders have to drop into icy water. Or when they risk avalanche and injury on a daily basis. You know, the usual. Keep an eye out for a few locals featured in the movie, including Mark Landvik, who lives in Bellingham, and Seattle’s Pat Moore.

The Art of Flight has its world premiere in New York City this week, and debuts in Seattle at McCaw Hall on September 10. Morgan, Rice, Moore, Landvik, and fellow boarders John Jackson and Jake Blauvelt will be in attendance. Tickets ($15) are available at the McCaw Hall box office or through artofflightmovie.com.

Trailer courtesy Brain Farm Digital Cinema, Red Bull Media House, and Quiksilver.