1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.BZ 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.BZ 3 00:00:08,299 --> 00:00:17,350 (♪) 4 00:00:17,392 --> 00:00:21,938 (WIND HOWLING) 5 00:00:21,980 --> 00:00:31,656 (♪) 6 00:01:04,314 --> 00:01:06,316 (♪) 7 00:01:06,357 --> 00:01:09,819 - REPORTER 1: - The most northern body of land in the world, 8 00:01:09,861 --> 00:01:10,445 Greenland. 9 00:01:10,487 --> 00:01:13,530 7/8 of its terrain lies under a blanket of solid ice. 10 00:01:13,531 --> 00:01:17,534 Temperatures fall to 75 degrees below zero. 11 00:01:17,535 --> 00:01:20,788 Six months of the year, the sun shines continuously. 12 00:01:20,789 --> 00:01:23,165 But during the winter, the pure white snow 13 00:01:23,166 --> 00:01:25,084 is shrouded in darkness. 14 00:01:25,085 --> 00:01:26,919 - REPORTER 2: - It is imperative that we push 15 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:27,961 the outpost line of defense 16 00:01:27,962 --> 00:01:29,922 of the free world far to the north, 17 00:01:29,923 --> 00:01:32,092 in the very shadow of the Pole itself, 18 00:01:32,133 --> 00:01:33,718 the mysteries of the Arctic wastes. 19 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:36,221 Until recent times, the northern part of Greenland 20 00:01:36,262 --> 00:01:38,515 was a total unexplored wilderness. 21 00:01:38,556 --> 00:01:40,433 You may well wonder what Americans are doing 22 00:01:40,475 --> 00:01:43,228 in this polar wilderness of ice and snow. 23 00:01:43,269 --> 00:01:45,355 A glance at the globe of the world, however, 24 00:01:45,396 --> 00:01:47,232 will readily show that the shortest air route 25 00:01:47,273 --> 00:01:51,486 from the Americas to Eurasia is over the North Pole. 26 00:01:51,528 --> 00:01:54,697 Seismic studies revealed that the center of the ice cap 27 00:01:54,739 --> 00:01:56,782 is almost 10 times as deep as 28 00:01:56,783 --> 00:01:58,826 the Empire State Building is high. 29 00:01:58,827 --> 00:02:02,955 Never before had heavy vehicles ascended the caps or attempted 30 00:02:02,956 --> 00:02:05,332 to travel over its rugged surface. 31 00:02:05,333 --> 00:02:10,963 (♪) 32 00:02:10,964 --> 00:02:12,714 - REPORTER 2: - Fuel caches had been stored 33 00:02:12,715 --> 00:02:13,591 along the trail the previous 34 00:02:13,633 --> 00:02:17,470 year, and air drops, showered supplies from the sky. 35 00:02:17,512 --> 00:02:19,264 Crevasses, many of them camouflaged 36 00:02:19,305 --> 00:02:23,226 by a deceptive bridge of snow, were an ever present danger. 37 00:02:23,268 --> 00:02:28,231 They varied in size from shallow cracks in the ice to massive ice 38 00:02:28,273 --> 00:02:30,900 caverns as large as a cathedral. 39 00:02:32,777 --> 00:02:34,529 Now, over a half century later, 40 00:02:34,571 --> 00:02:37,197 other Americans await the signal to start. 41 00:02:37,198 --> 00:02:46,791 (♪) 42 00:02:54,215 --> 00:02:56,759 Expedition 7 was a project that 43 00:02:56,801 --> 00:03:00,513 Greg and I started talking about in 2011. 44 00:03:00,597 --> 00:03:01,764 And the intention was 45 00:03:01,806 --> 00:03:04,767 to take the same vehicle to all seven continents, 46 00:03:04,809 --> 00:03:07,520 which is something that had never been accomplished before. 47 00:03:07,562 --> 00:03:10,940 It wound up taking two and a half years. 48 00:03:11,191 --> 00:03:13,985 I was in the field 218 days. 49 00:03:14,027 --> 00:03:19,072 It was a journey of 56,000 miles and we had about 53 people 50 00:03:19,073 --> 00:03:20,782 play a role in the expedition. 51 00:03:20,783 --> 00:03:23,828 It was one of the coolest things I've ever done. 52 00:03:26,998 --> 00:03:30,125 In the wake of, E7, um, 53 00:03:30,126 --> 00:03:34,004 I guess the natural question was, what next? 54 00:03:34,005 --> 00:03:35,339 So I got a call from Greg. 55 00:03:35,340 --> 00:03:36,341 He said, hey, come down to Salt Lake. 56 00:03:36,382 --> 00:03:39,594 I'd like to talk about a little project that I have in mind. 57 00:03:39,636 --> 00:03:41,679 I wanted something else that was challenging, 58 00:03:41,721 --> 00:03:44,807 something that had never been done before, something 59 00:03:44,849 --> 00:03:50,480 that was, let's say, unprecedented. 60 00:03:50,939 --> 00:03:54,609 SCOTT: Greenland brought together all of the pieces that 61 00:03:54,651 --> 00:03:56,194 make it the most extreme. 62 00:03:56,236 --> 00:03:57,862 Even when you compare driving across Antarctica, 63 00:03:57,904 --> 00:04:02,616 going to the South Pole and doing, a landmass, crossing 64 00:04:02,617 --> 00:04:06,036 Greenland was far more difficult and for a lot of reasons. 65 00:04:06,037 --> 00:04:08,872 In Antarctica, there's already existing infrastructure. 66 00:04:08,873 --> 00:04:11,875 People have already done it before many times. 67 00:04:11,876 --> 00:04:14,878 And with Greenland, that had never been done before. 68 00:04:14,879 --> 00:04:19,133 Those glaciers had not been climbed by a vehicle before 69 00:04:19,175 --> 00:04:22,845 and we were in literally uncharted territory. 70 00:04:23,304 --> 00:04:26,557 There has been one notable expedition that crossed 71 00:04:26,599 --> 00:04:29,727 Greenland from the west coast to the east coast. 72 00:04:29,769 --> 00:04:33,022 That was done by Arctic trucks in the late 90s, 73 00:04:33,064 --> 00:04:35,566 but no one had even considered trying to do it from 74 00:04:35,608 --> 00:04:39,028 south to north because the distances were an order of 75 00:04:39,070 --> 00:04:41,446 magnitude more, and the difficulties 76 00:04:41,447 --> 00:04:43,365 were an order of magnitude more, 77 00:04:43,366 --> 00:04:45,033 including fuel drops and other 78 00:04:45,034 --> 00:04:47,327 logistics that would be impossible to consider 79 00:04:47,328 --> 00:04:49,788 really beforehand for us to attempt it, 80 00:04:49,789 --> 00:04:53,041 for us to leave from the south and start heading north. 81 00:04:53,042 --> 00:04:55,044 It had never been done before. 82 00:04:57,547 --> 00:05:02,552 My roles in the beginning were basically planning the vehicles, 83 00:05:02,593 --> 00:05:07,640 uh, the route, logistics around, fuel. 84 00:05:07,682 --> 00:05:12,937 For me, the goal is simple and that is to reach Wulff Land. 85 00:05:13,563 --> 00:05:15,189 If we can do that, 86 00:05:15,481 --> 00:05:17,942 the trip will be a success. 87 00:05:18,401 --> 00:05:20,695 EMIL: The route up north was unknown, 88 00:05:20,737 --> 00:05:21,738 so we're going into a quite 89 00:05:21,779 --> 00:05:27,409 of uh, unhospitaled area which cannot sustain any life. 90 00:05:27,410 --> 00:05:29,703 SCOTT:So the route across Greenland starts 91 00:05:29,704 --> 00:05:31,705 in Isortoq at the reindeer farm. 92 00:05:31,706 --> 00:05:33,957 And then we need to get up onto the glacier, 93 00:05:33,958 --> 00:05:36,918 and then onto the ice sheet, and then from there we need 94 00:05:36,919 --> 00:05:41,758 to get to all of our fuel drops along the eastern coastline. 95 00:05:41,799 --> 00:05:45,553 And then from there we're up into Wulff Land in the north 96 00:05:45,595 --> 00:05:47,930 and we're going to actually touch ground 97 00:05:47,972 --> 00:05:50,224 before turning around and heading back 98 00:05:50,266 --> 00:05:53,394 to those fuel stops and then to the summit station 99 00:05:53,436 --> 00:05:55,855 and ultimately exiting the glacier at Kangerlussuaq 100 00:05:55,897 --> 00:05:58,816 and getting to our shipping container. 101 00:05:58,858 --> 00:06:03,071 And we've got to do all of this in three weeks. 102 00:06:05,365 --> 00:06:06,573 GREG: Having the right team 103 00:06:06,574 --> 00:06:10,535 supporting this project was absolutely critical. 104 00:06:10,536 --> 00:06:13,121 EMIL:Dr. Jon Solberg was our medical doctor. 105 00:06:13,122 --> 00:06:17,918 Kurt Williams, head of refueling and, camp logistics. 106 00:06:17,919 --> 00:06:21,880 Torfi Johannsson was lead mechanic. 107 00:06:21,881 --> 00:06:25,510 Clay was a driver and the film maker for the expedition. 108 00:06:25,635 --> 00:06:29,138 We had this amazing team of people that had finally come 109 00:06:29,180 --> 00:06:33,476 together and we were moving towards the reindeer farm. 110 00:06:33,518 --> 00:06:35,269 And I remember reflecting on that. 111 00:06:35,311 --> 00:06:36,896 It was just really this sense of family, 112 00:06:36,938 --> 00:06:40,608 this sense of familiarity that I think is the best way 113 00:06:40,650 --> 00:06:41,484 to start a trip like this. 114 00:06:41,526 --> 00:06:44,529 There wasn't any anxiety around the people that 115 00:06:44,570 --> 00:06:45,405 I was traveling with now. 116 00:06:45,446 --> 00:06:48,031 There was certainly anxiety about the unknowns to come, 117 00:06:48,032 --> 00:06:51,494 but it wasn't about the people that I was there with. 118 00:06:53,371 --> 00:06:56,206 There are few, adventures in one's 119 00:06:56,207 --> 00:06:58,375 lifetime that he must not say no to. 120 00:06:58,376 --> 00:07:00,419 He must go to no matter what. 121 00:07:00,420 --> 00:07:04,172 And this place of Greenland, 122 00:07:04,173 --> 00:07:06,843 this great unknown, it was that for me I had to go. 123 00:07:06,884 --> 00:07:11,973 I had to make sure that I was there to experience this. 124 00:07:17,061 --> 00:07:21,441 Doing an expedition in Greenland is, like this, 125 00:07:21,482 --> 00:07:26,070 Greenland is very, what was the word? 126 00:07:27,738 --> 00:07:29,031 Ambitious. 127 00:07:32,660 --> 00:07:33,618 How do you feel, Greg? 128 00:07:33,619 --> 00:07:34,744 GREG: (INDISTINCT SPEECH) 129 00:07:34,745 --> 00:07:40,041 Well, at the moment I have a small bit of encouragement 130 00:07:40,042 --> 00:07:44,671 that we're actually in contact with the, barge that 131 00:07:44,672 --> 00:07:45,964 transported our trucks up. 132 00:07:45,965 --> 00:07:49,093 But for the last couple hours, I've been really nervous. 133 00:07:49,135 --> 00:07:52,430 (BOAT WHIRRING) 134 00:07:52,472 --> 00:08:00,146 (♪) 135 00:08:00,188 --> 00:08:01,481 DR. JON: I think it was interesting to see 136 00:08:01,522 --> 00:08:03,316 how the group was just coming together 137 00:08:03,357 --> 00:08:04,066 and gelling as a team, 138 00:08:04,108 --> 00:08:05,943 and we kind of kept adding one or two more elements, 139 00:08:05,985 --> 00:08:07,862 and everybody wondered, you know, are we going 140 00:08:07,904 --> 00:08:08,988 to click and are we going to get 141 00:08:09,030 --> 00:08:12,158 along and are the trucks going to be ready? 142 00:08:13,534 --> 00:08:17,704 There was a lot of anxiety even before we got on the ice sheet. 143 00:08:17,705 --> 00:08:26,672 (♪) 144 00:08:26,756 --> 00:08:29,383 Oh, baby, there's the trucks. 145 00:08:29,425 --> 00:08:30,968 (LAUGHS) 146 00:08:36,724 --> 00:08:41,521 When I first saw the trucks on the flow ice in Isortoq, 147 00:08:41,562 --> 00:08:45,650 it was a wave of emotion. 148 00:08:46,192 --> 00:08:48,027 (WHIRS, THUDS) 149 00:08:48,069 --> 00:08:48,986 (INDISTINCT SPEECH) 150 00:08:49,028 --> 00:08:52,198 GREG:The team was together for the first time. 151 00:08:52,949 --> 00:08:53,698 Clay! 152 00:08:53,699 --> 00:08:54,866 What's up guys? 153 00:08:54,867 --> 00:08:55,700 (INDISTINCT SPEECH) 154 00:08:55,701 --> 00:08:56,535 How you doing, buddy? 155 00:08:56,536 --> 00:08:57,369 CLAY: You made it? 156 00:08:57,370 --> 00:08:58,245 Yeah, I did. 157 00:08:58,246 --> 00:08:59,287 Pretty monumental. 158 00:08:59,288 --> 00:09:00,372 (INDISTINCT SPEECH) 159 00:09:00,373 --> 00:09:00,956 (CHUCKLES) 160 00:09:00,957 --> 00:09:04,834 We had been waiting for quite some time, and, we weren't sure, 161 00:09:04,835 --> 00:09:06,378 you know, if people even could get there 162 00:09:06,379 --> 00:09:07,379 because of the ice conditions. 163 00:09:07,380 --> 00:09:09,214 Everything must have been very difficult. 164 00:09:09,215 --> 00:09:10,466 So seeing the guys ride, 165 00:09:10,508 --> 00:09:12,885 and that was the first time I met Clay. 166 00:09:12,927 --> 00:09:13,594 - Hi - CLAY: Emil. 167 00:09:13,636 --> 00:09:14,428 - Hi, Emil. - CALY: Clay. 168 00:09:14,470 --> 00:09:15,429 - Hi, Clay. - CLAY: Nice to meet you. 169 00:09:15,471 --> 00:09:16,138 EMIL: Nice to meet you. 170 00:09:16,180 --> 00:09:19,976 - GREG: How you doing? - Hi, nice to see you. 171 00:09:20,017 --> 00:09:22,728 Yeah, seeing the guys with was really nice. 172 00:09:28,609 --> 00:09:30,444 CLAY: This is like another planet. 173 00:09:30,486 --> 00:09:33,780 Uh. Getting all the gear loaded up right now. 174 00:09:33,781 --> 00:09:34,948 Pulling everything off the barge. 175 00:09:34,949 --> 00:09:38,785 The-- The trucks are a lot bigger than I anticipated. 176 00:09:38,786 --> 00:09:40,620 They're huge and awesome. 177 00:09:40,621 --> 00:09:43,957 The confidence that I have has just. 178 00:09:43,958 --> 00:09:46,751 For some reason, just seeing the trucks has 179 00:09:46,752 --> 00:09:49,088 skyrocketed my confidence. 180 00:09:54,051 --> 00:09:55,803 EMIL: So we had three vehicles 181 00:09:55,845 --> 00:09:57,513 built on a Toyota Hilux. 182 00:09:57,555 --> 00:10:01,225 The name of the trucks was, Emma, 183 00:10:01,267 --> 00:10:02,602 the truck I was driving. 184 00:10:02,643 --> 00:10:07,523 We had E7, which was Greg on the older generation. 185 00:10:07,565 --> 00:10:09,400 And then we had Dreki. 186 00:10:13,070 --> 00:10:15,530 GREG: (ON RADIO) Gentlemen, welcome to Isortoq. 187 00:10:15,531 --> 00:10:20,744 (♪) 188 00:10:20,745 --> 00:10:22,329 GREG: (ON RADIO) All right, let's get set up 189 00:10:22,330 --> 00:10:23,788 to go get Emil's truck. 190 00:10:23,789 --> 00:10:26,666 KURT: We are here in the workshop, Stefan's workshop, 191 00:10:26,667 --> 00:10:27,375 fixing this tire. 192 00:10:27,376 --> 00:10:30,337 We had a little, ice incident the other day as we were 193 00:10:30,338 --> 00:10:33,256 faring gear from the barge over to the station here. 194 00:10:33,257 --> 00:10:36,844 Emil's truck went into the lake, cracked through the ice, and it 195 00:10:36,886 --> 00:10:38,179 dented a wheel pretty bad. 196 00:10:38,220 --> 00:10:39,305 We lost two tires. 197 00:10:39,347 --> 00:10:42,058 We were all set when the other guys came. 198 00:10:42,099 --> 00:10:45,770 Other than fixing my truck, which had fallen into a, 199 00:10:45,811 --> 00:10:48,439 into a river through broken ice. 200 00:10:51,942 --> 00:10:55,488 It was not, that was not, good news for us 201 00:10:55,529 --> 00:10:59,908 because I knew we just had one spare tire of this type. 202 00:10:59,909 --> 00:11:03,370 And, if you had to use that, we had no spare tire 203 00:11:03,371 --> 00:11:04,579 for the whole expedition. 204 00:11:04,580 --> 00:11:08,249 And that was, in my mind, not doable. 205 00:11:08,250 --> 00:11:09,542 KURT: You don't want to head into any adventure 206 00:11:09,543 --> 00:11:12,545 with a vehicle that's, you know, got something wrong with it. 207 00:11:12,546 --> 00:11:15,841 We knew that truck, the AT44, we call that one, Emma, 208 00:11:15,883 --> 00:11:17,510 the one that went through the ice, 209 00:11:17,551 --> 00:11:18,427 we knew it had sustained damage. 210 00:11:18,469 --> 00:11:21,013 It had a bent wheel, which means it took a really hard hit. 211 00:11:21,055 --> 00:11:24,141 EMIL: I knew something had broken or really bended. 212 00:11:24,183 --> 00:11:27,520 So, my first thinking is, the expedition over. 213 00:11:27,561 --> 00:11:29,021 How will we do it with two cars? 214 00:11:29,063 --> 00:11:30,356 We can't carry what we need. 215 00:11:30,398 --> 00:11:33,693 I think Emil carried a lot more of that stress than I did, 216 00:11:33,734 --> 00:11:36,070 because that was the truck he was going to be driving. 217 00:11:36,112 --> 00:11:38,072 But also he knew the implications 218 00:11:38,114 --> 00:11:41,574 of what would happen if we'd be completely inoperable 219 00:11:41,575 --> 00:11:44,911 and what that would mean for later on in the trip. 220 00:11:44,912 --> 00:11:46,413 And I don't know that everyone even knew this, 221 00:11:46,414 --> 00:11:48,998 but he called and placed an order in Iceland, 222 00:11:48,999 --> 00:11:51,960 had them get a spare part, which is kind of proprietary 223 00:11:51,961 --> 00:11:54,087 to that Arctic truck, and had that shipped, 224 00:11:54,088 --> 00:11:57,174 hopefully in a box that we would see later on with one of 225 00:11:57,216 --> 00:11:58,426 the fuel deliveries. 226 00:11:58,467 --> 00:12:03,597 (TRUCK WHIRRING) 227 00:12:04,056 --> 00:12:13,441 (♪) 228 00:12:13,482 --> 00:12:15,067 TORFI: Again! 229 00:12:22,366 --> 00:12:27,036 KURT:We drove across that on the way in, and going back, 230 00:12:27,037 --> 00:12:28,622 it broke through. 231 00:12:30,416 --> 00:12:33,460 So, it's not good. 232 00:12:33,461 --> 00:12:36,756 Already on a pretty tortured front end. 233 00:12:36,881 --> 00:12:38,549 It just always happens at the worst time, 234 00:12:38,591 --> 00:12:43,137 we're just trying to leave, but stuff keeps happening. 235 00:12:43,179 --> 00:12:50,519 (♪) 236 00:12:50,561 --> 00:12:52,438 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 237 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:56,901 (ENGINE WHIRRING) 238 00:12:56,942 --> 00:12:57,568 (INDISTINCT SPEECH) 239 00:12:57,610 --> 00:13:00,821 So we have the tools #* in this one. 240 00:13:01,030 --> 00:13:03,990 So our loose arrangement is tools, recovery, spares 241 00:13:03,991 --> 00:13:07,452 on this side, food, and then your personal bins. 242 00:13:07,453 --> 00:13:08,411 Just put wherever you need them, 243 00:13:08,412 --> 00:13:09,579 because you're gonna probably run those down, 244 00:13:09,580 --> 00:13:11,539 have them inside the house to be able to 245 00:13:11,540 --> 00:13:13,041 start moving into your boxes. 246 00:13:13,042 --> 00:13:14,793 Okay. Let's take one of these cardboard boxes. 247 00:13:14,794 --> 00:13:19,048 CLAY: Every single piece of equipment is crucial. 248 00:13:19,799 --> 00:13:22,551 It's as close as I think I'll ever get to a-- 249 00:13:22,593 --> 00:13:24,512 a NASA mission or something. 250 00:13:24,553 --> 00:13:25,638 Even in Antarctica, 251 00:13:25,679 --> 00:13:30,810 there is some infrastructure that's designed to allow, uh, 252 00:13:30,851 --> 00:13:35,147 either scientific expeditions or just adventurers 253 00:13:35,189 --> 00:13:36,982 to travel across the ice sheet. 254 00:13:37,024 --> 00:13:42,488 In Greenland, i'm told there's one Twin Otter that services 255 00:13:42,530 --> 00:13:44,030 the entire island, 256 00:13:44,031 --> 00:13:46,241 and there's a lot of demand on that. 257 00:13:46,242 --> 00:13:48,243 So if we get in trouble in Greenland, 258 00:13:48,244 --> 00:13:50,496 we could be in for a long wait. 259 00:13:53,165 --> 00:13:54,499 Everybody's super excited and stoked. 260 00:13:54,500 --> 00:13:57,544 I haven't seen anybody take a drink of water yet today either. 261 00:13:57,545 --> 00:13:58,753 So at some point, maybe just grab 262 00:13:58,754 --> 00:14:01,089 a candy bar and drink something, you know. 263 00:14:01,090 --> 00:14:03,551 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 264 00:14:03,592 --> 00:14:06,887 I don't think anybody will ever be able to fully 265 00:14:06,929 --> 00:14:09,974 comprehend how much I worried about everybody's safety. 266 00:14:10,015 --> 00:14:15,479 I mean, every single person on the expedition was 100% integral 267 00:14:15,521 --> 00:14:19,358 to the success, and you just had to trust every single person. 268 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:21,819 So, I mean, nobody ever inspected my med kit 269 00:14:21,861 --> 00:14:24,405 or asked for my credentials. 270 00:14:24,446 --> 00:14:25,947 I think everybody just trusted that 271 00:14:25,948 --> 00:14:26,865 I had had the right training 272 00:14:26,866 --> 00:14:29,367 and would be able to lend assistance 273 00:14:29,368 --> 00:14:30,869 in the event of an emergency. 274 00:14:30,870 --> 00:14:32,621 Just like I trusted that, 275 00:14:33,205 --> 00:14:34,539 um, the trucks would operate and there 276 00:14:34,540 --> 00:14:38,459 would be enough fuel at the next stop, and there was enough food. 277 00:14:38,460 --> 00:14:39,085 It was just. 278 00:14:39,086 --> 00:14:41,796 It was collaborative survival for the entire expedition. 279 00:14:41,797 --> 00:14:44,925 (TRUCK ENGINE WHIRRING) 280 00:14:44,967 --> 00:14:47,970 SCOTT: When we first left the reindeer farm, 281 00:14:48,012 --> 00:14:51,015 the one thing that was top of mind for me is, 282 00:14:51,056 --> 00:14:52,641 "don't fall through the ice. 283 00:14:52,683 --> 00:14:54,852 Don't fall through the ice." 284 00:14:57,146 --> 00:15:00,941 And I don't tend to feel that level of anxiety. 285 00:15:00,983 --> 00:15:03,152 But it was this immediacy of, 286 00:15:03,193 --> 00:15:05,821 we need to get through these freshwater lakes. 287 00:15:05,863 --> 00:15:09,700 We need to get across the ice before it melts. 288 00:15:09,783 --> 00:15:11,034 It was getting warmer. 289 00:15:11,035 --> 00:15:14,078 The snow was melting at the reindeer farm. 290 00:15:14,079 --> 00:15:15,830 We were in danger of being able 291 00:15:15,831 --> 00:15:18,124 to not even make it to the glacier. 292 00:15:18,125 --> 00:15:20,002 And there was no backup plan. 293 00:15:23,589 --> 00:15:25,590 I remember the reindeer farmer and his son 294 00:15:25,591 --> 00:15:28,761 getting out with these giant poles and testing the ice. 295 00:15:28,802 --> 00:15:31,430 And then it would break through the ice and we'd have 296 00:15:31,472 --> 00:15:32,431 to find a new way around. 297 00:15:32,473 --> 00:15:34,808 (INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER) 298 00:15:34,850 --> 00:15:37,853 EMIL: I already knew this would be a big challenge. 299 00:15:40,564 --> 00:15:44,193 I did a lot of research on the glacier, and I got help from a, 300 00:15:44,234 --> 00:15:50,324 specialist glacier, team to analyze, satellite imagery, 301 00:15:50,532 --> 00:15:53,077 but you still never know. 302 00:15:53,619 --> 00:15:57,413 It's always this big unknown with the glacier that 303 00:15:57,414 --> 00:15:58,790 is moving constantly. 304 00:15:58,791 --> 00:16:04,003 (♪) 305 00:16:04,004 --> 00:16:10,427 One of the things that I have learned, about challenges 306 00:16:10,469 --> 00:16:14,181 in expeditions and even in life, I suppose, 307 00:16:14,223 --> 00:16:18,102 is that there's no point in speculating 308 00:16:18,143 --> 00:16:20,270 about how bad it could be. 309 00:16:20,312 --> 00:16:24,441 GREG:I was really nervous going towards that glacier 310 00:16:24,483 --> 00:16:27,194 once it came into the windshield. 311 00:16:27,236 --> 00:16:31,407 It was as daunting and as scary as I had imagined it. 312 00:16:31,448 --> 00:16:37,453 (♪) 313 00:16:37,454 --> 00:16:41,457 GREG#*: But we had these two guys, 314 00:16:41,458 --> 00:16:43,918 Stephan and his son, at the reindeer farm. 315 00:16:43,919 --> 00:16:47,131 They had gone out, found this spot. 316 00:16:50,384 --> 00:16:51,635 It just went up beautifully. 317 00:16:51,677 --> 00:16:53,846 You could tell there was crevasse lines in there, 318 00:16:53,887 --> 00:16:55,723 but it was all filled in. 319 00:16:58,517 --> 00:17:00,769 EMIL: Okay, I'm gonna take mine down to three 320 00:17:00,811 --> 00:17:02,688 and see if that helps. 321 00:17:05,899 --> 00:17:08,110 - GREG (ON RADIO): - It'll help later on, but right now, 322 00:17:08,152 --> 00:17:09,987 we need to get you. 323 00:17:10,029 --> 00:17:12,281 You can get to my right Emil 324 00:17:12,948 --> 00:17:13,531 or the left. 325 00:17:13,532 --> 00:17:15,200 Whatever's easier. 326 00:17:17,745 --> 00:17:19,496 Either way, that's good. 327 00:17:27,755 --> 00:17:31,550 CLAY: Once we stepped on it, the truck started to cross it. 328 00:17:31,592 --> 00:17:33,260 We weren't falling in. 329 00:17:45,397 --> 00:17:47,316 Pretty soon we were past, 330 00:17:47,357 --> 00:17:49,943 you know, steepest topography, terrain, 331 00:17:49,985 --> 00:17:51,987 and the confidence was like, 332 00:17:52,029 --> 00:17:54,323 hey, we're on top of this thing. 333 00:17:55,449 --> 00:17:58,493 I had to pinch myself because the first, you know, 334 00:17:58,494 --> 00:18:01,204 the last three weeks I've been afraid of this, 335 00:18:01,205 --> 00:18:03,247 and it turned out to be nothing. 336 00:18:03,248 --> 00:18:12,466 (♪) 337 00:18:21,308 --> 00:18:26,939 (TRUCK ENGINE WHIRRING) 338 00:18:33,278 --> 00:18:33,570 (LAUGHS) 339 00:18:33,612 --> 00:18:37,281 This is day one, and we've moved, like, this far 340 00:18:37,282 --> 00:18:38,533 on the map, out of this far. 341 00:18:38,534 --> 00:18:41,452 - GREG (ON RADIO): - I think it would be probably a good time 342 00:18:41,453 --> 00:18:43,788 to stop driving for the day. 343 00:18:43,789 --> 00:18:47,083 Let's take advantage of the remaining light, 344 00:18:47,084 --> 00:18:47,917 make camp for the first time, 345 00:18:47,918 --> 00:18:51,963 try to get some heat generated inside the tents while some are 346 00:18:51,964 --> 00:18:54,508 Doing that, others can be refueling 347 00:18:54,550 --> 00:18:59,429 and hopefully we can have a successful first night without, 348 00:18:59,471 --> 00:19:01,807 trying to fumble through the dark 349 00:19:01,974 --> 00:19:05,018 and, get some rest, be ready to hit 350 00:19:05,060 --> 00:19:06,436 it early in the morning. 351 00:19:06,478 --> 00:19:07,271 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 352 00:19:07,312 --> 00:19:10,023 Yeah then we gotta tie it here. 353 00:19:14,820 --> 00:19:17,947 I remember the first time we were behind schedule, 354 00:19:17,948 --> 00:19:18,739 was the first day. 355 00:19:18,740 --> 00:19:22,577 (INDISTINCT CHATTER IN BACKGROUND) 356 00:19:22,578 --> 00:19:26,205 We were either gonna have to get a lot better at, 357 00:19:26,206 --> 00:19:30,459 performing each one of the functions and condense the time 358 00:19:30,460 --> 00:19:33,254 it took to pitch and break camp, 359 00:19:33,255 --> 00:19:36,758 or we weren't gonna have time to set up camp at all. 360 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:39,428 So from the time we parked the trucks, set up camp, 361 00:19:39,469 --> 00:19:42,264 made a meal, did any repairs we needed on the vehicle, 362 00:19:42,306 --> 00:19:45,434 and got a full night's sleep was about a 24 hour period. 363 00:19:45,475 --> 00:19:49,938 So we wound up pitching camp, I think seven times in the 20 364 00:19:49,980 --> 00:19:51,690 days that we were on the ice. 365 00:19:51,732 --> 00:19:53,400 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 366 00:19:53,442 --> 00:19:58,030 Another challenge that we faced was how, to transport the fuel. 367 00:19:58,071 --> 00:20:00,948 KURT: The fuel delivered by helicopter and air came 368 00:20:00,949 --> 00:20:03,367 in a traditional 55 gallon drum. 369 00:20:03,368 --> 00:20:04,410 Well, we would pump the fuel 370 00:20:04,411 --> 00:20:07,246 either into the bladder or right into the trucks. 371 00:20:07,247 --> 00:20:08,998 Part of our permission and 372 00:20:08,999 --> 00:20:11,334 the permit to do this trip was that 373 00:20:11,335 --> 00:20:12,710 we would leave nothing behind. 374 00:20:12,711 --> 00:20:14,921 And that included those fuel drums. 375 00:20:14,922 --> 00:20:16,339 So every time we emptied a drum 376 00:20:16,340 --> 00:20:17,882 that we weren't going to be reusing, 377 00:20:17,883 --> 00:20:19,051 we would have to make several cuts. 378 00:20:19,092 --> 00:20:21,637 We'd cut the top off of it, the bottom off of it, 379 00:20:21,678 --> 00:20:23,388 and one slice down the middle of it 380 00:20:23,430 --> 00:20:26,099 and we could roll that up just tight enough to 381 00:20:26,141 --> 00:20:26,725 fit it into another drum 382 00:20:26,767 --> 00:20:30,437 and we could get five or six drums into each one. 383 00:20:31,521 --> 00:20:35,025 It's noon and we still haven't left camp. 384 00:20:35,150 --> 00:20:38,779 Grinding the barrels has become a big chore. 385 00:20:38,820 --> 00:20:40,656 We had to get the generators out. 386 00:20:40,697 --> 00:20:42,448 The generators hadn't been fueled. 387 00:20:42,449 --> 00:20:44,534 They're brand new out of the box. 388 00:20:50,832 --> 00:20:52,375 It's 12:39. 389 00:20:52,376 --> 00:20:56,587 And we just left our first camp. 390 00:20:56,588 --> 00:20:58,798 So obviously we're a little late getting started, which 391 00:20:58,799 --> 00:21:02,427 is discouraging, especially since I'd like to try 392 00:21:02,469 --> 00:21:04,096 to cover 150 miles today. 393 00:21:04,137 --> 00:21:07,474 All right, so team Dreky back here has discussed it. 394 00:21:07,516 --> 00:21:10,269 We're totally on board with a little marathon. 395 00:21:10,310 --> 00:21:16,024 It is, we're looking at 497km to the DYE 2 station 396 00:21:16,066 --> 00:21:16,775 on our current pace. 397 00:21:16,817 --> 00:21:18,777 So anywhere, our speed's changing, 398 00:21:18,819 --> 00:21:21,780 so we're anywhere between 15 and 20 hours 399 00:21:21,822 --> 00:21:23,322 to get there at this pace. 400 00:21:23,323 --> 00:21:25,199 So we'd love to set that as a goal. 401 00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:25,992 And we fall a little short. 402 00:21:25,993 --> 00:21:29,037 That's all right, but let's just motor towards that. 403 00:21:31,290 --> 00:21:32,415 To me it was really simple. 404 00:21:32,416 --> 00:21:35,584 We just had to cover 150 miles a day. 405 00:21:35,585 --> 00:21:40,423 And if we could do 150 miles a day for 20 days, we would 406 00:21:40,424 --> 00:21:42,259 cover all the ground we needed. 407 00:21:42,301 --> 00:21:43,260 Sounds easy enough. 408 00:21:43,302 --> 00:21:45,971 But I learned in the first couple of days 409 00:21:46,013 --> 00:21:50,726 that trying to stick to that schedule was really difficult. 410 00:21:50,767 --> 00:21:52,269 (TRUCK WHIRRING) 411 00:21:52,311 --> 00:21:54,271 SCOTT: So Emil and I were out in the lead, 412 00:21:54,313 --> 00:21:55,856 and we're trying to work through 413 00:21:55,897 --> 00:21:58,108 these really difficult conditions and that 414 00:21:58,150 --> 00:22:00,068 we just really can't see. 415 00:22:00,319 --> 00:22:01,653 And all of a sudden, it felt like 416 00:22:01,695 --> 00:22:05,114 we were in really deep snow, like the vehicle was fighting. 417 00:22:05,115 --> 00:22:08,617 And I said, "I think it's something with his steering." 418 00:22:08,618 --> 00:22:10,578 And he says, like, he says, "I don't know if it's 419 00:22:10,579 --> 00:22:11,746 the snow or the steering." 420 00:22:11,747 --> 00:22:13,122 And then Greg cracked through the radio, and he says, 421 00:22:13,123 --> 00:22:15,458 the radio, and he says, "I think there's something wrong 422 00:22:15,459 --> 00:22:16,208 with your steering." 423 00:22:16,209 --> 00:22:19,295 And, we hopped out, and the front tires were like that. 424 00:22:19,296 --> 00:22:23,675 (WIND HOWLING) 425 00:22:25,260 --> 00:22:26,219 It's really hard to see. 426 00:22:26,261 --> 00:22:28,013 #*: Yeah. - Nothing to see. 427 00:22:28,055 --> 00:22:31,600 Torfi hops out all spirits and said, oh, well, 428 00:22:31,641 --> 00:22:33,810 we'll get this fixed, you know, and crawls under there, 429 00:22:33,852 --> 00:22:38,523 gets a board out, gets his yellow jumpsuit on and, you know 430 00:22:38,565 --> 00:22:40,901 waves his little mechanic hands, and all of a sudden, 431 00:22:40,942 --> 00:22:44,446 that thing's driving straight, and we're up and running again. 432 00:22:44,946 --> 00:22:45,697 Yeah, when I was a kid, 433 00:22:45,739 --> 00:22:49,658 I-- I was very curious how things work on many things 434 00:22:49,659 --> 00:22:52,536 I took apart, and sometimes I was able to put them back 435 00:22:52,537 --> 00:22:55,956 together and, even modified a little bit. 436 00:22:55,957 --> 00:22:59,336 But, yeah, sometimes it just went into the trash. 437 00:22:59,836 --> 00:23:02,296 So, yeah, that's kind of how it started. 438 00:23:02,297 --> 00:23:04,049 And it's just ongoing. 439 00:23:04,091 --> 00:23:05,509 It's still there. 440 00:23:08,095 --> 00:23:11,765 (ENGINE WHIRRING) 441 00:23:11,807 --> 00:23:13,934 GREG: For the first three or four days. 442 00:23:13,975 --> 00:23:15,394 I remember just living with a 443 00:23:15,435 --> 00:23:19,898 constant sense of frustration that no matter how hard we tried 444 00:23:19,940 --> 00:23:22,567 to overcome the challenges, uh, 445 00:23:22,609 --> 00:23:26,947 early on, they were mostly mechanical challenges 446 00:23:27,114 --> 00:23:28,614 we couldn't get caught up. 447 00:23:28,615 --> 00:23:32,118 - GREG (ON RADIO): - Yeah, we're feeling good about, doing 448 00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:34,245 some marathons, I think, you know, 449 00:23:34,246 --> 00:23:35,788 probably two or three marathons 450 00:23:35,789 --> 00:23:37,415 during the duration of the drive. 451 00:23:37,416 --> 00:23:40,793 This-- this expedition has us covering 452 00:23:40,794 --> 00:23:41,627 about 3,000 miles. 453 00:23:41,628 --> 00:23:43,254 As I said in the driver's meeting, 454 00:23:43,255 --> 00:23:45,423 all of a sudden, I felt the truck 455 00:23:45,424 --> 00:23:46,007 starting to slow down. 456 00:23:46,049 --> 00:23:48,051 Like, there was some drag on the truck. 457 00:23:48,093 --> 00:23:51,430 And I looked in the mirrors, and I could see that the. 458 00:23:51,471 --> 00:23:56,768 The trailer was listing like this. 459 00:23:58,395 --> 00:23:59,604 Hey, guys, we got a problem. 460 00:23:59,646 --> 00:24:01,857 We just lost a wheel. 461 00:24:01,898 --> 00:24:03,150 Um-- 462 00:24:04,443 --> 00:24:05,819 We're stuck. 463 00:24:06,236 --> 00:24:10,448 GREG:It rolled about 100 yards ahead of the truck and literally 464 00:24:10,449 --> 00:24:12,950 came to a rest between the two tracks. 465 00:24:12,951 --> 00:24:16,787 As if to say, this trip will be one 466 00:24:16,788 --> 00:24:17,705 challenge after another, 467 00:24:17,706 --> 00:24:20,459 One obstacle in the road after another. 468 00:24:24,129 --> 00:24:24,879 KURT: (ON RADIO) Copy that. 469 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:26,465 We're coming your direction. 470 00:24:32,804 --> 00:24:37,934 (TRUCK ENGINE WHIRRING) 471 00:24:38,018 --> 00:24:40,729 KURT: We're going to make this the time to eat 472 00:24:40,770 --> 00:24:41,480 since we're down, 473 00:24:41,521 --> 00:24:45,442 and get, some water going while that's getting fixed. 474 00:24:47,486 --> 00:24:49,529 It's all part of the adventure. 475 00:24:54,284 --> 00:24:56,535 (HAMMERING) 476 00:24:56,536 --> 00:24:58,412 SCOTT: You See, a lot of mechanics, 477 00:24:58,413 --> 00:25:00,539 they kind of repair by rote. 478 00:25:00,540 --> 00:25:01,165 So they just. 479 00:25:01,166 --> 00:25:03,626 They go that this is the way that it's always done. 480 00:25:03,627 --> 00:25:04,335 This is the problem. 481 00:25:04,336 --> 00:25:05,419 This is how I fix it. 482 00:25:05,420 --> 00:25:07,087 Whereas Torfi, he looks at it more like a 483 00:25:07,088 --> 00:25:10,675 scientist and dissects the issue, and he very quickly 484 00:25:10,717 --> 00:25:12,302 determines the best way to fix it. 485 00:25:12,344 --> 00:25:13,929 So some of the things that we think 486 00:25:13,970 --> 00:25:16,264 maybe would take an hour to repair, 487 00:25:16,306 --> 00:25:18,099 he'll have fixed in 20 minutes. 488 00:25:18,141 --> 00:25:23,647 (TRUCK WHIRRING, REVVING) 489 00:25:29,486 --> 00:25:30,695 KURT: It's super cold. 490 00:25:30,737 --> 00:25:31,321 We're all tired. 491 00:25:31,363 --> 00:25:33,948 We're making our miles and kind of just chugging along. 492 00:25:33,949 --> 00:25:35,908 And someone pops on the radio, 493 00:25:35,909 --> 00:25:38,327 the bladder just fell off of one of the sleds. 494 00:25:38,328 --> 00:25:40,120 (GROANS) 495 00:25:40,121 --> 00:25:42,832 Um, okay. 496 00:25:46,670 --> 00:25:47,169 (GRUNTS) 497 00:25:47,170 --> 00:25:48,880 It's always something. 498 00:25:49,130 --> 00:25:53,301 Towing a bag of fuel behind a big old Arctic truck 499 00:25:53,677 --> 00:25:58,348 contained in a blubbery bladder 500 00:25:58,390 --> 00:26:01,768 is just seemingly impossible. 501 00:26:01,810 --> 00:26:02,435 And it nearly was. 502 00:26:02,477 --> 00:26:04,354 It was just so much work because it just. 503 00:26:04,396 --> 00:26:07,315 It doesn't want to stay anywhere where you put it. 504 00:26:07,357 --> 00:26:13,530 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 505 00:26:17,867 --> 00:26:18,784 (SCRAPES) 506 00:26:18,785 --> 00:26:23,622 Those sleds should be burned, and then their ashes 507 00:26:23,623 --> 00:26:25,124 should be burned again. 508 00:26:25,125 --> 00:26:26,041 (CHUCKLES) 509 00:26:26,042 --> 00:26:28,419 Man, we keep making it like 510 00:26:28,420 --> 00:26:31,422 20km at a time before another problem hits. 511 00:26:31,423 --> 00:26:34,175 That actually took us longer to fix than a, 512 00:26:34,217 --> 00:26:36,094 tire falling off the trailer. 513 00:26:36,136 --> 00:26:38,805 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 514 00:26:41,057 --> 00:26:43,101 (♪) 515 00:26:43,143 --> 00:26:45,562 SCOTT:One of the most unusual things that 516 00:26:45,604 --> 00:26:46,938 I have ever experienced in all 517 00:26:46,980 --> 00:26:49,274 of my Travels was the DYE 2 station. 518 00:26:49,316 --> 00:26:52,485 This is part of the DEW Line that was used to 519 00:26:52,527 --> 00:26:54,613 early detect Russian bombers 520 00:26:54,654 --> 00:26:57,948 coming over to the United States to drop nuclear bombs. 521 00:26:57,949 --> 00:27:01,535 So this was a very significant piece of military history. 522 00:27:01,536 --> 00:27:04,122 And we were driving right towards it. 523 00:27:05,790 --> 00:27:07,374 As we got closer and closer, 524 00:27:07,375 --> 00:27:08,917 we actually started to get a sense of 525 00:27:08,918 --> 00:27:12,130 just how massive this building was. 526 00:27:12,255 --> 00:27:17,218 It's quite special for Arctic Trucks having 527 00:27:17,594 --> 00:27:19,721 been the only cars being here before. 528 00:27:19,763 --> 00:27:21,681 - That's right. - 19 years ago. 529 00:27:21,723 --> 00:27:22,265 That's right. 530 00:27:22,307 --> 00:27:24,184 Now it's the only cars again. 531 00:27:24,225 --> 00:27:24,684 Yeha. 532 00:27:24,726 --> 00:27:26,436 Nearly two decades later. 533 00:27:26,478 --> 00:27:27,687 Yes. 534 00:27:27,729 --> 00:27:28,855 I guess it's coming like, 535 00:27:28,897 --> 00:27:31,107 running at the space station or something, 536 00:27:31,149 --> 00:27:32,942 the way the snow is all drifted up 537 00:27:32,984 --> 00:27:34,235 on the west side of that thing. 538 00:27:34,277 --> 00:27:39,448 Yeah, let's get wind from that side a lot from the other side. 539 00:27:39,449 --> 00:27:40,991 (OVERLAPPING CHATTER) 540 00:27:40,992 --> 00:27:48,207 I think DYE 2 does the best job of explaining how inhospitable 541 00:27:48,208 --> 00:27:49,416 the ice sheet is. 542 00:27:49,417 --> 00:27:52,294 One day it was an operating radar station, 543 00:27:52,295 --> 00:27:55,965 and a few days later, everyone was gone. 544 00:27:56,132 --> 00:27:58,343 - GREG (ON RADIO): - Will do guys as we approach 545 00:27:58,385 --> 00:28:01,554 the facility to the right. 546 00:28:03,348 --> 00:28:05,558 DR. JON:So the DYE 2 station, they were monitoring it 547 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:06,726 in the 50s, 60s, 70s. 548 00:28:06,768 --> 00:28:08,645 This was an early attack warning system. 549 00:28:08,687 --> 00:28:11,147 They were keeping an eye on the air movement 550 00:28:11,189 --> 00:28:13,191 and air traffic in that area. 551 00:28:13,233 --> 00:28:13,733 So. 552 00:28:13,775 --> 00:28:16,111 So it was a strategic position to have it located there. 553 00:28:16,152 --> 00:28:17,529 And I cannot think of a more 554 00:28:17,570 --> 00:28:19,906 inhospitable place to be stationed. 555 00:28:19,948 --> 00:28:22,866 - REPORTER 3: - Hidden behind these icy ramparts 556 00:28:22,867 --> 00:28:24,952 lies one of the great military secrets of our time. 557 00:28:24,953 --> 00:28:29,039 December 1950, when communist aggression was in full flood. 558 00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:33,086 President Truman had proclaimed a national emergency. 559 00:28:33,336 --> 00:28:35,629 Built with the permission of the Danish government, 560 00:28:35,630 --> 00:28:39,718 the base would push our defense line 2000 miles to the north. 561 00:28:39,759 --> 00:28:42,303 Industry developed new designs that would stand up 562 00:28:42,345 --> 00:28:46,266 to the severe strain imposed by the Arctic winter. 563 00:28:47,684 --> 00:28:50,103 Your corps of, army engineers. 564 00:28:50,145 --> 00:28:59,446 (♪) 565 00:29:08,371 --> 00:29:10,039 CLAY#*: Okay, camera. 566 00:29:10,790 --> 00:29:12,249 All right, coming in. 567 00:29:12,250 --> 00:29:20,175 (♪) 568 00:29:21,342 --> 00:29:22,761 (GRUNTS) 569 00:29:22,802 --> 00:29:24,137 I think the biggest thing is making sure 570 00:29:24,179 --> 00:29:27,098 you don't get lost in the place. 571 00:29:28,224 --> 00:29:29,684 The old light fixtures and, 572 00:29:29,726 --> 00:29:33,104 I mean imagine the amount of time you would have taken 573 00:29:33,146 --> 00:29:36,483 to assemble this thing and the amount of expense 574 00:29:36,524 --> 00:29:38,777 and effort to fly in, 575 00:29:38,818 --> 00:29:43,615 what looks like to be a five story building in the middle of 576 00:29:43,656 --> 00:29:45,492 the Greenland ice sheet. 577 00:29:46,367 --> 00:29:49,995 And then imagine being that new recruit that lands 578 00:29:49,996 --> 00:29:51,246 in an airplane and they get off 579 00:29:51,247 --> 00:29:55,835 and the plane takes away and this is what they're left with. 580 00:29:56,169 --> 00:29:57,504 Pretty remote. 581 00:30:01,883 --> 00:30:04,010 Even wood trimmings 582 00:30:04,219 --> 00:30:05,303 on some of the walls. 583 00:30:05,345 --> 00:30:09,432 They tried to make it like home best they could. 584 00:30:11,392 --> 00:30:12,602 - SCOTT:Oh, wow! - CLAY: Dude! 585 00:30:12,644 --> 00:30:15,355 - SCOTT: I know. - CLAY: There's a pool table. 586 00:30:15,396 --> 00:30:17,398 (CHUCKLES) 587 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:17,816 Oh, wow. 588 00:30:17,857 --> 00:30:20,151 DR. JON: There were lots of things in DYE 2 589 00:30:20,193 --> 00:30:20,902 that were exciting. 590 00:30:20,944 --> 00:30:24,614 I was especially interested in looking around the infirmary. 591 00:30:24,656 --> 00:30:27,367 There were still some medical supplies there. 592 00:30:27,867 --> 00:30:29,786 Step into my office, 593 00:30:32,038 --> 00:30:33,623 get tetanus. 594 00:30:34,457 --> 00:30:37,000 There was a prescription for methylcarbamol, 595 00:30:37,001 --> 00:30:39,878 which is a muscle relaxer that the physician had 596 00:30:39,879 --> 00:30:43,507 written for somebody who works there who must have been having 597 00:30:43,508 --> 00:30:44,509 some back pain or something. 598 00:30:44,551 --> 00:30:47,595 And I don't know if their back is still hurting or not. 599 00:30:47,637 --> 00:30:50,014 They never did get their prescription. 600 00:30:50,223 --> 00:30:53,560 So the building was built so that it had stilts on all 601 00:30:53,601 --> 00:30:56,312 the col- the corners, like columns, quite a few of them. 602 00:30:56,354 --> 00:30:58,439 And they could raise and lower the building. 603 00:30:58,481 --> 00:31:01,526 So you see here instructions on how to level the building. 604 00:31:01,568 --> 00:31:03,528 Raise the building, raise all the jack support. 605 00:31:03,570 --> 00:31:06,698 So using these, these are all the different columns around 606 00:31:06,739 --> 00:31:07,740 the corners of the building. 607 00:31:07,782 --> 00:31:08,991 They could level this place out. 608 00:31:08,992 --> 00:31:13,161 And this may even tell this is like ground pressure 609 00:31:13,162 --> 00:31:13,996 on each of the columns. 610 00:31:13,997 --> 00:31:16,498 So it tells you how much force they're exerting. 611 00:31:16,499 --> 00:31:19,459 I imagine as this thing was used in different times of the year 612 00:31:19,460 --> 00:31:22,671 and heat, the building would sink into the ice and, 613 00:31:22,672 --> 00:31:23,338 and move around. 614 00:31:23,339 --> 00:31:25,591 So they had to constantly adjust it to keep it level. 615 00:31:25,592 --> 00:31:26,968 And I don't know, there's beds in this room. 616 00:31:27,010 --> 00:31:29,470 So it may have been happening enough that they were 617 00:31:29,512 --> 00:31:33,808 worried about, having guys on call to move the building 618 00:31:33,850 --> 00:31:35,643 in the middle of the night. 619 00:31:36,853 --> 00:31:39,314 - KURT: USSR - GREG: That's right. 620 00:31:39,355 --> 00:31:48,489 (♪) 621 00:31:57,248 --> 00:31:59,042 CLAY: This thing has-- 622 00:31:59,834 --> 00:32:02,295 It's been frozen in time. 623 00:32:06,841 --> 00:32:11,012 People walked out without 624 00:32:11,346 --> 00:32:13,640 straightening up their desk or they just, 625 00:32:13,681 --> 00:32:15,558 they literally stood up, 626 00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:16,976 walked out to their airplane 627 00:32:17,018 --> 00:32:20,313 and got on it and no one ever came back. 628 00:32:20,355 --> 00:32:24,651 (FOOTSTEPS) 629 00:32:24,692 --> 00:32:26,152 See if you can push it. 630 00:32:26,194 --> 00:32:35,411 (♪) 631 00:32:35,828 --> 00:32:38,246 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 632 00:32:38,247 --> 00:32:39,998 (THUDS) 633 00:32:39,999 --> 00:32:41,876 (LAUGHS) 634 00:32:45,213 --> 00:32:48,925 It's like a picture in time that you can walk around in 635 00:32:48,967 --> 00:32:54,764 and you can tangibly touch the items of October 1988, 636 00:32:54,806 --> 00:32:57,058 in the last moment of DYE 2's life 637 00:32:57,100 --> 00:33:00,603 before the life that was in it left. 638 00:33:00,645 --> 00:33:04,315 And it makes an impression on you 639 00:33:04,482 --> 00:33:06,484 to see something like that. 640 00:33:06,526 --> 00:33:13,282 (♪) 641 00:33:13,324 --> 00:33:16,493 (WIND HOWLING) 642 00:33:16,494 --> 00:33:26,421 (♪) 643 00:33:31,843 --> 00:33:38,057 (WIND HOWLING) 644 00:33:47,066 --> 00:33:50,862 GREG: Probably by the fourth or fifth day, 645 00:33:50,903 --> 00:33:53,322 it did start to get a little monotonous. 646 00:33:53,364 --> 00:33:57,409 And I remember feeling like we were a, 647 00:33:57,410 --> 00:34:01,872 a bowling ball on this huge white trampoline. 648 00:34:01,873 --> 00:34:04,499 These white sides that just went up to the horizon. 649 00:34:04,500 --> 00:34:07,919 And no matter how far we drove, we couldn't get to a point 650 00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:09,756 where we could see over it. 651 00:34:12,008 --> 00:34:13,885 I don't even know how many audio books we made it 652 00:34:13,926 --> 00:34:16,137 all the way through because you would press start on 653 00:34:16,179 --> 00:34:18,973 them and you wouldn't like, stop for two, three days 654 00:34:19,015 --> 00:34:20,558 till you're done with a book. 655 00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:21,809 But it did, it was tiring. 656 00:34:21,851 --> 00:34:23,644 And you wanted to get out and just stretch your legs. 657 00:34:23,686 --> 00:34:25,146 You wanted to get out and just, you know, hey, 658 00:34:25,188 --> 00:34:27,982 wouldn't it be so nice to lay down and sleep flat tonight? 659 00:34:28,024 --> 00:34:29,192 But there just wasn't the time. 660 00:34:29,233 --> 00:34:32,779 So we just kind of endure and keep moving forward. 661 00:34:33,613 --> 00:34:40,369 Everybody had a lack of sleep, you know, basically from day one 662 00:34:40,745 --> 00:34:42,079 throughout the expedition. 663 00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:42,996 I remember I had been asleep. 664 00:34:42,997 --> 00:34:45,999 I'd been taking a nap in the passenger seat and Emil was 665 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:51,088 driving and I, I kind of woke up and I look over and Emil was 666 00:34:51,089 --> 00:34:52,089 completely crashed out too. 667 00:34:52,090 --> 00:34:54,007 The radio was going and he was sitting. 668 00:34:54,008 --> 00:34:57,053 He was sitting in the seat, like, with his hands like this 669 00:34:57,095 --> 00:34:59,305 and the wheels going back and forth in the rut. 670 00:34:59,347 --> 00:35:00,473 We were both completely out 671 00:35:00,515 --> 00:35:02,475 and I'm like, I'm not gonna wake him up. 672 00:35:02,517 --> 00:35:03,101 (CHUCKLES) 673 00:35:03,142 --> 00:35:04,644 He had his foot-- he had his foot steady on the throttle 674 00:35:04,685 --> 00:35:06,646 and nothing bad was happening. 675 00:35:06,687 --> 00:35:09,774 So I just kind of like side seat drove for a while 676 00:35:09,816 --> 00:35:10,525 while he was sleeping. 677 00:35:10,566 --> 00:35:12,485 He finally kind of woke up and he looked over at me 678 00:35:12,527 --> 00:35:14,529 and I got this big grin onto my face 679 00:35:14,570 --> 00:35:15,822 and he's like, you know. 680 00:35:15,863 --> 00:35:19,324 Very soon he was asleep again and, I guess I was too. 681 00:35:19,325 --> 00:35:19,908 We were just. 682 00:35:19,909 --> 00:35:23,036 We just kept heading and we continued. 683 00:35:23,037 --> 00:35:25,705 We decided that it technically wasn't 684 00:35:25,706 --> 00:35:28,959 falling asleep at the wheel unless your eyes were closed 685 00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:31,044 for more than 60 seconds. 686 00:35:31,045 --> 00:35:33,004 Um, we made, we made a rule that was 687 00:35:33,005 --> 00:35:36,467 a real rule that if you were going to stop that you had to 688 00:35:36,509 --> 00:35:40,138 get on the radio and audibly announce your intent to stop 689 00:35:40,179 --> 00:35:41,806 because there was a good chance 690 00:35:41,848 --> 00:35:44,892 the truck in second position or third position, uh, 691 00:35:44,934 --> 00:35:48,062 the driver may have been taking a short nap and 692 00:35:48,104 --> 00:35:49,147 might run into you. 693 00:35:49,188 --> 00:35:51,315 All right guys, coming to a full stop. 694 00:35:51,357 --> 00:35:52,400 Full stop. 695 00:35:53,693 --> 00:35:55,862 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 696 00:35:55,903 --> 00:35:58,823 Hey guys, we lost the trailer. 697 00:35:58,865 --> 00:35:59,948 Come on back. 698 00:35:59,949 --> 00:36:01,449 Uh, neville. 699 00:36:01,450 --> 00:36:02,618 Scott. 700 00:36:12,211 --> 00:36:15,088 We just happen to have a spare pintle hitch 701 00:36:15,089 --> 00:36:17,132 just laying around in the back of a truck. 702 00:36:17,133 --> 00:36:19,760 Actually Greg shipped that from home. 703 00:36:20,094 --> 00:36:21,137 SCOTT: Good job Greg. 704 00:36:21,179 --> 00:36:22,763 (CHUCKLES) 705 00:36:22,805 --> 00:36:24,974 I'm pretty sure that came from Salt lake. 706 00:36:25,016 --> 00:36:26,267 (CHUCKLES) 707 00:36:32,690 --> 00:36:34,567 KURT: At 1:45 in the morning. 708 00:36:34,609 --> 00:36:38,487 We're halfway on our push between our last camp 709 00:36:38,529 --> 00:36:39,488 at the next fuel depot. 710 00:36:39,530 --> 00:36:40,823 So we're just running all night. 711 00:36:40,865 --> 00:36:42,157 It's too cold to set up camp anyway. 712 00:36:42,158 --> 00:36:46,077 It's like minus 22 so it's not even comfortable to start 713 00:36:46,078 --> 00:36:47,329 trying to get tents up. 714 00:36:47,330 --> 00:36:49,789 So we're just going to kind of take some little naps 715 00:36:49,790 --> 00:36:50,290 in the car. 716 00:36:50,291 --> 00:36:50,999 Recycled drivers. 717 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:55,837 But we have to refuel because it's a long push, about 720km. 718 00:36:55,838 --> 00:36:58,506 So we're draining off the bladders here, 719 00:36:58,507 --> 00:36:59,299 filling up Greg's truck. 720 00:36:59,300 --> 00:37:02,011 We'll drain off this front bladder draining the rest 721 00:37:02,053 --> 00:37:03,638 and get onto the checkpoint where 722 00:37:03,679 --> 00:37:07,308 we're meeting position one where the fuel is being flown in. 723 00:37:07,350 --> 00:37:10,478 There's already 10 barrels there and 11 more showing up tomorrow. 724 00:37:10,519 --> 00:37:12,605 So we'll be able to refill all these bladders 725 00:37:12,647 --> 00:37:13,773 once we get there. 726 00:37:13,814 --> 00:37:17,485 SCOTT: One of the most difficult considerations for this 727 00:37:17,526 --> 00:37:19,320 expedition was planning fuel. 728 00:37:19,362 --> 00:37:23,990 Not only how much fuel do we need but where do we drop it, 729 00:37:23,991 --> 00:37:26,368 how much should we drop and then what do we do 730 00:37:26,369 --> 00:37:29,704 if we have too much or too little and there's something as 731 00:37:29,705 --> 00:37:32,207 simple as we're doing better on 732 00:37:32,208 --> 00:37:34,167 fuel economy or the conditions is approved. 733 00:37:34,168 --> 00:37:37,337 Let's increase the tire pressure in the tires. 734 00:37:37,338 --> 00:37:38,421 It's easy to just forget that 735 00:37:38,422 --> 00:37:41,007 and continue to operate at a lower pressure 736 00:37:41,008 --> 00:37:42,635 which increases resistance 737 00:37:42,677 --> 00:37:44,345 and then increases fuel consumption. 738 00:37:44,387 --> 00:37:47,139 So it's really finding that perfect balance. 739 00:37:47,181 --> 00:37:49,308 And that comes from a combination of 740 00:37:49,350 --> 00:37:52,603 very in depth calculations and a lot of experience. 741 00:37:52,645 --> 00:37:56,148 And then that is all filtered through what's happening 742 00:37:56,190 --> 00:37:58,067 right now on the ground. 743 00:37:58,109 --> 00:38:02,071 EMIL:If you're wrong, we basically run out of fuel 744 00:38:02,113 --> 00:38:07,701 and it's probably gonna cost five hundred thousand dollars 745 00:38:07,702 --> 00:38:09,078 to get you off 746 00:38:10,413 --> 00:38:13,082 and you're not gonna finish the expidition. 747 00:38:16,127 --> 00:38:20,380 SCOTT: When we got to the first waypoint for the fuel drop 748 00:38:20,381 --> 00:38:24,176 on the east coast and we're getting closer and closer 749 00:38:24,218 --> 00:38:27,138 and we're expecting to begin to see 750 00:38:27,179 --> 00:38:28,973 the influence of man on the horizon. 751 00:38:29,015 --> 00:38:32,476 Like some barrels and drums or shapes that are not natural 752 00:38:32,518 --> 00:38:34,729 in the environment and they didn't show up. 753 00:38:34,770 --> 00:38:37,648 We got right to the waypoint and there was nothing there. 754 00:38:37,690 --> 00:38:40,192 We are parked dead on the location, 755 00:38:40,234 --> 00:38:41,527 (COUGHS) 756 00:38:41,694 --> 00:38:45,156 based on Torfi's GPS and my gps, 757 00:38:45,364 --> 00:38:46,198 but there's nothing here. 758 00:38:46,240 --> 00:38:48,616 My guess is they flew over this and said it's too rough 759 00:38:48,617 --> 00:38:50,994 for them to land, so they found something nearby. 760 00:38:50,995 --> 00:38:55,123 So this was kind of a big, issue. 761 00:38:55,124 --> 00:38:58,252 It triggered a calculated panic. 762 00:39:00,046 --> 00:39:02,255 SCOTT: They even launched the drone 763 00:39:02,256 --> 00:39:05,217 to go and look for the fuel 764 00:39:05,259 --> 00:39:05,760 (BEEPS) 765 00:39:05,801 --> 00:39:08,095 SCOTT (ON TADIO): Uh, disturbance that I could see. 766 00:39:08,137 --> 00:39:09,930 It does not look like sastrugi, 767 00:39:09,972 --> 00:39:12,099 but I don't see any barrels by it. 768 00:39:12,141 --> 00:39:13,809 I mean, we shut right down. 769 00:39:13,851 --> 00:39:14,352 We stopped. 770 00:39:14,393 --> 00:39:15,519 It was like satellite phone with the pilots. 771 00:39:15,561 --> 00:39:19,357 We're sending messages via the inreach satellite system. 772 00:39:21,275 --> 00:39:23,319 Everybody had a question mark. 773 00:39:23,652 --> 00:39:25,112 PAUL: (ON PHONE) Hello, Paul. 774 00:39:25,154 --> 00:39:25,905 Hi, Paul. 775 00:39:25,946 --> 00:39:26,739 Emil here again. 776 00:39:26,781 --> 00:39:29,783 We provided the waypoint of our location. 777 00:39:29,784 --> 00:39:32,994 We had them confirm the waypoint that they were 778 00:39:32,995 --> 00:39:33,828 going to drop the fuel. 779 00:39:33,829 --> 00:39:35,830 And then that's when we realized that the location 780 00:39:35,831 --> 00:39:38,208 that they dropped it was different from where we were at. 781 00:39:38,209 --> 00:39:42,754 They had a wrong location and they delivered it, uh, 782 00:39:42,755 --> 00:39:46,467 to a location that was in the first original plan. 783 00:39:46,509 --> 00:39:48,844 That was a trust plan made quite early. 784 00:39:48,886 --> 00:39:51,639 Well, we got the info on where the fuel's at, and the bad news 785 00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:54,725 is it's not here where it was supposed to be, which is our, 786 00:39:54,767 --> 00:39:56,060 scheduled rendezvous point. 787 00:39:56,102 --> 00:39:58,020 It's 50 miles north of here. 788 00:39:58,062 --> 00:40:02,358 EMIL:Okay, that means going into a crevasse area 789 00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:04,610 which we have no satellite imagery for. 790 00:40:04,652 --> 00:40:06,445 We have no research for. 791 00:40:06,487 --> 00:40:08,656 What is the best route to take. 792 00:40:08,697 --> 00:40:10,157 How do we approach this? 793 00:40:10,199 --> 00:40:12,534 What's the most likely safe route? 794 00:40:12,535 --> 00:40:14,452 If we have another mistake like this, 795 00:40:14,453 --> 00:40:16,413 it's going to be a disaster. 796 00:40:16,414 --> 00:40:19,499 So will you please call him back and say, you know, 797 00:40:19,500 --> 00:40:23,169 we'll call you in two hours, three hours when we get there. 798 00:40:23,170 --> 00:40:25,130 But just to confirm that we've got it. 799 00:40:25,131 --> 00:40:26,798 In the meantime, please keep your 800 00:40:26,799 --> 00:40:28,466 phone on your, in your palm. 801 00:40:28,467 --> 00:40:31,554 EMIL:Decided to go back onto our route, 802 00:40:31,804 --> 00:40:33,097 which we had already planned. 803 00:40:33,139 --> 00:40:39,311 And we choose kind, of a almost 90 degree on our old route 804 00:40:39,353 --> 00:40:41,939 and go there in after the fuel. 805 00:40:41,981 --> 00:40:44,984 I think it was about 30, 40 kilometers to go in, 806 00:40:45,025 --> 00:40:46,819 in an unknown territory. 807 00:40:46,861 --> 00:40:50,322 And we could see the crevices, on both sides. 808 00:40:50,364 --> 00:40:59,457 (♪) 809 00:41:08,841 --> 00:41:13,262 Big, big relief to find those fuel drums 810 00:41:13,304 --> 00:41:13,888 and know they're there. 811 00:41:13,929 --> 00:41:15,848 There's one point where we're like, is this kind 812 00:41:15,890 --> 00:41:17,975 of another wild goose chase? 813 00:41:18,350 --> 00:41:20,436 But, we're here. 814 00:41:20,478 --> 00:41:21,353 It's frigid out here. 815 00:41:21,395 --> 00:41:25,191 Probably one of the coldest camps of my life, 816 00:41:25,232 --> 00:41:28,235 if not the coldest camp of my life. 817 00:41:32,865 --> 00:41:34,699 KURT: Making some repairs this morning. 818 00:41:34,700 --> 00:41:36,701 One of the, hitch extensions cracked. 819 00:41:36,702 --> 00:41:39,329 It's a lot of work pulling those sleds, 820 00:41:39,330 --> 00:41:40,663 fatiguing it all through the day. 821 00:41:40,664 --> 00:41:44,501 Torfi's getting all geared up to lay some weld down on it. 822 00:41:44,502 --> 00:41:45,210 We're gonna add some reinforcing 823 00:41:45,211 --> 00:41:48,421 bracing to it so that it doesn't do it again, hopefully. 824 00:41:48,422 --> 00:41:48,880 Fingers crossed. 825 00:41:48,881 --> 00:41:51,800 CLAY: Let me see if you try and cross your fingers, Kurt. 826 00:41:51,842 --> 00:41:53,385 They're too frozen, actually. 827 00:41:53,427 --> 00:41:54,011 (CLAY LAUGHS) 828 00:41:54,053 --> 00:41:57,264 It's actually very important in every expedition, 829 00:41:57,306 --> 00:41:58,015 successful expedition, 830 00:41:58,057 --> 00:42:02,728 that, you can have the team spirit all the time. 831 00:42:02,770 --> 00:42:04,730 You know, you have all the members with you. 832 00:42:04,772 --> 00:42:06,732 You know, they're all working together, you know, 833 00:42:06,774 --> 00:42:11,946 backing each other, up exactly like it was in this expedition. 834 00:42:11,987 --> 00:42:13,113 It was amazing. 835 00:42:13,155 --> 00:42:22,289 (♪) 836 00:42:22,831 --> 00:42:24,500 Another day in the ER. 837 00:42:25,459 --> 00:42:26,919 Always problems. 838 00:42:27,253 --> 00:42:29,129 Mostly the plumbing. 839 00:42:30,339 --> 00:42:34,969 We basically negotiated them to come back to the location 840 00:42:35,010 --> 00:42:36,053 where we were, 841 00:42:36,095 --> 00:42:38,681 (WHOOSHES) 842 00:42:39,181 --> 00:42:42,309 EMIL:Take the rest of this fuel because we already knew 843 00:42:42,351 --> 00:42:44,311 we didn't need all this fuel. 844 00:42:44,353 --> 00:42:45,688 We could use part of this fuel 845 00:42:45,729 --> 00:42:50,943 to bring part of what we had there further up west, 846 00:42:50,985 --> 00:42:53,153 more on the top of the glacier. 847 00:42:53,195 --> 00:42:56,448 This would save us time on the way back. 848 00:42:56,657 --> 00:43:01,536 This meant we could turn, a bad thing into a good thing. 849 00:43:01,537 --> 00:43:06,333 (WHIRRING) 850 00:43:08,168 --> 00:43:08,793 It's all working out. 851 00:43:08,794 --> 00:43:13,006 We got three drums that we're putting on that we're leaving 852 00:43:13,007 --> 00:43:16,010 out to fuel the airplane so it has enough fuel to go and do the 853 00:43:16,051 --> 00:43:17,636 mission that we've asked it to do now. 854 00:43:17,678 --> 00:43:19,054 And then we're reloading it looks like 855 00:43:19,096 --> 00:43:23,225 four or five more drums that'll be sent out further 856 00:43:24,018 --> 00:43:28,606 to the west so that, we don't have to come this far, 857 00:43:28,647 --> 00:43:30,190 towards the coast on our return trip. 858 00:43:30,232 --> 00:43:33,569 It puts our fuel in line with the straight line south. 859 00:43:33,611 --> 00:43:37,281 Pilots have agreed to take at least nine and as many as 12 860 00:43:37,323 --> 00:43:38,866 of these empty drums out of here. 861 00:43:38,907 --> 00:43:42,035 So not only do we not have to spend hours cutting them up, 862 00:43:42,036 --> 00:43:45,121 we don't have to haul them with us, all the way back and forth. 863 00:43:45,122 --> 00:43:47,541 So this is a big win for the team. 864 00:43:48,959 --> 00:43:54,214 (WHIRRING) 865 00:44:02,723 --> 00:44:06,935 (WIND WHOOSHING) 866 00:44:13,359 --> 00:44:22,701 (♪) 867 00:44:30,376 --> 00:44:33,795 CLAY: We're calling this the last flying fuel drop. 868 00:44:33,796 --> 00:44:39,677 Dro-- The airplane dropped these five drums off yesterday, 869 00:44:39,718 --> 00:44:41,762 Drove through the night to get here now. 870 00:44:41,804 --> 00:44:43,889 Now we're gonna drop off a couple more drums, 871 00:44:43,931 --> 00:44:46,809 and this is our cache for the way home. 872 00:44:46,850 --> 00:44:48,352 (WIND WHOOSHING) 873 00:44:48,394 --> 00:44:51,021 And it is wicked out right now. 874 00:44:51,772 --> 00:44:53,273 Whooh. 875 00:44:57,611 --> 00:45:00,280 TORFI: You think you're gonna roll up at the gas station 876 00:45:00,322 --> 00:45:00,906 and fill up 877 00:45:00,948 --> 00:45:02,657 but when you're talking about moving drums by hand 878 00:45:02,658 --> 00:45:04,701 and pumping them and pumps working in 879 00:45:04,702 --> 00:45:07,829 sub zero temperatures, it just nothing is easy. 880 00:45:07,830 --> 00:45:10,790 And then I got this one mustache hair that's frozen down, 881 00:45:10,791 --> 00:45:12,417 and every time I smile the wrong way, 882 00:45:12,418 --> 00:45:15,962 it pulls right on the one that hurts the most. 883 00:45:15,963 --> 00:45:17,964 So I'm looking forward to getting 884 00:45:17,965 --> 00:45:21,218 in the trucks and getting thawed out a little bit. 885 00:45:26,014 --> 00:45:28,392 KURT: We started on a cadence of drive 886 00:45:28,434 --> 00:45:29,727 for two or three Days camp once. 887 00:45:29,768 --> 00:45:32,062 Drive for two or three days, camp once. 888 00:45:32,104 --> 00:45:33,647 After a week of that, everybody, 889 00:45:33,689 --> 00:45:35,691 you could see it was taking its toll on everybody. 890 00:45:35,733 --> 00:45:39,570 We were getting tired and really, it almost felt zombieish 891 00:45:39,611 --> 00:45:40,279 during the day. 892 00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:41,947 DR. JON: I mean it was really difficult to sleep even when-- 893 00:45:41,989 --> 00:45:44,241 even when you were the guy who was getting a break. 894 00:45:44,283 --> 00:45:47,410 The trucks would bounce and it was so bouncy that, 895 00:45:47,411 --> 00:45:49,162 that it was difficult to sleep 896 00:45:49,163 --> 00:45:51,122 even when it was your time to sleep. 897 00:45:51,123 --> 00:45:54,459 TURFI:Figured out we had been driving for 75 hours, 898 00:45:54,460 --> 00:45:55,501 constant driving. 899 00:45:55,502 --> 00:45:56,878 Except for one stop for about two or three 900 00:45:56,879 --> 00:46:00,883 for about two or three hours to sleep in the cars. 901 00:46:01,341 --> 00:46:05,053 Other than that, we were njust driving and changing seats, 902 00:46:05,095 --> 00:46:07,473 just keeping on, keep on driving. 903 00:46:14,396 --> 00:46:16,023 You okay, Dr. Jon? 904 00:46:16,607 --> 00:46:20,944 When you read any story about Arctic survival and the-- 905 00:46:20,986 --> 00:46:25,616 the amount of abuse that the human body can be subjected to 906 00:46:25,657 --> 00:46:29,911 before it finally breaks down and dies is incredible. 907 00:46:29,912 --> 00:46:31,996 You know, we all discussed it as a team. 908 00:46:31,997 --> 00:46:33,080 Yeah, let's keep doing this. 909 00:46:33,081 --> 00:46:35,583 Let's take a two and three hour nap and call it. 910 00:46:35,584 --> 00:46:38,544 And we're going to get back up in the morning and 911 00:46:38,545 --> 00:46:40,254 go another 700 miles. 912 00:46:40,255 --> 00:46:47,387 (♪) 913 00:46:47,429 --> 00:46:50,641 SCOTT: There's a few things that are of consideration 914 00:46:50,682 --> 00:46:51,475 with remoteness, 915 00:46:51,517 --> 00:46:55,062 and we're always thinking about are we closer to these 916 00:46:55,103 --> 00:46:58,607 points of inaccessibility or poor accessibility. 917 00:46:58,649 --> 00:47:01,902 The first thing that you lose is access by helicopter. 918 00:47:01,944 --> 00:47:03,278 But once you get outside of the helicopter range, 919 00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:05,572 then you have to have an aircraft land 920 00:47:05,614 --> 00:47:08,783 and that requires specific conditions on the ground. 921 00:47:08,784 --> 00:47:10,743 And then you can actually get far enough away 922 00:47:10,744 --> 00:47:14,163 where it's going to require an aircraft to bring in fuel, 923 00:47:14,164 --> 00:47:17,291 an aircraft to land and refuel to get to you 924 00:47:17,292 --> 00:47:19,126 than to get you off of the ice sheet. 925 00:47:19,127 --> 00:47:21,796 And the further north that you get in Greenland, 926 00:47:21,797 --> 00:47:23,881 the more likely that is to occur. 927 00:47:23,882 --> 00:47:25,424 You're deeper into the expedition. 928 00:47:25,425 --> 00:47:26,885 People are more fatigued. 929 00:47:26,927 --> 00:47:28,053 Decision making has suffered. 930 00:47:28,095 --> 00:47:31,723 The human body starts to break down because of those 931 00:47:31,765 --> 00:47:34,101 extremely long driving periods. 932 00:47:35,352 --> 00:47:38,105 TURFI: We were still heading north 933 00:47:38,772 --> 00:47:42,234 and we were running into this storm. 934 00:47:42,276 --> 00:47:44,653 According to a path visibility, 935 00:47:44,695 --> 00:47:47,948 we are quite close to maybe about 936 00:47:47,990 --> 00:47:50,701 2- 300 kilometers from Wulff Land. 937 00:47:51,243 --> 00:47:54,996 We get quite strong winds. 938 00:47:54,997 --> 00:47:57,248 We were navigating only 939 00:47:57,249 --> 00:47:59,000 using gps, which is a dangerous 940 00:47:59,001 --> 00:48:02,379 thing to do when you're approaching crevasse area. 941 00:48:05,382 --> 00:48:07,091 There was what they call white darkness. 942 00:48:07,092 --> 00:48:10,053 It's white, you look out the window and you see white, 943 00:48:10,095 --> 00:48:12,973 but the visibility is a matter of feet. 944 00:48:13,015 --> 00:48:16,268 It was bad enough that I told the guys on the radio, 945 00:48:16,310 --> 00:48:18,103 if you get out of the truck for any reason, 946 00:48:18,145 --> 00:48:21,231 make sure that you maintain contact with the truck. 947 00:48:21,273 --> 00:48:25,068 Because if you get disoriented and take two steps in the wrong 948 00:48:25,110 --> 00:48:26,820 direction, it could be fatal. 949 00:48:26,862 --> 00:48:30,908 There's no bearings whatsoever what's going on around you. 950 00:48:30,949 --> 00:48:32,241 You will be lost like that. 951 00:48:32,242 --> 00:48:34,702 If you take a single step in any direction, 952 00:48:34,703 --> 00:48:36,663 it's a straight up guess. 953 00:48:39,791 --> 00:48:42,585 GREG:As we made our final push north to Wulff Land, 954 00:48:42,586 --> 00:48:44,086 we were really chasing the clock. 955 00:48:44,087 --> 00:48:47,006 We-- At any point, we're gonna have to make our 956 00:48:47,007 --> 00:48:48,424 decision to turn back. 957 00:48:48,425 --> 00:48:50,469 The weather wasn't cooperating. 958 00:48:50,510 --> 00:48:53,347 The time was slipping away. 959 00:48:53,847 --> 00:48:57,100 We were at the point where we didn't know if we were actually 960 00:48:57,142 --> 00:49:00,395 gonna make any of our goals because progress 961 00:49:00,437 --> 00:49:01,813 had slowed down so much. 962 00:49:01,855 --> 00:49:03,857 And I remember the radio cracking to life 963 00:49:03,899 --> 00:49:07,736 and Torfi saying, there's an animal on the right. 964 00:49:07,986 --> 00:49:10,781 And we had trouble seeing it. 965 00:49:10,822 --> 00:49:12,532 And we kind of pulled up next to it. 966 00:49:12,574 --> 00:49:15,534 And as we get closer and start to brush the snow off, 967 00:49:15,535 --> 00:49:20,247 we realize that it was a musk ox calf that had been separated 968 00:49:20,248 --> 00:49:23,417 from its mother, likely in a storm just like that, 969 00:49:23,418 --> 00:49:25,836 or maybe even earlier in that storm. 970 00:49:25,837 --> 00:49:29,173 And it was frozen solid from the cold. 971 00:49:29,174 --> 00:49:34,513 And I remember all of us being very aware of the fact 972 00:49:34,554 --> 00:49:36,390 that we were quite fragile. 973 00:49:36,431 --> 00:49:39,351 (WIND HOWLING) 974 00:49:39,393 --> 00:49:46,441 (♪) 975 00:49:46,483 --> 00:49:49,277 (INDISTINCT CHATTER ON RADIO) 976 00:49:49,319 --> 00:49:52,406 SCOTT: We had people on the team, 977 00:49:52,447 --> 00:49:56,242 we could tell in their voice that they were starting to get 978 00:49:56,243 --> 00:49:57,201 concerned and worried. 979 00:49:57,202 --> 00:50:02,581 And at that point, we have a spring break, on the 6x6. 980 00:50:02,582 --> 00:50:04,250 I was riding with Greg at the time, 981 00:50:04,251 --> 00:50:07,128 and Torfi hopped on the radio and said, 982 00:50:07,129 --> 00:50:08,963 hold on, something's wrong. 983 00:50:08,964 --> 00:50:11,173 Dreky's got a broken coil spring. 984 00:50:11,174 --> 00:50:12,800 And I think all of us immediately, 985 00:50:12,801 --> 00:50:13,844 like, our hearts sank. 986 00:50:13,885 --> 00:50:16,930 TORFI: It's a broken spring. 987 00:50:17,806 --> 00:50:21,226 For me, at least, what I've learned is to always, 988 00:50:21,268 --> 00:50:26,148 you know, no matter how bad the situation is, you just, you 989 00:50:26,189 --> 00:50:29,067 you know, you love the circumstances. 990 00:50:29,109 --> 00:50:30,485 You know, this is fantastic. 991 00:50:30,527 --> 00:50:32,446 You know, it's so great 992 00:50:32,487 --> 00:50:35,824 to be here with you guys, you know, 993 00:50:36,074 --> 00:50:38,117 in this fantastic place. 994 00:50:38,118 --> 00:50:40,494 Just look at this nature, you know, 995 00:50:40,495 --> 00:50:44,207 always trying to, you know, see some positive things, 996 00:50:44,416 --> 00:50:46,376 you know, positive sides. 997 00:50:47,836 --> 00:50:49,837 You've got a spring break! 998 00:50:49,838 --> 00:50:51,089 (LAUGHS) 999 00:50:53,759 --> 00:50:55,886 You know, being negative and, 1000 00:50:55,927 --> 00:51:00,474 that doesn't get you anywhere, you know, have to be positive, 1001 00:51:00,515 --> 00:51:04,186 you know, and enjoying what you're doing. 1002 00:51:05,937 --> 00:51:09,191 And in every person, actually, you know, if you have the time 1003 00:51:09,232 --> 00:51:14,112 and space to do that, you know, to bring, you know, the best 1004 00:51:14,154 --> 00:51:16,239 out of every person in the team. 1005 00:51:16,281 --> 00:51:17,657 Fantastic. 1006 00:51:18,283 --> 00:51:20,243 It's cold, it's windy. 1007 00:51:20,952 --> 00:51:22,203 We're having fun. 1008 00:51:22,204 --> 00:51:23,662 (WIND HOWLING) 1009 00:51:23,663 --> 00:51:28,501 (♪) 1010 00:51:28,502 --> 00:51:31,045 KURT: Made the decision that we can fix it right there 1011 00:51:31,046 --> 00:51:31,545 on the spot. 1012 00:51:31,546 --> 00:51:32,880 We've got the spare part to do it, 1013 00:51:32,881 --> 00:51:35,216 but the weather's getting worse and worse. 1014 00:51:35,217 --> 00:51:36,384 In fact, it was the worst weather 1015 00:51:36,426 --> 00:51:38,595 we'd seen on the entire trip. 1016 00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:45,393 I remember Jon Solberg holding 1017 00:51:45,435 --> 00:51:46,561 the wood barriers and trying to- 1018 00:51:46,603 --> 00:51:51,024 to block the wind with his own body to give these guys a chance 1019 00:51:51,066 --> 00:51:52,275 at getting that repaired. 1020 00:51:52,317 --> 00:51:55,153 And they did it in less time than it would take a mechanic 1021 00:51:55,195 --> 00:51:59,366 in a warm garage in Salt Lake City to do the same thing. 1022 00:51:59,407 --> 00:52:02,119 I mean, that's when you see, 1023 00:52:02,577 --> 00:52:06,665 that's when you see exceptional people do exceptional things. 1024 00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:11,336 GREG#*: These are incredible men. 1025 00:52:11,503 --> 00:52:15,756 And there is clearly no way this expedition would have, 1026 00:52:15,757 --> 00:52:18,260 would have succeeded without them 1027 00:52:18,301 --> 00:52:20,470 and several others like them. 1028 00:52:21,263 --> 00:52:25,475 It was sometime in this window of 1029 00:52:25,684 --> 00:52:29,146 what to me felt like a barrage of adversity, 1030 00:52:29,187 --> 00:52:32,774 uh, compounded by the fact that, 1031 00:52:32,816 --> 00:52:35,277 that I was feeling sick and 1032 00:52:35,318 --> 00:52:40,991 I was-- I was not able to make the level of contribution 1033 00:52:41,032 --> 00:52:43,033 I would have liked physically. 1034 00:52:43,034 --> 00:52:45,077 And that compounded my frustration as well, 1035 00:52:45,078 --> 00:52:51,375 that I decided, that it would be a good time to try 1036 00:52:51,376 --> 00:52:53,712 to connect with my wife, Heidi. 1037 00:52:53,837 --> 00:53:00,010 We're 135 kilometers from the northern edge of the glacier, 1038 00:53:01,678 --> 00:53:04,890 and we're, 1039 00:53:07,142 --> 00:53:09,269 we're having a lot of trouble. 1040 00:53:10,187 --> 00:53:13,481 We've had an unbelievable 1041 00:53:13,523 --> 00:53:15,650 number of setbacks, 1042 00:53:15,942 --> 00:53:18,111 and these guys just keep going. 1043 00:53:18,153 --> 00:53:22,407 It's 8 degrees below zero, and the wind is blowing so hard, 1044 00:53:22,449 --> 00:53:26,410 I can barely see the truck that's 10ft in front of me. 1045 00:53:26,411 --> 00:53:29,747 And these guys are out, fixing the axle 1046 00:53:29,748 --> 00:53:32,583 to support my expedition. 1047 00:53:32,584 --> 00:53:35,044 HEIDI: (ON PHONE) Is everybody mentally okay? 1048 00:53:35,045 --> 00:53:36,295 Everybody wanted to quit? 1049 00:53:36,296 --> 00:53:38,547 No. That's the thing that's so amazing. 1050 00:53:38,548 --> 00:53:40,633 That's why I'm so emotional. 1051 00:53:40,634 --> 00:53:43,970 It's because there's no sign of quitting. 1052 00:53:44,012 --> 00:53:46,890 I told you a couple times before I left that this would be 1053 00:53:46,932 --> 00:53:49,392 the biggest adventure I ever did. 1054 00:53:49,434 --> 00:53:52,229 (SNIFFLES, SOBS) 1055 00:53:52,270 --> 00:53:56,024 And I underestimated it. 1056 00:53:59,444 --> 00:54:01,238 Just hearing her voice 1057 00:54:01,279 --> 00:54:03,073 brought me a lot of comfort. 1058 00:54:03,114 --> 00:54:05,908 (WIND WHOOSHING) 1059 00:54:05,909 --> 00:54:11,997 (♪) 1060 00:54:11,998 --> 00:54:14,750 I will say that we have today looks to be 1061 00:54:14,751 --> 00:54:15,834 our best weather condition. 1062 00:54:15,835 --> 00:54:18,921 Torfi can provide some additional clarification, 1063 00:54:18,922 --> 00:54:21,006 but it looks like the wind actually 1064 00:54:21,007 --> 00:54:23,218 doubles in speed tomorrow. 1065 00:54:23,260 --> 00:54:26,680 (WIND WHOOSHING) 1066 00:54:26,721 --> 00:54:30,225 KURT: The only thing we know at this point is it's worse 1067 00:54:30,267 --> 00:54:30,892 than it was an hour ago, 1068 00:54:30,934 --> 00:54:32,394 which was worse than it was an hour before. 1069 00:54:32,435 --> 00:54:34,062 It doesn't seem to be letting up at all. 1070 00:54:34,104 --> 00:54:36,481 And we're making the decision to push north. 1071 00:54:36,523 --> 00:54:37,857 And it was really important for Greg. 1072 00:54:37,899 --> 00:54:40,235 We were all getting a greater sense of that, 1073 00:54:40,277 --> 00:54:42,737 how important it was for him to reach Wulff Land 1074 00:54:42,779 --> 00:54:43,655 and call the mission successful. 1075 00:54:43,697 --> 00:54:45,907 - SCOTT (ON RADIO): - We do know that this next weather window, 1076 00:54:45,949 --> 00:54:51,745 the wind kicks up and it is scheduled out for several days. 1077 00:54:51,746 --> 00:54:56,042 So even moving a couple days may not be enough. 1078 00:54:57,252 --> 00:54:58,585 Yeah, I agree. 1079 00:54:58,586 --> 00:55:02,756 (WIND WHOOSHING) 1080 00:55:02,757 --> 00:55:04,300 Greg hit me up right immediately, 1081 00:55:04,301 --> 00:55:05,969 "what do you want to, what do you think we should do? 1082 00:55:06,011 --> 00:55:09,681 You know, I'm asking everybody, do you feel comfortable moving 1083 00:55:09,723 --> 00:55:10,515 forward in this weather? 1084 00:55:10,557 --> 00:55:12,851 Knowing what we know now about the weather 1085 00:55:12,892 --> 00:55:16,229 and the time we have, how do you feel about it?". 1086 00:55:17,147 --> 00:55:22,360 We decided that we would drive until 6:00am and reassess. 1087 00:55:22,402 --> 00:55:24,821 Uh, even though the repair was complete on Dreky, 1088 00:55:24,863 --> 00:55:29,700 once we started moving, Dreky didn't move. 1089 00:55:29,701 --> 00:55:34,038 And so I got on the radio and said, Dreky, are you with us? 1090 00:55:34,039 --> 00:55:36,415 And I could tell from the delay 1091 00:55:36,416 --> 00:55:40,919 in the response and the tone of the response that 1092 00:55:40,920 --> 00:55:42,880 we didn't have complete alignment 1093 00:55:42,881 --> 00:55:43,756 from the folks in Dreky. 1094 00:55:43,757 --> 00:55:46,050 SCOTT:I remember it took a couple minutes and Greg was, 1095 00:55:46,051 --> 00:55:49,721 I don't think frustrated, but like seemingly anxious like, 1096 00:55:49,763 --> 00:55:50,889 "what's taking them so long? 1097 00:55:50,930 --> 00:55:51,681 I want to know the answer." 1098 00:55:51,723 --> 00:55:53,391 You know, "Are they comfortable moving forward?" 1099 00:55:53,433 --> 00:55:55,435 In our vehicle we were having a real hard time coming 1100 00:55:55,477 --> 00:56:00,440 to a consensus, and nobody wanted to disappoint Greg, 1101 00:56:00,482 --> 00:56:01,983 but we had had some serious 1102 00:56:02,025 --> 00:56:04,027 concerns about our safety. 1103 00:56:04,069 --> 00:56:05,445 GREG: (ON RADIO) If any of you guys have any 1104 00:56:05,487 --> 00:56:09,074 concerns about this along the way, I'd like to hear them. 1105 00:56:09,115 --> 00:56:11,116 You all, your voice is welcome. 1106 00:56:11,117 --> 00:56:15,579 At that moment, I was definitely thinking we are probably pushing 1107 00:56:15,580 --> 00:56:18,916 beyond our capabilities here. 1108 00:56:18,917 --> 00:56:21,293 In my mind, we were not able to 1109 00:56:21,294 --> 00:56:25,298 drive off the glacier if we didn't have a visibility. 1110 00:56:25,757 --> 00:56:27,967 It was just no way situation. 1111 00:56:28,009 --> 00:56:33,556 Any desire that I had to get there and, you know, 1112 00:56:33,598 --> 00:56:36,726 take a picture at the farthest northern piece of dirt 1113 00:56:36,768 --> 00:56:39,396 on the planet or do something that nobody else had 1114 00:56:39,437 --> 00:56:44,067 ever done before was severely shadowed 1115 00:56:44,109 --> 00:56:45,985 by my promise to my profession, 1116 00:56:46,027 --> 00:56:48,279 which is to not ever put anybody in jeopardy. 1117 00:56:48,321 --> 00:56:51,574 I guess I was just shell shocked by everything at this point. 1118 00:56:51,616 --> 00:56:52,158 What was a risk? 1119 00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:53,659 I mean, we'd done so many things. 1120 00:56:53,660 --> 00:56:57,621 At this point, I was comfortable pushing into the storm. 1121 00:56:57,622 --> 00:57:00,749 One of the things that can happen on a trip like this, 1122 00:57:00,750 --> 00:57:04,086 when you pull together so many competent individuals, 1123 00:57:04,087 --> 00:57:06,839 they have a lot of tolerance for variability, 1124 00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:09,426 they have a lot of tolerance for leadership. 1125 00:57:10,301 --> 00:57:14,431 And they allow for people with experience and with the right 1126 00:57:14,472 --> 00:57:18,059 mindset to make decisions throughout an expedition. 1127 00:57:18,101 --> 00:57:19,394 But what can happen is 1128 00:57:19,436 --> 00:57:21,938 once the options start to come off the table, 1129 00:57:21,980 --> 00:57:25,358 once you really only have one path left, 1130 00:57:25,400 --> 00:57:28,486 then people will start to actively question and they have 1131 00:57:28,528 --> 00:57:29,154 every right to. 1132 00:57:29,195 --> 00:57:31,281 That's one of the things that make a great team, 1133 00:57:31,322 --> 00:57:33,700 is for people having the ability to speak up 1134 00:57:33,741 --> 00:57:37,119 and the mindset and the desire to speak up when things 1135 00:57:37,120 --> 00:57:38,036 start to get dangerous. 1136 00:57:38,037 --> 00:57:40,998 DR. JON:I actually got out of the truck and went back and, 1137 00:57:40,999 --> 00:57:44,543 Scott is the one that I probably know best of all. 1138 00:57:44,544 --> 00:57:48,172 Jon, he looked at me and he shared this story 1139 00:57:48,173 --> 00:57:51,425 about what happens right up to the point 1140 00:57:51,426 --> 00:57:54,596 that an airplane runs into the side of a mountain. 1141 00:57:54,637 --> 00:57:58,308 And he wasn't telling me the story because he wanted to say 1142 00:57:58,349 --> 00:58:01,519 I don't want to go or I don't feel comfortable going. 1143 00:58:01,561 --> 00:58:05,440 He wanted to make sure that Emil and I were reminded of the fact 1144 00:58:05,482 --> 00:58:08,568 that those cascade of events, we can be so focused on something 1145 00:58:08,610 --> 00:58:12,280 that we want to achieve in our life that we can start to forget 1146 00:58:12,322 --> 00:58:14,782 about all of the risks that come along the way. 1147 00:58:14,824 --> 00:58:16,658 We get those blinders on, 1148 00:58:16,659 --> 00:58:18,785 and we get so focused on that goal 1149 00:58:18,786 --> 00:58:21,288 that we run right into the side of the mountain. 1150 00:58:21,289 --> 00:58:23,373 I am the expedition leader. 1151 00:58:23,374 --> 00:58:27,794 The safety of, every one of these team members 1152 00:58:27,795 --> 00:58:29,421 is my responsibility, 1153 00:58:29,422 --> 00:58:33,800 and I must get every one of them 1154 00:58:33,801 --> 00:58:36,262 back home to their families safely. 1155 00:58:36,304 --> 00:58:39,516 SCOTT: I knew that he was deliberating 1156 00:58:39,557 --> 00:58:42,268 between giving up on something that he had tried so hard 1157 00:58:42,310 --> 00:58:45,563 to achieve and had given so much towards us and 1158 00:58:45,605 --> 00:58:47,232 everyone else to try to get to this goal. 1159 00:58:47,273 --> 00:58:51,110 I knew that he was potentially faced with that reality that 1160 00:58:51,152 --> 00:58:51,986 we weren't gonna make it. 1161 00:58:52,028 --> 00:58:54,447 We weren't even gonna make it to the end of the ice sheet. 1162 00:58:54,489 --> 00:58:58,534 And I have such respect for him in that moment, because what he 1163 00:58:58,535 --> 00:59:00,077 did was he kind of gave that up. 1164 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 1165 00:59:04,999 --> 00:59:06,458 long as we all make it home." 1166 00:59:06,459 --> 00:59:09,379 And that says a lot about a leader right there. 1167 00:59:09,587 --> 00:59:15,259 I felt like my concerns were heard, and we decided 1168 00:59:15,260 --> 00:59:16,719 as a group to push on. 1169 00:59:16,761 --> 00:59:21,933 (WIND WHOOSHING) 1170 00:59:21,975 --> 00:59:22,725 (GRUNTS) 1171 00:59:22,767 --> 00:59:25,603 That is a good old North Dakota blizzard right there, 1172 00:59:25,645 --> 00:59:27,105 I'll tell you that much. 1173 00:59:27,146 --> 00:59:29,107 My inclination is that we, 1174 00:59:29,148 --> 00:59:31,109 we take it one objective at a time. 1175 00:59:31,150 --> 00:59:34,862 Let's get to the edge of the ice sheet and then reassess, 1176 00:59:34,904 --> 00:59:40,742 and then, we can decide if we want to getto, the tou-- 1177 00:59:40,743 --> 00:59:41,952 the terra firma. 1178 00:59:41,953 --> 00:59:43,704 I think that's probably the best thing to do 1179 00:59:43,705 --> 00:59:45,914 at this point in time, because I think everybody's going to be 1180 00:59:45,915 --> 00:59:49,751 excited about trying to get to the edge of the ice sheet. 1181 00:59:49,752 --> 00:59:51,962 - GREG (ON RADIO): - Scott, I couldn't agree with you more. 1182 00:59:51,963 --> 00:59:53,172 Thank you. 1183 00:59:54,465 --> 00:59:56,675 You four guys are just awesome. 1184 00:59:56,676 --> 00:59:57,844 Thank you. 1185 00:59:57,885 --> 01:00:05,768 (♪) 1186 01:00:06,519 --> 01:00:08,688 GREG: 60 minutes later, 1187 01:00:08,730 --> 01:00:10,148 sunshine, 1188 01:00:10,356 --> 01:00:12,734 the bluest skies we'd seen in days. 1189 01:00:12,775 --> 01:00:17,864 And the more time passes, the more I can hear angels singing 1190 01:00:17,905 --> 01:00:19,949 in that moment in my memory. 1191 01:00:19,991 --> 01:00:29,292 (♪) 1192 01:00:36,674 --> 01:00:40,637 SCOTT:We were the first boots on the ground into this region. 1193 01:00:40,678 --> 01:00:41,929 Now, there's certainly been 1194 01:00:41,971 --> 01:00:42,847 people on the north of Greenland, 1195 01:00:42,889 --> 01:00:45,433 but there had never been anybody that we were aware of 1196 01:00:45,475 --> 01:00:49,687 that had traveled to this particular glacier. 1197 01:00:50,146 --> 01:00:51,356 If you'd asked me on the first day or two 1198 01:00:51,397 --> 01:00:53,524 if I thought we were going to get all the way to the north tip 1199 01:00:53,566 --> 01:00:56,110 I said there's no way, I mean, like, 1200 01:00:56,152 --> 01:00:57,153 we're going to be lucky to bail, 1201 01:00:57,195 --> 01:01:00,281 take a left to go to Kangerlussuaq, you know. 1202 01:01:00,490 --> 01:01:02,784 - GREG (ON RADIO): - Yeah, I think we're all pretty honored 1203 01:01:02,825 --> 01:01:04,035 to be here. 1204 01:01:06,162 --> 01:01:08,789 I had a pretty good idea 1205 01:01:08,790 --> 01:01:11,041 of what Wulff Land would be like. 1206 01:01:11,042 --> 01:01:15,712 But to be standing there looking at it and to see the magnitude 1207 01:01:15,713 --> 01:01:20,258 of it and the grandeur and the remoteness, 1208 01:01:20,259 --> 01:01:23,930 the stillness was overwhelming to me. 1209 01:01:23,971 --> 01:01:27,266 It was beyond anything that I'd imagined. 1210 01:01:31,896 --> 01:01:33,856 We got to the top of this extremely 1211 01:01:33,898 --> 01:01:34,816 steep slope and Emil said, 1212 01:01:34,857 --> 01:01:39,445 Greg, you must go down first to make sure we can get back up. 1213 01:01:39,570 --> 01:01:41,948 SCOTT:We weren't going to commit all three vehicles 1214 01:01:41,989 --> 01:01:42,949 to the bottom of this thing 1215 01:01:42,990 --> 01:01:45,034 if we couldn't climb back up again. 1216 01:01:45,076 --> 01:01:54,627 (♪) 1217 01:02:07,265 --> 01:02:09,767 Greg got down to the bottom and he just started 1218 01:02:09,809 --> 01:02:12,729 cruising back up and he didn't even spin a tire. 1219 01:02:12,770 --> 01:02:21,946 (♪) 1220 01:02:24,031 --> 01:02:25,450 It was at, 1221 01:02:26,701 --> 01:02:32,122 at that moment that I knew we were gonna meet our objective. 1222 01:02:32,123 --> 01:02:41,883 (♪) 1223 01:02:42,300 --> 01:02:43,425 GREG: (ON RADIO) There you go, guys. 1224 01:02:43,426 --> 01:02:46,012 Tires have now touched Wulff Land. 1225 01:02:46,053 --> 01:02:47,722 We are on Wulff Land. 1226 01:02:47,764 --> 01:02:56,689 (♪) 1227 01:03:02,445 --> 01:03:05,782 Seeing those brown rocks, those 1228 01:03:05,823 --> 01:03:11,245 brown mountains, 50, 80, 100 miles out into the distance 1229 01:03:11,329 --> 01:03:15,792 was so rewarding for me. 1230 01:03:18,753 --> 01:03:23,299 TORFI:So that's one of the most remote places I've ever been. 1231 01:03:25,885 --> 01:03:31,140 It was very special - to get to Wulff Land. - That was a great moment. 1232 01:03:33,309 --> 01:03:36,020 It's hard to describe by, you know, 1233 01:03:36,187 --> 01:03:40,274 you-- you-- you, uh, you looked at the map so many times 1234 01:03:40,316 --> 01:03:44,195 and it's just a location on a map and all of a sudden 1235 01:03:44,237 --> 01:03:46,781 you're standing there and, 1236 01:03:46,823 --> 01:03:49,534 it's out of this world kind of. 1237 01:03:54,497 --> 01:03:56,666 CLAY: Welcome to Wulff Land! 1238 01:03:57,083 --> 01:04:00,628 It looks like the moon with a glacier on it. 1239 01:04:01,295 --> 01:04:02,921 TORFI: When we came down to Wulff Land, 1240 01:04:02,922 --> 01:04:04,297 we were kind of surprised 1241 01:04:04,298 --> 01:04:09,470 because there was almost no snow at all. 1242 01:04:09,512 --> 01:04:10,680 Just-- 1243 01:04:10,721 --> 01:04:15,268 So our plans to drive further north, they just, 1244 01:04:15,309 --> 01:04:15,893 they were gone. 1245 01:04:15,935 --> 01:04:18,729 It was not possible to drive any further. 1246 01:04:18,771 --> 01:04:21,941 EMIL: After evaluating this and thinking about the ice melt 1247 01:04:21,983 --> 01:04:24,151 and what was time and the risk and everything, 1248 01:04:24,193 --> 01:04:28,781 like that, we decided to just to take a long, good rest 1249 01:04:28,823 --> 01:04:30,741 and then turn around. 1250 01:04:30,783 --> 01:04:34,202 I regret not being able to keep driving north. 1251 01:04:34,203 --> 01:04:37,581 I would have loved to have gotten all the way to the, 1252 01:04:37,582 --> 01:04:39,457 to the Arctic Ocean and found, 1253 01:04:39,458 --> 01:04:42,586 a place to break through the ice and actually get the tires wet. 1254 01:04:42,587 --> 01:04:46,756 I think we all just tried to drink it in and absorb as much 1255 01:04:46,757 --> 01:04:50,052 as we could of that moment before we had to turn around 1256 01:04:50,094 --> 01:04:52,555 and start making our way south. 1257 01:04:53,264 --> 01:04:57,059 CLAY: I mean, this expedition inspired adventurers 1258 01:04:57,101 --> 01:04:58,519 from around the globe 1259 01:04:58,561 --> 01:05:02,315 to push beyond the notions of what is possible. 1260 01:05:02,440 --> 01:05:06,319 Expedition 7 Greenland Crossing team members. 1261 01:05:06,360 --> 01:05:09,739 Craig Miller-Expedition Leader, USA. 1262 01:05:09,780 --> 01:05:11,574 Scott Brady, USA. 1263 01:05:11,616 --> 01:05:13,658 Clay Croft, USA. 1264 01:05:13,659 --> 01:05:16,036 Emil Grimson, Iceland. 1265 01:05:16,037 --> 01:05:18,622 Torfi Johannsson, Iceland. 1266 01:05:18,623 --> 01:05:20,832 Dr. Jon Solberg, USA. 1267 01:05:20,833 --> 01:05:23,002 Kurt Williams, USA. 1268 01:05:23,961 --> 01:05:27,505 - GREG (ON RADIO): - Well, probably just as hard for you guys 1269 01:05:27,506 --> 01:05:30,676 to pull out of this place as it is for me. 1270 01:05:30,718 --> 01:05:33,596 After what we went through to get here, I just don't want 1271 01:05:33,638 --> 01:05:35,097 to leave such a special place. 1272 01:05:35,139 --> 01:05:38,476 Especially after having seen so little of it. 1273 01:05:38,643 --> 01:05:40,895 But we all need to get back home 1274 01:05:40,937 --> 01:05:44,440 to our families and all of our other real world commitments. 1275 01:05:44,482 --> 01:05:48,778 So make sure to capture one last image of that before we 1276 01:05:48,819 --> 01:05:52,365 turn and burn and encounter all 1277 01:05:52,406 --> 01:05:57,370 that great white hostility on the way back to a hot shower. 1278 01:05:57,620 --> 01:05:59,955 Yeah, I'm ready for a shower and a shave. 1279 01:05:59,956 --> 01:06:01,039 Yeah, me too. 1280 01:06:01,040 --> 01:06:01,581 Me too. 1281 01:06:01,582 --> 01:06:04,125 But that was worth, that was worth every kilometer 1282 01:06:04,126 --> 01:06:06,461 to get to that place, very beautiful. 1283 01:06:06,462 --> 01:06:07,253 Mh-hm. 1284 01:06:07,254 --> 01:06:12,342 (♪) 1285 01:06:12,343 --> 01:06:17,056 There's always something hard about leaving a place you love. 1286 01:06:18,015 --> 01:06:20,267 Seeing it in your rear view mirror. 1287 01:06:22,061 --> 01:06:24,605 Especially knowing if you'll never come back. 1288 01:06:24,647 --> 01:06:34,031 (♪) 1289 01:06:37,451 --> 01:06:45,542 (♪) 1290 01:06:45,543 --> 01:06:46,918 SCOTT: People oftentimes don't consider 1291 01:06:46,919 --> 01:06:50,547 with expeditions or danger surrounding expeditions is 1292 01:06:50,548 --> 01:06:52,215 it's just like scaling a mountain. 1293 01:06:52,216 --> 01:06:55,136 You don't need to just get to the top and succeed. 1294 01:06:55,177 --> 01:06:58,264 You need to get back down safely to base camp 1295 01:06:58,305 --> 01:06:59,849 and back to your families. 1296 01:06:59,890 --> 01:07:01,684 GREG: Wulff Land back, 1297 01:07:03,310 --> 01:07:05,104 it had a few challenges. 1298 01:07:05,146 --> 01:07:08,232 We had a broken CV joint on my truck. 1299 01:07:08,274 --> 01:07:09,191 KURT: Clay broke it. 1300 01:07:09,233 --> 01:07:10,234 We all knew Clay broke it. 1301 01:07:10,276 --> 01:07:13,112 Clay finally accepted that he broke it. 1302 01:07:13,362 --> 01:07:17,700 The lunettes of both sleds had to be completely reworked 1303 01:07:17,742 --> 01:07:18,200 and re welded. 1304 01:07:18,242 --> 01:07:19,617 We broke the hitch on the trailer. 1305 01:07:19,618 --> 01:07:22,287 We broke the hitch on one of the sleds as well, 1306 01:07:22,288 --> 01:07:23,748 the vehicle side. 1307 01:07:24,165 --> 01:07:25,832 I was in the army for seven years. 1308 01:07:25,833 --> 01:07:30,128 I never saw a cast iron pintle hitch wear through anything 1309 01:07:30,129 --> 01:07:32,380 and be stretched into an oval. 1310 01:07:32,381 --> 01:07:33,256 (LAUGHS) 1311 01:07:33,257 --> 01:07:34,842 KURT: It's cracking. 1312 01:07:36,302 --> 01:07:39,555 Cut it, put it your log like in between 1313 01:07:42,600 --> 01:07:44,602 The runners on the sleds, 1314 01:07:44,643 --> 01:07:45,853 they were starting to break off. 1315 01:07:45,895 --> 01:07:48,939 And of course the straps and all these things on the, 1316 01:07:48,981 --> 01:07:53,194 on the sleds to keep the bladders in place. 1317 01:07:53,569 --> 01:07:57,406 Then we had a leaf spring on the trailer broke. 1318 01:07:57,448 --> 01:07:59,283 This one's, I don't see how you're 1319 01:07:59,325 --> 01:08:00,533 gonna fix this. 1320 01:08:00,534 --> 01:08:02,535 (WHIRRING) 1321 01:08:02,536 --> 01:08:06,081 (CLANGING) 1322 01:08:06,082 --> 01:08:10,126 The water maker stopped running so I had to take it in the car 1323 01:08:10,127 --> 01:08:11,544 inside and warm it up. 1324 01:08:11,545 --> 01:08:20,554 (♪) 1325 01:08:22,139 --> 01:08:24,725 A minor issue with a fuel pump. 1326 01:08:24,767 --> 01:08:27,937 We are troubleshooting low fuel. 1327 01:08:27,978 --> 01:08:30,439 This thing's got enough. Doesn't seem to be pumping. 1328 01:08:30,481 --> 01:08:30,940 Pump? 1329 01:08:30,981 --> 01:08:31,607 Yeah, yeah, please. 1330 01:08:31,649 --> 01:08:33,567 KURT: Go ahead and turn that pump on, Greg. 1331 01:08:33,984 --> 01:08:36,445 (PUMP WHIRRING) 1332 01:08:36,487 --> 01:08:37,613 Got a lot better now. 1333 01:08:37,655 --> 01:08:38,531 KURT#*: Yeah. 1334 01:08:38,572 --> 01:08:47,832 (♪) 1335 01:08:48,916 --> 01:08:52,377 GREG: So yeah, I guess we did have a lot of problems. 1336 01:08:52,378 --> 01:08:52,961 We had a mini parade 1337 01:08:52,962 --> 01:08:55,548 of terribles as we were southbound. 1338 01:08:56,799 --> 01:08:57,966 (CHUCKLES) 1339 01:08:57,967 --> 01:09:06,851 (♪) 1340 01:09:10,020 --> 01:09:13,023 We were on our way back from Wulff Land 1341 01:09:13,065 --> 01:09:17,278 and all of a sudden this display came across the sky like 1342 01:09:17,319 --> 01:09:18,779 nothing I had ever seen in my life. 1343 01:09:18,821 --> 01:09:20,364 I had certainly seen sundogs before 1344 01:09:20,406 --> 01:09:22,992 and I'd seen rainbows before and I'd seen 1345 01:09:23,033 --> 01:09:24,993 concentric sun rings before. 1346 01:09:24,994 --> 01:09:28,538 But I had never seen all of them together in one scene. 1347 01:09:28,539 --> 01:09:32,125 I was completely awestruck by what I saw, 1348 01:09:32,126 --> 01:09:34,919 and it was so significant in its scale, 1349 01:09:34,920 --> 01:09:37,840 I could not capture it with the camera. 1350 01:09:38,299 --> 01:09:42,803 (WING WHOOSHING) 1351 01:09:48,475 --> 01:09:51,687 Well, we're down to the final 1352 01:09:52,396 --> 01:09:55,065 160km, 150km, something like that. 1353 01:09:55,107 --> 01:09:59,904 And, we're in the process of offloading all of the fuel from 1354 01:09:59,945 --> 01:10:01,447 the bladders into the trucks. 1355 01:10:01,488 --> 01:10:04,325 Anything that's left, we can put in a couple drums, 1356 01:10:04,366 --> 01:10:07,452 but we want the sleds to be able to go away. 1357 01:10:07,453 --> 01:10:12,123 Torfi right now is installing spikes into the 6x6 1358 01:10:12,124 --> 01:10:13,917 to get ready for that slick ice. 1359 01:10:13,918 --> 01:10:17,587 And this could be pretty adventurous as we get up, 1360 01:10:17,588 --> 01:10:18,546 up into here. Yeah. 1361 01:10:18,547 --> 01:10:23,134 But it's kind of a win because it's the last time, allegedly, 1362 01:10:23,135 --> 01:10:24,887 that the fuel pumps are going to get out. 1363 01:10:24,929 --> 01:10:29,892 It's been a big job of ours over the last few weeks pumping fuel. 1364 01:10:29,934 --> 01:10:37,024 (♪) 1365 01:10:37,066 --> 01:10:39,109 SCOTT: One of the most difficult things for us to do 1366 01:10:39,151 --> 01:10:44,281 as the lead vehicle was to get a route through 1367 01:10:44,323 --> 01:10:47,534 the glacier into Kangerlussuaq. 1368 01:10:49,411 --> 01:10:52,622 It was the most challenging route finding 1369 01:10:52,623 --> 01:10:54,541 that I had ever done. 1370 01:10:59,463 --> 01:11:03,175 EMIL:Part of this section was incredibly dangerous. 1371 01:11:07,888 --> 01:11:10,766 CLAY: This is the most harsh, 1372 01:11:10,808 --> 01:11:13,435 the most, most harsh condition for a vehicle 1373 01:11:13,477 --> 01:11:15,896 I have ever been in, period. 1374 01:11:15,938 --> 01:11:20,609 Even walking around here when I step through the top soil, 1375 01:11:20,651 --> 01:11:21,777 top snow, 1376 01:11:21,819 --> 01:11:24,488 I hit ice under it and it's super slick. 1377 01:11:24,530 --> 01:11:26,490 I've never seen anything like this before. 1378 01:11:26,532 --> 01:11:29,118 I'm pretty nervous, to tell you the truth. 1379 01:11:29,159 --> 01:11:29,784 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 1380 01:11:29,785 --> 01:11:33,871 GREG: We were seven smelly guys 1381 01:11:33,872 --> 01:11:38,376 that were 10 kilometers away from a hot shower and pizza. 1382 01:11:38,377 --> 01:11:41,587 All we needed to do was get off the ice. 1383 01:11:41,588 --> 01:11:43,006 Five years from now, you won't look back to the night 1384 01:11:43,007 --> 01:11:45,508 we just drove right off the glacier in the Kangerlussuaq 1385 01:11:45,509 --> 01:11:46,843 and it was no problem, it was easy. 1386 01:11:46,844 --> 01:11:50,180 You'll remember the time you had to work for it, 1387 01:11:50,431 --> 01:11:53,309 maybe all night, maybe tomorrow. 1388 01:11:54,101 --> 01:11:54,601 Not a lot of work. 1389 01:11:54,643 --> 01:11:55,769 Just takes time and patience. 1390 01:11:55,811 --> 01:11:58,022 DR. JON: Yeah, time and patience. Yeah. 1391 01:12:00,482 --> 01:12:02,276 I kind of didn't know what to expect. 1392 01:12:02,318 --> 01:12:04,570 I had, had all these impressions 1393 01:12:04,611 --> 01:12:07,239 of me about crevasses and giant crevasse fields 1394 01:12:07,281 --> 01:12:08,115 and thinking, I'm gonna see them, 1395 01:12:08,157 --> 01:12:11,117 you're gonna see these giant deep wedges into the ground. 1396 01:12:11,118 --> 01:12:12,910 And we really didn't see any of those. 1397 01:12:12,911 --> 01:12:15,038 And it wasn't because they weren't there, 1398 01:12:15,039 --> 01:12:15,830 as we later found out. 1399 01:12:15,831 --> 01:12:18,958 It was just because they were snow blown and covered over. 1400 01:12:18,959 --> 01:12:23,379 (TRUCKS WHIRRING) 1401 01:12:23,380 --> 01:12:32,389 (♪) 1402 01:12:33,098 --> 01:12:34,725 GREG: It was getting dark. 1403 01:12:35,434 --> 01:12:37,144 I was in second position. 1404 01:12:37,186 --> 01:12:39,229 Scott and Emil were in the first truck, 1405 01:12:39,271 --> 01:12:43,359 and we were making our way through the crevasse field 1406 01:12:43,400 --> 01:12:44,193 we knew was there. 1407 01:12:44,234 --> 01:12:49,281 I saw my trailer just kind of list to the left side 1408 01:12:49,948 --> 01:12:51,450 GREG: (ON RADIO) Hey guys, we got a problem. 1409 01:12:51,492 --> 01:12:54,410 And in my mind that crevasse was just going to open up 1410 01:12:54,411 --> 01:12:57,246 and swallow the whole truck and trailer into it. 1411 01:12:57,247 --> 01:12:59,749 Instinctively just gave a little gas, 1412 01:12:59,750 --> 01:13:03,169 it broke the outer bead and the tire got kind 1413 01:13:03,170 --> 01:13:04,921 of mangled up under the wheel. 1414 01:13:04,922 --> 01:13:07,256 (TRUCK WHIRRING) 1415 01:13:07,257 --> 01:13:08,549 TURFI: We're not getting anywhere near that. 1416 01:13:08,550 --> 01:13:14,223 And in the process is that popped down and Greg's truck 1417 01:13:14,264 --> 01:13:14,932 lurched a little bit. 1418 01:13:14,973 --> 01:13:16,058 It peeled the tire off the bead. 1419 01:13:16,100 --> 01:13:19,311 So now we gotta put a tire back on the bead. 1420 01:13:21,105 --> 01:13:22,398 KURT: This looks alright. 1421 01:13:22,439 --> 01:13:26,568 KURT:We've also found that the truck frame has a crack in it. 1422 01:13:26,819 --> 01:13:32,699 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 1423 01:13:32,908 --> 01:13:33,367 CLAY: Yes, sir. 1424 01:13:33,409 --> 01:13:35,327 KURT: Kind of in a pinch. 1425 01:13:41,625 --> 01:13:42,083 All right. 1426 01:13:42,084 --> 01:13:43,877 EMIL: Stop, stop, stop. 1427 01:13:45,504 --> 01:13:48,339 I went E7 forcing the crevice. 1428 01:13:48,340 --> 01:13:53,011 That's where everybody sees this is actual. 1429 01:13:53,053 --> 01:13:59,226 And that made the whole team quite careful. 1430 01:13:59,309 --> 01:14:01,478 You know, that-- that crevasse is like 1431 01:14:01,520 --> 01:14:03,730 two house stories tall. 1432 01:14:03,772 --> 01:14:07,651 It's gotta be 30 or 40ft deep and just a big V shape 1433 01:14:07,693 --> 01:14:10,988 all the way to the bottom of nothing but blue ice. 1434 01:14:11,405 --> 01:14:14,032 I've never seen anything like that before. 1435 01:14:14,241 --> 01:14:17,910 Clay and I were standing in the back with our crampons on 1436 01:14:17,911 --> 01:14:21,706 thinking oh my gosh, if somebody goes in we're really gonna have 1437 01:14:21,707 --> 01:14:24,250 to figure out how to get them out. 1438 01:14:24,251 --> 01:14:27,086 CLAY: Oh, it's right there. It's running this way. 1439 01:14:27,087 --> 01:14:29,422 - DR. JON: It's pretty narrow. - CLAY: I'm standing on it. 1440 01:14:29,423 --> 01:14:32,801 It's not big enough to swallow a truck. 1441 01:14:34,636 --> 01:14:36,346 That was pretty scary. 1442 01:14:38,849 --> 01:14:42,060 CLAY: Greg is literally standing on the crevasse right now. 1443 01:14:42,102 --> 01:14:44,771 EMIL: It was incredible to watch these guys 1444 01:14:44,813 --> 01:14:46,899 sitting on top of a crevasse, 1445 01:14:46,940 --> 01:14:48,358 repairing the vehicle. 1446 01:14:48,400 --> 01:14:50,736 (CRACKLING) 1447 01:14:50,777 --> 01:14:53,489 CLAY: Scott and Emil have gone on to 1448 01:14:53,947 --> 01:14:55,991 explore some more routes. 1449 01:14:56,033 --> 01:14:59,785 It was our role, me and Scott to try to find the route. 1450 01:14:59,786 --> 01:15:02,163 It was not an optimal situation 1451 01:15:02,164 --> 01:15:05,709 because we did not have a second car to tie us, 1452 01:15:05,918 --> 01:15:06,584 to tie it to. 1453 01:15:06,585 --> 01:15:11,965 So if we would go down into a crevasse we would have no one to 1454 01:15:12,341 --> 01:15:15,886 to hold us back from falling, free falling in. 1455 01:15:16,094 --> 01:15:19,139 So we had to be very careful. 1456 01:15:20,807 --> 01:15:23,685 GREG: Scott and Emil, do you copy? 1457 01:15:26,480 --> 01:15:27,898 SCOTT: (ON RADIO) Yeah, go ahead. 1458 01:15:27,940 --> 01:15:31,485 GREG: Listen, I'm just watching Jon in front of Torfi here, 1459 01:15:31,527 --> 01:15:36,198 he's 20ft in front of the truck and found multiple crevasses. 1460 01:15:36,240 --> 01:15:39,826 I'm thinking that what we should do is abort 1461 01:15:39,868 --> 01:15:43,246 and let's just reassess the whole thing in the morning. 1462 01:15:43,247 --> 01:15:44,789 We could pitch camp. 1463 01:15:44,790 --> 01:15:47,333 Jon just about fell into a crevasse right there. 1464 01:15:47,334 --> 01:15:49,252 That was the dumbest thing I've ever done. 1465 01:15:49,253 --> 01:15:52,255 I mean that we didn't have any business being out there. 1466 01:15:52,256 --> 01:15:54,173 I mean I think it was pretty obvious that 1467 01:15:54,174 --> 01:15:57,553 at that pace we were not ever going to get 1468 01:15:57,594 --> 01:15:58,554 where we needed to go. 1469 01:15:58,595 --> 01:16:02,474 We decided to stop and get some rest. 1470 01:16:02,516 --> 01:16:03,475 That was a good. 1471 01:16:03,517 --> 01:16:04,101 We needed that. 1472 01:16:04,142 --> 01:16:06,895 We were all exhausted for sure. 1473 01:16:11,441 --> 01:16:14,319 This is our world. 1474 01:16:14,361 --> 01:16:16,989 It's-- it's kind of a big problem right now. 1475 01:16:17,030 --> 01:16:20,367 It's proving to be very difficult to navigate. 1476 01:16:21,660 --> 01:16:26,747 Huge chunks of the glaciers are turning into clear water pools 1477 01:16:26,748 --> 01:16:29,250 and it's resulting in these high points and low points, 1478 01:16:29,251 --> 01:16:33,130 and there's crevasses everywhere in between. 1479 01:16:33,922 --> 01:16:36,341 EMIL: There was no room for error. 1480 01:16:40,887 --> 01:16:41,346 (GREG LAUGHS) 1481 01:16:41,388 --> 01:16:42,931 GREG: Can you believe this? 1482 01:16:42,973 --> 01:16:45,309 (LAUGHS) 1483 01:16:45,350 --> 01:16:54,318 (♪) 1484 01:17:06,622 --> 01:17:10,416 I remember the moment that Emil said, 1485 01:17:10,417 --> 01:17:11,375 "Those are tracks." 1486 01:17:11,376 --> 01:17:15,087 The first indication of a route 1487 01:17:15,088 --> 01:17:16,756 that we had found since we started 1488 01:17:16,757 --> 01:17:17,923 trying to get off the glacier. 1489 01:17:17,924 --> 01:17:20,509 So if we found ski tracks, there was a good chance 1490 01:17:20,510 --> 01:17:22,721 we could find one of the easier routes 1491 01:17:22,763 --> 01:17:23,347 off of the glacier. 1492 01:17:23,388 --> 01:17:25,599 It didn't mean that it was easy for the vehicles. 1493 01:17:25,641 --> 01:17:26,391 It was very challenging. 1494 01:17:26,433 --> 01:17:28,894 But at least we had a general direction to go. 1495 01:17:28,935 --> 01:17:32,189 It was, a small miracle that we saw those tracks. 1496 01:17:32,230 --> 01:17:33,565 But it changed everything. 1497 01:17:33,607 --> 01:17:42,783 (♪) 1498 01:18:02,719 --> 01:18:04,054 EMIL: (ON RADIO) Oh, come on back guys. 1499 01:18:04,096 --> 01:18:05,389 We got another one here. 1500 01:18:05,430 --> 01:18:14,648 (♪) 1501 01:18:18,402 --> 01:18:19,861 Careful, Kurt. 1502 01:18:24,116 --> 01:18:27,243 (CLICKING) 1503 01:18:27,244 --> 01:18:36,461 (♪) 1504 01:18:46,054 --> 01:18:51,518 (♪) 1505 01:18:51,560 --> 01:18:53,937 (OVERLAPPING CHATTER) 1506 01:18:53,979 --> 01:18:57,607 Maybe-- maybe we can put a little tension on the edge.#* 1507 01:18:57,649 --> 01:19:00,694 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 1508 01:19:00,736 --> 01:19:10,495 (♪) 1509 01:19:13,206 --> 01:19:16,208 (TRUCK WHIRS) 1510 01:19:16,209 --> 01:19:24,633 (♪) 1511 01:19:24,634 --> 01:19:26,803 - SCOTT (ON RADIO): - There is, it's a very narrow ice shelf. 1512 01:19:26,845 --> 01:19:30,849 It looks like you could drive on it, but it's too narrow. 1513 01:19:30,891 --> 01:19:34,269 And then it, it cascades down into 1514 01:19:34,311 --> 01:19:37,063 like a slot like you find in Moab. 1515 01:19:37,105 --> 01:19:39,566 (TRUCK WHIRS) 1516 01:19:41,943 --> 01:19:44,946 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 1517 01:19:52,829 --> 01:19:53,537 KURT: Nice. 1518 01:19:53,538 --> 01:19:54,956 GREG: Yeah. 1519 01:19:56,291 --> 01:19:59,251 Back's already on the slope, so you're down. 1520 01:19:59,252 --> 01:20:01,420 Good work man, crazy. 1521 01:20:01,421 --> 01:20:02,421 (WIND HOWLS) 1522 01:20:02,422 --> 01:20:11,598 (♪) 1523 01:20:12,474 --> 01:20:15,143 I am standing on dirt. 1524 01:20:16,019 --> 01:20:17,646 Check it out. 1525 01:20:18,980 --> 01:20:20,607 How cool is that? 1526 01:20:20,857 --> 01:20:22,734 We just met our guide that's going to help us 1527 01:20:22,776 --> 01:20:26,738 do what's called the Arctic Circle Trail to get into, uh, 1528 01:20:26,780 --> 01:20:28,657 our final landing spot. 1529 01:20:28,698 --> 01:20:32,327 Our guide said, welcome to western Greenland. 1530 01:20:32,619 --> 01:20:33,285 We've been all over. 1531 01:20:33,286 --> 01:20:35,454 We've been on southern and northern, 1532 01:20:35,455 --> 01:20:36,205 pretty much on the eastern 1533 01:20:36,206 --> 01:20:38,457 and now definitely on the western. 1534 01:20:38,458 --> 01:20:40,167 That'll be a tough one to beat. 1535 01:20:40,168 --> 01:20:44,839 (TRUCK WHIRRING) 1536 01:20:44,840 --> 01:20:54,641 (♪) 1537 01:21:15,662 --> 01:21:17,413 - GREG (ON RADIO): - Yea, I just wanted you to be aware 1538 01:21:17,414 --> 01:21:20,292 that we are effectively there 1539 01:21:20,375 --> 01:21:23,336 so that you can let the guys know. 1540 01:21:28,592 --> 01:21:30,302 CLAY: We made it. 1541 01:21:31,094 --> 01:21:32,012 Team feels like a million bucks. 1542 01:21:32,053 --> 01:21:35,473 You can just see everybody like this huge sense of relief 1543 01:21:35,515 --> 01:21:41,563 and joy and kind of like this calm amongst the whole group. 1544 01:21:41,938 --> 01:21:47,068 It was-- it was It feels so good to be like on a road 1545 01:21:47,110 --> 01:21:49,905 and within a few hours of 1546 01:21:49,946 --> 01:21:52,240 just some basic creature comforts. 1547 01:21:52,282 --> 01:21:53,408 CLAY: Like an indoor toilet. 1548 01:21:53,450 --> 01:21:56,243 Yeah. Like an indoor toilet would be really key right now. 1549 01:21:56,244 --> 01:21:57,871 (CLAY LAUGHS) 1550 01:21:59,331 --> 01:22:01,999 EMIL: Okay. Not to freak you guys out or anything, 1551 01:22:02,000 --> 01:22:04,501 but those crevasses on the left, 1552 01:22:04,502 --> 01:22:07,087 I have no idea how many of those we drove over today, 1553 01:22:07,088 --> 01:22:10,799 but I think they could swallow trucks whole. 1554 01:22:10,800 --> 01:22:19,476 (♪) 1555 01:22:19,517 --> 01:22:22,979 (WIND WHOOSHING) 1556 01:22:23,021 --> 01:22:24,064 EMIL: It's quite exciting and it's, 1557 01:22:24,105 --> 01:22:28,026 uh, you forget all your tiredness and you're just kinda, 1558 01:22:28,068 --> 01:22:29,861 "Yeah." (CHUCKLES) 1559 01:22:29,903 --> 01:22:34,532 What we've recognized from this project, Expedition 7 1560 01:22:34,574 --> 01:22:39,161 in it's entirety, is that vehicle based 1561 01:22:39,162 --> 01:22:42,247 expedition travel is a meaningful way 1562 01:22:42,248 --> 01:22:46,669 to explore the world, and it provides an accessibility 1563 01:22:46,670 --> 01:22:49,129 that some people may never have. 1564 01:22:49,130 --> 01:22:52,174 I think the biggest thing that I learned 1565 01:22:52,175 --> 01:22:54,885 from my Greenland experience 1566 01:22:54,886 --> 01:22:58,264 was the importance of surrounding yourself 1567 01:22:58,306 --> 01:22:59,849 with great people. 1568 01:23:00,058 --> 01:23:03,061 All of us were together for 21 days, 1569 01:23:03,103 --> 01:23:07,023 and five of us were together for almost a month. 1570 01:23:07,065 --> 01:23:08,692 And in all of that time, 1571 01:23:08,733 --> 01:23:11,987 in all of those intense circumstances, 1572 01:23:12,028 --> 01:23:15,323 there was never a single crossword spoken. 1573 01:23:15,365 --> 01:23:16,241 That just doesn't happen. 1574 01:23:16,282 --> 01:23:20,244 That is evidence of the quality of individuals that were on this 1575 01:23:20,245 --> 01:23:22,037 trip and the respect they had 1576 01:23:22,038 --> 01:23:25,916 for one another and their commitment to the greater goal. 1577 01:23:25,917 --> 01:23:30,170 And if you have those kind of resources at your disposal, 1578 01:23:30,171 --> 01:23:34,300 you can accomplish just about anything you set your mind to. 1579 01:23:37,137 --> 01:23:38,054 KURT: If I learned anything, 1580 01:23:38,096 --> 01:23:39,764 it was to be more like those guys, 1581 01:23:39,806 --> 01:23:41,891 because every one of them had attributes 1582 01:23:41,933 --> 01:23:43,351 that I can only aspire to be. 1583 01:23:43,393 --> 01:23:46,229 I mean, it only speaks to the people that were there. 1584 01:23:46,271 --> 01:23:47,731 Those six guys I spent time with, 1585 01:23:47,772 --> 01:23:50,233 I have amazing respect for all of them. 1586 01:23:50,275 --> 01:23:52,402 What I learned on this expedition, 1587 01:23:52,444 --> 01:23:57,782 it's just no matter how big the challenge is, 1588 01:23:58,158 --> 01:23:59,325 it's just a question of, 1589 01:23:59,367 --> 01:24:02,411 the right preparation and the right team. 1590 01:24:02,412 --> 01:24:05,414 And wondering what's over the next hill or the desire 1591 01:24:05,415 --> 01:24:06,498 to learn something new. 1592 01:24:06,499 --> 01:24:09,543 Sometimes comes a point in people's life where 1593 01:24:09,544 --> 01:24:12,671 it just feels like they've lost the lust for life 1594 01:24:12,672 --> 01:24:14,465 or the desire to explore. 1595 01:24:14,466 --> 01:24:18,135 And I think people start aging much more quickly when 1596 01:24:18,136 --> 01:24:18,719 they reach that point. 1597 01:24:18,720 --> 01:24:23,475 The lessons, the relationships, the memories, um, 1598 01:24:23,516 --> 01:24:27,062 none of those things materialize unless you get out 1599 01:24:27,103 --> 01:24:28,938 and have an experience. 1600 01:24:28,980 --> 01:24:31,524 You will have many people coming back from an expedition, 1601 01:24:31,566 --> 01:24:33,109 like they say, "never again". 1602 01:24:33,151 --> 01:24:35,820 But you will have them in a few months later, they say, 1603 01:24:35,862 --> 01:24:36,905 "when can I go again?". 1604 01:24:36,946 --> 01:24:38,490 It-- we want to check the box. 1605 01:24:38,531 --> 01:24:39,616 We want to achieve the goal. 1606 01:24:39,657 --> 01:24:41,993 We want to make it across the ice sheet. 1607 01:24:42,035 --> 01:24:44,787 All of us do in some version in our life. 1608 01:24:44,788 --> 01:24:46,622 But if we don't, at the end of it, 1609 01:24:46,623 --> 01:24:49,083 have a team of people or a family member 1610 01:24:49,084 --> 01:24:52,628 or a loved one that we get to experience that with, 1611 01:24:52,629 --> 01:24:53,837 then what's the point? 1612 01:24:53,838 --> 01:24:57,758 It may not make a lot of sense to you or to someone else, 1613 01:24:57,759 --> 01:25:00,761 but if you're passionate about it, you got to go do it. 1614 01:25:00,762 --> 01:25:01,346 You just got to. 1615 01:25:01,387 --> 01:25:04,099 Because don't ask yourself what the world needs. 1616 01:25:04,140 --> 01:25:05,517 Ask yourself what makes you come alive? 1617 01:25:05,558 --> 01:25:09,646 Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. 1618 01:25:09,687 --> 01:25:10,647 And I would encourage anyone 1619 01:25:10,688 --> 01:25:14,192 to take that on and see how that will change your life, 1620 01:25:14,234 --> 01:25:16,861 because it certainly has changed mine. 1621 01:25:19,697 --> 01:25:21,699 INTERVIEWER 1: All right, that's a wrap. 1622 01:25:23,326 --> 01:25:23,910 Good job, Kurt. 1623 01:25:23,952 --> 01:25:24,619 You're the man. 1624 01:25:24,661 --> 01:25:26,370 MAN 1: It's that they see that we're just, there not-- 1625 01:25:26,371 --> 01:25:28,247 INTERVIEWER 1: We're done, Greg. Thanks. 1626 01:25:28,248 --> 01:25:29,374 Yeah. 1627 01:25:30,542 --> 01:25:31,834 ♪ 1628 01:25:31,835 --> 01:25:33,920 INTERVIEWER 1: Scotty, you're good. 1629 01:25:34,671 --> 01:25:35,671 Yeah, it's great. 1630 01:25:35,672 --> 01:25:36,505 INTERVIEWER 1: Good job, Scott. 1631 01:25:36,506 --> 01:25:37,756 MAN 2:#* Need the hug? 1632 01:25:37,757 --> 01:25:38,507 No. 1633 01:25:38,508 --> 01:25:40,342 INTERVIEWER 1: Awesome, Jon. Thank you. 1634 01:25:40,343 --> 01:25:41,885 Yep. Thank you, guys. 1635 01:25:41,886 --> 01:25:43,054 INTERVIEWER 1: Torfi, you're done. 1636 01:25:43,096 --> 01:25:45,223 (CLAPS) 1637 01:25:45,265 --> 01:25:46,141 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 1638 01:25:46,182 --> 01:25:47,725 INTERVIEWER 1: All right. 1639 01:25:48,268 --> 01:25:49,227 Thanks, Emil. 1640 01:25:49,269 --> 01:25:50,562 Okay. 1641 01:25:52,355 --> 01:25:54,524 INTERVIEWER 1: On to the next one. 1642 01:26:00,029 --> 01:26:09,747 (♪) 1643 01:28:46,821 --> 01:28:56,039 (♪)