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[waves]

[Freddie Wilkinson] Going to a place this remote,

things never go according to plan.

[wind howling]

If we get into trouble, nobody's coming to get us.

[camera shutter]

[camera shutter]

[wind howling]

[Emma Nicholson] This expedition is really a once in a lifetime

opportunity to answer some of the questions about what is

going on deep beneath our feet inside of our planet.

We have no idea what we're walking towards.

[wind howling]

[theme music plays]

[speaking native language].

[rumbling]

[explosion]

[Witness] [bleep]. Holy [bleep].

Ah. Here.

[Reporter] These are the stunning images of an undersea

volcano off the coast of Tonga

erupting higher than ten miles into the air.

[Reporter] This satellite image from space shows the sheer

force of the eruption.

14 million people under alert

from Alaska to California.

[Emma Nicholson] Around a tenth of the world's population are

within 100 kilometers of a volcano,

which is the footprint by which they could be affected

by volcanic hazard.

[David Muir] Sudden and deadly volcano erupting in New Zealand

with no warning.

At least five people killed and many still missing.

[Emma Nicholson] Currently scientists cannot reliably

forecast when the next eruption may be.

[Witness] Oh my god.

[Emma Nicholson] Our mission is to explore a very enigmatic,

unknown volcano on Saunders Island,

right in the center of the South Atlantic.

We have tantalizing hints that it maybe a very rare

opportunity to learn more about how volcanoes operate.

[Freddie Wilkinson] Day four at sea.

We're more than halfway there.

You know, some of us have been dealing with the seas just

fine, some of us have been puking our guts out,

but Captain Ben says this is like kindergarten stuff

compared to what we're gonna encounter on the final approach

to Saunders Island.

[Emma Nicholson] The first few days were pretty tough,

I'll admit.

I felt pretty awful most of the time.

You can't see land in any direction.

We're about as alone as we can possibly get out here.

It's a good place to just sit in your thoughts and

think about what we're gonna do when we get to the island.

Even from the satellites we very rarely get a glimpse of

the upper parts of this volcano.

It's almost always covered and

hidden within this thick cloud.

What has been seen is this persistent thermal anomaly

at the summit.

With the temperature, we would expect for molten lava.

This is a tantalizing hint that it hosts an incredibly rare

phenomenon called a lava lake.

Lava Lakes are the perfect natural laboratory

to study volcanoes.

You can think of it as though you've taken the lid off a

volcano to peer inside.

There is really no other way that you can see what is

happening inside of a volcano

so clearly right in front of you.

At the moment we have seven other known Lava Lakes

in the world.

To find another Lava Lake is once in a lifetime opportunity,

but Mount Michael is as yet unclimbed.

Something that I'm really thinking carefully about is

we're going to need to really watch what this vent is doing

when we arrive.

Those steam expulsion can be just violent as an eruption at

the main crater, but far less easier to forecast.

[Freddie Wilkinson] So our climbing route could explode

while we're on it?

[Emma Nicholson] All the more reason to perhaps consider the

northern flank, if this vent is active.

[Carla Perez] It depends a lot of the weather and the wind,

but we will try to go by the north in the flat areas.

I was born in Ecuador

surrounded by a lot of volcanoes, active volcanoes

and climb this volcano is a dream, a life dream.

I just have this thinking of

this is going to be really challenge.

[João Lages] We can definitely do a gas survey all the way

throughout that flank, that would be really interesting.

In order to measure the pulse of the volcano,

volcanic gas compositions are a telegram of what's going on

underneath the surface.

[Emma Nicholson] The ultimate goal is to find out whether

Mount Michael indeed hosts a lava lake at its summit and

how we can use its secrets to understand much more about

how volcanoes work around the world.

[Kieran Wood] All eyes were fixed in hope that what we've

come here to find is actually true and there is a lava lake.

These are rare phenomenon on the planets and that offers a

great insight into how a complete volcanic system works.

That's the science, that's what we're doing.

[waves crashing]

[ratcheting]

[Freddie Wilkinson] We're six miles out from Saunders Island

somewhere right in that fog is a unclimbed volcano

waiting to be explored and studied.

I'd say excitement is high.

It's gonna be go time.

[chatter]

[Ben Wallis] There's more ice here, I'd go back this way.

[Emma Nicholson] We just could see nothing and then suddenly

the mist just parted.

[Freddie Wilkinson] Wow. Whooo.

[Kieran Wood] Look at that.

[Carla Perez] Oh my god.

Whoo.

[Emma Nicholson] That's just beautiful.

[Kieran Wood] It's so amazing.

[Emma Nicholson] The plume is just coming right over the top,

rolling down.

[Kieran Wood] We've made it.

[Emma Nicholson] Yeah.

[Kieran Wood] We're finally here. Magnificent.

This beautiful volcano staring us in the face.

[Freddie Wilkinson] Whoo, hoo.

[Ben Wallis] That looks mean.

[Carla Perez] You want to come to climb with us?

[laughing]

[Carla Perez] I'm so excited. I'm ready to go.

I'm now trying to find a way to climb it.

[Freddie Wilkinson] Oh my god.

[Emma Nicholson] I can't believe how incredibly lucky

we've been to see that view.

I mean, the conditions outside are far from ideal for landing.

I think the winds are forecast to die down a little bit ahead

of tomorrow and that'll be our big day for

moving everything ashore.

But there's a little bit of me that just wants to get on that

island as quickly as possible.

[laughs].

I've been fascinated by volcanoes since I was about

six years old.

When my parents visited a volcano called

Mount Saint Helen's,

I remember seeing all the trees blown down in one direction,

ash was everywhere even ten years after the eruption

and, even at that young age,

I wanted to understand what forces could have created that

landscape in front of me.

I realized that in order to really understand

what is going on, you have to be there,

you have to see it and you have to feel it.

When I first started as a volcanologist it was driven

predominately by my own curiosity,

but as you meet people that have been impacted,

they change you, and you start asking,

well how can I translate my research into something that

has a tangible contribution to the lives of people and

communities around the world.

[Ben Wallis] Is the sunset illuminating that or

is that the lava?

[Kieran Wood] The only time I've ever seen anything like

that is when there's been lava.

[Ben Wallis] That's insane.

[Kieran Wood] Proof of the pudding is, you know,

seeing it with our own eyes,

but that is looking pretty damn hopeful.

- Okay. - Yep.

[laughs].

[Emma Nicholson] That's all we needed to see.

[Kieran Wood] Yep.

We're on for an epic adventure to go and find out what is

actually up there.

[♪ ringing, resonant music]

[Emma Nicholson] Getting from the boat to the island is a

Mission: Impossible style scenario.

[rumbling]

[Kieran Wood] Whoa.

[João Lages] Let's go get it.

[Kieran Wood] We've gotta do this maybe 30 or 40 times with

tons of gear and every single one of them has gotta go

perfectly and not damage the boat or any of us

or else it's game over.

[bleep].

No, don't put there, put it down,

take it up the beach João.

[wave crashing]

[Emma Nicholson] Once we had all the bags ashore,

we sent Kieran and Carla up to recce a good site for our camp.

[squawking]

[Kieran Wood] Hello. Come to see what all the fuss is about?

[Emma Nicholson] The island of Saunders is home to

hundreds of thousands of penguins,

elephant seals,

leopard seals, weddell seals.

It's just teeming with life.

We needed to choose a spot for the base camp that was

far enough away from the wildlife down on the beach,

that we would cause minimum disturbance to them.

[Freddie Wilkinson] You guys find a campsite?

[Kieran Wood] We have.

We've just been scouting up on on the flank to the volcano,

on the lower sections to find a flattish spot.

We think we've found a good spot.

This is going to be an absolute mission to carry everything up

there, but we'll get there.

[Carla Perez] Do you think can put this here.

Yeah.

[Kieran Wood] Yeah, if it fits here.

[Carla Perez] From the snaps, like back of the snaps.

We have all this equipment, it was like 3,000 kilos of

equipment that we got.

So, if we don't have all that on base camp,

we cannot climb.

[Emma Nicholson] Base camp is around 100 meters of elevation

above the beach and

each bag is between 20 and 30 kilograms.

Actually transporting that up to base camp was a

huge physical effort.

[Freddie Wilkinson] It's a pretty big job today.

We're all psyched to be on dry ground,

but it takes quite a lot of effort to establish

a good base camp.

We gotta put a little blood, sweat and tears to get here.

And then the payoff will be in the days to come when we can

use this base camp to do

some really cool science and exploring.

[squawking]

[Kieran Wood] Final load.

That was a lot of work getting all the gear up for base camp,

but we're finally done

and just in time for a pretty magnificent view actually.

Mount Michael's just come out of the cloud after about

six hours of being hidden.

This is our home for the next 12 days or so.

[Emma Nicholson] That was a really, really tough day.

I'm not sure there's a muscle in my body that isn't

crying out for sleep.

Oh.

Just a few more meters.

A few more meters, final load.

[Renan Ozturk] We got a base camp all set up.

[Emma Nicholson] It looks like a dream, it really does.

- Grab a seat. - Thank you.

[João Lages] There's seating for everybody.

[Kieran Wood] Will you do a little cup for me?

[Emma Nicholson] This expedition really is the

culmination of years of dreaming on my part.

Back in 2020, we put together an expedition to find out

whether Mount Michael indeed hosts a lava lake at its summit,

but the weather was very much not on our side.

We got about halfway up and had to make the very difficult

decision to turn around, and that completely broke my heart.

I'd put years of work into

trying to make this expedition happen.

And I could feel that slipping away.

And I never thought I would get the opportunity to try again,

but here we are.

In many ways lava lakes shouldn't really exist.

As you move magma towards the surface,

it should cool and crystallize very, very quickly.

So in order to maintain lava molten at the surface,

you need this delicate balance between the amount of heat

coming in versus the amount of heat going out.

So, even just understanding why they exist at all is still

really fundamental, and we can use these insights to

understand more about volcanoes around the world.

[Kieran Wood] The goal here is to use the drone to go get a

sneak peek of what we might find at the top.

This one's got a thermal camera,

so if there is any kind of lava close to the surface is should

be like super clear on the thermal view.

It's looking pretty magnificent.

Okay, so I'm at 700 meters, 800 meters above here,

which is probably summit altitude.

A whole lot of condensing flume at the moment,

but we haven't switched to the IR yet.

Okay, I'm looking kind of down into it,

shall we swap to have a look what we see?

Whooo.

Holy moly.

[gasps].

Now our two little vents.

Switch back to visible quick to see if,

no, thank got for IR.

I wouldn't see anything.

[Emma Nicholson] For sure there are two vents.

Absolutely. Both are active.

Both are releasing a lot of gas.

But again, until we get eyes on,

right up close, the mystery still remains as to whether

this is indeed the next lava lake.

The first thermal flight over the summit was really the next

crucial piece in the puzzle of what is actually going on

at Mount Michael.

One of the main goals of volcanology is to really

understand the physics and the chemistry that drives volcanic

eruptions in order to be able to forecast these events like

we forecast the weather.

The satellite era changed so much about how we can identify

volcanic unrest, but we cannot rely on satellite data alone.

We need those in situ observations to ground truth

the satellite date that we're collecting so that we can

interpret what we see from space within the context of the

physical and chemical models we're developing

of how volcanoes work.

We've designed a whole range of different experiments to

explore how Mount Michael behaves,

taking snow samples, water samples,

measuring the earthquake activity.

Every piece of evidence was pointing to the fact that lava

was really close to the surface

and it was just there for us to find.

[Freddie Wilkinson] Final prep to leave for a attempt

at the rim today.

Winds are forecast to increase

by 10-15 knots in the next 24 hours.

On paper the mountain looks relatively doable.

It's about 1,000 meters above sea level with

one central caldera around the summit area.

But there's also appeared several different vent holes

and spots where steam is

releasing from the flanks of the mountain.

Relatively thin glaciers can

also have really problematic crevasses.

And so there's a lot of unknowns.

[Emma Nicholson] The ascent to the summit is gonna push us

beyond the limits of anything we've done before and we will

be relying very heavily on the mountaineering expertise within

the team to make this ascent.

[Carla Perez] In this expedition we have a lot of

risk with the volcano, with the glacier,

with the wind, with the weather and there is this limit,

this point when you can feel like if a little thing goes

wrong, people can die.

[wind blowing]

[wind howling]

[Carla Perez] Hey guys,

the rope needs to be tight. Okay?

[Freddie Wilkinson] Day three of the expedition,

we launched our first summit attempt.

Our goal wasn't just to get to the top of the mountain and

claim the first ascent.

Our goal was to unravel the mystery of what's going on

within the summit crater of Mount Michael.

And so, to do that, we needed to be able to conduct

meaningful field science close to the summit rim

and that requires a more thoughtful approach.

This is not your average first ascent.

This is a new set of dangers and risks that there's very few

places on earth that you have to deal with as a mountaineer.

[Carla Perez] With that wind and cold,

it can turn the climb pretty dangerous.

[Emma Nicholson] I'm struggling.

Just keeps on coming.

The wind just keeps pushing us all over the place.

[wind howling]

[Emma Nicholson] We were only halfway at this point,

and we'd been climbing for three or three and a half hours.

[wind howling]

I was getting fatigued.

I was stumbling over my crampons.

I knelt down just for a moment.

I just needed that reminder to myself that this is something

that I dreamed about for however many years.

I'd prepared for.

And that this was just something that I needed to push through.

[Carla Perez] Emma, how are you?

[Emma Nicholson] I'm okay.

[Carla Perez] Are you okay?

Do you want to keep going?

[Emma Nicholson] I want to keep going.

[Emma Nicholson] I wanted to feel strong,

I wanted to feel in control and I didn't want to feel that

I had any risk of being the reason why the team

didn't make it to the summit.

[Emma Nicholson] It will not break me!

[Freddie Wilkinson] Nice work, Emma!

I think it's like

100 meters to the rim.

We're getting close.

Really good job pushing through.

[Emma Nicholson] Getting so close!

So close!

[Emma Nicholson] Woo-hoo!

[Freddie ] That's a first ascent on Mt. Michael, Emma.

[Emma Nicholson] First ascent, oh my god.

[Emma Nicholson] Oh my god.

[Emma Nicholson] I've waited so many years for this,

so many years.

[Emma Nicholson] The joy and the relief and the pride at

reaching the summit and achieving that something that,

I mean, I'd dreamt about years was an incredible feeling.

[Emma Nicholson] Thank you, Carla,

thank you, Freddie, thank you, Kieran.

[Emma Nicholson] Thank you.

Oh.

[gases hissing]

[wind howling]

[Emma Nicholson] Can you hear me?

We have two options.

Option A, here.

Option B, back in the hollow where we were.

A or B?

B, okay.

[wind howling]

[Emma Nicholson] Our main objective now is to get our

instruments right into the heart of the gas plume.

To be able to then see a really clear picture of

what is happening in the volcano deep below.

[wind howling]

I can smell that.

Yeah, I can smell plenty of gas here.

We should go here.

This is a good spot.

[Emma] We're collecting samples of the gas plume

emitted from the volcano, which we can smell and taste.

[Emma Nicholson] Volcanic gases are the fuel that drives

explosive eruptions.

One of the main challenges in volcanology is understanding

these transitions between passive behavior,

where a volcano is quiet or dormant,

versus these rapid transitions to then explosive behavior.

Measuring gases is one of the key ways that we can use

lava lakes for forecasting.

[Emma Nicholson] That will now run for may half an hour,

45 minutes, so we can get a really good sample.

[Emma Nicholson] Now, our main objective is to get to the

crater rim to be able to confirm what's inside.

[wind howling]

[Freddie Wilkinson] Can't see anything.

[Emma Nicholson] No. I can't see a thing!

[Carla Perez] The weather was really bad,

there was zero visibility, so we don't know if we were

actually in the real summit or even in the crater.

We didn't know that.

And all that area can be very dangerous.

[Freddie Wilkinson] It seems like there's a significant

drop-off right there.

[Emma Nicholson] We'd seen in front of us a crack that could

have been a crevasse

or it could have been the side of the crater.

[Freddie Wilkinson] Visibility is still an issue.

Until we get more information,

we're gonna belay you out,

so you can continue to explore and take measurements.

[Emma Nicholson] So this is our base camp.

[Freddie Wilkinson] This is our base camp.

[Kieran Wood] Sounds good.

I've got thermal camera ready to go,

so if there's a drop off

it would be nice to maybe go see if we can point it down a bit.

[Freddie Wilkinson] Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, we're gonna put Kieran on belay.

[Kieran Wood] We had to make decisions on the fly to get the

best out of a bad situation.

No-one's been there, there's no maps,

there's no routes to get to this location.

So, it was a really exploratory moment to go and

discover the undiscovered.

[wind howling]

[Emma Nicholson] What do you see?

[Kieran Wood] I see very little.

[Emma Nicholson] Okay, go to the end of your belay,

see what you can see and then return.

Anything on the thermal imaging?

[Kieran Wood] Nothing on thermal camera.

Coming back! Coming back!

It was just going down,

got a bit steeper,

I couldn't see where it went after that, I ran out of rope.

[Emma Nicholson] It's so incredibly frustrating to be

so close to what we think is the crater edge,

but we just can't see.

[Freddie Wilkinson] Here, dealing with a combination of

the wind, the temperature and the humidity,

life is measured in hours.

The ice, it's not just forming on the summit of the mountain,

it's forming on your body and forming on your external layers

and, over time, that moisture gets closer to your core and

it can kill you.

[Emma Nicholson] I mean, we know we're really close but,

we're completely blind.

And it's not safe to be exploring without

really being able to see where we are going.

[Kieran Wood] Let's do the good thing and turn around

so we can fight another day.

And get out of here.

We'll pack and we'll head down now.

[Freddie Wilkinson] Appreciated.

Is that good with you, Carla?

[Carla Perez] Yeah.

[Freddie Wilkinson] Okay.

[♪ somber music]

[Emma Nicholson] I gave myself quite a mental beating on the

way down because, by that point,

the winds had died, everything felt calm,

everything felt much easier, and the challenges at the

summit had faded into the background and all I could

think about was the things that I hadn't done.

As we arrived back in camp, after what had been one of the

most incredible and challenging days of my life,

we were brought down to earth very quickly.

[wind blowing]

[wind howling]

The wind at the place that we'd chosen for base camp was just

rocketing through and threatening to collapse

any tent that was left unprotected.

[wind howling]

[Kieran Wood] We've just been building snow walls,

digging in the tents,

doing everything we can to make it storm proof.

You know, this could get worse and we don't want to be caught

out, so that was a big effort by everybody.

[wind howling]

[Freddie Wilkinson] It's a pretty dangerous situation,

a combination of this wind and warm above freezing temps.

I'd feel better if it was below freezing.

If it was below freezing, we'd have lots of snow and we can

dig a snow cave.

But, you know, the snow is

melting and getting blown away from us as we speak.

Any sort of movement would not be advisable.

[wind blowing]

It's a freight train.

[wind howling]

[Emma Nicholson] We're gusting 50, 50 knots.

I've never seen a weather forecast like that.

[Freddie Wilkinson] Yeah [bleep] kittens.

[Emma Nicholson] We were suddenly realizing that a lot

of what we had planned we either wouldn't be able to

finish, we wouldn't even be able to start.

[Freddie Wilkinson] This is kinda what I was scared of,

the reality, like, when you step outside the tent and

you stand in these elements for five minutes,

it's definitely a big slap in the face.

[Emma Nicholson] Finally the forecast showed there was

a small weather window the following day.

We knew that this opportunity might be our only chance.

[Carla Perez] It's going to be tough.

So maybe you have like a couple hours

just for sampling the north side of the...

[Emma Nicholson] And we make the most of those two hours.

We'll be ready.

[♪ ominous music]

[wind blowing]

[Freddie Wilkinson] By that morning it was abundantly clear

that we couldn't stay on Saunders Island indefinitely.

[Kieran Wood] We've just had our tent blown down, unfortunately.

Some of the poles have just completely bent,

the wind is just ferocious.

[Freddie Wilkinson] Our gear was taking such a thrashing

that things were gonna start to fail in a matter of days.

So decisions had to be made.

[Emma Nicholson] There was really no change in the

long range forecast.

There was a small weather window that we would be able

to get off the island.

It was either now or potentially ten days time,

or longer, before we would be able to leave the island.

So as a team we had that really difficult decision of how best

to use our time knowing that our time had run out.

[Freddie Wilkinson] November 23rd,

it's about 8:00 in the morning,

our team is trying to get going.

It's a really crucial day for us.

We gotta get back to the top of Mount Michael,

at the same time we have to evacuate camp,

get everyone safely back onto the boat before

the weather starts to deteriorate even worse.

So, we're gonna divide the team,

half the team is preparing for a summit climb,

half the team is preparing to get the heck out of here.

[Emma Nicholson] This is the countdown,

this is your one last chance.

Now or never.

We are really against the clock to make this final ascent

before the weather window to get off the island closes.

[Carla Perez] Today, I'm not going to make long rope.

We must be really close and focus in the same place.

Okay?

Vamos.

[Emma Nicholson] We knew that this opportunity might be our

only chance to finally discover if the world's eighth lava lake

is hidden within the crater of Mount Michael.

[wind howling]

We'd seen from the forecast that there was this window of

one, two hours where we might expect to have reduced winds,

better visibility at the summit.

But to meet those windows meant we needed to do the climb in

really conditions that I would never consider.

[wind howling]

We were warned to expect 30-40 knot winds.

[wind howling]

We were really moving blind.

[wind howling]

We just kept moving vertically upwards as fast as we could.

Following the route from our first ascent

all the way to the summit.

[wind howling]

Thankfully that weather window that had been forecast

started to manifest itself and

the change in conditions was striking.

You could see all the way around the crater rim,

not into it, but all the way around.

So Carla is going to belay us one at a time

towards the crater and we see if we can get a good view.

We'd hoped to be able to

get this glimpse of what was inside.

[♪ intense music]

[Emma Nicholson] Do you think it's okay to keep going?

I don't have an ice axe to get out.

[♪ intense music]

[♪ quick, eerie music]

[Emma Nicholson] Do you think we can get down to there

with the rope we have? Or?

[Carla Perez] Possibly.

[Emma Nicholson] Okay.

We started moving down the slope towards to where we hoped

we would be able to look down into the crater.

[Carla Perez] The rope is getting tighter, I think.

[Emma Nicholson] Yeah.

[Freddie Wilkinson] Unless to that?

[Emma Nicholson] Yeah.

[Emma Nicholson] But, I don't know how stable that is.

[Freddie Wilkinson] What if it's unstable?

[Emma Nicholson] Yeah, I don't think it is stable.

[Emma Nicholson] We realized that what we were standing on

at that point was one of these precarious ice precipices that

really had nothing holding them up from underneath.

[Emma Nicholson] So, we can't get a clear look.

It's too far down for measuring from the crater walls.

Very frustrating.

Oh, so close!

[Freddie Wilkinson] Honestly, I think...

[Emma Nicholson] You think this is it?

[Freddie Wilkinson] I think this is it.

[Emma Nicholson] Yep.

We got as close as we could to peer over,

but, without risking essentially our lives,

we had to say enough was enough.

[Emma] I mean, the drone is really our only option now.

[Renan Ozturk] We're in this little hole where there's no

wind and we had the drone there,

so we went for it.

Let's do it.

[Emma Nicholson] What did you see, Renan?

[Renan Ozturk] Might have lost the drone...

it's trying to come up.

[Renan Ozturk] You could see the drone struggling visibly

in the wind.

My fingers were shaking on the controller.

Kept it on full forward and, like,

eventually it, like, did approach the crater.

[♪ dreamy music]

[Emma Nicholson] Oh, it's yes.

It's there.

[Renan Ozturk] Is that a lava lake?

[Emma Nicholson] Yes, just very, very deep.

[Renan Ozturk] Wow!

Wow, that looks crazy.

[Renan Ozturk] You could see this eye of lava down at the

bottom of the crater.

[Freddie Wilkinson] Look at that thing.

[Carla Perez] Wow.

[Emma Nicholson] Until this moment we were seeing a proxy

for lava, we were seeing temperature.

We can see now that this magnitude of thermal anomaly

represents magma that is several hundred meters below

the surface of the crater, really feeding the gas plume

that we were measuring.

This is just incredible.

It's very deep, but it is there.

What we have now is that crucial piece of the puzzle

that will allow us to use satellite data moving forward

to monitor this pressure gage.

Whooo.

[laughs].

That was my dream and it's amazing what that glimpse does,

it just lights that fire and oh,

I know it's down there now.

We achieved not only a first ascent of Mount Michael,

we managed to collect valuable scientific data that will

help us to understand much more about how volcanoes work

around the world.

[Freddie Wilkinson] Amazing, yeah Emma.

[Emma Nicholson] Wow.

The heart of the beast.

[Freddie Wilkinson] The heart of the beast.

[♪ upbeat music]

[Emma Nicholson] I just don't wanna leave this place.

It's a very special moment that

I'll remember for the rest of my life.

[♪ music plays through credits]

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