jeremy jones dropping. >> reporter: as we found out, jones' imagination is as big as the mountains heides. >> that's where i do my finest work. that's my art is nigh snowboarding. >> reporter: jeremy jones has spent two decades trying to reach unreachable places, dangling into dangerous terrain to carve down thousand-foot runs in seconds. nothing seemed to be off limits. >> i'm in a metropolitan saying, "yeah, i want to go to that peak there, "and the helicopter pilot requests, "actually, we can't go there." and i'm like, "wow, i never heard those words. like, that's crazy." >> reporter: when someone tells you, "we can't go there,." >> yeah. >> reporter: what's your reaction? >> my reaction is that's not a true statement. >> reporter: jones climbs the mountains helicopters can't reach. battling punishing wind and subzero temperatures for weeks. >> so, yeah, these mountains are deeply etched in my d.n.a. at this point. >> whooo! >> axelrod: and you can see jones' attempt to climb and snow board a mountain in the himalayas more than 21,000 feet high this sunday night on "60 minutes spor

defense council and protect our winters, an organization founded in 2007 by professional snowboarder jeremy jones concluded that the economies that rely on winter sports tourists have a lot to lose if we fail to take action on climate change. and, mr. president, you probably heard some of the recent stories around the sochi olympics, stories i could not have imagined as a child of literally covering up huge amounts of snow to insulate it from the amounts so it didn't melt so it could be used in some of those sports. the report states that december, 2011, through february, 2012, was the fourth warmest winter on record since 1896, and the third lowest snow cover extent since 1966 when satellites began giving us images just like these. now, when it doesn't snow in the inner mountain west, communities that rely on winter sports tourists take an enormous economic hit. fewer people lodge in their hotels. fewer people shop in their stores, eat in their restaurants, and if you were to ask the businesses in places like taos, new mexico, or uridoso in the south central part of the state, red river and ot

let's look at the numbers now in the tale jeremy's dax was down one point one eight percent the euro stocks fifty is also almost a hundred percent. and the belt jones is down point three three percent and in the euro is taking on currency markets that one us dollar to the nine o three. i hesitate to pick one man a break but when i come back we'll have a whole lot more and is obese or sit with us with it. for it. tool. i was the best job we began with a developing story in an apparent gas explosion in new york city has killed at least two people and injured at least eighteen more the blasts happened in the neighborhood of east harlem in northern new york and destroyed two apartment buildings hundreds of firefighters were called to extinguish the blaze. city authorities state utility companies supplying gas to the buildings was notified of the possible leak. fifteen minutes before the explosion after more than a decade of war the united states is preparing to pull its troops out of afghanistan by the end of the year of the us and its allies have been working with the government about training its forces after the missionaries are present on the karza