PRESS & MEDIA

Journey to the Sun is a feature-length documentary that chronicles the extraordinary story of Glacier National Park's Going-to-the-Sun Road—from its impossible 1930s construction that claimed three lives and required 490,000 pounds of explosives, to the heroic crews who risk everything each spring to battle up to 80 feet of snow and dozens of avalanches to reopen America's most legendary mountain highway. More than a typical nature documentary, this cinematic exploration reveals the engineering marvel carved directly into cliffsides, the Native American heritage that preceded the road, and the urgent conservation challenges posed by climate change as ancient glaciers disappear at an alarming rate. Featuring unprecedented access to maintenance crews, avalanche forecasters, and historians, the film captures both the death-defying dedication required to maintain this 51-mile lifeline to wilderness and a disappearing world that future generations may only know through stories. With production support from Montana PBS and partnerships with the Glacier National Park Conservancy, Journey to the Sun represents both a race against time to document a vanishing landscape and a celebration of human determination in the face of nature's most formidable challenges.