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- The most northern
body of land in the world,

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Greenland.

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7/8 of its terrain lies
under a blanket of solid ice.

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Temperatures fall to
75 degrees below zero.

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Six months of the year,
the sun shines continuously.

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But during the winter,
the pure white snow

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is shrouded in darkness.

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- It is imperative
that we push

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the outpost line of defense

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of the free world
far to the north,

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in the very shadow
of the Pole itself,

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the mysteries
of the Arctic wastes.

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Until recent times,
the northern part of Greenland

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was a total
unexplored wilderness.

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You may well wonder
what Americans are doing

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in this polar
wilderness of ice and snow.

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A glance at the globe
of the world, however,

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will readily show that
the shortest air route

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from the Americas to Eurasia
is over the North Pole.

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Seismic studies revealed
that the center of the ice cap

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is almost 10 times as deep as

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the Empire State Building is
high.

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Never before had heavy vehicles
ascended the caps or attempted

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to travel over its rugged
surface.

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- Fuel caches had been
stored

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along the trail the previous

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year, and air drops,
showered supplies from the sky.

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Crevasses,
many of them camouflaged

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by a deceptive bridge of snow,
were an ever present danger.

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They varied in size from shallow
cracks in the ice to massive ice

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caverns as large as a cathedral.

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Now, over a half century later,

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other Americans await
the signal to start.

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Expedition 7 was a project that

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Greg and I started
talking about in 2011.

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And the intention was

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to take the same vehicle
to all seven continents,

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which is something that had
never been accomplished before.

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It wound up taking
two and a half years.

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I was in the field 218 days.

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It was a journey of 56,000 miles
and we had about 53 people

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play a role in the expedition.

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It was one of the
coolest things I've ever done.

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In the wake of, E7, um,

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I guess the natural question
was, what next?

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So I got a call from Greg.

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He said, hey,
come down to Salt Lake.

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I'd like to talk about a little
project that I have in mind.

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I wanted something else
that was challenging,

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something that had never
been done before, something

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that was, let's say, unprecedented.

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Greenland brought
together all of the pieces that

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make it the most extreme.

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Even when you compare
driving across Antarctica,

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going to the South Pole and
doing, a landmass, crossing

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Greenland was far more difficult
and for a lot of reasons.

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In Antarctica, there's already
existing infrastructure.

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People have already done
it before many times.

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And with Greenland,
that had never been done before.

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Those glaciers had not been
climbed by a vehicle before

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and we were in literally
uncharted territory.

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There has been one notable
expedition that crossed

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Greenland from the
west coast to the east coast.

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That was done by
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but no one had even considered
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south to north because the
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magnitude more,
and the difficulties

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were an order of magnitude more,

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including fuel drops and other

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logistics that would be
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really beforehand
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for us to leave from the
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It had never been done before.

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My roles in the beginning were
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uh, the route,
logistics around, fuel.

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For me, the goal is simple
and that is to reach Wulff Land.

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If we can do that,

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the trip will be a success.

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The route up north was unknown,

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so we're going into a quite

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of uh, unhospitaled area which
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So the route
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in Isortoq at the reindeer farm.

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And then we need to get up
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and then onto the ice sheet,
and then from there we need

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to get to all of our fuel drops
along the eastern coastline.

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And then from there we're up
into Wulff Land in the north

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and we're going to actually
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before turning around
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to those fuel stops and then
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and ultimately exiting the
glacier at Kangerlussuaq

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and getting to our
shipping container.

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And we've got to do
all of this in three weeks.

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Having the right team

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supporting this project
was absolutely critical.

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Dr. Jon Solberg
was our medical doctor.

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Kurt Williams, head of
refueling and, camp logistics.

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Torfi Johannsson
was lead mechanic.

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Clay was a driver and the
film maker for the expedition.

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We had this amazing team of
people that had finally come

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together and we were moving
towards the reindeer farm.

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And I remember reflecting on
that.

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It was just really
this sense of family,

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this sense of familiarity
that I think is the best way

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to start a trip like this.

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There wasn't any anxiety
around the people that

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I was traveling with now.

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There was certainly anxiety
about the unknowns to come,

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but it wasn't about the
people that I was there with.

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There are few,
adventures in one's

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lifetime that he must not say no
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He must go to no matter what.

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And this place of Greenland,

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this great unknown,
it was that for me I had to go.

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I had to make sure that
I was there to experience this.

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Doing an expedition
in Greenland is, like this,

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Greenland is very,
what was the word?

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Ambitious.

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How do you feel, Greg?

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Well, at the moment I have a
small bit of encouragement

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that we're actually in
contact with the, barge that

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transported our trucks up.

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But for the last couple hours,
I've been really nervous.

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I think it was
interesting to see

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how the group was just
coming together

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and gelling as a team,

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and we kind of kept adding
one or two more elements,

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and everybody wondered,
you know, are we going

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to click and are we going to get

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along and are the trucks going
to be ready?

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There was a lot of anxiety even
before we got on the ice sheet.

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Oh, baby, there's the trucks.

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When I first saw the trucks
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it was a wave of emotion.

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The team was together
for the first time.

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Clay!

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What's up guys?

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How you doing, buddy?

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You made it?

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Yeah, I did.

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Pretty monumental.

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We had been waiting for quite
some time, and, we weren't sure,

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you know,
if people even could get there

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because of the ice conditions.

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Everything must have been very
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So seeing the guys ride,

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and that was the
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- Hi
- Emil.

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- Hi, Emil.
- Clay.

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- Hi, Clay.
- Nice to meet you.

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Nice to meet you.

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- How you doing?
- Hi, nice to see you.

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Yeah, seeing the guys
with was really nice.

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This is like another planet.

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Uh. Getting all the gear
loaded up right now.

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Pulling everything off the
barge.

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The-- The trucks are a lot
bigger than I anticipated.

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They're huge and awesome.

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The confidence that I have has
just.

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For some reason,
just seeing the trucks has

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skyrocketed my confidence.

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So we had three vehicles

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built on a Toyota Hilux.

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The name of the trucks was,
Emma,

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the truck I was driving.

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We had E7, which was Greg
on the older generation.

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And then we had Dreki.

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Gentlemen, welcome to Isortoq.

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All right, let's get set up

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to go get Emil's truck.

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We are here in the
workshop, Stefan's workshop,

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fixing this tire.

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We had a little, ice incident
the other day as we were

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faring gear from the barge
over to the station here.

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Emil's truck went into the lake,
cracked through the ice, and it

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dented a wheel pretty bad.

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We lost two tires.

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We were all set
when the other guys came.

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Other than fixing my truck,
which had fallen into a,

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into a river through broken ice.

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It was not, that was not,
good news for us

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because I knew we just had
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And, if you had to use that,
we had no spare tire

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for the whole expedition.

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And that was,
in my mind, not doable.

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You don't want to
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with a vehicle that's, you know,
got something wrong with it.

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We knew that truck, the AT44,
we call that one, Emma,

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the one that went
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we knew it had sustained damage.

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It had a bent wheel, which means
it took a really hard hit.

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I knew something had
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So, my first thinking is,
the expedition over.

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How will we do it with two cars?

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We can't carry what we need.

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I think Emil carried a lot more
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because that was the truck
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But also he knew the
implications

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of what would happen if
we'd be completely inoperable

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and what that would mean
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And I don't know that
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but he called and placed
an order in Iceland,

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had them get a spare part,
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to that Arctic truck,
and had that shipped,

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hopefully in a box that we would
see later on with one of

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the fuel deliveries.

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Again!

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We drove across that
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it broke through.

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So, it's not good.

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Already on a pretty
tortured front end.

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It just always happens
at the worst time,

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we're just trying to leave,
but stuff keeps happening.

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So we have the tools #* in this
one.

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So our loose arrangement
is tools, recovery, spares

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on this side, food,
and then your personal bins.

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Just put wherever you need them,

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because you're gonna
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have them inside
the house to be able to

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start moving into your boxes.

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Okay. Let's take
one of these cardboard boxes.

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Every single piece
of equipment is crucial.

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It's as close as I think I'll
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a NASA mission or something.

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Even in Antarctica,

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there is some infrastructure
that's designed to allow, uh,

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either scientific expeditions
or just adventurers

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to travel across the ice sheet.

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In Greenland, i'm told there's
one Twin Otter that services

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the entire island,

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and there's a lot of demand on
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So if we get in trouble in
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we could be in for a long wait.

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Everybody's super excited and
stoked.

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I haven't seen anybody take a
drink of water yet today either.

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So at some point,
maybe just grab

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a candy bar and drink something,
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I don't think anybody
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comprehend how much I worried
about everybody's safety.

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I mean, every single person on
the expedition was 100% integral

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to the success, and you just had
to trust every single person.

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So, I mean,
nobody ever inspected my med kit

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or asked for my credentials.

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I think everybody
just trusted that

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I had had the right training

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and would be able to lend
assistance

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in the event of an emergency.

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Just like I trusted that,

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um, the trucks would
operate and there

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would be enough fuel at the next
stop, and there was enough food.

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It was just.

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It was collaborative survival
for the entire expedition.

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When we first left the
reindeer farm,

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the one thing that
was top of mind for me is,

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"don't fall through the ice.

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Don't fall through the ice."

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And I don't tend to
feel that level of anxiety.

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But it was this immediacy of,

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we need to get through
these freshwater lakes.

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We need to get across
the ice before it melts.

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It was getting warmer.

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The snow was melting
at the reindeer farm.

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We were in danger of being able

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to not even make it to the
glacier.

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And there was no backup plan.

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I remember the
reindeer farmer and his son

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getting out with these giant
poles and testing the ice.

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And then it would break
through the ice and we'd have

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to find a new way around.

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I already knew this would
be a big challenge.

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I did a lot of research on the
glacier, and I got help from a,

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specialist glacier, team to
analyze, satellite imagery,

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but you still never know.

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It's always this big
unknown with the glacier that

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is moving constantly.

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One of the things that
I have learned, about challenges

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in expeditions and even in life,
I suppose,

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is that there's
no point in speculating

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about how bad it could be.

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I was really nervous going
towards that glacier

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once it came into the
windshield.

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It was as daunting and as
scary as I had imagined it.

285
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GREG#*:
But we had these two guys,

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Stephan and his son,
at the reindeer farm.

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They had gone out,
found this spot.

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It just went up beautifully.

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You could tell there was
crevasse lines in there,

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but it was all filled in.

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Okay, I'm gonna take mine
down to three

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and see if that helps.

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- GREG
- It'll help
later on, but right now,

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we need to get you.

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You can get to my right Emil

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or the left.

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Whatever's easier.

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Either way, that's good.

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Once we stepped on it,
the truck started to cross it.

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We weren't falling in.

301
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Pretty soon we were past,

302
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you know,
steepest topography, terrain,

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and the confidence was like,

304
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hey, we're on top of this thing.

305
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I had to pinch myself because
the first, you know,

306
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the last three weeks
I've been afraid of this,

307
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and it turned out to be nothing.

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This is day one, and we've
moved, like, this far

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on the map, out of this far.

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- GREG
- I think it
would be probably a good time

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to stop driving for the day.

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Let's take advantage
of the remaining light,

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make camp for the first time,

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try to get some heat generated
inside the tents while some are

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Doing that,
others can be refueling

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and hopefully we can have a
successful first night without,

317
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trying to fumble through the
dark

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and, get some rest,
be ready to hit

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it early in the morning.

320
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Yeah then we gotta tie it here.

321
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I remember the first time
we were behind schedule,

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was the first day.

323
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We were either gonna
have to get a lot better at,

324
00:19:26,206 --> 00:19:30,459
performing each one of the
functions and condense the time

325
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it took to pitch and break camp,

326
00:19:33,255 --> 00:19:36,758
or we weren't gonna have
time to set up camp at all.

327
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So from the time we parked
the trucks, set up camp,

328
00:19:39,469 --> 00:19:42,264
made a meal, did any repairs
we needed on the vehicle,

329
00:19:42,306 --> 00:19:45,434
and got a full night's sleep
was about a 24 hour period.

330
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So we wound up pitching camp,
I think seven times in the 20

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days that we were on the ice.

332
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Another challenge that we faced
was how, to transport the fuel.

333
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The fuel delivered
by helicopter and air came

334
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in a traditional 55 gallon drum.

335
00:20:03,368 --> 00:20:04,410
Well, we would pump the fuel

336
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either into the bladder
or right into the trucks.

337
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Part of our permission and

338
00:20:08,999 --> 00:20:11,334
the permit to do
this trip was that

339
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we would leave nothing behind.

340
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And that included those fuel
drums.

341
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So every time we emptied a drum

342
00:20:16,340 --> 00:20:17,882
that we weren't
going to be reusing,

343
00:20:17,883 --> 00:20:19,051
we would have to make several
cuts.

344
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We'd cut the top off of it,
the bottom off of it,

345
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and one slice
down the middle of it

346
00:20:23,430 --> 00:20:26,099
and we could roll that up
just tight enough to

347
00:20:26,141 --> 00:20:26,725
fit it into another drum

348
00:20:26,767 --> 00:20:30,437
and we could get five
or six drums into each one.

349
00:20:31,521 --> 00:20:35,025
It's noon and we
still haven't left camp.

350
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Grinding the barrels
has become a big chore.

351
00:20:38,820 --> 00:20:40,656
We had to get the generators
out.

352
00:20:40,697 --> 00:20:42,448
The generators hadn't been
fueled.

353
00:20:42,449 --> 00:20:44,534
They're brand new out of the
box.

354
00:20:50,832 --> 00:20:52,375
It's 12:39.

355
00:20:52,376 --> 00:20:56,587
And we just left our first camp.

356
00:20:56,588 --> 00:20:58,798
So obviously we're a little
late getting started, which

357
00:20:58,799 --> 00:21:02,427
is discouraging,
especially since I'd like to try

358
00:21:02,469 --> 00:21:04,096
to cover 150 miles today.

359
00:21:04,137 --> 00:21:07,474
All right, so team Dreky
back here has discussed it.

360
00:21:07,516 --> 00:21:10,269
We're totally on board
with a little marathon.

361
00:21:10,310 --> 00:21:16,024
It is, we're looking at 497km
to the DYE 2 station

362
00:21:16,066 --> 00:21:16,775
on our current pace.

363
00:21:16,817 --> 00:21:18,777
So anywhere,
our speed's changing,

364
00:21:18,819 --> 00:21:21,780
so we're anywhere
between 15 and 20 hours

365
00:21:21,822 --> 00:21:23,322
to get there at this pace.

366
00:21:23,323 --> 00:21:25,199
So we'd love to set that as a
goal.

367
00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:25,992
And we fall a little short.

368
00:21:25,993 --> 00:21:29,037
That's all right, but
let's just motor towards that.

369
00:21:31,290 --> 00:21:32,415
To me it was really simple.

370
00:21:32,416 --> 00:21:35,584
We just had to cover 150 miles a
day.

371
00:21:35,585 --> 00:21:40,423
And if we could do 150 miles
a day for 20 days, we would

372
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cover all the ground we needed.

373
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Sounds easy enough.

374
00:21:43,302 --> 00:21:45,971
But I learned in the
first couple of days

375
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that trying to stick to that
schedule was really difficult.

376
00:21:52,311 --> 00:21:54,271
So Emil and I
were out in the lead,

377
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and we're trying to work through

378
00:21:55,897 --> 00:21:58,108
these really difficult
conditions and that

379
00:21:58,150 --> 00:22:00,068
we just really can't see.

380
00:22:00,319 --> 00:22:01,653
And all of a sudden,
it felt like

381
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we were in really deep snow,
like the vehicle was fighting.

382
00:22:05,115 --> 00:22:08,617
And I said, "I think it's
something with his steering."

383
00:22:08,618 --> 00:22:10,578
And he says, like, he says,
"I don't know if it's

384
00:22:10,579 --> 00:22:11,746
the snow or the steering."

385
00:22:11,747 --> 00:22:13,122
And then Greg cracked
through the radio, and he says,

386
00:22:13,123 --> 00:22:15,458
the radio, and he says,
"I think there's something wrong

387
00:22:15,459 --> 00:22:16,208
with your steering."

388
00:22:16,209 --> 00:22:19,295
And, we hopped out, and the
front tires were like that.

389
00:22:25,260 --> 00:22:26,219
It's really hard to see.

390
00:22:26,261 --> 00:22:28,013
#*: Yeah.
- Nothing to see.

391
00:22:28,055 --> 00:22:31,600
Torfi hops out
all spirits and said, oh, well,

392
00:22:31,641 --> 00:22:33,810
we'll get this fixed, you know,
and crawls under there,

393
00:22:33,852 --> 00:22:38,523
gets a board out, gets his
yellow jumpsuit on and, you know

394
00:22:38,565 --> 00:22:40,901
waves his little mechanic hands,
and all of a sudden,

395
00:22:40,942 --> 00:22:44,446
that thing's driving straight,
and we're up and running again.

396
00:22:44,946 --> 00:22:45,697
Yeah, when I was a kid,

397
00:22:45,739 --> 00:22:49,658
I-- I was very curious how
things work on many things

398
00:22:49,659 --> 00:22:52,536
I took apart, and sometimes
I was able to put them back

399
00:22:52,537 --> 00:22:55,956
together and,
even modified a little bit.

400
00:22:55,957 --> 00:22:59,336
But, yeah, sometimes it
just went into the trash.

401
00:22:59,836 --> 00:23:02,296
So, yeah, that's
kind of how it started.

402
00:23:02,297 --> 00:23:04,049
And it's just ongoing.

403
00:23:04,091 --> 00:23:05,509
It's still there.

404
00:23:11,807 --> 00:23:13,934
For the first three
or four days.

405
00:23:13,975 --> 00:23:15,394
I remember just living with a

406
00:23:15,435 --> 00:23:19,898
constant sense of frustration
that no matter how hard we tried

407
00:23:19,940 --> 00:23:22,567
to overcome the challenges, uh,

408
00:23:22,609 --> 00:23:26,947
early on, they were mostly
mechanical challenges

409
00:23:27,114 --> 00:23:28,614
we couldn't get caught up.

410
00:23:28,615 --> 00:23:32,118
- GREG
- Yeah, we're
feeling good about, doing

411
00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:34,245
some marathons,
I think, you know,

412
00:23:34,246 --> 00:23:35,788
probably two or three marathons

413
00:23:35,789 --> 00:23:37,415
during the duration of the
drive.

414
00:23:37,416 --> 00:23:40,793
This-- this
expedition has us covering

415
00:23:40,794 --> 00:23:41,627
about 3,000 miles.

416
00:23:41,628 --> 00:23:43,254
As I said in the driver's
meeting,

417
00:23:43,255 --> 00:23:45,423
all of a sudden,
I felt the truck

418
00:23:45,424 --> 00:23:46,007
starting to slow down.

419
00:23:46,049 --> 00:23:48,051
Like, there was
some drag on the truck.

420
00:23:48,093 --> 00:23:51,430
And I looked in the mirrors,
and I could see that the.

421
00:23:51,471 --> 00:23:56,768
The trailer was listing like
this.

422
00:23:58,395 --> 00:23:59,604
Hey, guys, we got a problem.

423
00:23:59,646 --> 00:24:01,857
We just lost a wheel.

424
00:24:01,898 --> 00:24:03,150
Um--

425
00:24:04,443 --> 00:24:05,819
We're stuck.

426
00:24:06,236 --> 00:24:10,448
It rolled about 100 yards
ahead of the truck and literally

427
00:24:10,449 --> 00:24:12,950
came to a rest
between the two tracks.

428
00:24:12,951 --> 00:24:16,787
As if to say,
this trip will be one

429
00:24:16,788 --> 00:24:17,705
challenge after another,

430
00:24:17,706 --> 00:24:20,459
One obstacle in the road after
another.

431
00:24:24,129 --> 00:24:24,879
Copy that.

432
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:26,465
We're coming your direction.

433
00:24:38,018 --> 00:24:40,729
We're going to make this
the time to eat

434
00:24:40,770 --> 00:24:41,480
since we're down,

435
00:24:41,521 --> 00:24:45,442
and get, some water going
while that's getting fixed.

436
00:24:47,486 --> 00:24:49,529
It's all part of the adventure.

437
00:24:56,536 --> 00:24:58,412
You See, a lot of
mechanics,

438
00:24:58,413 --> 00:25:00,539
they kind of repair by rote.

439
00:25:00,540 --> 00:25:01,165
So they just.

440
00:25:01,166 --> 00:25:03,626
They go that this is the
way that it's always done.

441
00:25:03,627 --> 00:25:04,335
This is the problem.

442
00:25:04,336 --> 00:25:05,419
This is how I fix it.

443
00:25:05,420 --> 00:25:07,087
Whereas Torfi,
he looks at it more like a

444
00:25:07,088 --> 00:25:10,675
scientist and dissects the
issue, and he very quickly

445
00:25:10,717 --> 00:25:12,302
determines the best way to fix
it.

446
00:25:12,344 --> 00:25:13,929
So some of the things that we
think

447
00:25:13,970 --> 00:25:16,264
maybe would take an hour to
repair,

448
00:25:16,306 --> 00:25:18,099
he'll have fixed in 20 minutes.

449
00:25:29,486 --> 00:25:30,695
It's super cold.

450
00:25:30,737 --> 00:25:31,321
We're all tired.

451
00:25:31,363 --> 00:25:33,948
We're making our miles
and kind of just chugging along.

452
00:25:33,949 --> 00:25:35,908
And someone pops on the radio,

453
00:25:35,909 --> 00:25:38,327
the bladder just
fell off of one of the sleds.

454
00:25:40,121 --> 00:25:42,832
Um, okay.

455
00:25:47,170 --> 00:25:48,880
It's always something.

456
00:25:49,130 --> 00:25:53,301
Towing a bag of fuel
behind a big old Arctic truck

457
00:25:53,677 --> 00:25:58,348
contained in a blubbery bladder

458
00:25:58,390 --> 00:26:01,768
is just seemingly impossible.

459
00:26:01,810 --> 00:26:02,435
And it nearly was.

460
00:26:02,477 --> 00:26:04,354
It was just so much
work because it just.

461
00:26:04,396 --> 00:26:07,315
It doesn't want to stay
anywhere where you put it.

462
00:26:18,785 --> 00:26:23,622
Those sleds should be burned,
and then their ashes

463
00:26:23,623 --> 00:26:25,124
should be burned again.

464
00:26:26,042 --> 00:26:28,419
Man, we keep making it like

465
00:26:28,420 --> 00:26:31,422
20km at a time before another
problem hits.

466
00:26:31,423 --> 00:26:34,175
That actually took
us longer to fix than a,

467
00:26:34,217 --> 00:26:36,094
tire falling off the trailer.

468
00:26:43,143 --> 00:26:45,562
One of the most
unusual things that

469
00:26:45,604 --> 00:26:46,938
I have ever experienced in all

470
00:26:46,980 --> 00:26:49,274
of my Travels was the DYE 2
station.

471
00:26:49,316 --> 00:26:52,485
This is part of the
DEW Line that was used to

472
00:26:52,527 --> 00:26:54,613
early detect Russian bombers

473
00:26:54,654 --> 00:26:57,948
coming over to the United States
to drop nuclear bombs.

474
00:26:57,949 --> 00:27:01,535
So this was a very significant
piece of military history.

475
00:27:01,536 --> 00:27:04,122
And we were driving right
towards it.

476
00:27:05,790 --> 00:27:07,374
As we got closer and closer,

477
00:27:07,375 --> 00:27:08,917
we actually started to get a
sense of

478
00:27:08,918 --> 00:27:12,130
just how massive this building
was.

479
00:27:12,255 --> 00:27:17,218
It's quite special for Arctic
Trucks having

480
00:27:17,594 --> 00:27:19,721
been the only cars being here
before.

481
00:27:19,763 --> 00:27:21,681
- That's right.
- 19 years ago.

482
00:27:21,723 --> 00:27:22,265
That's right.

483
00:27:22,307 --> 00:27:24,184
Now it's the only cars again.

484
00:27:24,225 --> 00:27:24,684
Yeha.

485
00:27:24,726 --> 00:27:26,436
Nearly two decades later.

486
00:27:26,478 --> 00:27:27,687
Yes.

487
00:27:27,729 --> 00:27:28,855
I guess it's coming like,

488
00:27:28,897 --> 00:27:31,107
running at the space station or
something,

489
00:27:31,149 --> 00:27:32,942
the way the snow
is all drifted up

490
00:27:32,984 --> 00:27:34,235
on the west side of that thing.

491
00:27:34,277 --> 00:27:39,448
Yeah, let's get wind from that
side a lot from the other side.

492
00:27:40,992 --> 00:27:48,207
I think DYE 2 does the best job
of explaining how inhospitable

493
00:27:48,208 --> 00:27:49,416
the ice sheet is.

494
00:27:49,417 --> 00:27:52,294
One day it was an
operating radar station,

495
00:27:52,295 --> 00:27:55,965
and a few days later,
everyone was gone.

496
00:27:56,132 --> 00:27:58,343
- GREG
- Will do guys as
we approach

497
00:27:58,385 --> 00:28:01,554
the facility to the right.

498
00:28:03,348 --> 00:28:05,558
So the DYE 2 station,
they were monitoring it

499
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:06,726
in the 50s, 60s, 70s.

500
00:28:06,768 --> 00:28:08,645
This was an early
attack warning system.

501
00:28:08,687 --> 00:28:11,147
They were keeping an eye
on the air movement

502
00:28:11,189 --> 00:28:13,191
and air traffic in that area.

503
00:28:13,233 --> 00:28:13,733
So.

504
00:28:13,775 --> 00:28:16,111
So it was a strategic position
to have it located there.

505
00:28:16,152 --> 00:28:17,529
And I cannot think of a more

506
00:28:17,570 --> 00:28:19,906
inhospitable place to be
stationed.

507
00:28:19,948 --> 00:28:22,866
- Hidden behind these
icy ramparts

508
00:28:22,867 --> 00:28:24,952
lies one of the great military
secrets of our time.

509
00:28:24,953 --> 00:28:29,039
December 1950, when communist
aggression was in full flood.

510
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:33,086
President Truman had
proclaimed a national emergency.

511
00:28:33,336 --> 00:28:35,629
Built with the permission
of the Danish government,

512
00:28:35,630 --> 00:28:39,718
the base would push our defense
line 2000 miles to the north.

513
00:28:39,759 --> 00:28:42,303
Industry developed new designs
that would stand up

514
00:28:42,345 --> 00:28:46,266
to the severe strain
imposed by the Arctic winter.

515
00:28:47,684 --> 00:28:50,103
Your corps of, army engineers.

516
00:29:08,371 --> 00:29:10,039
CLAY#*:
Okay, camera.

517
00:29:10,790 --> 00:29:12,249
All right, coming in.

518
00:29:22,802 --> 00:29:24,137
I think the biggest thing
is making sure

519
00:29:24,179 --> 00:29:27,098
you don't get lost in the place.

520
00:29:28,224 --> 00:29:29,684
The old light fixtures and,

521
00:29:29,726 --> 00:29:33,104
I mean imagine the amount of
time you would have taken

522
00:29:33,146 --> 00:29:36,483
to assemble this thing
and the amount of expense

523
00:29:36,524 --> 00:29:38,777
and effort to fly in,

524
00:29:38,818 --> 00:29:43,615
what looks like to be a five
story building in the middle of

525
00:29:43,656 --> 00:29:45,492
the Greenland ice sheet.

526
00:29:46,367 --> 00:29:49,995
And then imagine being
that new recruit that lands

527
00:29:49,996 --> 00:29:51,246
in an airplane and they get off

528
00:29:51,247 --> 00:29:55,835
and the plane takes away and
this is what they're left with.

529
00:29:56,169 --> 00:29:57,504
Pretty remote.

530
00:30:01,883 --> 00:30:04,010
Even wood trimmings

531
00:30:04,219 --> 00:30:05,303
on some of the walls.

532
00:30:05,345 --> 00:30:09,432
They tried to make it
like home best they could.

533
00:30:11,392 --> 00:30:12,602
- Oh, wow!
- Dude!

534
00:30:12,644 --> 00:30:15,355
- I know.
- There's a pool table.

535
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:17,816
Oh, wow.

536
00:30:17,857 --> 00:30:20,151
There were lots of
things in DYE 2

537
00:30:20,193 --> 00:30:20,902
that were exciting.

538
00:30:20,944 --> 00:30:24,614
I was especially interested in
looking around the infirmary.

539
00:30:24,656 --> 00:30:27,367
There were still
some medical supplies there.

540
00:30:27,867 --> 00:30:29,786
Step into my office,

541
00:30:32,038 --> 00:30:33,623
get tetanus.

542
00:30:34,457 --> 00:30:37,000
There was a prescription
for methylcarbamol,

543
00:30:37,001 --> 00:30:39,878
which is a muscle relaxer
that the physician had

544
00:30:39,879 --> 00:30:43,507
written for somebody who works
there who must have been having

545
00:30:43,508 --> 00:30:44,509
some back pain or something.

546
00:30:44,551 --> 00:30:47,595
And I don't know if their back
is still hurting or not.

547
00:30:47,637 --> 00:30:50,014
They never did get
their prescription.

548
00:30:50,223 --> 00:30:53,560
So the building was built
so that it had stilts on all

549
00:30:53,601 --> 00:30:56,312
the col- the corners, like
columns, quite a few of them.

550
00:30:56,354 --> 00:30:58,439
And they could raise
and lower the building.

551
00:30:58,481 --> 00:31:01,526
So you see here instructions
on how to level the building.

552
00:31:01,568 --> 00:31:03,528
Raise the building,
raise all the jack support.

553
00:31:03,570 --> 00:31:06,698
So using these, these are all
the different columns around

554
00:31:06,739 --> 00:31:07,740
the corners of the building.

555
00:31:07,782 --> 00:31:08,991
They could level this place out.

556
00:31:08,992 --> 00:31:13,161
And this may even tell
this is like ground pressure

557
00:31:13,162 --> 00:31:13,996
on each of the columns.

558
00:31:13,997 --> 00:31:16,498
So it tells you how much
force they're exerting.

559
00:31:16,499 --> 00:31:19,459
I imagine as this thing was used
in different times of the year

560
00:31:19,460 --> 00:31:22,671
and heat, the building would
sink into the ice and,

561
00:31:22,672 --> 00:31:23,338
and move around.

562
00:31:23,339 --> 00:31:25,591
So they had to constantly
adjust it to keep it level.

563
00:31:25,592 --> 00:31:26,968
And I don't know,
there's beds in this room.

564
00:31:27,010 --> 00:31:29,470
So it may have been happening
enough that they were

565
00:31:29,512 --> 00:31:33,808
worried about, having guys
on call to move the building

566
00:31:33,850 --> 00:31:35,643
in the middle of the night.

567
00:31:36,853 --> 00:31:39,314
- USSR
- That's right.

568
00:31:57,248 --> 00:31:59,042
This thing has--

569
00:31:59,834 --> 00:32:02,295
It's been frozen in time.

570
00:32:06,841 --> 00:32:11,012
People walked out without

571
00:32:11,346 --> 00:32:13,640
straightening up their desk
or they just,

572
00:32:13,681 --> 00:32:15,558
they literally stood up,

573
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:16,976
walked out to their airplane

574
00:32:17,018 --> 00:32:20,313
and got on it
and no one ever came back.

575
00:32:24,692 --> 00:32:26,152
See if you can push it.

576
00:32:45,213 --> 00:32:48,925
It's like a picture in time
that you can walk around in

577
00:32:48,967 --> 00:32:54,764
and you can tangibly touch
the items of October 1988,

578
00:32:54,806 --> 00:32:57,058
in the last moment
of DYE 2's life

579
00:32:57,100 --> 00:33:00,603
before the life
that was in it left.

580
00:33:00,645 --> 00:33:04,315
And it makes
an impression on you

581
00:33:04,482 --> 00:33:06,484
to see something like that.

582
00:33:47,066 --> 00:33:50,862
Probably by the
fourth or fifth day,

583
00:33:50,903 --> 00:33:53,322
it did start
to get a little monotonous.

584
00:33:53,364 --> 00:33:57,409
And I remember feeling like we
were a,

585
00:33:57,410 --> 00:34:01,872
a bowling ball on this huge
white trampoline.

586
00:34:01,873 --> 00:34:04,499
These white sides that
just went up to the horizon.

587
00:34:04,500 --> 00:34:07,919
And no matter how far we drove,
we couldn't get to a point

588
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:09,756
where we could see over it.

589
00:34:12,008 --> 00:34:13,885
I don't even know how many audio
books we made it

590
00:34:13,926 --> 00:34:16,137
all the way through because
you would press start on

591
00:34:16,179 --> 00:34:18,973
them and you wouldn't like,
stop for two, three days

592
00:34:19,015 --> 00:34:20,558
till you're done with a book.

593
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:21,809
But it did, it was tiring.

594
00:34:21,851 --> 00:34:23,644
And you wanted to get out
and just stretch your legs.

595
00:34:23,686 --> 00:34:25,146
You wanted to get out and just,
you know, hey,

596
00:34:25,188 --> 00:34:27,982
wouldn't it be so nice to lay
down and sleep flat tonight?

597
00:34:28,024 --> 00:34:29,192
But there just wasn't the time.

598
00:34:29,233 --> 00:34:32,779
So we just kind of endure
and keep moving forward.

599
00:34:33,613 --> 00:34:40,369
Everybody had a lack of sleep,
you know, basically from day one

600
00:34:40,745 --> 00:34:42,079
throughout the expedition.

601
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:42,996
I remember I had been asleep.

602
00:34:42,997 --> 00:34:45,999
I'd been taking a nap in the
passenger seat and Emil was

603
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:51,088
driving and I, I kind of woke up
and I look over and Emil was

604
00:34:51,089 --> 00:34:52,089
completely crashed out too.

605
00:34:52,090 --> 00:34:54,007
The radio was going
and he was sitting.

606
00:34:54,008 --> 00:34:57,053
He was sitting in the seat,
like, with his hands like this

607
00:34:57,095 --> 00:34:59,305
and the wheels going
back and forth in the rut.

608
00:34:59,347 --> 00:35:00,473
We were both completely out

609
00:35:00,515 --> 00:35:02,475
and I'm like,
I'm not gonna wake him up.

610
00:35:03,142 --> 00:35:04,644
He had his foot-- he had his
foot steady on the throttle

611
00:35:04,685 --> 00:35:06,646
and nothing bad was happening.

612
00:35:06,687 --> 00:35:09,774
So I just kind of like
side seat drove for a while

613
00:35:09,816 --> 00:35:10,525
while he was sleeping.

614
00:35:10,566 --> 00:35:12,485
He finally kind of woke up and
he looked over at me

615
00:35:12,527 --> 00:35:14,529
and I got this
big grin onto my face

616
00:35:14,570 --> 00:35:15,822
and he's like, you know.

617
00:35:15,863 --> 00:35:19,324
Very soon he was asleep again
and, I guess I was too.

618
00:35:19,325 --> 00:35:19,908
We were just.

619
00:35:19,909 --> 00:35:23,036
We just kept heading
and we continued.

620
00:35:23,037 --> 00:35:25,705
We decided that
it technically wasn't

621
00:35:25,706 --> 00:35:28,959
falling asleep at the wheel
unless your eyes were closed

622
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:31,044
for more than 60 seconds.

623
00:35:31,045 --> 00:35:33,004
Um, we made,
we made a rule that was

624
00:35:33,005 --> 00:35:36,467
a real rule that if you were
going to stop that you had to

625
00:35:36,509 --> 00:35:40,138
get on the radio and audibly
announce your intent to stop

626
00:35:40,179 --> 00:35:41,806
because there was a good chance

627
00:35:41,848 --> 00:35:44,892
the truck in second position
or third position, uh,

628
00:35:44,934 --> 00:35:48,062
the driver may have been
taking a short nap and

629
00:35:48,104 --> 00:35:49,147
might run into you.

630
00:35:49,188 --> 00:35:51,315
All right guys,
coming to a full stop.

631
00:35:51,357 --> 00:35:52,400
Full stop.

632
00:35:55,903 --> 00:35:58,823
Hey guys, we lost the trailer.

633
00:35:58,865 --> 00:35:59,948
Come on back.

634
00:35:59,949 --> 00:36:01,449
Uh, neville.

635
00:36:01,450 --> 00:36:02,618
Scott.

636
00:36:12,211 --> 00:36:15,088
We just happen to have
a spare pintle hitch

637
00:36:15,089 --> 00:36:17,132
just laying around
in the back of a truck.

638
00:36:17,133 --> 00:36:19,760
Actually Greg shipped that from
home.

639
00:36:20,094 --> 00:36:21,137
Good job Greg.

640
00:36:22,805 --> 00:36:24,974
I'm pretty sure that
came from Salt lake.

641
00:36:32,690 --> 00:36:34,567
At 1:45 in the morning.

642
00:36:34,609 --> 00:36:38,487
We're halfway on our push
between our last camp

643
00:36:38,529 --> 00:36:39,488
at the next fuel depot.

644
00:36:39,530 --> 00:36:40,823
So we're just running all night.

645
00:36:40,865 --> 00:36:42,157
It's too cold to set up camp
anyway.

646
00:36:42,158 --> 00:36:46,077
It's like minus 22 so it's
not even comfortable to start

647
00:36:46,078 --> 00:36:47,329
trying to get tents up.

648
00:36:47,330 --> 00:36:49,789
So we're just going to
kind of take some little naps

649
00:36:49,790 --> 00:36:50,290
in the car.

650
00:36:50,291 --> 00:36:50,999
Recycled drivers.

651
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:55,837
But we have to refuel because
it's a long push, about 720km.

652
00:36:55,838 --> 00:36:58,506
So we're draining off the
bladders here,

653
00:36:58,507 --> 00:36:59,299
filling up Greg's truck.

654
00:36:59,300 --> 00:37:02,011
We'll drain off this front
bladder draining the rest

655
00:37:02,053 --> 00:37:03,638
and get onto
the checkpoint where

656
00:37:03,679 --> 00:37:07,308
we're meeting position one where
the fuel is being flown in.

657
00:37:07,350 --> 00:37:10,478
There's already 10 barrels there
and 11 more showing up tomorrow.

658
00:37:10,519 --> 00:37:12,605
So we'll be able to
refill all these bladders

659
00:37:12,647 --> 00:37:13,773
once we get there.

660
00:37:13,814 --> 00:37:17,485
One of the most difficult
considerations for this

661
00:37:17,526 --> 00:37:19,320
expedition was planning fuel.

662
00:37:19,362 --> 00:37:23,990
Not only how much fuel do we
need but where do we drop it,

663
00:37:23,991 --> 00:37:26,368
how much should we drop
and then what do we do

664
00:37:26,369 --> 00:37:29,704
if we have too much or too
little and there's something as

665
00:37:29,705 --> 00:37:32,207
simple as we're doing better on

666
00:37:32,208 --> 00:37:34,167
fuel economy or the
conditions is approved.

667
00:37:34,168 --> 00:37:37,337
Let's increase the tire
pressure in the tires.

668
00:37:37,338 --> 00:37:38,421
It's easy to just forget that

669
00:37:38,422 --> 00:37:41,007
and continue to operate at a
lower pressure

670
00:37:41,008 --> 00:37:42,635
which increases resistance

671
00:37:42,677 --> 00:37:44,345
and then increases fuel
consumption.

672
00:37:44,387 --> 00:37:47,139
So it's really finding
that perfect balance.

673
00:37:47,181 --> 00:37:49,308
And that comes from a
combination of

674
00:37:49,350 --> 00:37:52,603
very in depth calculations
and a lot of experience.

675
00:37:52,645 --> 00:37:56,148
And then that is all filtered
through what's happening

676
00:37:56,190 --> 00:37:58,067
right now on the ground.

677
00:37:58,109 --> 00:38:02,071
If you're wrong,
we basically run out of fuel

678
00:38:02,113 --> 00:38:07,701
and it's probably gonna cost
five hundred thousand dollars

679
00:38:07,702 --> 00:38:09,078
to get you off

680
00:38:10,413 --> 00:38:13,082
and you're not gonna
finish the expidition.

681
00:38:16,127 --> 00:38:20,380
When we got to the first
waypoint for the fuel drop

682
00:38:20,381 --> 00:38:24,176
on the east coast and we're
getting closer and closer

683
00:38:24,218 --> 00:38:27,138
and we're expecting
to begin to see

684
00:38:27,179 --> 00:38:28,973
the influence
of man on the horizon.

685
00:38:29,015 --> 00:38:32,476
Like some barrels and drums
or shapes that are not natural

686
00:38:32,518 --> 00:38:34,729
in the environment
and they didn't show up.

687
00:38:34,770 --> 00:38:37,648
We got right to the waypoint
and there was nothing there.

688
00:38:37,690 --> 00:38:40,192
We are parked dead on the
location,

689
00:38:41,694 --> 00:38:45,156
based on Torfi's GPS and my gps,

690
00:38:45,364 --> 00:38:46,198
but there's nothing here.

691
00:38:46,240 --> 00:38:48,616
My guess is they flew over this
and said it's too rough

692
00:38:48,617 --> 00:38:50,994
for them to land,
so they found something nearby.

693
00:38:50,995 --> 00:38:55,123
So this was kind of a big, issue.

694
00:38:55,124 --> 00:38:58,252
It triggered a calculated panic.

695
00:39:00,046 --> 00:39:02,255
They even launched the
drone

696
00:39:02,256 --> 00:39:05,217
to go and look for the fuel

697
00:39:05,801 --> 00:39:08,095
Uh,
disturbance that I could see.

698
00:39:08,137 --> 00:39:09,930
It does not look like sastrugi,

699
00:39:09,972 --> 00:39:12,099
but I don't see any barrels by
it.

700
00:39:12,141 --> 00:39:13,809
I mean, we shut right down.

701
00:39:13,851 --> 00:39:14,352
We stopped.

702
00:39:14,393 --> 00:39:15,519
It was like satellite
phone with the pilots.

703
00:39:15,561 --> 00:39:19,357
We're sending messages via
the inreach satellite system.

704
00:39:21,275 --> 00:39:23,319
Everybody had a question mark.

705
00:39:23,652 --> 00:39:25,112
Hello, Paul.

706
00:39:25,154 --> 00:39:25,905
Hi, Paul.

707
00:39:25,946 --> 00:39:26,739
Emil here again.

708
00:39:26,781 --> 00:39:29,783
We provided the
waypoint of our location.

709
00:39:29,784 --> 00:39:32,994
We had them confirm
the waypoint that they were

710
00:39:32,995 --> 00:39:33,828
going to drop the fuel.

711
00:39:33,829 --> 00:39:35,830
And then that's when we
realized that the location

712
00:39:35,831 --> 00:39:38,208
that they dropped it was
different from where we were at.

713
00:39:38,209 --> 00:39:42,754
They had a wrong location and
they delivered it, uh,

714
00:39:42,755 --> 00:39:46,467
to a location that was
in the first original plan.

715
00:39:46,509 --> 00:39:48,844
That was a trust plan
made quite early.

716
00:39:48,886 --> 00:39:51,639
Well, we got the info on where
the fuel's at, and the bad news

717
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:54,725
is it's not here where it was
supposed to be, which is our,

718
00:39:54,767 --> 00:39:56,060
scheduled rendezvous point.

719
00:39:56,102 --> 00:39:58,020
It's 50 miles north of here.

720
00:39:58,062 --> 00:40:02,358
Okay, that means going
into a crevasse area

721
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:04,610
which we have no satellite
imagery for.

722
00:40:04,652 --> 00:40:06,445
We have no research for.

723
00:40:06,487 --> 00:40:08,656
What is the best route to take.

724
00:40:08,697 --> 00:40:10,157
How do we approach this?

725
00:40:10,199 --> 00:40:12,534
What's the most likely safe
route?

726
00:40:12,535 --> 00:40:14,452
If we have another
mistake like this,

727
00:40:14,453 --> 00:40:16,413
it's going to be a disaster.

728
00:40:16,414 --> 00:40:19,499
So will you please call him back
and say, you know,

729
00:40:19,500 --> 00:40:23,169
we'll call you in two hours,
three hours when we get there.

730
00:40:23,170 --> 00:40:25,130
But just to confirm
that we've got it.

731
00:40:25,131 --> 00:40:26,798
In the meantime,
please keep your

732
00:40:26,799 --> 00:40:28,466
phone on your, in your palm.

733
00:40:28,467 --> 00:40:31,554
Decided to go back onto
our route,

734
00:40:31,804 --> 00:40:33,097
which we had already planned.

735
00:40:33,139 --> 00:40:39,311
And we choose kind, of a almost
90 degree on our old route

736
00:40:39,353 --> 00:40:41,939
and go there in after the fuel.

737
00:40:41,981 --> 00:40:44,984
I think it was about 30,
40 kilometers to go in,

738
00:40:45,025 --> 00:40:46,819
in an unknown territory.

739
00:40:46,861 --> 00:40:50,322
And we could see the crevices,
on both sides.

740
00:41:08,841 --> 00:41:13,262
Big, big relief to find those
fuel drums

741
00:41:13,304 --> 00:41:13,888
and know they're there.

742
00:41:13,929 --> 00:41:15,848
There's one point where
we're like, is this kind

743
00:41:15,890 --> 00:41:17,975
of another wild goose chase?

744
00:41:18,350 --> 00:41:20,436
But, we're here.

745
00:41:20,478 --> 00:41:21,353
It's frigid out here.

746
00:41:21,395 --> 00:41:25,191
Probably one of the
coldest camps of my life,

747
00:41:25,232 --> 00:41:28,235
if not the coldest camp of my
life.

748
00:41:32,865 --> 00:41:34,699
Making some repairs
this morning.

749
00:41:34,700 --> 00:41:36,701
One of the,
hitch extensions cracked.

750
00:41:36,702 --> 00:41:39,329
It's a lot of work
pulling those sleds,

751
00:41:39,330 --> 00:41:40,663
fatiguing it all
through the day.

752
00:41:40,664 --> 00:41:44,501
Torfi's getting all geared up
to lay some weld down on it.

753
00:41:44,502 --> 00:41:45,210
We're gonna add some reinforcing

754
00:41:45,211 --> 00:41:48,421
bracing to it so that it
doesn't do it again, hopefully.

755
00:41:48,422 --> 00:41:48,880
Fingers crossed.

756
00:41:48,881 --> 00:41:51,800
Let me see if you try
and cross your fingers, Kurt.

757
00:41:51,842 --> 00:41:53,385
They're too frozen, actually.

758
00:41:54,053 --> 00:41:57,264
It's actually very important
in every expedition,

759
00:41:57,306 --> 00:41:58,015
successful expedition,

760
00:41:58,057 --> 00:42:02,728
that, you can have the
team spirit all the time.

761
00:42:02,770 --> 00:42:04,730
You know, you have all
the members with you.

762
00:42:04,772 --> 00:42:06,732
You know, they're all working
together, you know,

763
00:42:06,774 --> 00:42:11,946
backing each other, up exactly
like it was in this expedition.

764
00:42:11,987 --> 00:42:13,113
It was amazing.

765
00:42:22,831 --> 00:42:24,500
Another day in the ER.

766
00:42:25,459 --> 00:42:26,919
Always problems.

767
00:42:27,253 --> 00:42:29,129
Mostly the plumbing.

768
00:42:30,339 --> 00:42:34,969
We basically negotiated them to
come back to the location

769
00:42:35,010 --> 00:42:36,053
where we were,

770
00:42:39,181 --> 00:42:42,309
Take the rest of this
fuel because we already knew

771
00:42:42,351 --> 00:42:44,311
we didn't need all this fuel.

772
00:42:44,353 --> 00:42:45,688
We could use part of this fuel

773
00:42:45,729 --> 00:42:50,943
to bring part of what we had
there further up west,

774
00:42:50,985 --> 00:42:53,153
more on the top of the glacier.

775
00:42:53,195 --> 00:42:56,448
This would save us
time on the way back.

776
00:42:56,657 --> 00:43:01,536
This meant we could turn,
a bad thing into a good thing.

777
00:43:08,168 --> 00:43:08,793
It's all working out.

778
00:43:08,794 --> 00:43:13,006
We got three drums that we're
putting on that we're leaving

779
00:43:13,007 --> 00:43:16,010
out to fuel the airplane so it
has enough fuel to go and do the

780
00:43:16,051 --> 00:43:17,636
mission that we've
asked it to do now.

781
00:43:17,678 --> 00:43:19,054
And then we're reloading it
looks like

782
00:43:19,096 --> 00:43:23,225
four or five more drums
that'll be sent out further

783
00:43:24,018 --> 00:43:28,606
to the west so that,
we don't have to come this far,

784
00:43:28,647 --> 00:43:30,190
towards the coast
on our return trip.

785
00:43:30,232 --> 00:43:33,569
It puts our fuel in line
with the straight line south.

786
00:43:33,611 --> 00:43:37,281
Pilots have agreed to take at
least nine and as many as 12

787
00:43:37,323 --> 00:43:38,866
of these empty drums out of
here.

788
00:43:38,907 --> 00:43:42,035
So not only do we not have to
spend hours cutting them up,

789
00:43:42,036 --> 00:43:45,121
we don't have to haul them with
us, all the way back and forth.

790
00:43:45,122 --> 00:43:47,541
So this is a big win for the
team.

791
00:44:30,376 --> 00:44:33,795
We're calling this the
last flying fuel drop.

792
00:44:33,796 --> 00:44:39,677
Dro-- The airplane dropped
these five drums off yesterday,

793
00:44:39,718 --> 00:44:41,762
Drove through the
night to get here now.

794
00:44:41,804 --> 00:44:43,889
Now we're gonna drop
off a couple more drums,

795
00:44:43,931 --> 00:44:46,809
and this is our cache
for the way home.

796
00:44:48,394 --> 00:44:51,021
And it is wicked out right now.

797
00:44:51,772 --> 00:44:53,273
Whooh.

798
00:44:57,611 --> 00:45:00,280
You think you're gonna
roll up at the gas station

799
00:45:00,322 --> 00:45:00,906
and fill up

800
00:45:00,948 --> 00:45:02,657
but when you're talking about
moving drums by hand

801
00:45:02,658 --> 00:45:04,701
and pumping them and pumps
working in

802
00:45:04,702 --> 00:45:07,829
sub zero temperatures,
it just nothing is easy.

803
00:45:07,830 --> 00:45:10,790
And then I got this one mustache
hair that's frozen down,

804
00:45:10,791 --> 00:45:12,417
and every time
I smile the wrong way,

805
00:45:12,418 --> 00:45:15,962
it pulls right
on the one that hurts the most.

806
00:45:15,963 --> 00:45:17,964
So I'm looking
forward to getting

807
00:45:17,965 --> 00:45:21,218
in the trucks and getting
thawed out a little bit.

808
00:45:26,014 --> 00:45:28,392
We started on a cadence
of drive

809
00:45:28,434 --> 00:45:29,727
for two or three Days camp once.

810
00:45:29,768 --> 00:45:32,062
Drive for two or three days,
camp once.

811
00:45:32,104 --> 00:45:33,647
After a week of that, everybody,

812
00:45:33,689 --> 00:45:35,691
you could see it was
taking its toll on everybody.

813
00:45:35,733 --> 00:45:39,570
We were getting tired and
really, it almost felt zombieish

814
00:45:39,611 --> 00:45:40,279
during the day.

815
00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:41,947
I mean it was really
difficult to sleep even when--

816
00:45:41,989 --> 00:45:44,241
even when you were the guy
who was getting a break.

817
00:45:44,283 --> 00:45:47,410
The trucks would bounce
and it was so bouncy that,

818
00:45:47,411 --> 00:45:49,162
that it was difficult to sleep

819
00:45:49,163 --> 00:45:51,122
even when it was
your time to sleep.

820
00:45:51,123 --> 00:45:54,459
Figured out we had
been driving for 75 hours,

821
00:45:54,460 --> 00:45:55,501
constant driving.

822
00:45:55,502 --> 00:45:56,878
Except for one stop
for about two or three

823
00:45:56,879 --> 00:46:00,883
for about two or three hours
to sleep in the cars.

824
00:46:01,341 --> 00:46:05,053
Other than that, we were
njust driving and changing seats,

825
00:46:05,095 --> 00:46:07,473
just keeping on,
keep on driving.

826
00:46:14,396 --> 00:46:16,023
You okay, Dr. Jon?

827
00:46:16,607 --> 00:46:20,944
When you read any story
about Arctic survival and the--

828
00:46:20,986 --> 00:46:25,616
the amount of abuse that the
human body can be subjected to

829
00:46:25,657 --> 00:46:29,911
before it finally breaks down
and dies is incredible.

830
00:46:29,912 --> 00:46:31,996
You know, we all
discussed it as a team.

831
00:46:31,997 --> 00:46:33,080
Yeah, let's keep doing this.

832
00:46:33,081 --> 00:46:35,583
Let's take a two and three hour
nap and call it.

833
00:46:35,584 --> 00:46:38,544
And we're going to get
back up in the morning and

834
00:46:38,545 --> 00:46:40,254
go another 700 miles.

835
00:46:47,429 --> 00:46:50,641
There's a few things
that are of consideration

836
00:46:50,682 --> 00:46:51,475
with remoteness,

837
00:46:51,517 --> 00:46:55,062
and we're always thinking
about are we closer to these

838
00:46:55,103 --> 00:46:58,607
points of inaccessibility
or poor accessibility.

839
00:46:58,649 --> 00:47:01,902
The first thing that you lose
is access by helicopter.

840
00:47:01,944 --> 00:47:03,278
But once you get outside
of the helicopter range,

841
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:05,572
then you have to have an
aircraft land

842
00:47:05,614 --> 00:47:08,783
and that requires specific
conditions on the ground.

843
00:47:08,784 --> 00:47:10,743
And then you can
actually get far enough away

844
00:47:10,744 --> 00:47:14,163
where it's going to require an
aircraft to bring in fuel,

845
00:47:14,164 --> 00:47:17,291
an aircraft to land
and refuel to get to you

846
00:47:17,292 --> 00:47:19,126
than to get you
off of the ice sheet.

847
00:47:19,127 --> 00:47:21,796
And the further north that you
get in Greenland,

848
00:47:21,797 --> 00:47:23,881
the more likely
that is to occur.

849
00:47:23,882 --> 00:47:25,424
You're deeper into the
expedition.

850
00:47:25,425 --> 00:47:26,885
People are more fatigued.

851
00:47:26,927 --> 00:47:28,053
Decision making has suffered.

852
00:47:28,095 --> 00:47:31,723
The human body starts to
break down because of those

853
00:47:31,765 --> 00:47:34,101
extremely long driving periods.

854
00:47:35,352 --> 00:47:38,105
We were still
heading north

855
00:47:38,772 --> 00:47:42,234
and we were running into this
storm.

856
00:47:42,276 --> 00:47:44,653
According to a path visibility,

857
00:47:44,695 --> 00:47:47,948
we are quite close to maybe
about

858
00:47:47,990 --> 00:47:50,701
2- 300 kilometers from Wulff
Land.

859
00:47:51,243 --> 00:47:54,996
We get quite strong winds.

860
00:47:54,997 --> 00:47:57,248
We were navigating only

861
00:47:57,249 --> 00:47:59,000
using gps, which is a dangerous

862
00:47:59,001 --> 00:48:02,379
thing to do when you're
approaching crevasse area.

863
00:48:05,382 --> 00:48:07,091
There was what they
call white darkness.

864
00:48:07,092 --> 00:48:10,053
It's white, you look out
the window and you see white,

865
00:48:10,095 --> 00:48:12,973
but the visibility
is a matter of feet.

866
00:48:13,015 --> 00:48:16,268
It was bad enough that
I told the guys on the radio,

867
00:48:16,310 --> 00:48:18,103
if you get out of the truck
for any reason,

868
00:48:18,145 --> 00:48:21,231
make sure that you maintain
contact with the truck.

869
00:48:21,273 --> 00:48:25,068
Because if you get disoriented
and take two steps in the wrong

870
00:48:25,110 --> 00:48:26,820
direction, it could be fatal.

871
00:48:26,862 --> 00:48:30,908
There's no bearings whatsoever
what's going on around you.

872
00:48:30,949 --> 00:48:32,241
You will be lost like that.

873
00:48:32,242 --> 00:48:34,702
If you take a single step
in any direction,

874
00:48:34,703 --> 00:48:36,663
it's a straight up guess.

875
00:48:39,791 --> 00:48:42,585
As we made our final push
north to Wulff Land,

876
00:48:42,586 --> 00:48:44,086
we were really
chasing the clock.

877
00:48:44,087 --> 00:48:47,006
We-- At any point,
we're gonna have to make our

878
00:48:47,007 --> 00:48:48,424
decision to turn back.

879
00:48:48,425 --> 00:48:50,469
The weather wasn't cooperating.

880
00:48:50,510 --> 00:48:53,347
The time was slipping away.

881
00:48:53,847 --> 00:48:57,100
We were at the point where we
didn't know if we were actually

882
00:48:57,142 --> 00:49:00,395
gonna make any of
our goals because progress

883
00:49:00,437 --> 00:49:01,813
had slowed down so much.

884
00:49:01,855 --> 00:49:03,857
And I remember the radio
cracking to life

885
00:49:03,899 --> 00:49:07,736
and Torfi saying,
there's an animal on the right.

886
00:49:07,986 --> 00:49:10,781
And we had trouble seeing it.

887
00:49:10,822 --> 00:49:12,532
And we kind of pulled up next to
it.

888
00:49:12,574 --> 00:49:15,534
And as we get closer and
start to brush the snow off,

889
00:49:15,535 --> 00:49:20,247
we realize that it was a musk ox
calf that had been separated

890
00:49:20,248 --> 00:49:23,417
from its mother, likely in a
storm just like that,

891
00:49:23,418 --> 00:49:25,836
or maybe even earlier in that
storm.

892
00:49:25,837 --> 00:49:29,173
And it was frozen solid from the
cold.

893
00:49:29,174 --> 00:49:34,513
And I remember all of us
being very aware of the fact

894
00:49:34,554 --> 00:49:36,390
that we were quite fragile.

895
00:49:49,319 --> 00:49:52,406
We had people on the team,

896
00:49:52,447 --> 00:49:56,242
we could tell in their voice
that they were starting to get

897
00:49:56,243 --> 00:49:57,201
concerned and worried.

898
00:49:57,202 --> 00:50:02,581
And at that point, we have
a spring break, on the 6x6.

899
00:50:02,582 --> 00:50:04,250
I was riding with
Greg at the time,

900
00:50:04,251 --> 00:50:07,128
and Torfi hopped on the radio
and said,

901
00:50:07,129 --> 00:50:08,963
hold on, something's wrong.

902
00:50:08,964 --> 00:50:11,173
Dreky's got a
broken coil spring.

903
00:50:11,174 --> 00:50:12,800
And I think all of us
immediately,

904
00:50:12,801 --> 00:50:13,844
like, our hearts sank.

905
00:50:13,885 --> 00:50:16,930
It's a broken spring.

906
00:50:17,806 --> 00:50:21,226
For me, at least,
what I've learned is to always,

907
00:50:21,268 --> 00:50:26,148
you know, no matter how bad the
situation is, you just, you

908
00:50:26,189 --> 00:50:29,067
you know, you love
the circumstances.

909
00:50:29,109 --> 00:50:30,485
You know, this is fantastic.

910
00:50:30,527 --> 00:50:32,446
You know, it's so great

911
00:50:32,487 --> 00:50:35,824
to be here with you guys, you
know,

912
00:50:36,074 --> 00:50:38,117
in this fantastic place.

913
00:50:38,118 --> 00:50:40,494
Just look at this nature, you
know,

914
00:50:40,495 --> 00:50:44,207
always trying to, you know,
see some positive things,

915
00:50:44,416 --> 00:50:46,376
you know, positive sides.

916
00:50:47,836 --> 00:50:49,837
You've got a spring break!

917
00:50:53,759 --> 00:50:55,886
You know, being negative and,

918
00:50:55,927 --> 00:51:00,474
that doesn't get you anywhere,
you know, have to be positive,

919
00:51:00,515 --> 00:51:04,186
you know,
and enjoying what you're doing.

920
00:51:05,937 --> 00:51:09,191
And in every person, actually,
you know, if you have the time

921
00:51:09,232 --> 00:51:14,112
and space to do that, you know,
to bring, you know, the best

922
00:51:14,154 --> 00:51:16,239
out of every person in the team.

923
00:51:16,281 --> 00:51:17,657
Fantastic.

924
00:51:18,283 --> 00:51:20,243
It's cold, it's windy.

925
00:51:20,952 --> 00:51:22,203
We're having fun.

926
00:51:28,502 --> 00:51:31,045
Made the decision that we
can fix it right there

927
00:51:31,046 --> 00:51:31,545
on the spot.

928
00:51:31,546 --> 00:51:32,880
We've got the
spare part to do it,

929
00:51:32,881 --> 00:51:35,216
but the weather's
getting worse and worse.

930
00:51:35,217 --> 00:51:36,384
In fact,
it was the worst weather

931
00:51:36,426 --> 00:51:38,595
we'd seen on the entire trip.

932
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:45,393
I remember Jon Solberg holding

933
00:51:45,435 --> 00:51:46,561
the wood barriers and trying to-

934
00:51:46,603 --> 00:51:51,024
to block the wind with his own
body to give these guys a chance

935
00:51:51,066 --> 00:51:52,275
at getting that repaired.

936
00:51:52,317 --> 00:51:55,153
And they did it in less time
than it would take a mechanic

937
00:51:55,195 --> 00:51:59,366
in a warm garage in Salt Lake
City to do the same thing.

938
00:51:59,407 --> 00:52:02,119
I mean, that's when you see,

939
00:52:02,577 --> 00:52:06,665
that's when you see exceptional
people do exceptional things.

940
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:11,336
GREG#*:
These are incredible men.

941
00:52:11,503 --> 00:52:15,756
And there is clearly no way
this expedition would have,

942
00:52:15,757 --> 00:52:18,260
would have succeeded
without them

943
00:52:18,301 --> 00:52:20,470
and several others like them.

944
00:52:21,263 --> 00:52:25,475
It was sometime in this window
of

945
00:52:25,684 --> 00:52:29,146
what to me felt like a barrage
of adversity,

946
00:52:29,187 --> 00:52:32,774
uh, compounded by the fact that,

947
00:52:32,816 --> 00:52:35,277
that I was feeling sick and

948
00:52:35,318 --> 00:52:40,991
I was-- I was not able to make
the level of contribution

949
00:52:41,032 --> 00:52:43,033
I would have liked physically.

950
00:52:43,034 --> 00:52:45,077
And that compounded my
frustration as well,

951
00:52:45,078 --> 00:52:51,375
that I decided, that it would
be a good time to try

952
00:52:51,376 --> 00:52:53,712
to connect with my wife, Heidi.

953
00:52:53,837 --> 00:53:00,010
We're 135 kilometers from the
northern edge of the glacier,

954
00:53:01,678 --> 00:53:04,890
and we're,

955
00:53:07,142 --> 00:53:09,269
we're having a lot of trouble.

956
00:53:10,187 --> 00:53:13,481
We've had an unbelievable

957
00:53:13,523 --> 00:53:15,650
number of setbacks,

958
00:53:15,942 --> 00:53:18,111
and these guys just keep going.

959
00:53:18,153 --> 00:53:22,407
It's 8 degrees below zero,
and the wind is blowing so hard,

960
00:53:22,449 --> 00:53:26,410
I can barely see the truck
that's 10ft in front of me.

961
00:53:26,411 --> 00:53:29,747
And these guys are out,
fixing the axle

962
00:53:29,748 --> 00:53:32,583
to support my expedition.

963
00:53:32,584 --> 00:53:35,044
Is everybody mentally okay?

964
00:53:35,045 --> 00:53:36,295
Everybody wanted to quit?

965
00:53:36,296 --> 00:53:38,547
No. That's the thing
that's so amazing.

966
00:53:38,548 --> 00:53:40,633
That's why I'm so emotional.

967
00:53:40,634 --> 00:53:43,970
It's because there's
no sign of quitting.

968
00:53:44,012 --> 00:53:46,890
I told you a couple times before
I left that this would be

969
00:53:46,932 --> 00:53:49,392
the biggest adventure I ever
did.

970
00:53:52,270 --> 00:53:56,024
And I underestimated it.

971
00:53:59,444 --> 00:54:01,238
Just hearing her voice

972
00:54:01,279 --> 00:54:03,073
brought me a lot of comfort.

973
00:54:11,998 --> 00:54:14,750
I will say that we
have today looks to be

974
00:54:14,751 --> 00:54:15,834
our best weather condition.

975
00:54:15,835 --> 00:54:18,921
Torfi can provide some
additional clarification,

976
00:54:18,922 --> 00:54:21,006
but it looks like
the wind actually

977
00:54:21,007 --> 00:54:23,218
doubles in speed tomorrow.

978
00:54:26,721 --> 00:54:30,225
The only thing we know at
this point is it's worse

979
00:54:30,267 --> 00:54:30,892
than it was an hour ago,

980
00:54:30,934 --> 00:54:32,394
which was worse than it was an
hour before.

981
00:54:32,435 --> 00:54:34,062
It doesn't seem
to be letting up at all.

982
00:54:34,104 --> 00:54:36,481
And we're making the
decision to push north.

983
00:54:36,523 --> 00:54:37,857
And it was really
important for Greg.

984
00:54:37,899 --> 00:54:40,235
We were all getting
a greater sense of that,

985
00:54:40,277 --> 00:54:42,737
how important it was
for him to reach Wulff Land

986
00:54:42,779 --> 00:54:43,655
and call the mission successful.

987
00:54:43,697 --> 00:54:45,907
- SCOTT
- We do know
that this next weather window,

988
00:54:45,949 --> 00:54:51,745
the wind kicks up and it is
scheduled out for several days.

989
00:54:51,746 --> 00:54:56,042
So even moving a couple days
may not be enough.

990
00:54:57,252 --> 00:54:58,585
Yeah, I agree.

991
00:55:02,757 --> 00:55:04,300
Greg hit me up right
immediately,

992
00:55:04,301 --> 00:55:05,969
"what do you want to,
what do you think we should do?

993
00:55:06,011 --> 00:55:09,681
You know, I'm asking everybody,
do you feel comfortable moving

994
00:55:09,723 --> 00:55:10,515
forward in this weather?

995
00:55:10,557 --> 00:55:12,851
Knowing what we
know now about the weather

996
00:55:12,892 --> 00:55:16,229
and the time we have,
how do you feel about it?".

997
00:55:17,147 --> 00:55:22,360
We decided that we would
drive until 6:00am and reassess.

998
00:55:22,402 --> 00:55:24,821
Uh, even though the repair
was complete on Dreky,

999
00:55:24,863 --> 00:55:29,700
once we started moving,
Dreky didn't move.

1000
00:55:29,701 --> 00:55:34,038
And so I got on the radio and
said, Dreky, are you with us?

1001
00:55:34,039 --> 00:55:36,415
And I could tell from the delay

1002
00:55:36,416 --> 00:55:40,919
in the response and the
tone of the response that

1003
00:55:40,920 --> 00:55:42,880
we didn't have complete
alignment

1004
00:55:42,881 --> 00:55:43,756
from the folks in Dreky.

1005
00:55:43,757 --> 00:55:46,050
I remember it took a
couple minutes and Greg was,

1006
00:55:46,051 --> 00:55:49,721
I don't think frustrated,
but like seemingly anxious like,

1007
00:55:49,763 --> 00:55:50,889
"what's taking them so long?

1008
00:55:50,930 --> 00:55:51,681
I want to know the answer."

1009
00:55:51,723 --> 00:55:53,391
You know, "Are they comfortable
moving forward?"

1010
00:55:53,433 --> 00:55:55,435
In our vehicle we were
having a real hard time coming

1011
00:55:55,477 --> 00:56:00,440
to a consensus, and nobody
wanted to disappoint Greg,

1012
00:56:00,482 --> 00:56:01,983
but we had had some serious

1013
00:56:02,025 --> 00:56:04,027
concerns about our safety.

1014
00:56:04,069 --> 00:56:05,445
If any of you guys have any

1015
00:56:05,487 --> 00:56:09,074
concerns about this along the
way, I'd like to hear them.

1016
00:56:09,115 --> 00:56:11,116
You all, your voice is welcome.

1017
00:56:11,117 --> 00:56:15,579
At that moment, I was definitely
thinking we are probably pushing

1018
00:56:15,580 --> 00:56:18,916
beyond our capabilities here.

1019
00:56:18,917 --> 00:56:21,293
In my mind, we were not able to

1020
00:56:21,294 --> 00:56:25,298
drive off the glacier
if we didn't have a visibility.

1021
00:56:25,757 --> 00:56:27,967
It was just no way situation.

1022
00:56:28,009 --> 00:56:33,556
Any desire that I had to get
there and, you know,

1023
00:56:33,598 --> 00:56:36,726
take a picture at the farthest
northern piece of dirt

1024
00:56:36,768 --> 00:56:39,396
on the planet or do something
that nobody else had

1025
00:56:39,437 --> 00:56:44,067
ever done before
was severely shadowed

1026
00:56:44,109 --> 00:56:45,985
by my promise to my profession,

1027
00:56:46,027 --> 00:56:48,279
which is to not ever
put anybody in jeopardy.

1028
00:56:48,321 --> 00:56:51,574
I guess I was just shell shocked
by everything at this point.

1029
00:56:51,616 --> 00:56:52,158
What was a risk?

1030
00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:53,659
I mean, we'd done so many
things.

1031
00:56:53,660 --> 00:56:57,621
At this point, I was comfortable
pushing into the storm.

1032
00:56:57,622 --> 00:57:00,749
One of the things that can
happen on a trip like this,

1033
00:57:00,750 --> 00:57:04,086
when you pull together so many
competent individuals,

1034
00:57:04,087 --> 00:57:06,839
they have a lot of tolerance
for variability,

1035
00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:09,426
they have a lot of
tolerance for leadership.

1036
00:57:10,301 --> 00:57:14,431
And they allow for people with
experience and with the right

1037
00:57:14,472 --> 00:57:18,059
mindset to make decisions
throughout an expedition.

1038
00:57:18,101 --> 00:57:19,394
But what can happen is

1039
00:57:19,436 --> 00:57:21,938
once the options start
to come off the table,

1040
00:57:21,980 --> 00:57:25,358
once you really only
have one path left,

1041
00:57:25,400 --> 00:57:28,486
then people will start to
actively question and they have

1042
00:57:28,528 --> 00:57:29,154
every right to.

1043
00:57:29,195 --> 00:57:31,281
That's one of the things that
make a great team,

1044
00:57:31,322 --> 00:57:33,700
is for people having
the ability to speak up

1045
00:57:33,741 --> 00:57:37,119
and the mindset and the
desire to speak up when things

1046
00:57:37,120 --> 00:57:38,036
start to get dangerous.

1047
00:57:38,037 --> 00:57:40,998
I actually got out of
the truck and went back and,

1048
00:57:40,999 --> 00:57:44,543
Scott is the one that
I probably know best of all.

1049
00:57:44,544 --> 00:57:48,172
Jon, he looked at me and
he shared this story

1050
00:57:48,173 --> 00:57:51,425
about what happens
right up to the point

1051
00:57:51,426 --> 00:57:54,596
that an airplane runs
into the side of a mountain.

1052
00:57:54,637 --> 00:57:58,308
And he wasn't telling me the
story because he wanted to say

1053
00:57:58,349 --> 00:58:01,519
I don't want to go or
I don't feel comfortable going.

1054
00:58:01,561 --> 00:58:05,440
He wanted to make sure that Emil
and I were reminded of the fact

1055
00:58:05,482 --> 00:58:08,568
that those cascade of events, we
can be so focused on something

1056
00:58:08,610 --> 00:58:12,280
that we want to achieve in our
life that we can start to forget

1057
00:58:12,322 --> 00:58:14,782
about all of the
risks that come along the way.

1058
00:58:14,824 --> 00:58:16,658
We get those blinders on,

1059
00:58:16,659 --> 00:58:18,785
and we get so
focused on that goal

1060
00:58:18,786 --> 00:58:21,288
that we run right
into the side of the mountain.

1061
00:58:21,289 --> 00:58:23,373
I am the expedition leader.

1062
00:58:23,374 --> 00:58:27,794
The safety of,
every one of these team members

1063
00:58:27,795 --> 00:58:29,421
is my responsibility,

1064
00:58:29,422 --> 00:58:33,800
and I must get every one of them

1065
00:58:33,801 --> 00:58:36,262
back home to their families
safely.

1066
00:58:36,304 --> 00:58:39,516
I knew that he was deliberating

1067
00:58:39,557 --> 00:58:42,268
between giving up on something
that he had tried so hard

1068
00:58:42,310 --> 00:58:45,563
to achieve and had given
so much towards us and

1069
00:58:45,605 --> 00:58:47,232
everyone else to try to
get to this goal.

1070
00:58:47,273 --> 00:58:51,110
I knew that he was potentially
faced with that reality that

1071
00:58:51,152 --> 00:58:51,986
we weren't gonna make it.

1072
00:58:52,028 --> 00:58:54,447
We weren't even gonna make
it to the end of the ice sheet.

1073
00:58:54,489 --> 00:58:58,534
And I have such respect for him
in that moment, because what he

1074
00:58:58,535 --> 00:59:00,077
did was he kind of gave that up.

1075
00:59:00,078 --> 00:59:04,998
He kind of said, "it's okay if
we don't make it to our goal as

1076
00:59:04,999 --> 00:59:06,458
long as we all make it home."

1077
00:59:06,459 --> 00:59:09,379
And that says a lot
about a leader right there.

1078
00:59:09,587 --> 00:59:15,259
I felt like my concerns were
heard, and we decided

1079
00:59:15,260 --> 00:59:16,719
as a group to push on.

1080
00:59:22,767 --> 00:59:25,603
That is a good old North Dakota
blizzard right there,

1081
00:59:25,645 --> 00:59:27,105
I'll tell you that much.

1082
00:59:27,146 --> 00:59:29,107
My inclination is that we,

1083
00:59:29,148 --> 00:59:31,109
we take it one objective at a
time.

1084
00:59:31,150 --> 00:59:34,862
Let's get to the edge of the
ice sheet and then reassess,

1085
00:59:34,904 --> 00:59:40,742
and then, we can decide if we
want to getto, the tou--

1086
00:59:40,743 --> 00:59:41,952
the terra firma.

1087
00:59:41,953 --> 00:59:43,704
I think that's probably
the best thing to do

1088
00:59:43,705 --> 00:59:45,914
at this point in time, because
I think everybody's going to be

1089
00:59:45,915 --> 00:59:49,751
excited about trying to get to
the edge of the ice sheet.

1090
00:59:49,752 --> 00:59:51,962
- GREG
- Scott, I
couldn't agree with you more.

1091
00:59:51,963 --> 00:59:53,172
Thank you.

1092
00:59:54,465 --> 00:59:56,675
You four guys are just awesome.

1093
00:59:56,676 --> 00:59:57,844
Thank you.

1094
01:00:06,519 --> 01:00:08,688
60 minutes later,

1095
01:00:08,730 --> 01:00:10,148
sunshine,

1096
01:00:10,356 --> 01:00:12,734
the bluest skies we'd seen in
days.

1097
01:00:12,775 --> 01:00:17,864
And the more time passes, the
more I can hear angels singing

1098
01:00:17,905 --> 01:00:19,949
in that moment in my memory.

1099
01:00:36,674 --> 01:00:40,637
We were the first boots
on the ground into this region.

1100
01:00:40,678 --> 01:00:41,929
Now, there's certainly been

1101
01:00:41,971 --> 01:00:42,847
people on
the north of Greenland,

1102
01:00:42,889 --> 01:00:45,433
but there had never been anybody
that we were aware of

1103
01:00:45,475 --> 01:00:49,687
that had traveled
to this particular glacier.

1104
01:00:50,146 --> 01:00:51,356
If you'd asked me on
the first day or two

1105
01:00:51,397 --> 01:00:53,524
if I thought we were going to
get all the way to the north tip

1106
01:00:53,566 --> 01:00:56,110
I said there's no way, I mean,
like,

1107
01:00:56,152 --> 01:00:57,153
we're going to be lucky to bail,

1108
01:00:57,195 --> 01:01:00,281
take a left to go to
Kangerlussuaq, you know.

1109
01:01:00,490 --> 01:01:02,784
- GREG
- Yeah, I think
we're all pretty honored

1110
01:01:02,825 --> 01:01:04,035
to be here.

1111
01:01:06,162 --> 01:01:08,789
I had a pretty good idea

1112
01:01:08,790 --> 01:01:11,041
of what Wulff Land would be
like.

1113
01:01:11,042 --> 01:01:15,712
But to be standing there looking
at it and to see the magnitude

1114
01:01:15,713 --> 01:01:20,258
of it and the grandeur
and the remoteness,

1115
01:01:20,259 --> 01:01:23,930
the stillness
was overwhelming to me.

1116
01:01:23,971 --> 01:01:27,266
It was beyond anything
that I'd imagined.

1117
01:01:31,896 --> 01:01:33,856
We got to the top of this
extremely

1118
01:01:33,898 --> 01:01:34,816
steep slope and Emil said,

1119
01:01:34,857 --> 01:01:39,445
Greg, you must go down first
to make sure we can get back up.

1120
01:01:39,570 --> 01:01:41,948
We weren't going to
commit all three vehicles

1121
01:01:41,989 --> 01:01:42,949
to the bottom of this thing

1122
01:01:42,990 --> 01:01:45,034
if we
couldn't climb back up again.

1123
01:02:07,265 --> 01:02:09,767
Greg got down to the bottom
and he just started

1124
01:02:09,809 --> 01:02:12,729
cruising back up and
he didn't even spin a tire.

1125
01:02:24,031 --> 01:02:25,450
It was at,

1126
01:02:26,701 --> 01:02:32,122
at that moment that I knew we
were gonna meet our objective.

1127
01:02:42,300 --> 01:02:43,425
There you go, guys.

1128
01:02:43,426 --> 01:02:46,012
Tires have now touched Wulff
Land.

1129
01:02:46,053 --> 01:02:47,722
We are on Wulff Land.

1130
01:03:02,445 --> 01:03:05,782
Seeing those brown rocks, those

1131
01:03:05,823 --> 01:03:11,245
brown mountains, 50, 80, 100
miles out into the distance

1132
01:03:11,329 --> 01:03:15,792
was so rewarding for me.

1133
01:03:18,753 --> 01:03:23,299
So that's one of the most
remote places I've ever been.

1134
01:03:25,885 --> 01:03:31,140
It was very special
- to get to Wulff Land.
- That was a great moment.

1135
01:03:33,309 --> 01:03:36,020
It's hard to describe by,
you know,

1136
01:03:36,187 --> 01:03:40,274
you-- you-- you, uh, you looked
at the map so many times

1137
01:03:40,316 --> 01:03:44,195
and it's just a location on a
map and all of a sudden

1138
01:03:44,237 --> 01:03:46,781
you're standing there and,

1139
01:03:46,823 --> 01:03:49,534
it's out of this world kind of.

1140
01:03:54,497 --> 01:03:56,666
Welcome to Wulff Land!

1141
01:03:57,083 --> 01:04:00,628
It looks like the moon
with a glacier on it.

1142
01:04:01,295 --> 01:04:02,921
When we came down to Wulff Land,

1143
01:04:02,922 --> 01:04:04,297
we were kind of surprised

1144
01:04:04,298 --> 01:04:09,470
because there was
almost no snow at all.

1145
01:04:09,512 --> 01:04:10,680
Just--

1146
01:04:10,721 --> 01:04:15,268
So our plans to drive
further north, they just,

1147
01:04:15,309 --> 01:04:15,893
they were gone.

1148
01:04:15,935 --> 01:04:18,729
It was not possible
to drive any further.

1149
01:04:18,771 --> 01:04:21,941
After evaluating this and
thinking about the ice melt

1150
01:04:21,983 --> 01:04:24,151
and what was time and
the risk and everything,

1151
01:04:24,193 --> 01:04:28,781
like that, we decided to
just to take a long, good rest

1152
01:04:28,823 --> 01:04:30,741
and then turn around.

1153
01:04:30,783 --> 01:04:34,202
I regret not being able
to keep driving north.

1154
01:04:34,203 --> 01:04:37,581
I would have loved to have
gotten all the way to the,

1155
01:04:37,582 --> 01:04:39,457
to the Arctic Ocean and found,

1156
01:04:39,458 --> 01:04:42,586
a place to break through the ice
and actually get the tires wet.

1157
01:04:42,587 --> 01:04:46,756
I think we all just tried to
drink it in and absorb as much

1158
01:04:46,757 --> 01:04:50,052
as we could of that moment
before we had to turn around

1159
01:04:50,094 --> 01:04:52,555
and start making our way south.

1160
01:04:53,264 --> 01:04:57,059
I mean, this expedition
inspired adventurers

1161
01:04:57,101 --> 01:04:58,519
from around the globe

1162
01:04:58,561 --> 01:05:02,315
to push beyond the
notions of what is possible.

1163
01:05:02,440 --> 01:05:06,319
Expedition 7 Greenland
Crossing team members.

1164
01:05:06,360 --> 01:05:09,739
Craig Miller-Expedition Leader,
USA.

1165
01:05:09,780 --> 01:05:11,574
Scott Brady, USA.

1166
01:05:11,616 --> 01:05:13,658
Clay Croft, USA.

1167
01:05:13,659 --> 01:05:16,036
Emil Grimson, Iceland.

1168
01:05:16,037 --> 01:05:18,622
Torfi Johannsson, Iceland.

1169
01:05:18,623 --> 01:05:20,832
Dr. Jon Solberg, USA.

1170
01:05:20,833 --> 01:05:23,002
Kurt Williams, USA.

1171
01:05:23,961 --> 01:05:27,505
- GREG
- Well, probably
just as hard for you guys

1172
01:05:27,506 --> 01:05:30,676
to pull out of
this place as it is for me.

1173
01:05:30,718 --> 01:05:33,596
After what we went through to
get here, I just don't want

1174
01:05:33,638 --> 01:05:35,097
to leave such a special place.

1175
01:05:35,139 --> 01:05:38,476
Especially after
having seen so little of it.

1176
01:05:38,643 --> 01:05:40,895
But we all need to get back home

1177
01:05:40,937 --> 01:05:44,440
to our families and all of our
other real world commitments.

1178
01:05:44,482 --> 01:05:48,778
So make sure to capture one
last image of that before we

1179
01:05:48,819 --> 01:05:52,365
turn and burn and encounter all

1180
01:05:52,406 --> 01:05:57,370
that great white hostility
on the way back to a hot shower.

1181
01:05:57,620 --> 01:05:59,955
Yeah, I'm ready for a shower and
a shave.

1182
01:05:59,956 --> 01:06:01,039
Yeah, me too.

1183
01:06:01,040 --> 01:06:01,581
Me too.

1184
01:06:01,582 --> 01:06:04,125
But that was worth,
that was worth every kilometer

1185
01:06:04,126 --> 01:06:06,461
to get to that place,
very beautiful.

1186
01:06:06,462 --> 01:06:07,253
Mh-hm.

1187
01:06:12,343 --> 01:06:17,056
There's always something hard
about leaving a place you love.

1188
01:06:18,015 --> 01:06:20,267
Seeing it in your
rear view mirror.

1189
01:06:22,061 --> 01:06:24,605
Especially knowing if
you'll never come back.

1190
01:06:45,543 --> 01:06:46,918
People oftentimes
don't consider

1191
01:06:46,919 --> 01:06:50,547
with expeditions or danger
surrounding expeditions is

1192
01:06:50,548 --> 01:06:52,215
it's just like scaling a
mountain.

1193
01:06:52,216 --> 01:06:55,136
You don't need to just
get to the top and succeed.

1194
01:06:55,177 --> 01:06:58,264
You need to get back down
safely to base camp

1195
01:06:58,305 --> 01:06:59,849
and back to your families.

1196
01:06:59,890 --> 01:07:01,684
Wulff Land back,

1197
01:07:03,310 --> 01:07:05,104
it had a few challenges.

1198
01:07:05,146 --> 01:07:08,232
We had a broken CV joint on my
truck.

1199
01:07:08,274 --> 01:07:09,191
Clay broke it.

1200
01:07:09,233 --> 01:07:10,234
We all knew Clay broke it.

1201
01:07:10,276 --> 01:07:13,112
Clay finally accepted
that he broke it.

1202
01:07:13,362 --> 01:07:17,700
The lunettes of both sleds had
to be completely reworked

1203
01:07:17,742 --> 01:07:18,200
and re welded.

1204
01:07:18,242 --> 01:07:19,617
We broke the hitch on the
trailer.

1205
01:07:19,618 --> 01:07:22,287
We broke the hitch on
one of the sleds as well,

1206
01:07:22,288 --> 01:07:23,748
the vehicle side.

1207
01:07:24,165 --> 01:07:25,832
I was in the army for seven
years.

1208
01:07:25,833 --> 01:07:30,128
I never saw a cast iron pintle
hitch wear through anything

1209
01:07:30,129 --> 01:07:32,380
and be stretched into an oval.

1210
01:07:33,257 --> 01:07:34,842
It's cracking.

1211
01:07:36,302 --> 01:07:39,555
Cut it, put it your log like in
between

1212
01:07:42,600 --> 01:07:44,602
The runners on the sleds,

1213
01:07:44,643 --> 01:07:45,853
they were starting to break off.

1214
01:07:45,895 --> 01:07:48,939
And of course the straps
and all these things on the,

1215
01:07:48,981 --> 01:07:53,194
on the sleds to keep
the bladders in place.

1216
01:07:53,569 --> 01:07:57,406
Then we had a leaf spring
on the trailer broke.

1217
01:07:57,448 --> 01:07:59,283
This one's,
I don't see how you're

1218
01:07:59,325 --> 01:08:00,533
gonna fix this.

1219
01:08:06,082 --> 01:08:10,126
The water maker stopped running
so I had to take it in the car

1220
01:08:10,127 --> 01:08:11,544
inside and warm it up.

1221
01:08:22,139 --> 01:08:24,725
A minor issue with a fuel pump.

1222
01:08:24,767 --> 01:08:27,937
We are troubleshooting
low fuel.

1223
01:08:27,978 --> 01:08:30,439
This thing's got enough.
Doesn't seem to be pumping.

1224
01:08:30,481 --> 01:08:30,940
Pump?

1225
01:08:30,981 --> 01:08:31,607
Yeah, yeah, please.

1226
01:08:31,649 --> 01:08:33,567
Go ahead and turn
that pump on, Greg.

1227
01:08:36,487 --> 01:08:37,613
Got a lot better now.

1228
01:08:37,655 --> 01:08:38,531
KURT#*:
Yeah.

1229
01:08:48,916 --> 01:08:52,377
So yeah, I guess we did
have a lot of problems.

1230
01:08:52,378 --> 01:08:52,961
We had a mini parade

1231
01:08:52,962 --> 01:08:55,548
of terribles as we were
southbound.

1232
01:09:10,020 --> 01:09:13,023
We were on our way back from
Wulff Land

1233
01:09:13,065 --> 01:09:17,278
and all of a sudden this display
came across the sky like

1234
01:09:17,319 --> 01:09:18,779
nothing I had ever seen in my
life.

1235
01:09:18,821 --> 01:09:20,364
I had certainly
seen sundogs before

1236
01:09:20,406 --> 01:09:22,992
and I'd seen rainbows before
and I'd seen

1237
01:09:23,033 --> 01:09:24,993
concentric sun rings before.

1238
01:09:24,994 --> 01:09:28,538
But I had never seen all
of them together in one scene.

1239
01:09:28,539 --> 01:09:32,125
I was completely
awestruck by what I saw,

1240
01:09:32,126 --> 01:09:34,919
and it was so
significant in its scale,

1241
01:09:34,920 --> 01:09:37,840
I could not capture
it with the camera.

1242
01:09:48,475 --> 01:09:51,687
Well, we're down to the final

1243
01:09:52,396 --> 01:09:55,065
160km, 150km,
something like that.

1244
01:09:55,107 --> 01:09:59,904
And, we're in the process of
offloading all of the fuel from

1245
01:09:59,945 --> 01:10:01,447
the bladders into the trucks.

1246
01:10:01,488 --> 01:10:04,325
Anything that's left,
we can put in a couple drums,

1247
01:10:04,366 --> 01:10:07,452
but we want
the sleds to be able to go away.

1248
01:10:07,453 --> 01:10:12,123
Torfi right now is
installing spikes into the 6x6

1249
01:10:12,124 --> 01:10:13,917
to get ready for that slick ice.

1250
01:10:13,918 --> 01:10:17,587
And this could be pretty
adventurous as we get up,

1251
01:10:17,588 --> 01:10:18,546
up into here. Yeah.

1252
01:10:18,547 --> 01:10:23,134
But it's kind of a win because
it's the last time, allegedly,

1253
01:10:23,135 --> 01:10:24,887
that the fuel pumps
are going to get out.

1254
01:10:24,929 --> 01:10:29,892
It's been a big job of ours over
the last few weeks pumping fuel.

1255
01:10:37,066 --> 01:10:39,109
One of the most difficult
things for us to do

1256
01:10:39,151 --> 01:10:44,281
as the lead vehicle
was to get a route through

1257
01:10:44,323 --> 01:10:47,534
the glacier into Kangerlussuaq.

1258
01:10:49,411 --> 01:10:52,622
It was the most
challenging route finding

1259
01:10:52,623 --> 01:10:54,541
that I had ever done.

1260
01:10:59,463 --> 01:11:03,175
Part of this section
was incredibly dangerous.

1261
01:11:07,888 --> 01:11:10,766
This is the most harsh,

1262
01:11:10,808 --> 01:11:13,435
the most, most harsh
condition for a vehicle

1263
01:11:13,477 --> 01:11:15,896
I have ever been in, period.

1264
01:11:15,938 --> 01:11:20,609
Even walking around here when
I step through the top soil,

1265
01:11:20,651 --> 01:11:21,777
top snow,

1266
01:11:21,819 --> 01:11:24,488
I hit ice under it
and it's super slick.

1267
01:11:24,530 --> 01:11:26,490
I've never seen
anything like this before.

1268
01:11:26,532 --> 01:11:29,118
I'm pretty nervous,
to tell you the truth.

1269
01:11:29,785 --> 01:11:33,871
We were seven smelly guys

1270
01:11:33,872 --> 01:11:38,376
that were 10 kilometers away
from a hot shower and pizza.

1271
01:11:38,377 --> 01:11:41,587
All we needed to do
was get off the ice.

1272
01:11:41,588 --> 01:11:43,006
Five years from now,
you won't look back to the night

1273
01:11:43,007 --> 01:11:45,508
we just drove right off the
glacier in the Kangerlussuaq

1274
01:11:45,509 --> 01:11:46,843
and it was no problem,
it was easy.

1275
01:11:46,844 --> 01:11:50,180
You'll remember the time
you had to work for it,

1276
01:11:50,431 --> 01:11:53,309
maybe all night, maybe tomorrow.

1277
01:11:54,101 --> 01:11:54,601
Not a lot of work.

1278
01:11:54,643 --> 01:11:55,769
Just takes time and patience.

1279
01:11:55,811 --> 01:11:58,022
Yeah, time and patience. Yeah.

1280
01:12:00,482 --> 01:12:02,276
I kind of didn't know
what to expect.

1281
01:12:02,318 --> 01:12:04,570
I had, had all these impressions

1282
01:12:04,611 --> 01:12:07,239
of me about crevasses
and giant crevasse fields

1283
01:12:07,281 --> 01:12:08,115
and thinking,
I'm gonna see them,

1284
01:12:08,157 --> 01:12:11,117
you're gonna see these giant
deep wedges into the ground.

1285
01:12:11,118 --> 01:12:12,910
And we really didn't
see any of those.

1286
01:12:12,911 --> 01:12:15,038
And it wasn't because they
weren't there,

1287
01:12:15,039 --> 01:12:15,830
as we later found out.

1288
01:12:15,831 --> 01:12:18,958
It was just because they were
snow blown and covered over.

1289
01:12:33,098 --> 01:12:34,725
It was getting dark.

1290
01:12:35,434 --> 01:12:37,144
I was in second position.

1291
01:12:37,186 --> 01:12:39,229
Scott and Emil
were in the first truck,

1292
01:12:39,271 --> 01:12:43,359
and we were making our way
through the crevasse field

1293
01:12:43,400 --> 01:12:44,193
we knew was there.

1294
01:12:44,234 --> 01:12:49,281
I saw my trailer just
kind of list to the left side

1295
01:12:49,948 --> 01:12:51,450
Hey guys, we got a problem.

1296
01:12:51,492 --> 01:12:54,410
And in my mind that crevasse
was just going to open up

1297
01:12:54,411 --> 01:12:57,246
and swallow the whole truck
and trailer into it.

1298
01:12:57,247 --> 01:12:59,749
Instinctively just
gave a little gas,

1299
01:12:59,750 --> 01:13:03,169
it broke the outer bead
and the tire got kind

1300
01:13:03,170 --> 01:13:04,921
of mangled up under the wheel.

1301
01:13:07,257 --> 01:13:08,549
We're not getting
anywhere near that.

1302
01:13:08,550 --> 01:13:14,223
And in the process is that
popped down and Greg's truck

1303
01:13:14,264 --> 01:13:14,932
lurched a little bit.

1304
01:13:14,973 --> 01:13:16,058
It peeled the tire off the bead.

1305
01:13:16,100 --> 01:13:19,311
So now we gotta
put a tire back on the bead.

1306
01:13:21,105 --> 01:13:22,398
This looks alright.

1307
01:13:22,439 --> 01:13:26,568
We've also found that the
truck frame has a crack in it.

1308
01:13:32,908 --> 01:13:33,367
Yes, sir.

1309
01:13:33,409 --> 01:13:35,327
Kind of in a pinch.

1310
01:13:41,625 --> 01:13:42,083
All right.

1311
01:13:42,084 --> 01:13:43,877
Stop, stop, stop.

1312
01:13:45,504 --> 01:13:48,339
I went E7 forcing the crevice.

1313
01:13:48,340 --> 01:13:53,011
That's where everybody sees
this is actual.

1314
01:13:53,053 --> 01:13:59,226
And that made
the whole team quite careful.

1315
01:13:59,309 --> 01:14:01,478
You know, that--
that crevasse is like

1316
01:14:01,520 --> 01:14:03,730
two house stories tall.

1317
01:14:03,772 --> 01:14:07,651
It's gotta be 30 or 40ft
deep and just a big V shape

1318
01:14:07,693 --> 01:14:10,988
all the way to the bottom
of nothing but blue ice.

1319
01:14:11,405 --> 01:14:14,032
I've never seen
anything like that before.

1320
01:14:14,241 --> 01:14:17,910
Clay and I were standing in
the back with our crampons on

1321
01:14:17,911 --> 01:14:21,706
thinking oh my gosh, if somebody
goes in we're really gonna have

1322
01:14:21,707 --> 01:14:24,250
to figure out how to get them
out.

1323
01:14:24,251 --> 01:14:27,086
Oh, it's right there.
It's running this way.

1324
01:14:27,087 --> 01:14:29,422
- It's pretty narrow.
- I'm standing on it.

1325
01:14:29,423 --> 01:14:32,801
It's not big enough
to swallow a truck.

1326
01:14:34,636 --> 01:14:36,346
That was pretty scary.

1327
01:14:38,849 --> 01:14:42,060
Greg is literally standing
on the crevasse right now.

1328
01:14:42,102 --> 01:14:44,771
It was incredible to watch
these guys

1329
01:14:44,813 --> 01:14:46,899
sitting on top of a crevasse,

1330
01:14:46,940 --> 01:14:48,358
repairing the vehicle.

1331
01:14:50,777 --> 01:14:53,489
Scott and Emil have gone on to

1332
01:14:53,947 --> 01:14:55,991
explore some more routes.

1333
01:14:56,033 --> 01:14:59,785
It was our role, me and Scott
to try to find the route.

1334
01:14:59,786 --> 01:15:02,163
It was not an optimal situation

1335
01:15:02,164 --> 01:15:05,709
because we did not
have a second car to tie us,

1336
01:15:05,918 --> 01:15:06,584
to tie it to.

1337
01:15:06,585 --> 01:15:11,965
So if we would go down into a
crevasse we would have no one to

1338
01:15:12,341 --> 01:15:15,886
to hold us back from falling,
free falling in.

1339
01:15:16,094 --> 01:15:19,139
So we had to be very careful.

1340
01:15:20,807 --> 01:15:23,685
Scott and Emil, do you copy?

1341
01:15:26,480 --> 01:15:27,898
Yeah, go ahead.

1342
01:15:27,940 --> 01:15:31,485
Listen, I'm just watching
Jon in front of Torfi here,

1343
01:15:31,527 --> 01:15:36,198
he's 20ft in front of the truck
and found multiple crevasses.

1344
01:15:36,240 --> 01:15:39,826
I'm thinking that
what we should do is abort

1345
01:15:39,868 --> 01:15:43,246
and let's just reassess
the whole thing in the morning.

1346
01:15:43,247 --> 01:15:44,789
We could pitch camp.

1347
01:15:44,790 --> 01:15:47,333
Jon just about fell
into a crevasse right there.

1348
01:15:47,334 --> 01:15:49,252
That was the dumbest
thing I've ever done.

1349
01:15:49,253 --> 01:15:52,255
I mean that we didn't have
any business being out there.

1350
01:15:52,256 --> 01:15:54,173
I mean I think it was pretty
obvious that

1351
01:15:54,174 --> 01:15:57,553
at that pace
we were not ever going to get

1352
01:15:57,594 --> 01:15:58,554
where we needed to go.

1353
01:15:58,595 --> 01:16:02,474
We decided to stop and get some
rest.

1354
01:16:02,516 --> 01:16:03,475
That was a good.

1355
01:16:03,517 --> 01:16:04,101
We needed that.

1356
01:16:04,142 --> 01:16:06,895
We were all exhausted for sure.

1357
01:16:11,441 --> 01:16:14,319
This is our world.

1358
01:16:14,361 --> 01:16:16,989
It's-- it's kind of a
big problem right now.

1359
01:16:17,030 --> 01:16:20,367
It's proving to be very
difficult to navigate.

1360
01:16:21,660 --> 01:16:26,747
Huge chunks of the glaciers are
turning into clear water pools

1361
01:16:26,748 --> 01:16:29,250
and it's resulting in these
high points and low points,

1362
01:16:29,251 --> 01:16:33,130
and there's crevasses
everywhere in between.

1363
01:16:33,922 --> 01:16:36,341
There was no room for error.

1364
01:16:41,388 --> 01:16:42,931
Can you believe this?

1365
01:17:06,622 --> 01:17:10,416
I remember the moment
that Emil said,

1366
01:17:10,417 --> 01:17:11,375
"Those are tracks."

1367
01:17:11,376 --> 01:17:15,087
The first indication of a route

1368
01:17:15,088 --> 01:17:16,756
that we had found
since we started

1369
01:17:16,757 --> 01:17:17,923
trying to get off the glacier.

1370
01:17:17,924 --> 01:17:20,509
So if we found ski tracks,
there was a good chance

1371
01:17:20,510 --> 01:17:22,721
we could find
one of the easier routes

1372
01:17:22,763 --> 01:17:23,347
off of the glacier.

1373
01:17:23,388 --> 01:17:25,599
It didn't mean that it
was easy for the vehicles.

1374
01:17:25,641 --> 01:17:26,391
It was very challenging.

1375
01:17:26,433 --> 01:17:28,894
But at least we had
a general direction to go.

1376
01:17:28,935 --> 01:17:32,189
It was, a small miracle
that we saw those tracks.

1377
01:17:32,230 --> 01:17:33,565
But it changed everything.

1378
01:18:02,719 --> 01:18:04,054
Oh, come on back guys.

1379
01:18:04,096 --> 01:18:05,389
We got another one here.

1380
01:18:18,402 --> 01:18:19,861
Careful, Kurt.

1381
01:18:53,979 --> 01:18:57,607
Maybe-- maybe we can put a
little tension on the edge.#*

1382
01:19:24,634 --> 01:19:26,803
- SCOTT
- There is,
it's a very narrow ice shelf.

1383
01:19:26,845 --> 01:19:30,849
It looks like you could drive on
it, but it's too narrow.

1384
01:19:30,891 --> 01:19:34,269
And then it,
it cascades down into

1385
01:19:34,311 --> 01:19:37,063
like a slot like you find in
Moab.

1386
01:19:52,829 --> 01:19:53,537
Nice.

1387
01:19:53,538 --> 01:19:54,956
Yeah.

1388
01:19:56,291 --> 01:19:59,251
Back's already on the slope,
so you're down.

1389
01:19:59,252 --> 01:20:01,420
Good work man, crazy.

1390
01:20:12,474 --> 01:20:15,143
I am standing on dirt.

1391
01:20:16,019 --> 01:20:17,646
Check it out.

1392
01:20:18,980 --> 01:20:20,607
How cool is that?

1393
01:20:20,857 --> 01:20:22,734
We just met our guide
that's going to help us

1394
01:20:22,776 --> 01:20:26,738
do what's called the Arctic
Circle Trail to get into, uh,

1395
01:20:26,780 --> 01:20:28,657
our final landing spot.

1396
01:20:28,698 --> 01:20:32,327
Our guide said,
welcome to western Greenland.

1397
01:20:32,619 --> 01:20:33,285
We've been all over.

1398
01:20:33,286 --> 01:20:35,454
We've been on
southern and northern,

1399
01:20:35,455 --> 01:20:36,205
pretty much on the eastern

1400
01:20:36,206 --> 01:20:38,457
and now definitely
on the western.

1401
01:20:38,458 --> 01:20:40,167
That'll be a tough one to beat.

1402
01:21:15,662 --> 01:21:17,413
- GREG
- Yea, I just
wanted you to be aware

1403
01:21:17,414 --> 01:21:20,292
that we are effectively there

1404
01:21:20,375 --> 01:21:23,336
so that you can let the guys
know.

1405
01:21:28,592 --> 01:21:30,302
We made it.

1406
01:21:31,094 --> 01:21:32,012
Team feels like a million bucks.

1407
01:21:32,053 --> 01:21:35,473
You can just see everybody
like this huge sense of relief

1408
01:21:35,515 --> 01:21:41,563
and joy and kind of like this
calm amongst the whole group.

1409
01:21:41,938 --> 01:21:47,068
It was-- it was It feels so good
to be like on a road

1410
01:21:47,110 --> 01:21:49,905
and within a few hours of

1411
01:21:49,946 --> 01:21:52,240
just some basic creature
comforts.

1412
01:21:52,282 --> 01:21:53,408
Like an indoor toilet.

1413
01:21:53,450 --> 01:21:56,243
Yeah. Like an indoor toilet
would be really key right now.

1414
01:21:59,331 --> 01:22:01,999
Okay. Not to freak you
guys out or anything,

1415
01:22:02,000 --> 01:22:04,501
but those crevasses on the left,

1416
01:22:04,502 --> 01:22:07,087
I have no idea how many
of those we drove over today,

1417
01:22:07,088 --> 01:22:10,799
but I think they
could swallow trucks whole.

1418
01:22:23,021 --> 01:22:24,064
It's quite exciting and it's,

1419
01:22:24,105 --> 01:22:28,026
uh, you forget all your
tiredness and you're just kinda,

1420
01:22:28,068 --> 01:22:29,861
"Yeah."

1421
01:22:29,903 --> 01:22:34,532
What we've recognized
from this project, Expedition 7

1422
01:22:34,574 --> 01:22:39,161
in it's entirety,
is that vehicle based

1423
01:22:39,162 --> 01:22:42,247
expedition travel is a
meaningful way

1424
01:22:42,248 --> 01:22:46,669
to explore the world,
and it provides an accessibility

1425
01:22:46,670 --> 01:22:49,129
that some people may never have.

1426
01:22:49,130 --> 01:22:52,174
I think the biggest
thing that I learned

1427
01:22:52,175 --> 01:22:54,885
from my Greenland experience

1428
01:22:54,886 --> 01:22:58,264
was the importance of
surrounding yourself

1429
01:22:58,306 --> 01:22:59,849
with great people.

1430
01:23:00,058 --> 01:23:03,061
All of us were together for 21
days,

1431
01:23:03,103 --> 01:23:07,023
and five of us were together
for almost a month.

1432
01:23:07,065 --> 01:23:08,692
And in all of that time,

1433
01:23:08,733 --> 01:23:11,987
in all of those intense
circumstances,

1434
01:23:12,028 --> 01:23:15,323
there was never a
single crossword spoken.

1435
01:23:15,365 --> 01:23:16,241
That just doesn't happen.

1436
01:23:16,282 --> 01:23:20,244
That is evidence of the quality
of individuals that were on this

1437
01:23:20,245 --> 01:23:22,037
trip and the respect they had

1438
01:23:22,038 --> 01:23:25,916
for one another and their
commitment to the greater goal.

1439
01:23:25,917 --> 01:23:30,170
And if you have those kind of
resources at your disposal,

1440
01:23:30,171 --> 01:23:34,300
you can accomplish just about
anything you set your mind to.

1441
01:23:37,137 --> 01:23:38,054
If I learned anything,

1442
01:23:38,096 --> 01:23:39,764
it was to be
more like those guys,

1443
01:23:39,806 --> 01:23:41,891
because every one
of them had attributes

1444
01:23:41,933 --> 01:23:43,351
that I can only aspire to be.

1445
01:23:43,393 --> 01:23:46,229
I mean, it only speaks
to the people that were there.

1446
01:23:46,271 --> 01:23:47,731
Those six guys
I spent time with,

1447
01:23:47,772 --> 01:23:50,233
I have amazing
respect for all of them.

1448
01:23:50,275 --> 01:23:52,402
What I learned on this
expedition,

1449
01:23:52,444 --> 01:23:57,782
it's just no matter how
big the challenge is,

1450
01:23:58,158 --> 01:23:59,325
it's just a question of,

1451
01:23:59,367 --> 01:24:02,411
the right preparation
and the right team.

1452
01:24:02,412 --> 01:24:05,414
And wondering what's over
the next hill or the desire

1453
01:24:05,415 --> 01:24:06,498
to learn something new.

1454
01:24:06,499 --> 01:24:09,543
Sometimes comes a point
in people's life where

1455
01:24:09,544 --> 01:24:12,671
it just feels like
they've lost the lust for life

1456
01:24:12,672 --> 01:24:14,465
or the desire to explore.

1457
01:24:14,466 --> 01:24:18,135
And I think people start
aging much more quickly when

1458
01:24:18,136 --> 01:24:18,719
they reach that point.

1459
01:24:18,720 --> 01:24:23,475
The lessons, the relationships,
the memories, um,

1460
01:24:23,516 --> 01:24:27,062
none of those things
materialize unless you get out

1461
01:24:27,103 --> 01:24:28,938
and have an experience.

1462
01:24:28,980 --> 01:24:31,524
You will have many people
coming back from an expedition,

1463
01:24:31,566 --> 01:24:33,109
like they say, "never again".

1464
01:24:33,151 --> 01:24:35,820
But you will have them in a few
months later, they say,

1465
01:24:35,862 --> 01:24:36,905
"when can I go again?".

1466
01:24:36,946 --> 01:24:38,490
It-- we want to check the box.

1467
01:24:38,531 --> 01:24:39,616
We want to achieve the goal.

1468
01:24:39,657 --> 01:24:41,993
We want to make it
across the ice sheet.

1469
01:24:42,035 --> 01:24:44,787
All of us do
in some version in our life.

1470
01:24:44,788 --> 01:24:46,622
But if we don't,
at the end of it,

1471
01:24:46,623 --> 01:24:49,083
have a team of people
or a family member

1472
01:24:49,084 --> 01:24:52,628
or a loved one that
we get to experience that with,

1473
01:24:52,629 --> 01:24:53,837
then what's the point?

1474
01:24:53,838 --> 01:24:57,758
It may not make a lot of sense
to you or to someone else,

1475
01:24:57,759 --> 01:25:00,761
but if you're passionate about
it, you got to go do it.

1476
01:25:00,762 --> 01:25:01,346
You just got to.

1477
01:25:01,387 --> 01:25:04,099
Because don't ask yourself
what the world needs.

1478
01:25:04,140 --> 01:25:05,517
Ask yourself what
makes you come alive?

1479
01:25:05,558 --> 01:25:09,646
Because what the world needs
is people who have come alive.

1480
01:25:09,687 --> 01:25:10,647
And I would encourage anyone

1481
01:25:10,688 --> 01:25:14,192
to take that on and see
how that will change your life,

1482
01:25:14,234 --> 01:25:16,861
because it certainly
has changed mine.

1483
01:25:19,697 --> 01:25:21,699
All right, that's a wrap.

1484
01:25:23,326 --> 01:25:23,910
Good job, Kurt.

1485
01:25:23,952 --> 01:25:24,619
You're the man.

1486
01:25:24,661 --> 01:25:26,370
It's that they see that
we're just, there not--

1487
01:25:26,371 --> 01:25:28,247
We're done, Greg. Thanks.

1488
01:25:28,248 --> 01:25:29,374
Yeah.

1489
01:25:31,835 --> 01:25:33,920
Scotty, you're good.

1490
01:25:34,671 --> 01:25:35,671
Yeah, it's great.

1491
01:25:35,672 --> 01:25:36,505
Good job, Scott.

1492
01:25:36,506 --> 01:25:37,756
♪
Need the hug?

1493
01:25:37,757 --> 01:25:38,507
No.

1494
01:25:38,508 --> 01:25:40,342
Awesome, Jon. Thank you.

1495
01:25:40,343 --> 01:25:41,885
Yep. Thank you, guys.

1496
01:25:41,886 --> 01:25:43,054
Torfi, you're done.

1497
01:25:46,182 --> 01:25:47,725
All right.

1498
01:25:48,268 --> 01:25:49,227
Thanks, Emil.

1499
01:25:49,269 --> 01:25:50,562
Okay.

1500
01:25:52,355 --> 01:25:54,524
On to the next one.