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(heavy breathing)
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ALEX: God!
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(metal rattling)
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(metal rattling)
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Ultimately what's at stake with
climbing is always your life.
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You could die in a lot
of different ways on a wall.
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You know, it's like, you can
only roll the dice like that
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so many times.
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The first picture
I saw of Ingmikortilaq,
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it looked like death.
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(whirring)
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(whirring)
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(unintelligible radio chatter)
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Look at the walls over there.
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This is, this is crazy.
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Now I'm starting
to get very excited.
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ADAM: Yeah.
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ALEX: This is, uh,
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definitely feels
like the trip is starting.
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Like, look at all this rock.
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(whirring)
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(whirring)
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Greenland's an island
in the North Atlantic
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that's almost entirely covered
by a vast sheet of ice...
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...in some places
up to two miles thick.
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It's almost like
a fantasy landscape.
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It's like so big
and so remote and so wild.
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I may as well be reading
The Hobbit or something.
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It's like this is
a totally fantastic setting.
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If we manage to climb
Ingmikortilaq,
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it'll be the biggest
first ascent I've ever done.
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Very exciting!
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The first picture
I saw of Ingmikortilaq
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was low resolution
and kind of far away.
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It looked like the scariest
wall I've ever seen.
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It was like swirling black rock.
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It was kind of like,
how about this,
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you know, can we climb this?
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I was like, I don't know.
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But in some ways,
that's the best type
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of climbing objective,
when you're not totally sure.
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It's hard to imagine
that we're gonna have to cross
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miles and miles of these
piles of rock and boulders
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to get onto what we think of
as the real glacier
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where, where it's exposed ice.
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I mean, this looks like very
difficult terrain to hike in.
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I've spent most of my life
rock climbing.
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And I'm best known for my
free-solo climb of El Capitan,
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a 3,000-foot wall
in Yosemite National Park.
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JIMMY KIMMEL: That's
Alex Honnold, everybody!
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(applause and cheering)
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MAN: No ropes, no safety net.
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WOMAN 1: One of the most famous
climbers in the world.
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WOMAN 2: ...achieving something
no human had ever done before.
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WOMAN 3: Beyond belief.
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MAN: The greatest climber
in the world has achieved
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the greatest feat
in climbing history.
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ALEX: There's been a lot
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of real life that's happened,
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outside of my climbing,
since Free Solo.
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Yummy.
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(baby babbling)
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It's like that.
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SANNI: (laughs) Are you smiling?
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(baby sneezes)
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ALEX: Oh!
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(sneezes)
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SANNI: Bless you!
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Accomplishing
your biggest life dream
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has sort of two sides.
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(baby babbling)
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There was a long time
after Alex free soloed El Cap
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that he seemed to me
a little bit lost.
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In that journey, I saw him be
really depressed and frustrated
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and also pick himself back up
and figure it out.
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ALEX: Ooh.
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SANNI: Now he's found
other ways to give back
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and keep contributing
to the world.
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I think doing things around
climate change is part of that,
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and what a great direction
to turn to.
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This is your training.
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ALEX: Yeah.
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SANNI: The Greenland
expedition is unique
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because it is so remote.
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A wall that has
never been climbed,
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a place where climate research
has barely been done,
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that lights Alex up in a way
that nothing else does.
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ALEX: There's six of us
on the expedition--
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two other climbers,
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a glaciologist,
a local guide,
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and a safety guy.
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Oh, this is getting
scenic, huh?
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This is a pretty hard-core
landscape in a way.
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It's like a full-on river
coming out the glacier.
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When it comes to climate change,
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Greenland's one of the most
important places on the planet.
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It's gotten about five
and a half degrees warmer
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over the last 40 years.
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More and more of its ice
is melting,
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raising the sea level
around the world.
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Ingmikortilaq
is extremely remote.
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And scientists rarely
have an opportunity
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to study the area around it,
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so we're gonna take the long way
to the bottom of the sea cliff.
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It will be an expedition
of about 100 miles,
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gathering critical
scientific data
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in places that no one has
been able to get to before.
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You know, I've definitely always
cared about the world around me.
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I would say that I haven't
always had the opportunity
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to actually do something useful.
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What's wonderful about a trip
like this is that, you know,
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we have the right team in place
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to actually do meaningful work
as we go climbing.
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Okay, team,
we're sticking together.
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It's pretty obvious that in
July, Greenland is in full melt.
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We got to cross the river
somewhere in here.
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It's pretty deep.
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HEÏDI: It's very
slippery rocks, okay?
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ALEX: Here, Hazel.
Let me take your bag.
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HEÏDI: Woo! Good!
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HAZEL: It's easy without a bag!
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HEÏDI: Yeah, exactly.
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HAZEL: Do you want poles?
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ALEX: No, it's okay.
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HAZEL: Nice.
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ALEX: Great success,
we all survived.
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HEÏDI: Do you hear
the water running?
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It's amazing to hear
how much water
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is going through the system.
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ALEX: From the scientific
perspective,
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the most important member
of the team is Heïdi Sevestre.
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Heïdi works for
the Arctic Monitoring
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and Assessment Programme.
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She even won a Shackleton Medal
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for her work protecting
the polar regions.
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HEÏDI: My biggest
passion is ice,
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to study how glaciers and ice
sheets react to climate change.
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I have with me a lot
of tools to collect data
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for all the scientists
around the world.
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ALEX: You're gonna make
glaciologists out of all of us.
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HEÏDI: (laughs) I hope so.
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ALEX: Hiking up this massive
25-mile-long glacier,
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we're looking, and listening,
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for our first
scientific objective.
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HEÏDI: Oh, wait, wait, wait.
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ALEX: It's a really big hole.
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HEÏDI: Yeah, let's go
and take a look.
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This is pretty loud.
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(water rushing)
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ALEX: Oh, wow!
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HEÏDI: Woo! No way!
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Ah, this is giant!
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MAN: Whoa!
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ALEX: Yeah, look at this.
Look how deep it goes.
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HEÏDI: Woo!
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This is a big one, yeah.
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HAZEL: Yeah.
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ALEX: If you step on here,
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you can see, like,
all the way into the hole.
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HEÏDI: Woo!
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ALDO: How deep is it?
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HEÏDI: Oh, yeah, I see it, yeah.
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ALEX: It's deep enough
that it just turns black,
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so it's pretty far.
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HEÏDI: This huge hole
is called a moulin.
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It acts like a drain
funneling meltwater
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into the base of the glacier.
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(water rushing)
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We were really lucky
to be able to hear the roar
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and be thinking, "Ah, okay,
there might be something here."
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I'm super excited
but also slightly terrified.
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ALEX: This is the abyss.
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It's all pretty big and pretty,
pretty intimidating.
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This moulin should
allow us to figure out
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what's happening
beneath the glacier.
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So, as crazy as it might sound,
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we're going to rappel
down into it.
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HEÏDI: Glaciers
are rivers of ice.
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Normally they flow slowly,
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pulled by gravity
down towards the ocean.
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But the more water
beneath a glacier,
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the faster it can move.
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It's pretty much like
when you take an ice cube
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and you make it slide
over a thin layer of water,
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it will slide so much faster.
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I want to find out
if there's enough water
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underneath the glacier
to make it speed up.
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ALEX: I'm definitely
more used to climbing up rock
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than down into ice,
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but this is a rare
opportunity to help Heïdi
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get the data that she needs.
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HEÏDI: Very few people have
dared to enter into these holes.
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It's really one of the most
dangerous environments on Earth.
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ALEX: Aldo Kane is here
for safety and logistics,
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here to help the team make sure
that we don't kill ourselves.
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ALDO: Yeah,
and bring it back out.
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We're trying to mesh
frontline hard-core adventure
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with frontline
hard-core science.
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You know, they go hand in hand.
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ALEX: Honestly, he's just
so striking and handsome,
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I just feel like
he must be very capable.
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My wife looked him up
on Instagram before the trip
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and was like, "Wow!"
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You know, like, "Tell me about
what it's like to be with Aldo."
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I was like, "Okay."
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ALDO: Clean this section here
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and then run the ropes
straight over the edge.
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ALEX: Ah, that's not bad.
That's a good toss.
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ALDO: When you're standing
on top of the moulin,
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you can hear, crack! crack!
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It's like gunshots going off,
and that's the ice moving.
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ALEX: Watch out, watch out.
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It just goes straight down
for, like, so far.
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Heïdi has these little cylinders
called piezometers.
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If we can drop them down
to the bottom of the moulin,
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they'll tell us how much
water is down there.
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I'm gonna go down
a little bit.
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I think the intensity
of the moulin
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really started to make itself
felt as I got deeper.
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(water rushing)
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(rumbling)
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Down in it,
it felt very powerful.
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Okay, so is that the whole...
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HEÏDI: That was
the whole thing, yeah.
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ALEX: Yeah. Perfect.
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It's very intimidating
down there and so wet!
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Meltwater should carry
the piezometers through the ice,
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all the way down
to the base of the glacier,
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where we'll leave them
for 24 hours.
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ALDO: This is all
super unstable now.
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The change in weather,
it's warmer, it's been raining.
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You see that rock
on the edge there?
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ADAM: Yeah.
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ALDO: So, all of the moulin
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is just eating up
everything on the edge.
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The sooner we get them
out of here, the better.
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HEÏDI: It seems that
the piezometers are stuck.
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ALEX: Aldo! It's stuck!
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HEÏDI: It's almost impossible
to pull them back up.
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ALDO: It's not ideal.
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It's not somewhere
you want to be hanging around.
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HEÏDI: Let's see what we can do!
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ALEX: It's like,
if we actually get this out,
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it'll be a miracle.
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HEÏDI: Uh!
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ALEX: It moved a little bit.
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Oh, no, it's coming.
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HEÏDI: Oh, is it?
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Oh, yeah, yeah. Sweet.
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ALEX: Aldo, you can
pull up the cable!
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ALDO: Okay!
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ALEX: Okay, so, should
we get out of here?
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HEÏDI: Yeah.
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ALEX: Okay.
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Nice work!
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HEÏDI: Yeah! Thank you.
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ALEX: Bam!
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(water rushing)
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So, let's see what we got, huh?
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HEÏDI: Mm-hmm.
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Okay, we have 10,000
data points, which is very good.
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And it has measured
about 100 kilopascals,
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which actually means
that there was
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about ten meters
of water above it.
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ALEX: 30 feet of water
is a big pool at the bottom
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of a, of a hole
like that, isn't it?
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HEÏDI: Yeah, yeah.
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This much water
under the glacier
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can make it slide
down the valley
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and melt faster
at lower altitudes.
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Our results mean
that this huge river of ice
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is now one more
we need to keep tabs on.
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And when you know that
around the world on coastlines,
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there are about
700 million people,
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you understand that actually
what is happening to Greenland
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matters to the rest
of the world.
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♪ ♪
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(muffled voices)
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(muffled voices)
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♪ ♪
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ALEX: Camping out here
is no joke.
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That's why we've asked local
guide Adam Kjeldsen to join us.
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He's spent his life dealing with
Greenland's unique challenges.
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ADAM: We're in polar bear
territory now, yeah?
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So, there's some things
we have to be aware of,
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things we have to practice.
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ALEX: It's to deter the bear,
not shoot the bear.
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ADAM: All we do is
about scaring the bear.
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All the way back, yeah.
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(click)
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That's it.
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Aim for something
like the grass.
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(gunshot)
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ALEX: Whoa.
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ADAM: Feel the kick, huh?
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ALEX: Yeah, definitely
feel the kick.
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ADAM: Hopefully this is
the last time you'll shoot.
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ALEX: Imagine getting eaten
by a bear. Like, that's crazy.
329
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But I don't, I'm like,
330
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has anyone looked
behind us recently?
331
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It's like, are there
any bears around?
332
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It's nice to have one perfect
climbing wall right at camp.
333
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MIKEY: Yeah.
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ALEX: We need to keep in shape
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so that we're ready
for the big climb.
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♪ ♪
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Ingmikortilaq is
about 4,000 feet tall,
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which is about 1,000 feet
higher than El Cap.
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I have no idea
what the rock will be like...
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(laughter)
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...which is why I've asked
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two of the best climbers
in the world to join me.
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What? Are you doing two?
344
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Whoa!
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Mikey Schaefer,
he has done first ascents
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on all the major peaks
in Patagonia.
347
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He may be the most experienced
first ascensionist on the team.
348
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MIKEY: I did my first big wall
before I could legally drive.
349
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I've always been drawn
to doing first ascents.
350
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It's not like
a conquering thing.
351
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It is far from that.
352
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I could care less
about conquering mountains.
353
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It's an interesting blend
of artistic creation
354
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yet extremely
technical exploration.
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ALEX: Strong, Hazel.
356
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Yeah, really good.
357
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Pop to the jug.
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MIKEY: Nice.
359
00:19:18,356 --> 00:19:21,325
ALEX: Really good. Come on.
360
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ADAM: Hazel's bad-ass. (laughs)
361
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ALEX: Hazel Findlay
is a professional climber
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from the UK.
363
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Hazel is really experienced
with this sort of first ascent,
364
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exploratory adventure
rock climbing.
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HAZEL: I started climbing
when I was about six years old.
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My dad taught me how to climb.
367
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And I think I just sort of
found my love for adventure,
368
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and that's what I've
been doing ever since.
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I do have a lot of experience
climbing sea cliffs,
370
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so I've got to kind of
combine the experience
371
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of big walling
and sea cliff climbing.
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ALEX: All the way left,
way left.
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HAZEL: Woo!
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ALEX: Oh, God.
375
00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:03,969
ADAM: We don't see
much climbing in Greenland,
376
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so watching them climb is,
377
00:20:06,905 --> 00:20:08,573
yeah, I've seen it on TV,
378
00:20:08,573 --> 00:20:11,710
but seeing it in real life,
it's pretty cool.
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ALEX: That was really good!
That was a really good warm-up.
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ADAM: Yeah, you call it
a warm-up? (laughs)
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♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
383
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HAZEL: Alex is
so experienced a climber.
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Nice.
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He's probably spent
more time on rock
386
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than almost anyone
in the world, I think.
387
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ADAM: Hazel's out.
388
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HAZEL: I'm out.
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ADAM: She just tapped out.
390
00:20:43,842 --> 00:20:44,842
ALEX: Just walked away?
391
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ADAM: Yeah.
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HAZEL: Nice.
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♪ ♪
394
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Nice, Alex.
395
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And then the other reason
he's so good is obviously
396
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because he can
keep calm, stay cool,
397
00:21:01,860 --> 00:21:05,430
and not freak out
when he's 1,000 meters
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00:21:05,430 --> 00:21:07,599
off the deck with no rope.
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00:21:07,599 --> 00:21:08,666
♪ ♪
400
00:21:08,666 --> 00:21:15,039
♪ ♪
401
00:21:15,039 --> 00:21:17,376
ALEX: That's exciting.
402
00:21:17,376 --> 00:21:23,849
(wind howling)
403
00:21:25,984 --> 00:21:30,054
♪ ♪
404
00:21:30,054 --> 00:21:36,594
♪ ♪
405
00:21:36,594 --> 00:21:39,163
You gotta hug that ridge, Hazel,
406
00:21:39,163 --> 00:21:41,332
like close enough that if you
slip, you'll go into the...
407
00:21:41,332 --> 00:21:42,334
HAZEL: Yeah.
408
00:21:42,334 --> 00:21:43,334
ALEX: ...abyss.
409
00:21:43,334 --> 00:21:44,502
HAZEL: Then I'll die.
410
00:21:44,502 --> 00:21:46,972
ALEX: Yeah, yeah.
You probably wouldn't die.
411
00:21:46,972 --> 00:21:48,640
It'd be terrible, though.
412
00:21:50,709 --> 00:21:53,845
We're still more than 70 miles
from Ingmikortilaq.
413
00:21:57,048 --> 00:21:59,650
Our route will take us
across the Renland Ice Cap,
414
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which is a huge expanse of ice
415
00:22:00,919 --> 00:22:03,789
that's more than
6,000 feet above sea level.
416
00:22:06,691 --> 00:22:11,062
We want to see if climate change
is having an effect on it.
417
00:22:11,062 --> 00:22:13,765
But to get up there, we'll
have to make a first ascent
418
00:22:13,765 --> 00:22:17,168
of a huge rock face that
we're calling the Pool Wall.
419
00:22:17,168 --> 00:22:23,241
♪ ♪
420
00:22:23,241 --> 00:22:27,312
♪ ♪
421
00:22:27,312 --> 00:22:33,551
♪ ♪
422
00:22:33,551 --> 00:22:35,686
What do we think?
423
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ALDO: This is a lot bigger
than I expected.
424
00:22:38,089 --> 00:22:42,894
♪ ♪
425
00:22:42,894 --> 00:22:47,031
HAZEL: I'm favoring
this left buttress.
426
00:22:47,031 --> 00:22:48,500
MIKEY: Those cracks
keep going all the way
427
00:22:48,500 --> 00:22:52,170
almost down to the ledge.
428
00:22:52,170 --> 00:22:54,106
ALEX: It's just really big.
429
00:22:57,275 --> 00:22:58,610
It's one thing to be
inspired by a wall.
430
00:22:58,610 --> 00:23:00,578
It's another thing
to actually climb it.
431
00:23:00,578 --> 00:23:02,914
That looks very dangerous.
432
00:23:02,914 --> 00:23:06,418
It's hard to know
how far up we can get.
433
00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:10,922
MIKEY: I mean, the Pool Wall
434
00:23:10,922 --> 00:23:13,157
could be one of those
lifetime achievement routes.
435
00:23:13,157 --> 00:23:18,029
That's a 1,500-foot Arctic
big wall that's unclimbed.
436
00:23:18,029 --> 00:23:20,866
That's like pretty serious.
437
00:23:20,866 --> 00:23:22,200
ALEX: What's gonna
be even harder
438
00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:25,336
is that we have to get
the whole team up the wall,
439
00:23:25,336 --> 00:23:26,671
including Adam and Heïdi,
440
00:23:26,671 --> 00:23:28,874
who have basically
never climbed before.
441
00:23:31,175 --> 00:23:38,149
HEÏDI: Seeing it with my own
eyes is actually pretty scary.
442
00:23:38,149 --> 00:23:41,353
ADAM: Intimidating
looking up and there's like,
443
00:23:41,353 --> 00:23:45,123
what's that, 400 or 500
meters of mountain
444
00:23:45,123 --> 00:23:48,260
kind of on top of you.
445
00:23:48,260 --> 00:23:53,498
But I think I've found the best
camping spot here, though.
446
00:23:56,300 --> 00:23:57,301
Alex!
447
00:23:57,301 --> 00:23:58,303
ALEX: Yeah.
448
00:23:58,303 --> 00:23:59,337
ADAM: You like this?
449
00:23:59,337 --> 00:24:00,405
ALEX: Yeah, yeah.
That's your spot.
450
00:24:00,405 --> 00:24:02,040
ADAM: Yeah, it's my spot.
451
00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:03,708
(wind blowing)
452
00:24:03,708 --> 00:24:07,078
HAZEL: Ah, it's so windy.
453
00:24:07,078 --> 00:24:09,948
ALEX: This is getting
better and better.
454
00:24:09,948 --> 00:24:13,117
Can you see
inside the tent? It's...
455
00:24:13,117 --> 00:24:14,686
It's gonna be luxurious.
456
00:24:14,686 --> 00:24:16,020
MIKEY: Pro tip, though.
457
00:24:16,020 --> 00:24:19,524
Put stuff in your tent
before you set it up.
458
00:24:19,524 --> 00:24:20,525
HAZEL: I'm okay with it.
459
00:24:20,525 --> 00:24:22,393
MIKEY: Doesn't fly away.
460
00:24:22,393 --> 00:24:23,495
HAZEL: Yeah. Here.
461
00:24:23,495 --> 00:24:25,397
Oh, no! No, no!
462
00:24:25,397 --> 00:24:26,932
ADAM: Oh, God.
463
00:24:29,734 --> 00:24:31,302
So long!
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00:24:31,302 --> 00:24:32,671
MIKEY: Oh, it could be gone.
465
00:24:32,671 --> 00:24:35,540
What did you say up there,
Mikey, about pro tip?
466
00:24:35,540 --> 00:24:36,541
ALEX: Oh, you found it?
467
00:24:36,541 --> 00:24:37,542
HAZEL: Yeah.
468
00:24:37,542 --> 00:24:38,543
ALEX: Oh, great success.
469
00:24:38,543 --> 00:24:40,144
HAZEL: It was in a lake.
470
00:24:40,144 --> 00:24:43,815
But it's already dry.
471
00:24:43,815 --> 00:24:48,453
♪ ♪
472
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HEÏDI: Pool Wall is
an important rock face
473
00:24:50,621 --> 00:24:54,058
from a geological perspective.
474
00:24:54,058 --> 00:24:58,063
During the last ice age, it was
buried under the ice sheet.
475
00:25:01,366 --> 00:25:03,568
Then, 11,500 years ago,
476
00:25:03,568 --> 00:25:05,937
temperatures rose,
the ice melted,
477
00:25:05,937 --> 00:25:10,909
and the rock face
we see today emerged.
478
00:25:10,909 --> 00:25:14,278
If we can discover
how fast that ice receded
479
00:25:14,278 --> 00:25:16,781
from Pool Wall in the past,
480
00:25:16,781 --> 00:25:20,685
we can improve our projections
of how quickly Greenland's ice
481
00:25:20,685 --> 00:25:24,756
is likely to melt
in the future.
482
00:25:24,756 --> 00:25:28,593
Knowing this could help
hundreds of millions of people
483
00:25:28,593 --> 00:25:31,829
prepare for sea level rise.
484
00:25:31,829 --> 00:25:34,131
But to make these projections,
485
00:25:34,131 --> 00:25:38,136
we need to get rock samples
from all the way up Pool Wall.
486
00:25:38,136 --> 00:25:42,206
♪ ♪
487
00:25:42,206 --> 00:25:48,813
♪ ♪
488
00:25:48,813 --> 00:25:51,883
So, the cosmogenic
nuclide dating,
489
00:25:51,883 --> 00:25:54,686
it's all about
creating a timeline
490
00:25:54,686 --> 00:25:56,654
of what has happened
here in the past.
491
00:25:56,654 --> 00:25:59,056
You know when you're
exposed to the sun
492
00:25:59,056 --> 00:26:01,726
and you get a stronger
and stronger tan,
493
00:26:01,726 --> 00:26:03,494
the same thing happens
to these rocks.
494
00:26:03,494 --> 00:26:05,262
ALEX: Measuring
how tan the rock is?
495
00:26:05,262 --> 00:26:06,264
HEÏDI: How tan the rock is.
496
00:26:06,264 --> 00:26:07,432
ALEX: Perfect.
497
00:26:07,432 --> 00:26:09,333
HEÏDI: This is actually
super important because today,
498
00:26:09,333 --> 00:26:13,171
when we try for example to
predict future sea level rise,
499
00:26:13,171 --> 00:26:14,172
this is all based on things
500
00:26:14,172 --> 00:26:18,075
we understand from
past behavior of the ice.
501
00:26:18,075 --> 00:26:21,746
Let me tell you, the scientists
are so excited to get samples
502
00:26:21,746 --> 00:26:26,384
from Pool Wall because
they simply cannot do this.
503
00:26:26,384 --> 00:26:31,722
(drilling)
504
00:26:31,722 --> 00:26:32,723
HEÏDI: In?
HAZEL: Yeah.
505
00:26:32,723 --> 00:26:33,758
ALEX: You know, it's not just
506
00:26:33,758 --> 00:26:34,992
my climbing experience
that matters,
507
00:26:34,992 --> 00:26:37,128
it's like us doing
something that's meaningful.
508
00:26:37,128 --> 00:26:41,799
(drilling)
509
00:26:41,799 --> 00:26:43,368
ALDO: Ah, there we go.
510
00:26:43,368 --> 00:26:47,171
Killed a battery, so that's two
batteries in over half an hour.
511
00:26:47,171 --> 00:26:51,009
This could add a few days
onto the climb.
512
00:26:51,009 --> 00:26:52,977
(drilling)
513
00:26:52,977 --> 00:26:57,048
♪ ♪
514
00:26:57,048 --> 00:27:03,054
♪ ♪
515
00:27:03,054 --> 00:27:05,223
HAZEL: Gosh, it looks
so different now.
516
00:27:08,826 --> 00:27:11,028
ALEX: Okay, here's
Mr. Rack for you.
517
00:27:11,028 --> 00:27:13,264
So I was like, this is
a really big rack.
518
00:27:17,736 --> 00:27:21,706
Every wall has its own
unique flavor or dangers.
519
00:27:21,706 --> 00:27:24,175
It's hard to know
until you're actually on it.
520
00:27:29,147 --> 00:27:30,715
Okay, I'm climbing.
521
00:27:33,884 --> 00:27:35,286
HAZEL: Make good decisions.
522
00:27:35,286 --> 00:27:36,954
ALEX: Yep.
523
00:27:36,954 --> 00:27:38,223
HAZEL: You're a father now.
524
00:27:38,223 --> 00:27:39,023
ALEX: Oh, it's true.
525
00:27:39,023 --> 00:27:40,491
HAZEL: You have dependents.
526
00:27:40,491 --> 00:27:46,564
♪ ♪
527
00:27:46,564 --> 00:27:51,669
♪ ♪
528
00:27:51,669 --> 00:27:53,237
Nice, Alex.
529
00:27:53,237 --> 00:28:00,211
♪ ♪
530
00:28:00,211 --> 00:28:07,184
♪ ♪
531
00:28:07,184 --> 00:28:14,125
♪ ♪
532
00:28:14,125 --> 00:28:15,093
♪ ♪
533
00:28:22,233 --> 00:28:23,868
He keeps dropping
a lot of rocks,
534
00:28:23,868 --> 00:28:28,306
so my guess is that
it's a bit chossy.
535
00:28:28,306 --> 00:28:29,941
(rocks crashing)
536
00:28:33,177 --> 00:28:35,413
ALEX: Arctic rock
can be a real challenge.
537
00:28:38,916 --> 00:28:43,854
Water gets into the cracks
and then freezes and expands,
538
00:28:43,854 --> 00:28:47,425
forcing the rock apart.
539
00:28:47,425 --> 00:28:48,726
Hey, rock!
540
00:28:48,726 --> 00:28:51,795
It's just a dangerous
place to climb,
541
00:28:51,795 --> 00:28:53,397
especially with the rest
of the team below you
542
00:28:53,397 --> 00:28:57,669
because it means things are
constantly falling on people.
543
00:28:57,669 --> 00:28:58,703
HAZEL: Big rock!
544
00:28:58,703 --> 00:29:03,174
(crash)
545
00:29:03,174 --> 00:29:05,376
ALEX: From here, it looks
like this 1,500-foot climb
546
00:29:05,376 --> 00:29:09,481
has three main sections,
each with their own challenges.
547
00:29:12,049 --> 00:29:16,921
This bottom section
is full of loose rock.
548
00:29:16,921 --> 00:29:19,123
The middle section
looks pretty blank,
549
00:29:19,123 --> 00:29:22,460
without many hand or footholds.
550
00:29:22,460 --> 00:29:25,596
And above that, we'll only
have some thin, vertical cracks
551
00:29:25,596 --> 00:29:28,132
to follow up to the summit.
552
00:29:28,132 --> 00:29:31,869
♪ ♪
553
00:29:31,869 --> 00:29:36,574
Hazel, Mikey, and I
will take turns leading...
554
00:29:36,574 --> 00:29:38,443
Yeah, she's doing it.
555
00:29:38,443 --> 00:29:41,779
...finding the safest route
up the wall for the team.
556
00:29:41,779 --> 00:29:43,348
HAZEL: Well, I'm not
a fan of this way.
557
00:29:43,348 --> 00:29:46,151
ALEX: There are a couple good
feet to make that thing okay.
558
00:29:48,952 --> 00:29:51,455
We've got 24 hours of daylight,
559
00:29:51,455 --> 00:29:56,927
so we're going to push hard
whenever the weather's good.
560
00:29:56,927 --> 00:29:58,829
Getting a little tiring, huh?
561
00:29:58,829 --> 00:30:00,698
MIKEY: Yeah.
562
00:30:00,698 --> 00:30:01,966
Uh!
563
00:30:04,869 --> 00:30:06,337
ALEX: Aldo is following,
564
00:30:06,337 --> 00:30:10,141
making sure that our anchors
and ropes are secure.
565
00:30:10,141 --> 00:30:11,909
ALDO: Alex, Mikey,
and Hazel are up there,
566
00:30:11,909 --> 00:30:13,077
and they are pushing the route
567
00:30:13,077 --> 00:30:15,580
probably to at least
the halfway point,
568
00:30:15,580 --> 00:30:18,583
and I've just started
following the climbers up.
569
00:30:21,151 --> 00:30:24,822
ALEX: Once we've gotten ropes to
the top of the second section,
570
00:30:24,822 --> 00:30:27,158
Heïdi and Adam
will use them to join us.
571
00:30:29,660 --> 00:30:31,830
I'm off belay, Mikey!
572
00:30:33,764 --> 00:30:35,500
After a night
camping on the wall,
573
00:30:35,500 --> 00:30:39,904
we'll all make the final push
to the summit together.
574
00:30:39,904 --> 00:30:41,372
Okay, you're on.
575
00:30:41,372 --> 00:30:43,274
You take turns, one person
and then the other,
576
00:30:43,274 --> 00:30:46,243
but sometimes
you take your turn
577
00:30:46,243 --> 00:30:48,246
and then you look up
and you're like,
578
00:30:48,246 --> 00:30:51,215
"Thank goodness
I don't have to climb that."
579
00:30:51,215 --> 00:30:54,285
♪ ♪
580
00:30:54,285 --> 00:31:00,725
♪ ♪
581
00:31:00,725 --> 00:31:02,427
HAZEL: This is not great.
582
00:31:05,063 --> 00:31:08,032
ALEX: Hazel's encountered
a section of very poor rock.
583
00:31:08,032 --> 00:31:09,867
She's up there
trying to find a way
584
00:31:09,867 --> 00:31:12,569
to tiptoe around
some very loose blocks.
585
00:31:12,569 --> 00:31:14,505
From here, it looks like
once you transfer to the right,
586
00:31:14,505 --> 00:31:15,706
you're kind of in there.
587
00:31:15,706 --> 00:31:17,841
HAZEL: Yeah, but I don't think
I can transfer to the right
588
00:31:17,841 --> 00:31:20,644
without standing on any of this.
589
00:31:20,644 --> 00:31:22,347
ALEX: I believe in you.
590
00:31:24,815 --> 00:31:27,718
HAZEL: I could see the rock
was only attached to the wall
591
00:31:27,718 --> 00:31:31,188
by this very small piece.
592
00:31:31,188 --> 00:31:33,524
If this small piece
of rock broke,
593
00:31:33,524 --> 00:31:37,295
then this huge flake
would come out of the rock.
594
00:31:40,431 --> 00:31:45,569
I don't actually think
I can get round this.
595
00:31:45,569 --> 00:31:48,338
You have to be really careful.
596
00:31:48,338 --> 00:31:51,275
It's not just about,
oh, can I get past it?
597
00:31:51,275 --> 00:31:53,477
It's just there's
gonna be huge consequences
598
00:31:53,477 --> 00:31:55,913
if I knock it off.
599
00:31:55,913 --> 00:31:58,415
You would fall yourself.
600
00:31:58,415 --> 00:32:00,518
You would most likely
cut the rope.
601
00:32:00,518 --> 00:32:03,554
And you'd probably
also kill your belayer.
602
00:32:03,554 --> 00:32:05,322
Oh, this is scary.
603
00:32:05,322 --> 00:32:12,095
♪ ♪
604
00:32:12,095 --> 00:32:14,365
ALEX: Up here, you have
to trust your partner
605
00:32:14,365 --> 00:32:18,135
and trust that they're
making the right decisions.
606
00:32:18,135 --> 00:32:21,139
Obviously Hazel's
a good judge of bad rock.
607
00:32:23,474 --> 00:32:25,910
I mean, are you sure
you can't stand on that gently?
608
00:32:25,910 --> 00:32:29,280
HAZEL: It's,
it's really not good.
609
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:31,182
ALEX: Well, what about
using face holds past it,
610
00:32:31,182 --> 00:32:34,251
like little edges for the feet,
but just kind of tiptoe around?
611
00:32:34,251 --> 00:32:39,223
HAZEL: Yeah, that's what
I'm gonna try and do.
612
00:32:39,223 --> 00:32:41,025
ALEX: I've got you good.
613
00:32:44,796 --> 00:32:46,063
I think it's really
stressful for her,
614
00:32:46,063 --> 00:32:51,435
and it seems a little scary.
615
00:32:51,435 --> 00:32:53,971
She's fully standing
on the scary block.
616
00:32:53,971 --> 00:32:58,242
♪ ♪
617
00:32:58,242 --> 00:33:04,782
♪ ♪
618
00:33:04,782 --> 00:33:06,483
Yeah, Hazel.
619
00:33:06,483 --> 00:33:07,685
♪ ♪
620
00:33:07,685 --> 00:33:14,425
♪ ♪
621
00:33:14,425 --> 00:33:17,361
HAZEL: I think as climbers,
you kind of learn to take
622
00:33:17,361 --> 00:33:23,034
life-and-death decision-making
and make it normal.
623
00:33:23,034 --> 00:33:25,602
Oh, yeah.
624
00:33:25,602 --> 00:33:28,740
ALEX: Nice, Hazel.
625
00:33:28,740 --> 00:33:31,575
HAZEL: Often it's my mind
that gets me up routes
626
00:33:31,575 --> 00:33:35,947
rather than my strength.
627
00:33:35,947 --> 00:33:37,515
That was cool.
628
00:33:42,820 --> 00:33:44,221
ALEX: 500 feet up,
629
00:33:44,221 --> 00:33:47,157
and we're through
the loose rock.
630
00:33:47,157 --> 00:33:50,294
Mikey will take the lead
on the blank middle section.
631
00:33:54,398 --> 00:33:57,801
It's raining.
There's rain on my screen.
632
00:33:57,801 --> 00:33:59,270
There's rain
on my jacket.
633
00:33:59,270 --> 00:34:01,072
There's rain on the wall.
634
00:34:01,072 --> 00:34:02,306
MIKEY: It's dried up
a little bit now.
635
00:34:02,306 --> 00:34:03,708
ALEX: You can kind of see
our camp between us.
636
00:34:03,708 --> 00:34:05,910
It's really far away.
Yeah, isn't that cool?
637
00:34:05,910 --> 00:34:07,311
MIKEY: Right there.
638
00:34:07,311 --> 00:34:09,246
ALEX: Yay! And then somewhere
down here you should be able
639
00:34:09,246 --> 00:34:12,049
to see Aldo working away
at the route.
640
00:34:12,049 --> 00:34:13,351
MIKEY: Cool. Okay,
I'm gonna get to it.
641
00:34:13,351 --> 00:34:15,653
ALEX: Okay, all right,
get 'em, Mikey.
642
00:34:15,653 --> 00:34:22,426
♪ ♪
643
00:34:22,426 --> 00:34:29,199
♪ ♪
644
00:34:29,199 --> 00:34:31,135
MIKEY: This part's
particularly bad.
645
00:34:34,172 --> 00:34:36,974
ALEX: As opposed to the rest
that was only pretty bad?
646
00:34:36,974 --> 00:34:40,044
♪ ♪
647
00:34:40,044 --> 00:34:45,849
♪ ♪
648
00:34:45,849 --> 00:34:49,486
Mikey's up there dealing
with some sort of terrible,
649
00:34:49,486 --> 00:34:52,823
terrible climbing, but at least
we're making upward progress,
650
00:34:52,823 --> 00:34:55,626
just carrying along.
651
00:34:55,626 --> 00:35:01,765
MIKEY: Ah! I've got some
really cold hands right now.
652
00:35:01,765 --> 00:35:06,737
Uh! Uh!
653
00:35:06,737 --> 00:35:07,872
Uh!
654
00:35:12,743 --> 00:35:13,611
ALEX: Better rock to the right,
655
00:35:13,611 --> 00:35:15,546
and there's
another crack over there.
656
00:35:15,546 --> 00:35:16,447
MIKEY: Yeah.
657
00:35:24,655 --> 00:35:25,656
(snap)
658
00:35:25,656 --> 00:35:26,657
Ooh!
659
00:35:26,657 --> 00:35:28,125
ALEX: Oh!
660
00:35:28,125 --> 00:35:30,828
You all right?
661
00:35:30,828 --> 00:35:32,196
MIKEY: Yeah.
662
00:35:35,566 --> 00:35:38,268
It's definitely not the sort of
fall I would want to take
663
00:35:38,268 --> 00:35:42,439
in the mountains normally,
that's for sure.
664
00:35:42,439 --> 00:35:44,374
A place like this, like,
a rescue's pretty far away,
665
00:35:44,374 --> 00:35:48,078
so a broken leg
on the Pool Wall, like,
666
00:35:48,078 --> 00:35:50,815
that becomes life-threatening.
667
00:35:52,682 --> 00:35:54,585
I'm halfway down the pitch
anyways, right?
668
00:35:54,585 --> 00:35:56,020
ALEX: Yeah, yeah.
No, no, I agree.
669
00:35:56,020 --> 00:35:57,521
MIKEY: So, I think
you're gonna be fine.
670
00:35:57,521 --> 00:35:59,190
You can't say
I didn't go for it.
671
00:35:59,190 --> 00:36:01,158
ALEX: Yeah. No, no.
I'm giving you full credit.
672
00:36:01,158 --> 00:36:03,127
MIKEY: You're gonna
give me full, like,
673
00:36:03,127 --> 00:36:04,394
he wasn't a weenie up there.
674
00:36:04,394 --> 00:36:05,796
ALEX: No, no, you're
not a weenie up there.
675
00:36:05,796 --> 00:36:07,298
You really got after it.
676
00:36:09,533 --> 00:36:11,669
Basically Mikey took
some very dramatic falls
677
00:36:11,669 --> 00:36:14,572
and had to call in
reinforcements
678
00:36:14,572 --> 00:36:19,176
for the final 30 feet
of the route, or the pitch.
679
00:36:19,176 --> 00:36:21,412
But we're up here.
We're getting it done.
680
00:36:23,013 --> 00:36:27,117
There's definitely some pressure
to figure this section out,
681
00:36:27,117 --> 00:36:29,120
or else we'll have to
give up on the route
682
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:33,190
and our chance to get up
onto the ice cap.
683
00:36:33,190 --> 00:36:35,793
Oh, sweet mercy.
684
00:36:35,793 --> 00:36:37,594
HAZEL: Is it hard or loose?
685
00:36:37,594 --> 00:36:39,496
ALEX: Both.
686
00:36:39,496 --> 00:36:41,131
I'm gonna, like,
need a minute to process
687
00:36:41,131 --> 00:36:43,467
to try to, like,
see where things go.
688
00:36:47,238 --> 00:36:49,206
HAZEL: I'm watching.
689
00:36:49,206 --> 00:36:54,678
♪ ♪
690
00:36:54,678 --> 00:36:56,247
ADAM: How high
do you think they are?
691
00:36:56,247 --> 00:36:59,550
HEÏDI: Mmm, like 500, 600 feet.
692
00:36:59,550 --> 00:37:02,052
ADAM: It's a bit scary
to think of going up.
693
00:37:02,052 --> 00:37:05,589
HEÏDI: Looks like it's
about to fall on my face.
694
00:37:05,589 --> 00:37:07,724
What's happening there?
Do you see?
695
00:37:07,724 --> 00:37:12,096
ADAM: Yeah, it looks a bit--
Can I have a look?
696
00:37:12,096 --> 00:37:13,931
What is he holding on to?
697
00:37:13,931 --> 00:37:16,467
HEÏDI: Wow, yeah, scary stuff.
698
00:37:16,467 --> 00:37:19,070
ADAM: That's scary, huh?
Want another look?
699
00:37:19,070 --> 00:37:21,138
HEÏDI: Yeah. Wow.
700
00:37:21,138 --> 00:37:23,440
ADAM: It's like
watching a movie, huh?
701
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:25,976
HEÏDI: Yeah, pretty much.
702
00:37:25,976 --> 00:37:32,950
♪ ♪
703
00:37:32,950 --> 00:37:39,890
♪ ♪
704
00:37:39,890 --> 00:37:40,958
♪ ♪
705
00:37:40,958 --> 00:37:47,298
♪ ♪
706
00:37:47,298 --> 00:37:49,500
HAZEL: I'm watching Alex
follow this crack.
707
00:37:52,436 --> 00:37:55,840
And he's just hanging there,
hundreds of feet up this wall.
708
00:37:59,677 --> 00:38:03,180
And then he does this huge
move left into space.
709
00:38:03,180 --> 00:38:10,153
♪ ♪
710
00:38:10,153 --> 00:38:17,127
♪ ♪
711
00:38:17,127 --> 00:38:24,101
♪ ♪
712
00:38:24,101 --> 00:38:31,074
♪ ♪
713
00:38:31,074 --> 00:38:38,048
♪ ♪
714
00:38:38,048 --> 00:38:42,753
♪ ♪
715
00:38:42,753 --> 00:38:49,359
♪ ♪
716
00:38:49,359 --> 00:38:51,161
ALEX: That was
a risky move for sure,
717
00:38:51,161 --> 00:38:55,866
but it's got us to a crack
that goes a long ways up.
718
00:38:55,866 --> 00:38:58,601
Okay, I'm out of here.
719
00:38:58,601 --> 00:39:01,738
Tomorrow's gonna be a big day.
720
00:39:01,738 --> 00:39:05,409
Heïdi and Adam are gonna
start up the wall.
721
00:39:05,409 --> 00:39:07,277
But first we have
some celebrating to do.
722
00:39:07,277 --> 00:39:08,579
TEAM: ♪ ...to you ♪
723
00:39:08,579 --> 00:39:12,316
♪ Happy birthday, dear Adam ♪
724
00:39:12,316 --> 00:39:15,753
♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
725
00:39:15,753 --> 00:39:17,087
Woo! Woo!
726
00:39:17,087 --> 00:39:20,390
(applause)
727
00:39:20,390 --> 00:39:21,959
ALEX: Yeah, we have
a gift for you.
728
00:39:21,959 --> 00:39:24,995
Happy 40th! Pretty exciting,
it's your birthday.
729
00:39:24,995 --> 00:39:26,563
Sorry that you don't get
to be with your family,
730
00:39:26,563 --> 00:39:28,032
but at least you have us.
731
00:39:28,032 --> 00:39:32,369
(laughter)
732
00:39:32,369 --> 00:39:34,204
ALDO: Smells like a malt.
733
00:39:34,204 --> 00:39:35,272
HAZEL: Ooh,
I smell it from here.
734
00:39:35,272 --> 00:39:37,374
ADAM: It's whiskey.
735
00:39:37,374 --> 00:39:38,675
ALDO: Water of life.
736
00:39:38,675 --> 00:39:40,744
ALEX: No, no. Did you get any?
737
00:39:40,744 --> 00:39:41,746
HAZEL: Yeah.
738
00:39:41,746 --> 00:39:43,880
ALEX: I, uh--
739
00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:44,915
oh, it's so gross.
740
00:39:44,915 --> 00:39:46,116
(laughter)
741
00:39:46,116 --> 00:39:47,517
Adam's like, "What?"
742
00:39:47,517 --> 00:39:48,853
MIKEY: It's good.
743
00:39:48,853 --> 00:39:51,155
ALEX: But you have to sing
for yourself in Greenlandic.
744
00:39:51,155 --> 00:39:55,726
ADAM: ♪ Inuuissiortoq
pilluarit ♪
745
00:39:55,726 --> 00:40:00,064
♪ qanortoq inuummersorit ♪
746
00:40:00,064 --> 00:40:05,168
♪ Inuuissiorninni taakkuulluta ♪
747
00:40:05,168 --> 00:40:10,040
♪ tamatta nuannaarpugut ♪
748
00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:14,811
♪ ullorsiortoq una ♪
749
00:40:14,811 --> 00:40:17,881
♪ ♪
750
00:40:17,881 --> 00:40:24,221
♪ ♪
751
00:40:24,221 --> 00:40:25,589
Today's the day.
752
00:40:25,589 --> 00:40:30,260
Today is the day I'm going
big-wall climbing... (laughs)
753
00:40:30,260 --> 00:40:32,696
...with a bunch of pros.
754
00:40:36,367 --> 00:40:37,801
HEÏDI: Anxiety's
definitely here.
755
00:40:37,801 --> 00:40:40,737
I must say
I didn't sleep very well.
756
00:40:40,737 --> 00:40:45,109
And I can feel a, a sense of
nervousness in the team as well.
757
00:40:48,045 --> 00:40:50,447
MIKEY: So, getting started
is always a bit weird
758
00:40:50,447 --> 00:40:52,315
because there's, like,
some bounce in the rope.
759
00:40:52,315 --> 00:40:54,118
HEÏDI: Yeah, exactly.
760
00:40:54,118 --> 00:40:57,220
HAZEL: I can't think of anyone
who starts their climbing life
761
00:40:57,220 --> 00:41:00,257
climbing a wall like Pool Wall.
762
00:41:00,257 --> 00:41:03,460
It's just insane.
763
00:41:03,460 --> 00:41:05,796
ALEX: These guys
are complete novices,
764
00:41:05,796 --> 00:41:08,398
and typically you don't
learn how to climb a big wall
765
00:41:08,398 --> 00:41:11,701
in a snowstorm in Greenland,
766
00:41:11,701 --> 00:41:14,805
so today has to be about
keeping everyone safe.
767
00:41:14,805 --> 00:41:19,910
♪ ♪
768
00:41:19,910 --> 00:41:22,012
ALDO: We're adding
two more people into the mix.
769
00:41:22,012 --> 00:41:23,781
There's two more people
exposed to rockfall.
770
00:41:23,781 --> 00:41:27,885
There's two more people exposed
to making a mistake on the rope.
771
00:41:29,620 --> 00:41:32,890
ALEX: We got some bags.
The journey is beginning.
772
00:41:38,261 --> 00:41:44,134
ALDO: You're pulling hundreds
of kilos up the rock face.
773
00:41:44,134 --> 00:41:49,907
The consequences of a mistake
are ultimately fatality.
774
00:41:49,907 --> 00:41:53,777
(rocks falling)
775
00:41:53,777 --> 00:41:58,515
HEÏDI: Mikey,
I'm gonna start going up.
776
00:41:58,515 --> 00:41:59,616
(cawing)
777
00:41:59,616 --> 00:42:04,788
ADAM: (speaking Greenlandic)
778
00:42:04,788 --> 00:42:07,857
We've been here for a week,
we haven't seen any wildlife,
779
00:42:07,857 --> 00:42:10,527
and just minutes
before we start going up,
780
00:42:10,527 --> 00:42:14,297
we see two ravens
playing in the wind.
781
00:42:14,297 --> 00:42:16,900
It's really, really beautiful.
782
00:42:16,900 --> 00:42:18,769
I'm hoping this is a good omen,
783
00:42:18,769 --> 00:42:22,672
but I have to admit
I'm pretty nervous.
784
00:42:22,672 --> 00:42:24,507
ALEX: So, are you just going
with one foot like that?
785
00:42:24,507 --> 00:42:28,178
ADAM: Yeah.
786
00:42:28,178 --> 00:42:29,312
ALDO: Clear, Mikey!
787
00:42:29,312 --> 00:42:30,781
MIKEY: Thank you!
788
00:42:30,781 --> 00:42:32,016
ALDO: Is anyone below?
789
00:42:32,016 --> 00:42:35,418
MIKEY: Oh, yeah, now
the whole party's below now.
790
00:42:35,418 --> 00:42:38,221
ALDO: How you getting on, Heïdi?
791
00:42:38,221 --> 00:42:40,624
HEÏDI: Whoa! (laughs)
792
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:48,699
They make it look so easy
when they go up these walls.
793
00:42:48,699 --> 00:42:51,701
It feels like the wall
is falling on us pretty much
794
00:42:51,701 --> 00:42:55,105
because it's so steep.
795
00:42:55,105 --> 00:42:57,308
(heavy breathing)
796
00:42:57,308 --> 00:43:02,579
I think I have another
maybe 10, 15 meters to go.
797
00:43:02,579 --> 00:43:05,282
Alex is waiting above patiently.
798
00:43:05,282 --> 00:43:07,551
ALEX: Oh, yeah.
799
00:43:07,551 --> 00:43:09,920
Getting there.
800
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:12,422
HEÏDI: I'm getting
there, eventually.
801
00:43:12,422 --> 00:43:15,059
ALEX: This is how you learn.
802
00:43:15,059 --> 00:43:17,161
HEÏDI: Woo!
803
00:43:17,161 --> 00:43:18,495
ALEX: Nice! Bam!
804
00:43:18,495 --> 00:43:19,796
HEÏDI: That took a while, yeah.
805
00:43:19,796 --> 00:43:21,898
ALEX: That's okay, you made it.
806
00:43:21,898 --> 00:43:26,169
HEÏDI: It was pretty hard,
and I was really exhausted.
807
00:43:26,169 --> 00:43:30,206
ALEX: Should we choose a spot
up here for core sampling?
808
00:43:30,206 --> 00:43:32,408
HEÏDI: This could be
a good one, yeah.
809
00:43:32,408 --> 00:43:34,211
ALEX: Let's do some drilling.
810
00:43:34,211 --> 00:43:35,379
HEÏDI: Perfect.
811
00:43:35,379 --> 00:43:37,481
(drilling)
812
00:43:37,481 --> 00:43:41,585
This is really
groundbreaking data.
813
00:43:41,585 --> 00:43:44,154
These rock samples
will inform us,
814
00:43:44,154 --> 00:43:49,760
how quickly is Greenland
gonna lose its ice?
815
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:52,629
How quickly is
the water going to rise?
816
00:43:52,629 --> 00:43:55,231
(drilling)
817
00:43:55,231 --> 00:44:01,038
When places like New York,
Miami will be underwater.
818
00:44:01,038 --> 00:44:03,774
(drilling)
819
00:44:06,476 --> 00:44:07,777
ALEX: That's a big
sample, actually.
820
00:44:07,777 --> 00:44:09,312
HEÏDI: That is a great sample.
821
00:44:09,312 --> 00:44:11,414
ALEX: It's really good.
822
00:44:11,414 --> 00:44:12,649
(hammering)
823
00:44:12,649 --> 00:44:14,718
The first time
I've used a chisel on rock.
824
00:44:14,718 --> 00:44:15,719
MIKEY: Wow! There it is.
825
00:44:15,719 --> 00:44:17,454
HEÏDI: Hey!
826
00:44:17,454 --> 00:44:20,957
Yay! We have a core.
827
00:44:20,957 --> 00:44:22,625
It is good to see that,
you know,
828
00:44:22,625 --> 00:44:26,230
the cores are starting
to come out of the rock,
829
00:44:26,230 --> 00:44:28,298
and hopefully I'll be
a bit faster on the ropes
830
00:44:28,298 --> 00:44:29,766
as well by that time.
831
00:44:29,766 --> 00:44:31,501
ALEX: It's a long ways
to go to the top.
832
00:44:31,501 --> 00:44:33,003
♪ ♪
833
00:44:33,003 --> 00:44:39,742
♪ ♪
834
00:44:39,742 --> 00:44:41,979
HEÏDI: Oh, it looks
super hard up there.
835
00:44:41,979 --> 00:44:45,416
I mean, from now on,
it's just totally vertical.
836
00:44:51,321 --> 00:44:53,490
ALDO: Uh!
837
00:44:53,490 --> 00:44:55,392
It's quite warm, isn't it?
838
00:44:55,392 --> 00:45:02,165
♪ ♪
839
00:45:02,165 --> 00:45:03,466
(crashing)
840
00:45:03,466 --> 00:45:06,269
Whoa! Listen to that.
841
00:45:06,269 --> 00:45:10,640
HAZEL: Do you see these
death dagger icicles?
842
00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:11,909
ALDO: The sun has come out.
843
00:45:11,909 --> 00:45:15,312
It means that all of
the icicles that have formed
844
00:45:15,312 --> 00:45:19,316
over the last few days
have started to fall off.
845
00:45:19,316 --> 00:45:20,484
(crash)
846
00:45:20,484 --> 00:45:23,787
MIKEY: Lots of "deathcicles"
coming off the top.
847
00:45:23,787 --> 00:45:25,956
ADAM: Ice! Ice!
848
00:45:25,956 --> 00:45:27,324
(crash)
849
00:45:27,324 --> 00:45:28,992
HEÏDI: Oh!
850
00:45:28,992 --> 00:45:30,727
ADAM: Oh, it's coming here.
851
00:45:30,727 --> 00:45:37,400
♪ ♪
852
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:39,870
♪ ♪
853
00:45:42,038 --> 00:45:49,012
♪ ♪
854
00:45:49,012 --> 00:45:55,585
♪ ♪
855
00:45:55,585 --> 00:45:58,555
♪ ♪
60854
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