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I had an e-mail
and it said congratulations

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you have been selected

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to be on the team
of the North Pole expedition,

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all women North
Pole expedition.

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So I read it
and then I read it once

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and I closed it
and then opened it again

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just to make sure
that e-mail was still there.

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>> Obviously so cold you won't
be able to take the gloves off.

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Minus 40.
So how will you cope, Misba?

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You need to take
a hot water bottle into bed.

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>> I might just do that, you know.

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>> What was the story about

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when you went the wrong way down the motorway?

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>> Don't let Misba
navigate the team,

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you'll end up in South Pole.

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>> We're trying to inspire
other women,

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empower other women
and show them that we can ...

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>> So we can't inspire
other men, empower other men?

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>> But men always go though,
we should involve men and women.

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>> How many men have been
to the North Pole?

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>> It's always men
that does adventures.

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>> What is that like all the ...

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>> Don't you think it's always
men that do adventures?

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So I want to create
the difference.

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>> Yeah? Good. Good. Good on you.

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>> I need to do something
to remind myself this is me,

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this is what I can do.

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>> I can't talk about
the North Pole

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without talking
about climate change.

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>> The truth of every person
comes out no matter

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how hard they try
to keep it in

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because you'll be
in the harshest conditions.

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>> Natures give me peace.

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It's like conditioning, you know
for the soul.

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>> As a journalist,
rule number one is be curious,

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be open minded.

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>> I will be the first Saudi woman

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to ski to the North Pole

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>> The North Pole, who would
have thought the North Pole,

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you know, this is like, the North Pole?

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>> The whole world has been my life

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for most of my adult life.

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But I've never skied
to the North Pole.

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I could go for
an expedition myself,

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but it would feel like
a bit of a hollow victory

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unless there was
something deeper.

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>> Every good expedition
runs off of chocolate.

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And then we have the toilet tissue, very important.

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And there's a lesson
that I learned the hard way

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that I can now pass on
to the rest of the team.

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You have to be very careful
when you're using these tissues,

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which are really useful
to use as toilet paper.

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But you have to make sure
they're not the menthol kind.

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That's bad news.

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[ Chatter ]

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>> It's amazing how often
when people ask me about trips,

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you know, what was the scariest moment?
What was the best moment?

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It's amazing how often
they are one in the same moment.

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I remember being on my own
in Antarctica

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and it was
a really horrible day.

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You couldn't see anything.
It was a total whiteout.

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I might as well have been
in a capsule in space

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because it felt like
the whole of civilization

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was just a fairy story that I've
been told and it was all a lie.

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There was nothing out there.
I was crying in my goggles,

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which was then freezing
on the back on my goggles.

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>> Oh, god.

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>>
I couldn't see anything anyway.

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It was just
an absolute nightmare of a day.

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And then there was another part
of my brain that was going,

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"Wow, look at this!

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You're in the middle of
Antarctica by yourself skiing!

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You're a polar explorer!
This is incredible!

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This is everything
you ever dreamed of as a kid.

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This is amazing."

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>> This project is all
about having an adventure.

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But it's also about
the cultural experiment.

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>> I wanted to put together
an expedition

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that brings together women from
the Arab world and the West.

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It wasn't just trying
to pick people

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that I thought were great,

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that I thought
I could fit well with.

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It was trying to get
the right mix.

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And also, I'm very aware

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that if you put too many
similar characters together,

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that's a recipe for disaster,
that's never going to work.

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>> As you take a walk
around the tent in a minute

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and just have a look.

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Now you've got four people,
you've got all the poles in,

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and you just pull out the tent
so that it's nice and straight.

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>> When I got the first call from Felicity,

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I suppose she was trying
to filter out the people

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who would be fearful.

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She's like, "We're going
to the North Pole,

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there's going to be polar bears,
it's going to be stupidly cold,

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there's going to be
ice below you.

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There's no solid ground."

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She gave us
the worst-case scenario.

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And I was like,
yes, yes, yes, yes.

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>> That was four minutes.
All right.

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>> That's pressed on, let's go.

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We're just looking for
the best way to that waterfall.

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>> I'll be very open about this.

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When Felicity said
it's all-woman expedition,

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I'm like, oh, that's going to be tough.
And I was terrified of this.

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>> I've had maybe two
female friends my entire life

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and I'm not very good
with women.

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Women, I feel, have a lot
more drama connected to them.

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And I am not very emotionally
involved with people.

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>> You know technically,

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we don't necessarily have
to get to the waterfall.

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>> [Indistinct].

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>> This will be the most
difficult part for me,

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especially in
a stressful situation.

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>> How do you know ...

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>> How do you know which one
is left and which one is right?

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>> you guys are tent mates
for the whole trip?

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>> Yes.

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>> So why are you doing this?

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>> For the money.

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[laughter]

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>> For the money.

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>> I think the all-woman aspect.

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I think, like, when women
come together,

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there's something really powerful.

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>> So today we've done the skiing.

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>> The hardest thing I’ve done

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>> Just turn it off.

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Put that pan lid between the flame and the tent!

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Pan lid between the flame and the tent!

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>> Put it out! Put it out!

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>> We had a bit of a fuel leak.
Fuel just started spewing out.

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This can't happen
in the North Pole

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because this is the difference
between life and death.

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It's what will keep us warm,

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what will feed us,
what will dry us.

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Am I looking suitably
freaked out?

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>> It's not very deep.
I mean like literally, that.

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A bit deeper there.

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I think this might suit
our purposes quite well.

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[sinister laugher]

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So we'll be spending days on ice
that's over an ocean.

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Although we are doing everything
to make sure none of us gets wet

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the whole time that we're there,
there is the possibility

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that someone ends up
in the water accidentally.

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>> Okay. All right, Misba.
You're being brave ...

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>> I am.
>> ... for being the first one.

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>> Yeah, I am.
Oh yes, I am!

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Oh!

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Ah!

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>> That's it! Well done, well done! Now...

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>> Roll in snow, and then leg it
back to the tent and get warm!

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Leg it back to the tent.

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>> Oh, god.

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>> Nataša, ready for you.

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>> One thing that really
attracted me to this project

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was to see how I would behave
in this environment,

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being faced with really,
really low temperatures.

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>> Are they ready?
>> Yeah.
>> Great.

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Olga's going to take your boots.
Okay.

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>> I am not afraid, but ...

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[gasps]

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>> There we go. Right.

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you got wet,
that's it, that's it.

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All right, there you go,
lie down on the mat.

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Woo, get your front wet.
Woo, that's it. All right.

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>> We'll all be skiing
on that ice that is disappearing

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that won't be there
in a few years.

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Like, I'm really aware that my niece,
my nephew, my little cousin,

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you know, it's something that
they won't even dream of,

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skiing to the North Pole.

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>> Get the wet off!
Get the wet off!

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>> So for me as a scientist

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to ski on that thin piece
of ice that is still there,

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this is amazing.

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>> Bollocks, my feet are cold.

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>> My first adventure was going
to the Atlas Mountains,

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so I've never been away
from home

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when I've lived with my parents.

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So once married, I've always
had my husband with me, or...

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... the children,
but never on my own.

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So I wanted to see
more of the world now

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and my son finally
got to university

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and I thought,
"Now I'm going to, you know, treat myself."

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So I booked a holiday abroad,
climbing Mount Tubko.

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The next hurdle
was to tell my husband.

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So I told him
that I want to do this thing.

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He wasn't happy with it.

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Saying, you know, it wasn't
the right thing to do.

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But you obviously need
to get it out of your system.

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So do it once and that's it.
He was fine about it.

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And I looked
at the number of grades

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and I didn't understand them,

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so I thought "Oh five,
it must be quite easy."

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So I thought maybe five ...

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I didn't understand
these gradings.

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And she kept saying to me
you'll be fine.

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You've done mountains.
I said, yeah.

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Actually there were
six men and two women.

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It was hard
to keep up with them.

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I took one little step,
they took four.

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[laughter]

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When, um, we'd finished the mountain
and everything,

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and on the last day,
the guide had asked me, he goes,

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"We're surprised that as a Muslim
woman you've come with us.

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Did your husband not mind?"
I'm going, "No, no, no,

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not at all. He's allowed me and everything."
And that was my adventure.

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[ Laughter and clapping ]

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>> That was hard work.

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>> I'd never been to a cinema
until I got married.

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And I've never eaten out
until I got married.

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Oh, dear, this is hard work.
All right. There we are.

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We inspire our children
as they're growing up

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to do things differently
from what we had done.

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But when our children
are grown up,

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we then don't do
anything for ourselves.

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Gosh I wished I'd learned
skiing when I was young.

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I wish I did a lot of things
when I was young, but ...

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... everything comes
in its own time.

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>> There's so much snow.

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>> Where's the wind coming from?

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>> God, I hope that's not
like a storm coming.

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>> We've just set the tent up
and there's a snowstorm outside.

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Got my flask of water, and ...

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... my sweetie bag.

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So we're going to wait here
for about,

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what time do you think
we'll be here until?

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About 10 minutes.

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And then we're going to
hopefully dig ourselves out

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and start sledging again.

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>> What are you doing?

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>> We're kicking off the snow
from our tent.

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It's falling apart!

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It's shrinking by the second!

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>> Not funny but it still is.

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>> Twelve hours of storm

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And the tent is collapsing.

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>> It's half past five,
I'm in my sleeping bag.

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It's very cold.
I haven't slept.

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I daren't drink any water
because I don't want to go out for a ...

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... a wee in this weather
and then get blown away.

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A difficult night.

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[ groans ]

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I just want my bed.

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[ ominous music ]

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>> My boots are here.

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I think my bag, it's here somewhere, I hope.

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The snow started to come in
from that side

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and it started to drown our tent
and push the tent inwards at us.

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I felt like I was
actually drowning in there

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because it was just coming
closer and closer and closer.

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And it reached to a point
where it was here.

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And it was quite scary.
I was actually trying to think like

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"Will this be my end?"

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>> This happened...partly because
of...

00:16:14.098 --> 00:16:16.725
... human error and inexperience.

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You know...we could have

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done more to protect this tent.

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But also partly because,
you know sometimes you do

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just get walloped
by the weather.

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And I think we've just got
walloped by the weather.

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It was a bit of a wake-up call,
which could be really scary.

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When we get to the North Pole,
we need to be absolutely on form

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working at our best
right from Day One.

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>> Okay.
>> Do you want to...start down

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[ intense music ]

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[ melodic praying ]

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>> When travelers travel
through the desert,

00:17:30.424 --> 00:17:32.634
they just stopped
and they would just do their prayers.

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I want to pray
at all these places,

00:17:37.931 --> 00:17:41.518
on the hills, on the mountains,
everywhere in the world.

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And there's 11 women from across
Europe and the Arab countries,

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there's me,
and we're going to ski

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the last 100 kilometers
to the North Pole.

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>> I've been training
for a good 1 1/2 years I'd say?

00:18:00.329 --> 00:18:02.414
I think I started off
with swimming with you.

00:18:02.414 --> 00:18:04.166
>> Yeah, that's right.
>> Yeah. So ...

00:18:04.166 --> 00:18:06.043
>> We started off with you
and you couldn't even swim.

00:18:06.043 --> 00:18:09.171
>> I couldn't swim, yeah. Thank you for that!

00:18:09.171 --> 00:18:10.547
>> Do you remember?
>> Yes!

00:18:10.547 --> 00:18:12.466
Such a steep learning curve actually.

00:18:12.466 --> 00:18:14.051
>> Do you have that fear the ice will break underneath the tent?

00:18:14.802 --> 00:18:18.430
>> Yeah, I couldn't swim really.

00:18:18.430 --> 00:18:21.850
>> Yeah, there is that fear,
yeah, where the ice will crack

00:18:21.850 --> 00:18:23.352
and what we're going to do.

00:18:23.352 --> 00:18:26.021
>> The ice on the North Pole
is always moving,

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so we could ski 20 kilometers
in one day

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and then get up in the morning

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and find that we're
10 kilometers behind

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because the wind
has moved us back.

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So just pray that the wind
pushes the other way

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to help us.

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>> Obviously you’ll be celebrating your 50th there.

00:18:44.248 --> 00:18:45.124
>> Oh, brilliant,

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you have to bring that in?

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[ chatter ]

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[ intense music ]

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>> The last year has been a tough one emotionally,

00:19:01.223 --> 00:19:02.474
mentally.

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I've been going
through a divorce

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and that obviously leaves you
in a bad state of mind.

00:19:06.395 --> 00:19:09.398
It messes with your confidence,
with your abilities,

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with anything, really.

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>> I don't even know
where to start to talk

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about Saudi Arabia.

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You just need to understand
what is prohibited.

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And then there's all these
gray areas like cycling.

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It's not a norm to find a woman
biking in a public space.

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The way that I saw it was I want
to bike, so I'm going to bike.

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So I started this group
where we're five women maximum

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and we go every Friday
morning biking by the beach.

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>> It is kind of shocking,
honestly.

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But you do need, like,
high fat content.

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Milk chocolate is your friend.

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>> I imagine it’s very stressful.

00:20:01.325 --> 00:20:03.368
Skiing ten hours, that’s crazy.

00:20:03.911 --> 00:20:06.914
>> Someone was basically
saying that your mind

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gives up
before your body does.

00:20:08.665 --> 00:20:12.336
And a lot of times
what happens is ... you know, we ...

00:20:12.336 --> 00:20:14.755
we stop as soon as our mind
just takes a wrong turn and

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and "Oh!
I'm tired, I'm going to stop."

00:20:17.299 --> 00:20:17.674
>> Yeah.

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>> But our body can actually
still keep going, you know?

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[ intense music ]

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>> When we first said
that we were going to come

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and do some polar training
in the desert of Oman,

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a lot of people raised
their eyebrows.

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"What are you doing?"
But when you get here,

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there's a lot of similarities,
as bizarre as that sounds.

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The fact that the nature
of how you move

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across this landscape
is very similar.

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And then just the way that
you can't plan in the desert

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because all the dunes
have moved and changed.

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And unless you're on the ground,

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you can't make
those decisions in advance.

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And that's exactly what it's
going to be like in the arctic.

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You have to let go of any idea
of having a plan

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and just make decisions
on the ground as you go.

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You know, I'm somebody
who likes to be in the thick of it.

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I don't like to be
on the periphery.

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And so standing
her waving goodbye

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as they disappear
across the dunes,

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it's um, yeah, it's a little bit gutting.

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>> Tell you what: you get this one
and I'll make that one ...

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I'll make that one work.
>> You sure?

00:22:05.324 --> 00:22:06.908
>> Yeah, of course.

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[ Chatter ]

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>> You know, I've lived all my life.

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Like, I don't know, "Mariam's not
a physically able

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to do such a thing."

00:22:18.503 --> 00:22:21.006
or, "Mariam doesn't
know how to ...

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She doesn't know how to camp or
she doesn't know how to do this."

00:22:24.009 --> 00:22:25.594
No, I can learn these things.

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As cheesy as it sounds
when people say,

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"Anything is possible"
it is true.

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>> Okay, time check,
how are we doing?

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>> Five minutes, guys.

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>> You got to slow down a sec.

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>> If I slow, my feet are burning.

00:23:03.048 --> 00:23:04.591
>> So we've been debating
the question of heat

00:23:04.591 --> 00:23:06.051
and cold for a while now.

00:23:06.051 --> 00:23:07.260
>> I prefer heat.

00:23:07.260 --> 00:23:09.012
>> Cold.
>> Cold. Definitely cold.

00:23:09.012 --> 00:23:10.013
>> Hot, hot, heat.

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>> You heat?
>> Thank you.

00:23:11.264 --> 00:23:12.516
>> Big time.

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>> Heat?
>> Yeah.

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>> Absolutely.
>> Really?

00:23:14.935 --> 00:23:16.186
>> Yeah.
>> Anytime.

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>> You've got venomous snakes
instead of polar bears.

00:23:19.106 --> 00:23:20.440
>> I prefer the polar bears.
>> That's fun.

00:23:27.823 --> 00:23:29.491
>> Misba, are you heading
for the ridge?

00:23:29.491 --> 00:23:31.076
>> We're already to the ridge.

00:23:31.618 --> 00:23:33.245
>> This is going to be interesting.

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>> Are you sure about this?
>> Yes, come on.

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>> Oh my word.

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>> Ah!

00:23:40.419 --> 00:23:41.086
[ grunts ]

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>> Come one, Misba.
This is your genius decision, eh?

00:23:44.423 --> 00:23:45.090
>> Whoo!

00:23:45.090 --> 00:23:45.799
Oh, wow.

00:23:45.799 --> 00:23:47.884
>> Come on, we can do it.
Come on.

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>> I work as an outdoor
instructor so it was hard for me

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to take a step back,
but I tried to do that.

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>> I'll just give me feet a rest.

00:23:57.477 --> 00:23:58.728
>> I need to keep
reminding myself,

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it's not about each individual,

00:24:00.147 --> 00:24:02.065
it's about how you work
as a team,

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which is one
of my biggest concerns.

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The team is just as strong
as the weakest link.

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And if you've got a person
who's really weak,

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that's the weight
you need to carry.

00:24:13.452 --> 00:24:16.121
My priority is:
I want to get to the North Pole.

00:24:16.121 --> 00:24:17.539
with the team would be great.

00:24:17.539 --> 00:24:19.499
That would be
the best case scenario.

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I'm still going to do it
with or without them.

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>> Today, with the GPS,
how was it out there?

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>> I had to hold
my tongue a few times.

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It's just differences
in opinion.

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When one person goes ...

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the leader, goes one way
than the other,

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and I must admit, hands up,
I did that once and I'm like,

00:24:36.683 --> 00:24:39.728
"Oh, but that's clearly
the easier way." So ...

00:24:39.728 --> 00:24:41.605
And then I move because
I was the second person

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and then everyone follows me,
which in the North Pole,

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you can't get away
with doing that.

00:24:44.733 --> 00:24:45.942
>> No.

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>> So often with expeditions,
when they fall apart,

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or when they don't work,
when they fail,

00:24:51.907 --> 00:24:53.408
there's lots of reasons given.

00:24:53.408 --> 00:24:55.494
"Oh, well it was
the worst weather in 50 ...

00:24:55.494 --> 00:24:57.120
you know, you hear all that a lot.

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I've seen it in teams before
where things are difficult

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and you translate that into this
kind of negative spiral.

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But when you sort of dig
below the surface

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it's because someone
within that team

00:25:08.632 --> 00:25:10.133
wasn't made to feel of value

00:25:10.133 --> 00:25:12.677
or the team wasn't
communicating properly,

00:25:12.677 --> 00:25:15.096
and so that's why
I feel that so much work

00:25:15.096 --> 00:25:18.517
has to be put into that because
that doesn't happen by accident.

00:25:19.893 --> 00:25:22.521
They should be feeling
really proud and pumped up.

00:25:22.521 --> 00:25:24.689
But it doesn't feel
like that at the moment.

00:25:25.398 --> 00:25:27.025
>> One word to describe that day.

00:25:27.275 --> 00:25:28.902
>> Il terrible!

00:25:28.944 --> 00:25:30.779
>> Spiders.

00:25:30.779 --> 00:25:32.864
>> Too many.

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>> Lots of sand. Lots of sand.

00:25:35.534 --> 00:25:37.619
>> For me, it's been a challenge. So it's been...

00:25:37.619 --> 00:25:39.621
>> Oh, I'm glad
you said those words.
>> A good challenge.

00:25:39.621 --> 00:25:40.914
>> Yes, but it has been
a challenge.

00:25:40.914 --> 00:25:42.165
>> That makes me feel so good!

00:25:42.165 --> 00:25:43.124
[ Laughter ]

00:25:43.124 --> 00:25:44.876
>> That it has been a challenge for you.

00:25:47.420 --> 00:25:51.091
[ bright music ]

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>> Okay.

00:25:56.388 --> 00:25:57.806
>> Ten seconds.

00:25:59.266 --> 00:26:00.517
>> Have fun.

00:26:03.728 --> 00:26:06.398
>> I had a dream
that my house was repossessed.

00:26:06.982 --> 00:26:09.276
So maybe it's a good thing I'm
learning how to live outside.

00:26:16.825 --> 00:26:19.703
>> I'm doing my utmost to try
to stop the sand getting in it.

00:26:27.294 --> 00:26:29.421
>> Another day.
>> Another day.

00:26:29.421 --> 00:26:31.339
>> Another day in the desert.

00:26:36.177 --> 00:26:37.762
>> Can you just slow down?

00:26:38.722 --> 00:26:40.765
>> It doesn't matter
how much we train.

00:26:40.765 --> 00:26:43.268
Everyone has to be
on the same wavelength.

00:26:43.268 --> 00:26:45.270
And ultimately,
we have to completely trust

00:26:45.270 --> 00:26:47.397
each other and communicate
with each other.

00:26:52.527 --> 00:26:54.904
>> How was that? Ups and downs?

00:26:54.904 --> 00:26:58.575
Yeah, you're all very quiet.
Come and find some shade.

00:27:03.830 --> 00:27:05.415
>> The last leg was really hard.

00:27:06.041 --> 00:27:07.959
>> That last leg was killer.

00:27:09.294 --> 00:27:11.296
>> I"m forming a little blister.

00:27:11.296 --> 00:27:13.423
>> Oh, it's sunburn
before frostbite.

00:27:13.423 --> 00:27:15.967
Frostbite can be
literally even worse.

00:27:15.967 --> 00:27:18.094
If I do like this
with my fingers now,

00:27:18.094 --> 00:27:19.971
it feels like
I have needles that ...

00:27:20.930 --> 00:27:22.474
doing that.

00:27:22.474 --> 00:27:25.393
Both thumbs and this
finger as well. Always.

00:27:25.393 --> 00:27:29.272
And I have it here as well.
Always hurts when I do this.

00:27:31.775 --> 00:27:33.360
>> Is anyone asleep yet?

00:27:35.862 --> 00:27:37.030
>> You know I had an experience

00:27:37.030 --> 00:27:40.033
talking to a woman
from Indonesia.

00:27:40.033 --> 00:27:42.952
It was quite common
in her country for husbands

00:27:42.952 --> 00:27:44.704
to take a second wife
eventually.

00:27:45.664 --> 00:27:47.248
I'm thinking, you know...

00:27:48.500 --> 00:27:51.336
If I was given that option
as an educated woman,

00:27:51.336 --> 00:27:53.088
"Do you want
to be the second wife?"

00:27:54.089 --> 00:27:56.758
I don't know, I'd find
that quiet hard I think.

00:27:56.758 --> 00:27:58.635
>> I've got a lot to say
about all of it.

00:27:59.135 --> 00:28:01.304
Muslims, correct me
if I'm wrong.

00:28:01.304 --> 00:28:04.557
My dad is married
to two women as well, okay?

00:28:04.557 --> 00:28:08.395
So I come from a family
where there's two moms.

00:28:08.395 --> 00:28:10.313
There has to be equality
between the wives ...

00:28:10.313 --> 00:28:10.980
>> Yeah.

00:28:10.980 --> 00:28:16.111
>> Financially.
>> Financially.
>> With every, with every aspect possible, so ...

00:28:16.111 --> 00:28:18.947
the size of the house,
the number of cars, the ...

00:28:18.947 --> 00:28:20.448
>> There's two cars?

00:28:20.448 --> 00:28:22.742
>> Yeah. If there's two house
if they're not sharing a house.

00:28:22.742 --> 00:28:25.787
So in my family,
my mom said I want to live

00:28:25.787 --> 00:28:28.039
in a joint family thing,
keep it one house.

00:28:28.039 --> 00:28:31.251
Because she knew that that woman
had four kids with my dad.

00:28:31.251 --> 00:28:33.795
And I'm just giving you this
as an example for you guys

00:28:33.795 --> 00:28:35.922
to realize
that there are such cases

00:28:35.922 --> 00:28:39.718
where women aren't forced
into accepting a second wife

00:28:39.718 --> 00:28:41.845
or forced into accepting
another woman.

00:28:41.845 --> 00:28:43.054
>> But it's a belief system.

00:28:43.054 --> 00:28:44.305
>> Yeah.

00:28:44.305 --> 00:28:46.725
>> If you genuinely believe
that this is okay,

00:28:46.725 --> 00:28:48.727
then you're going to do it
with an open heart.

00:28:48.727 --> 00:28:49.436
>> Yeah.

00:28:49.436 --> 00:28:52.230
>> Like, my grandmother is
one of four wives.

00:28:52.230 --> 00:28:54.858
And like you said,
they're ... they're sisters,

00:28:54.858 --> 00:28:57.485
and they're friends,
and they, they do everything together.

00:28:58.361 --> 00:28:59.988
Like when they're sick,
they take care of each other.

00:28:59.988 --> 00:29:03.366
And it just becomes
like an extended family.

00:29:03.366 --> 00:29:06.870
And once again, I personally
don't think I would do that.

00:29:07.537 --> 00:29:08.913
But it's a belief system.

00:29:08.913 --> 00:29:10.165
>> And if it works, it works.

00:29:10.165 --> 00:29:12.125
>> And if it works,
it works, you know.

00:29:12.125 --> 00:29:15.170
>> So is the opposite also possible that the wife chooses?

00:29:17.005 --> 00:29:18.590
>> Why are we laughing?

00:29:19.215 --> 00:29:21.092
>> No, no, but go on, yeah.

00:29:21.092 --> 00:29:24.220
>> What if a woman would be
the one choosing a husband

00:29:24.220 --> 00:29:27.474
and then in cooperation

00:29:27.474 --> 00:29:29.392
would this husband
choose the second one

00:29:29.392 --> 00:29:31.895
and the third one
and the fourth one?

00:29:31.895 --> 00:29:34.522
That to me would feel
like equality.

00:29:35.899 --> 00:29:40.487
>> Yeah. I mean, Islamically speaking,
no there isn't that ...

00:29:40.487 --> 00:29:43.573
>> Yeah, the mirror
version of that.

00:29:56.127 --> 00:29:57.796
>> Everyone here
is very passionate.

00:29:58.963 --> 00:30:00.548
There was friction.

00:30:01.174 --> 00:30:02.759
But it's better that we have
that friction now

00:30:02.759 --> 00:30:05.178
and work it through
than have that friction

00:30:05.178 --> 00:30:07.597
when we've only got
our 2-week window

00:30:07.597 --> 00:30:09.307
to make it to the North Pole.

00:30:15.021 --> 00:30:29.744
[ whispered praying ]

00:31:06.865 --> 00:31:08.658
>> I've got small and I've got ...

00:31:08.658 --> 00:31:10.660
>> That's good. Yeah, I like that.

00:31:10.660 --> 00:31:11.661
>> Okay.
>> Thank you.

00:31:11.661 --> 00:31:13.371
>> Get well soon.
>> Okay, assalamu alaikum.

00:31:13.371 --> 00:31:14.622
>> Okay, well you rest.

00:31:14.622 --> 00:31:17.208
>> Appreciate it.
>> You're welcome. Assalamu alaikum.

00:31:22.881 --> 00:31:23.548
>> Morning!

00:31:23.548 --> 00:31:25.049
>> Morning!

00:31:25.049 --> 00:31:29.596
There's the list of Muslim patients there,
and that's been updated today.

00:31:29.596 --> 00:31:30.221
>> Okay.

00:31:30.221 --> 00:31:32.348
>> And then there's also
the printout for you.

00:31:33.474 --> 00:31:36.019
So, Misba, how ready are you
for the North Pole?

00:31:36.019 --> 00:31:38.021
>> I've got about,
what, 4 days left?

00:31:38.021 --> 00:31:38.563
>> Oh, wow.

00:31:38.563 --> 00:31:41.983
>> I'm terrified. The North Pole
was in a distance,

00:31:41.983 --> 00:31:43.943
but now it's all of
a sudden it's come,

00:31:43.943 --> 00:31:45.403
my anxiety has kicked in.

00:31:46.613 --> 00:31:49.824
>> On Monday, apparently
my husband was telling me

00:31:49.824 --> 00:31:53.703
I was stood outside the bed
at 3 in the morning,

00:31:53.703 --> 00:31:56.664
and saying, "Am I there yet?"
I know.

00:31:57.832 --> 00:31:59.834
>> How are you going to know
what direction

00:31:59.834 --> 00:32:01.502
to pray at the North Pole?

00:32:01.502 --> 00:32:04.464
Don't the compasses
go bananas there or something?

00:32:05.256 --> 00:32:09.636
>> It will be the nearest Muslim
country to the North Pole.

00:32:10.470 --> 00:32:11.721
>> Right.

00:32:11.721 --> 00:32:15.058
>> Nearest Muslim country,
I don't know if that's Morocco.

00:32:15.683 --> 00:32:17.936
I don't know. You know what
I'm like with directions.

00:32:17.936 --> 00:32:19.270
I don't ...
I know the North is that way.

00:32:19.395 --> 00:32:21.314
>> You can’t even find your way to the wards sometimes!

00:32:21.314 --> 00:32:23.566
>> I know, I know,
I struggle with the wards.

00:32:23.566 --> 00:32:25.193
Forget about the North Pole.

00:32:31.074 --> 00:32:33.743
I'm thinking of putting the bars
in here

00:32:34.452 --> 00:32:37.038
and putting one sledge
on the top.

00:32:37.038 --> 00:32:40.124
>> Yeah because the bag,
this bag is big in size,

00:32:40.124 --> 00:32:41.417
so you want lightness of ...

00:32:41.417 --> 00:32:42.669
>> Yeah, yeah, I get it.
I get it.

00:32:42.669 --> 00:32:43.920
>> The big, big bulky stuff

00:32:43.920 --> 00:32:46.297
can go in this bag
because this bag is big in size.

00:32:46.297 --> 00:32:47.590
>> Okay.

00:32:47.590 --> 00:32:48.049
>> Yeah.

00:32:48.049 --> 00:32:50.927
>> I do all the packing when we go away on holiday.

00:32:52.095 --> 00:32:55.431
No it's ...
You need to put more stuff.

00:32:55.431 --> 00:32:59.143
Put all that stuff in there.
You go to the airport.

00:32:59.143 --> 00:33:02.188
What you do is juggle it,
put it in another bag, and ...

00:33:02.188 --> 00:33:04.065
[ Chatter ]

00:33:05.608 --> 00:33:07.485
[ intense music ]

00:33:17.412 --> 00:33:20.206
>> Looks like the fridge is colder than the freezer.

00:33:26.337 --> 00:33:29.007
>> Yeah, who is that?
Mr. Horsey.

00:33:35.763 --> 00:33:37.056
Hey, little boy.

00:34:23.853 --> 00:34:25.271
[ chatter ]

00:34:31.652 --> 00:34:33.071
>> I think we can afford
to be a little bit,

00:34:33.071 --> 00:34:35.573
have a little bit more
of those ones in here.

00:34:35.573 --> 00:34:37.658
>> I am opening Twix.

00:34:37.658 --> 00:34:39.327
It's a complicated job
I tell you.

00:34:40.328 --> 00:34:41.996
This is snacks
for during the day

00:34:41.996 --> 00:34:44.332
because we're not going
to be stopping to eat.

00:34:44.332 --> 00:34:46.834
Everything needs to be chopped
up into bite-size pieces,

00:34:46.834 --> 00:34:50.880
otherwise it freezes.
And it will be hard to bite it.

00:34:55.384 --> 00:34:57.011
>> So we are waiting
for a flight

00:34:57.011 --> 00:35:00.598
to take us from Longyearbyen
to a place known as Barneo,

00:35:01.182 --> 00:35:02.892
and it's a floating ice station

00:35:02.892 --> 00:35:04.852
somewhere around
89 degrees north,

00:35:04.852 --> 00:35:06.145
and when they go out there,

00:35:06.145 --> 00:35:08.231
they find somewhere
suitable in the sea ice

00:35:08.231 --> 00:35:10.566
that's thick enough
to build a runway,

00:35:10.566 --> 00:35:13.277
so that's when they can start
shipping people like us

00:35:13.277 --> 00:35:15.321
from Longyearbyen
to the ice station.

00:35:15.321 --> 00:35:18.866
It's an incredible story how
they set up this ice station.

00:35:18.866 --> 00:35:20.368
It's absolutely nuts.

00:35:20.368 --> 00:35:23.162
What's happening right now
is that there are helicopters

00:35:23.162 --> 00:35:25.456
flying from
the middle of Siberia,

00:35:25.456 --> 00:35:29.794
up over the sea ice, finding
a good place to put a runway,

00:35:30.753 --> 00:35:32.547
and when they think
they've found a good spot,

00:35:32.547 --> 00:35:36.467
they radio back to Russia,
and a plane is sent out,

00:35:36.467 --> 00:35:39.637
a big Antonov cargo plane
with all the tents

00:35:39.637 --> 00:35:42.765
and the accommodation and all
the other things that they need.

00:35:43.641 --> 00:35:45.560
They have to push everything out
the back of the plane

00:35:45.560 --> 00:35:47.812
because the plane
can't land on the sea ice.

00:35:47.812 --> 00:35:50.314
And they always
send two bulldozers

00:35:50.314 --> 00:35:53.317
and apparently the reason
is, they always used to send one,

00:35:53.317 --> 00:35:55.570
but one year they pushed
the bulldozers

00:35:55.570 --> 00:35:56.779
out the back of the plane

00:35:56.779 --> 00:35:58.114
and the bulldozer
just disappeared

00:35:58.114 --> 00:35:59.323
straight through the sea ice.

00:35:59.323 --> 00:36:02.410
So now they always send two
in case one disappears.

00:36:03.286 --> 00:36:06.497
And then the guys
have to clear a runway.

00:36:06.497 --> 00:36:08.749
So they've got a huge amount
of work to do,

00:36:08.749 --> 00:36:11.627
and the amount of risk
involved in any of that.

00:36:11.627 --> 00:36:14.213
You can imagine, any little part
of that goes wrong,

00:36:15.882 --> 00:36:18.634
they're very vulnerable
and exposed.

00:36:21.012 --> 00:36:22.597
>> What's in the red bag, Susan?

00:36:22.972 --> 00:36:25.975
>> In the red bag there’s a survival suit.

00:36:25.975 --> 00:36:30.313
>> that the Institut polaire français Paul-Émile Victor
>>Open it!

00:36:30.313 --> 00:36:33.608
>> lent us for the expedition

00:36:33.858 --> 00:36:40.031
We would use this if someone needs to try out
some ice that we’re not too sure about

00:36:40.489 --> 00:36:43.784
It’s a little bit heavy.

00:36:44.744 --> 00:36:46.454
[ laughter ]

00:36:52.043 --> 00:36:53.961
>> and, Susan I'm going to hand that to you.

00:36:54.378 --> 00:36:56.297
>> We need science and we’re taking

00:36:56.672 --> 00:36:58.591
the opportunity of us going to the North Pole

00:36:59.550 --> 00:37:02.470
to gather like new data, exciting data.

00:37:02.720 --> 00:37:04.388
>> Okay, you ready for this?
>> I'm ready.

00:37:04.388 --> 00:37:07.308
>> Relax just a little bit
for me. There you go, perfect.

00:37:08.184 --> 00:37:10.436
I’ve done that so many times on seals, so

00:37:10.436 --> 00:37:12.688
it’s only fair that

00:37:12.897 --> 00:37:14.190
>> Okay, I have another one here.

00:37:14.523 --> 00:37:15.816
it’s my turn.

00:37:15.942 --> 00:37:17.985
>> There’s two scientific studies happening.

00:37:17.985 --> 00:37:20.029
The one with psychology and the one with physiology.

00:37:22.114 --> 00:37:25.576
There’s really few studies in this kind of expedition.

00:37:26.494 --> 00:37:29.664
But the ones that have been done have been on men.

00:37:34.001 --> 00:37:36.254
>> Hello, they say
we can start or not?

00:37:36.254 --> 00:37:38.256
Or we wait a little bit, Rick?

00:37:38.256 --> 00:37:40.132
>> [Indistinct]

00:37:40.508 --> 00:37:43.135
>> Good evening everybody. It’s so nice to see again

00:37:43.386 --> 00:37:46.764
everybody here and first of all I’d like to apologize

00:37:47.014 --> 00:37:49.475
on behalf of the organizers for such a delay.

00:37:49.475 --> 00:37:52.311
What happened unfortunately on 12th of February,

00:37:52.603 --> 00:37:55.022
One of the helicopters of this company crashed

00:37:55.147 --> 00:37:56.899
and two people were killed.

00:37:57.024 --> 00:37:58.276
You know, sometimes it happens.

00:37:59.026 --> 00:38:02.571
Everything which happens in air sometimes fall.

00:38:02.738 --> 00:38:05.157
>> This helicopter company
had had two crashes

00:38:05.157 --> 00:38:06.867
within the space
of about 3 months

00:38:06.867 --> 00:38:08.869
and so their permit was revoked.

00:38:08.869 --> 00:38:11.205
>> Couldn't be managed in the right way,

00:38:11.789 --> 00:38:14.667
So we decided we have to delay the season.

00:38:15.293 --> 00:38:16.544
the first flight

00:38:16.544 --> 00:38:19.005
will be on the evening on 14th.

00:38:19.588 --> 00:38:22.049
So we have very short season. Ten days.

00:38:23.259 --> 00:38:25.303
>> What could go wrong now?

00:38:25.303 --> 00:38:28.055
Everything, being later
in the month

00:38:28.055 --> 00:38:31.225
will mean that the ice perhaps
is moving around more,

00:38:31.225 --> 00:38:35.771
perhaps breaking open more,
larger breaks, bigger,

00:38:36.605 --> 00:38:40.234
bigger pressure ridges.
It could mean anything.

00:38:40.234 --> 00:38:42.820
This is why the season never
lasts beyond the end of April

00:38:42.820 --> 00:38:45.948
is because the sea ice state
becomes too precarious

00:38:45.948 --> 00:38:47.575
that they can't stay out there.

00:38:47.575 --> 00:38:50.619
[ Chatter ]

00:38:50.619 --> 00:38:51.912
>> Do you also need small ones?

00:38:51.912 --> 00:38:53.205
>> Yes.

00:38:53.247 --> 00:38:54.540
>> In second half of April, actually,

00:38:54.540 --> 00:38:55.958
the weather is mild.

00:38:55.958 --> 00:38:58.085
In the beginning, it could be -30, -35.

00:38:58.377 --> 00:39:00.379
Now, -20, -25.

00:39:01.130 --> 00:39:02.465
For ice, it’s bad.

00:39:02.465 --> 00:39:03.883
Ice is getting weaker.

00:39:04.050 --> 00:39:05.134
But for you it’s better.

00:39:07.678 --> 00:39:08.971
>> We can all swim,
so that helps.

00:39:08.971 --> 00:39:10.222
>> No, no, don't swim.

00:39:10.222 --> 00:39:11.474
>> I'm only joking.

00:39:11.474 --> 00:39:12.725
>> Don't even joke.
>> I'm ...

00:39:12.725 --> 00:39:13.976
>> Thank you.

00:39:14.352 --> 00:39:16.187
>> It’s good I came over, especially for so many hugs.

00:39:16.354 --> 00:39:17.313
>> Ah great.

00:39:17.480 --> 00:39:19.231
>> Not for expeditions.

00:39:19.690 --> 00:39:20.983
Having 13 women!

00:39:21.067 --> 00:39:22.485
>> Yeah.

00:39:22.485 --> 00:39:25.237
>> Having these incredible nice looking ladies

00:39:25.237 --> 00:39:29.158
around is just good experience and then make people more happy.

00:39:32.203 --> 00:39:32.828
>> Exciting.

00:39:33.037 --> 00:39:35.956
>> Okay ladies have a good time, I leave in half an hour.

00:39:36.248 --> 00:39:36.832
>> Okay.
>> Thank you.

00:39:36.874 --> 00:39:38.084
>> I bring you something delicious.

00:39:38.084 --> 00:39:39.335
>> Thank you so much.

00:39:39.335 --> 00:39:43.923
[ Chatter ]

00:39:44.382 --> 00:39:47.009
>> I did a big expedition in 1995 across Arctic Ocean.

00:39:47.468 --> 00:39:50.096
We had the team with two women there.

00:39:50.304 --> 00:39:53.182
And they behave much better than men.

00:39:54.725 --> 00:39:55.309
Yeah.

00:39:59.021 --> 00:40:03.609
[ ominous music ]

00:40:08.697 --> 00:40:10.866
>> I live in Svalbard.

00:40:13.494 --> 00:40:16.705
We have now 3,000 polar bears
in this area.

00:40:18.374 --> 00:40:20.960
If something would happen
on the expedition,

00:40:20.960 --> 00:40:23.754
I'm the one
who would step in front

00:40:23.754 --> 00:40:26.507
and be between the bear
and my teammates.

00:40:30.344 --> 00:40:33.722
>> They are amazing animals,
amazing.

00:40:33.722 --> 00:40:36.225
>> They are where the seals are,
where the food is,

00:40:36.225 --> 00:40:39.061
and they are where
there's more broken ice.

00:40:39.061 --> 00:40:40.479
They are top of the food chain,

00:40:40.479 --> 00:40:43.149
and they know that they have
no enemies on land,

00:40:43.983 --> 00:40:46.485
and therefore
they are dangerous.

00:40:46.485 --> 00:40:49.613
So always try to look up
and around you.

00:40:49.613 --> 00:40:51.615
If you would then
see these black spots,

00:40:51.615 --> 00:40:55.119
the three ones that you always
look for, the three black spots.

00:40:55.119 --> 00:40:57.997
You see two eyes and one nose,
although if you see them

00:40:57.997 --> 00:41:03.544
then he also is quite close.
If he start coming closer,

00:41:03.544 --> 00:41:06.589
a flare gun would be
the first thing we would shoot.

00:41:06.589 --> 00:41:09.049
Then me and Felicity
who has rifles,

00:41:09.049 --> 00:41:10.718
if it would come to that,

00:41:10.718 --> 00:41:14.597
we have to shoot the polar bear,
then we shoot it to kill it.

00:41:14.597 --> 00:41:16.974
You don't shoot the polar bear
to injure it

00:41:16.974 --> 00:41:18.767
because he will now
suffer to death.

00:41:22.563 --> 00:41:25.774
For the North gate it
shouldn't be any polar bears

00:41:25.774 --> 00:41:28.819
but because climate change
the ice is breaking up,

00:41:28.819 --> 00:41:32.907
and polar bears are looking
for areas where might be seals

00:41:32.907 --> 00:41:34.992
or areas where they maybe
haven't been before

00:41:34.992 --> 00:41:37.286
and the ice being smaller
and smaller,

00:41:37.286 --> 00:41:39.497
these polar bears starts
getting higher and higher up

00:41:39.497 --> 00:41:41.332
which means
that it is a higher risk.

00:41:43.459 --> 00:41:47.296
We definitely have to be careful
and keep our eyes open.

00:42:05.606 --> 00:42:06.649
[ phone chimes ]

00:42:08.108 --> 00:42:09.610
>> Okay.

00:42:09.610 --> 00:42:12.112
We're on standby from
the airport from 11 o'clock.

00:42:13.155 --> 00:42:14.740
Does that sound good?

00:42:15.741 --> 00:42:17.952
>> Yes, it's good,
a bit excited,

00:42:17.952 --> 00:42:21.080
but it's too surreal.

00:42:23.040 --> 00:42:24.416
>> Well, you saw me today
at lunch.

00:42:24.416 --> 00:42:25.626
>> You were shaking.

00:42:25.626 --> 00:42:29.255
>> My hand was like this.
It's actually happening.

00:42:33.884 --> 00:42:36.095
It's not pulling a tire
in the park anymore.

00:42:39.223 --> 00:42:42.309
Today's temperature
in the North Pole is -29.

00:42:43.978 --> 00:42:45.312
>> Well it's good news for us.

00:42:45.312 --> 00:42:48.065
>> -29.
>> So that's colder.

00:42:48.065 --> 00:42:48.774
>> Yeah.

00:42:48.774 --> 00:42:50.943
>> That's good.
It's good news for the ice.

00:42:51.277 --> 00:42:52.528
[ laughter ]

00:42:53.320 --> 00:42:54.613
>> Next 10 days is going
to be a lot ...

00:42:54.613 --> 00:42:55.823
>> Going to be a lot of drama.

00:42:55.823 --> 00:42:58.033
>> ... drama, stress levels.

00:42:58.033 --> 00:43:00.494
>> Won't be an easy thing for me
if I don't make it.

00:43:01.537 --> 00:43:03.998
I tend to be very tough
on myself for...

00:43:03.998 --> 00:43:06.000
>> For not making it?
>> ... making mistakes.

00:43:06.000 --> 00:43:09.295
When I said finding out
about ourselves, for me,

00:43:10.087 --> 00:43:13.132
it would be dealing
with this failure.

00:43:14.633 --> 00:43:15.843
I'm not so good ...

00:43:15.843 --> 00:43:18.554
That's one of my weakest points,
dealing with failure.

00:43:21.724 --> 00:43:24.602
When you train and you work
so hard for something,

00:43:24.602 --> 00:43:26.604
and then you get there,
do you never get sad?

00:43:26.645 --> 00:43:27.354
No.

00:43:27.938 --> 00:43:29.481
>> Oh, okay,
then I'm the weirdo.

00:43:29.481 --> 00:43:31.400
>> You have actually trained for this!

00:43:31.400 --> 00:43:34.945
No it's just because, no it's
because okay, I've done it.

00:43:42.494 --> 00:43:48.125
[ excited music ]

00:43:59.219 --> 00:44:05.643
[ speaking Russian on headsets ]

00:44:24.662 --> 00:44:25.954
>> Yuri, that’s it.

00:44:27.039 --> 00:44:28.332
Closer.

00:44:28.582 --> 00:44:29.875
>> Where?

00:44:30.834 --> 00:44:32.127
>> Go ahead! Go ahead! Go ahead!

00:44:42.554 --> 00:44:44.264
>> This is pretty
fucking terrifying.

00:44:48.018 --> 00:44:50.646
>> Focus on a positive thought and breathe.

00:44:53.148 --> 00:44:55.776
>> She’s asthmatic and it’s cold.

00:45:04.243 --> 00:45:05.869
Be careful now.

00:45:05.869 --> 00:45:07.496
This is real time.

00:45:08.414 --> 00:45:10.999
Fingers, faces, toes.

00:45:10.999 --> 00:45:12.626
Check check check check check.

00:45:18.549 --> 00:45:19.800
>> Sorry?

00:45:19.800 --> 00:45:21.468
>> The bottle has got
fuel around it.

00:45:22.010 --> 00:45:34.815
[ speaking Russian over the radio ]

00:45:57.629 --> 00:46:03.844
[ music intensifying ]

00:46:24.448 --> 00:46:26.992
>> Guys! Hold onto your skis.

00:46:26.992 --> 00:46:30.287
They could fly away
when the helicopter goes.

00:47:04.780 --> 00:47:05.823
How are you all feeling?

00:47:06.657 --> 00:47:07.950
When I say how are you feeling,

00:47:07.950 --> 00:47:10.702
I mean having had
no sleep overnight.

00:47:12.246 --> 00:47:15.457
It would be great
if we could get a good day

00:47:15.457 --> 00:47:18.877
in even though we're all feeling
pretty tired and you know.

00:47:18.877 --> 00:47:20.462
>> All right. Let's give it a go.

00:47:30.055 --> 00:47:31.723
[ gasps for air ]

00:47:44.361 --> 00:47:46.029
>> Oh dear.

00:47:47.406 --> 00:47:49.283
>> Ah shit.

00:47:50.701 --> 00:47:52.286
>> Oh no.

00:47:54.872 --> 00:47:56.456
>> Oh my god.

00:48:02.296 --> 00:48:03.422
>> Ah shit.

00:48:05.674 --> 00:48:07.843
>> Careful your rope.
You'll step over it.

00:48:08.010 --> 00:48:09.469
>> Break time.

00:48:15.183 --> 00:48:18.312
[ praying ]

00:48:19.146 --> 00:48:21.815
>> Can everybody check each other’s faces?

00:48:21.815 --> 00:48:24.026
Make sure there’s no white bits.

00:48:24.026 --> 00:48:26.236
Any white bits is bad news.

00:48:31.241 --> 00:48:32.659
>> I struggled with everything.

00:48:32.659 --> 00:48:35.746
I'm struggling with my skis,
the cold.

00:48:36.955 --> 00:48:39.124
I struggled with the length
of skiing time.

00:48:40.125 --> 00:48:41.877
I just struggled
with everything.

00:48:43.754 --> 00:48:45.172
>> Oh!

00:48:52.220 --> 00:48:53.639
>> Go, go, go, go, go!

00:48:57.809 --> 00:48:59.436
>> We should camp here for the night.

00:49:00.145 --> 00:49:01.772
>> It's 9 o'clock? Wow.

00:49:14.785 --> 00:49:15.327
>> How was it?

00:49:15.327 --> 00:49:20.040
>> Super difficult.
I started early

00:49:20.040 --> 00:49:26.004
no sleep, not much food,
and it was just really tiring.

00:49:26.004 --> 00:49:28.298
My muscles ache,
my shoulder, my back.

00:49:41.728 --> 00:49:43.939
>> The situation in the arctic
is pretty alarming

00:49:43.939 --> 00:49:45.899
from a climate
change point of view.

00:49:48.443 --> 00:49:50.696
It's the stability of the ice
that's the problem.

00:49:53.407 --> 00:49:54.783
>> It's all right
if you get nervous now.

00:49:57.536 --> 00:49:59.579
>> There's less and
less multiyear ice around.

00:49:59.579 --> 00:50:01.707
So a lot of the ice
you're seeing will have formed

00:50:01.707 --> 00:50:05.002
that previous winter.
The really strong stuff

00:50:05.002 --> 00:50:07.671
is the stuff
that's survived several winters,

00:50:09.089 --> 00:50:11.883
and that's the stuff
that's really reducing.

00:50:13.343 --> 00:50:18.557
[ ice cracking ]

00:50:21.268 --> 00:50:23.311
>> You’re just walking on thin ice here.

00:50:24.187 --> 00:50:27.190
Any minute now it’s going to crack and open beneath you.

00:50:27.190 --> 00:50:30.986
which is such a dangerous environment.

00:50:34.322 --> 00:50:37.367
>> The fact that you could
hear the ice breaking,

00:50:38.076 --> 00:50:41.955
not cracking, breaking,
was really scary.

00:50:52.382 --> 00:50:55.552
>> If you played poker,
going all in, that was all in.

00:50:57.596 --> 00:51:00.015
>> It was scary.
Me and Anisa said our good-byes

00:51:00.015 --> 00:51:01.600
to each other
a couple of times

00:51:02.142 --> 00:51:04.728
and told each other that
if anything happens they'd tell

00:51:04.728 --> 00:51:06.605
our parents that we're okay,
and we love them very much.

00:51:06.605 --> 00:51:07.814
>> Yep.

00:51:07.814 --> 00:51:09.983
>> You really feel like you're
on top of the ocean,

00:51:09.983 --> 00:51:12.486
but when it's covered
with snow, you don't.

00:51:12.486 --> 00:51:14.279
So it's like it goes
back and forth.

00:51:14.905 --> 00:51:17.032
>> But we're really always
on top of the ocean,

00:51:17.032 --> 00:51:18.617
so there is no safety.

00:51:19.576 --> 00:51:21.870
>> I’ve written my will before I went here.

00:51:21.870 --> 00:51:23.121
>> You did?

00:51:23.163 --> 00:51:24.706
>> Yeah, my mom wanted me to.

00:51:24.706 --> 00:51:25.957
>> I said "Mom it's alright!"

00:51:26.166 --> 00:51:28.168
"Yeah, but I want you to.

00:51:28.168 --> 00:51:29.920
If anything happens to you,
you should have it."

00:51:29.920 --> 00:51:32.005
>> I think it's the battle
of the mind ...

00:51:32.005 --> 00:51:33.465
>> Yeah.
>> ... over

00:51:33.465 --> 00:51:35.050
actually where you are.

00:52:23.390 --> 00:52:34.276
[ camp stove hissing ]

00:52:47.414 --> 00:52:49.457
>> Good morning Nataša

00:52:49.583 --> 00:52:50.167
>> Yeah.

00:52:50.167 --> 00:52:53.295
>> It’s a kindly reminder that it’s spitting day today.

00:53:02.721 --> 00:53:04.973
Just a boring science reminder.

00:53:04.973 --> 00:53:05.807
It’s spitting day.

00:53:05.807 --> 00:53:07.893
So just before we set off

00:53:07.893 --> 00:53:09.978
if you can spit and then next stop, spit again

00:53:10.395 --> 00:53:11.938
and don’t forget to push your watches.

00:53:12.480 --> 00:53:13.899
Thank you so much.

00:53:15.442 --> 00:53:16.651
>> That's disgusting.

00:53:17.569 --> 00:53:19.821
>> How many kilometers have done this morning?

00:53:19.821 --> 00:53:21.031
>> Two and a half.

00:53:21.698 --> 00:53:22.741
>> But it was fast, no?

00:53:22.824 --> 00:53:24.576
Does the speed feel good to you?

00:53:26.453 --> 00:53:29.122
>> Who’s leading now? You leading?

00:53:29.206 --> 00:53:30.457
>> Yeah.

00:53:32.375 --> 00:53:33.919
Huh. Looks like we're back.

00:53:34.461 --> 00:53:36.004
>> I started my period.

00:53:36.171 --> 00:53:39.007
I shouldn’t have started because
I finished when I started to come here.

00:53:39.299 --> 00:53:42.135
>> You’re in such an extreme environment,
there’s nothing that’s normal.

00:53:43.136 --> 00:53:46.389
>> Unless I put too much stress on my body yesterday.

00:53:46.389 --> 00:53:50.810
>> Misba, there is nothing normal to what happens to your body in this environment.

00:53:51.061 --> 00:53:52.395
Absolutely nothing.

00:53:52.395 --> 00:53:55.148
Yeah but I had two good days. Really at the top of the world.

00:53:55.148 --> 00:53:59.110
>> Well, you’re gonna have a shit day at some point because you can’t always have fucking awesome days.

00:54:00.320 --> 00:54:01.279
>> Whoo!

00:54:01.738 --> 00:54:04.866
>> Just ... keep ... pushing.

00:54:08.495 --> 00:54:09.955
>> It keeps coming out.

00:54:12.123 --> 00:54:12.999
>> Come on.

00:54:13.875 --> 00:54:15.543
>> Your boot coming out of them?

00:54:15.543 --> 00:54:16.795
>> Yeah.
>> Mariam?

00:54:16.795 --> 00:54:18.004
>> Yeah?

00:54:18.004 --> 00:54:18.755
>> Don't worry.

00:54:18.755 --> 00:54:20.507
I know you, I know you’re panicking.

00:54:21.091 --> 00:54:23.885
>> No, no, no I just don't
want this to be an issue.

00:54:26.471 --> 00:54:29.224
Oh my god. It keeps coming out.

00:54:33.728 --> 00:54:37.899
At least i can say I’m the first sucker to walk to the North Pole.

00:54:38.024 --> 00:54:43.530
I think this is better,
yeah, oh god.

00:54:49.953 --> 00:54:51.413
>> Uh-oh.

00:54:55.500 --> 00:54:58.253
Shit I think my hands
are freezing.

00:54:59.421 --> 00:55:00.922
>> Mariam, go inside.

00:55:00.922 --> 00:55:02.215
We'll do the rest.

00:55:05.051 --> 00:55:06.344
Take care of your fingers.

00:55:09.055 --> 00:55:12.183
>> Mariam, are you alright? Your hands okay?

00:55:13.226 --> 00:55:14.602
>> Something is not right.

00:55:14.602 --> 00:55:14.936
>> Ooh.

00:55:15.770 --> 00:55:17.147
>> Doesn’t look good.

00:55:17.689 --> 00:55:19.065
>> OK, keep warm.

00:55:20.317 --> 00:55:22.944
>> Don't go to sleep
because it might be hypothermia,

00:55:23.528 --> 00:55:25.196
and you could die.

00:55:33.246 --> 00:55:35.874
>> This is Felicity from
the Euro-Arabian expedition.

00:55:36.791 --> 00:55:43.506
It's 8922.8. Thanks, Victor.

00:55:45.550 --> 00:55:47.844
>> Unfortunately, I got frostbite.

00:55:51.598 --> 00:55:54.642
It doesn't feel like
it's something like a big deal.

00:55:56.269 --> 00:55:58.063
In my mind,
I really want to continue

00:55:58.063 --> 00:56:00.231
but the fact of the matter

00:56:00.231 --> 00:56:01.983
is it's going to get worse
and worse,

00:56:01.983 --> 00:56:06.863
and I wouldn't be able
to hold things.

00:56:06.863 --> 00:56:10.575
I wouldn't be able
to help with ...

00:56:11.618 --> 00:56:13.953
I'd basically be
a useless tent mate.

00:56:15.163 --> 00:56:18.083
>> I mean, I, I feel very sad.

00:56:18.083 --> 00:56:19.501
>> Me too.
>> It's not fair.

00:56:20.126 --> 00:56:25.840
It's not fair but this is like ...
we had -38. I'm afraid.

00:56:26.633 --> 00:56:33.515
This experience
scared the shit out of me.

00:56:33.515 --> 00:56:36.810
You may do everything right,
it's just tiny little bit

00:56:36.810 --> 00:56:38.978
of things,
and you've been the best.

00:57:06.131 --> 00:57:10.093
>> I will work really, really hard to plant your flag.

00:57:17.434 --> 00:57:20.728
Keep positive. Keep positive. Okay?

00:57:22.021 --> 00:57:25.316
Don’t ever think anything negative.

00:57:31.072 --> 00:57:32.657
>> I'm just really sad.

00:57:33.241 --> 00:57:38.121
It's a brutal reminder that
we're in one of the harshest ...

00:57:38.121 --> 00:57:40.790
We are in the harshest
environment on the planet.

00:57:41.332 --> 00:57:44.085
It doesn't take much.
It really doesn't take much.

00:57:44.752 --> 00:57:46.337
>> Susan, can you do a face check?

00:57:50.592 --> 00:57:52.552
>> Of course, the thought
comes in your head,

00:57:52.552 --> 00:57:56.055
"Well, we're just like Mariam.
One of us could be next."

00:58:05.148 --> 00:58:08.943
>> My mind wants to keep going,
but my body can't keep going.

00:58:11.154 --> 00:58:12.947
I wanted to be there
with the team,

00:58:12.947 --> 00:58:15.074
and I wanted to make it there
with them,

00:58:15.742 --> 00:58:20.163
especially Nataša, my tent mate.
It was hard leaving her.

00:58:31.883 --> 00:58:34.052
>> The doctor said it’s kinda bad.

00:58:34.886 --> 00:58:36.804
This is quite dangerous.

00:58:37.430 --> 00:58:39.307
>> Now, I'm getting scared.

00:58:39.349 --> 00:58:42.060
>> He gives you special pain killers.

00:58:42.894 --> 00:58:44.187
>> Yeah, there is already bubbles.

00:58:44.187 --> 00:58:45.396
>> Already bubbles?

00:58:46.314 --> 00:58:48.149
>> It’s a bubble so it’ll be bigger.

00:58:49.859 --> 00:58:51.194
>> Bigger. Could be bigger.

00:58:51.653 --> 00:58:55.448
[ speaking Russian ]

00:58:55.949 --> 00:58:58.201
>> But now this pain is going
to get worse, right?

00:58:58.326 --> 00:58:59.577
>> Yeah probably, yes.

00:59:08.878 --> 00:59:11.464
>> Just keep going as quickly
and carefully as you can.

00:59:12.715 --> 00:59:13.967
>> Am I over?
>> Nope.

00:59:13.967 --> 00:59:15.260
>> Yeah, now you are.

00:59:15.260 --> 00:59:16.469
>> Okay, thank you.

00:59:16.469 --> 00:59:17.679
>> You good?

00:59:17.679 --> 00:59:19.889
>> We have to be careful
to all stick together.

00:59:23.142 --> 00:59:25.311
>> When I realized that Mariam
wasn't going to be able

00:59:25.311 --> 00:59:27.021
to continue,
I was mortified.

00:59:28.523 --> 00:59:31.276
I'm the one that's told them
that they can be out there,

00:59:31.276 --> 00:59:32.902
that they can do this.

00:59:33.861 --> 00:59:36.739
So that's going to make me ask
a lot of questions in the future

00:59:36.739 --> 00:59:38.783
about whether I was
a bit too confident.

00:59:40.243 --> 00:59:43.538
People often say, "Oh, would you
continue an expedition

00:59:43.538 --> 00:59:45.415
if there was
a death in the team?"

00:59:45.415 --> 00:59:49.127
I don't think you can predict
in advance what the emotion

00:59:49.127 --> 00:59:51.754
to something really catastrophic
like that would be.

00:59:55.383 --> 00:59:58.136
My biggest fear,
letting people down.

01:00:00.221 --> 01:00:01.472
>> I miss her.

01:00:01.472 --> 01:00:06.227
It just felt so odd today not
having her in amongst the group.

01:00:06.227 --> 01:00:09.647
So, yeah, I feel very odd.

01:00:10.231 --> 01:00:14.402
>> When I was starting to bitch
or be negative, "Nataša."

01:00:16.029 --> 01:00:19.949
>> Yeah, I think Mariam is
a very sort of soulful person

01:00:19.949 --> 01:00:22.827
in that she always sees
the soul of something,

01:00:22.827 --> 01:00:25.204
and that's quite lovely
to have around

01:00:25.204 --> 01:00:27.624
when you've got someone
who has that perspective.

01:00:32.795 --> 01:00:35.214
>> I promised my children that I would come home,

01:00:36.049 --> 01:00:39.927
If anybody leaves
the expedition being ill,

01:00:39.927 --> 01:00:41.346
that same flight, I was ...
I'd come ...

01:00:41.346 --> 01:00:42.555
>> You did?
>> I did, yeah.

01:00:42.555 --> 01:00:43.765
>> She was actually
standing here,

01:00:43.765 --> 01:00:45.767
and she was like, "I'm going
to go with Mariam on the plane."

01:00:45.767 --> 01:00:46.934
We're like, "What?"

01:00:46.934 --> 01:00:48.144
>> Because I promised.

01:00:48.186 --> 01:00:50.355
>> You also made me promise that I won’t let you leave.

01:00:50.938 --> 01:00:52.607
>> Yeah, so actually, yes.

01:00:52.607 --> 01:00:54.150
>> You did.
They better not find out.

01:00:54.150 --> 01:00:56.944
>> I know. They better not
find out that someone went home.

01:01:20.551 --> 01:01:24.138
>> On the edge.
I think you need to take there.

01:01:44.951 --> 01:01:46.452
All right.
Here is touching open water.

01:01:47.036 --> 01:01:48.037
>> Oh, no!

01:01:53.459 --> 01:01:55.002
This is open water.

01:01:57.088 --> 01:01:58.548
That's too big for us.

01:02:00.133 --> 01:02:01.801
And it looks like
there's more here.

01:02:01.801 --> 01:02:03.052
>> Yeah.

01:02:05.638 --> 01:02:07.473
>> I wonder if we follow it
this way ...

01:02:08.349 --> 01:02:10.393
It takes us out of our way, but

01:02:10.435 --> 01:02:12.019
I don’t think we can cross that.

01:02:12.687 --> 01:02:15.022
My gut feeling is
we should go right

01:02:15.022 --> 01:02:17.024
and see if we can
get round the big one.

01:02:18.776 --> 01:02:21.154
This is the first time
I've ever seen this.

01:02:21.154 --> 01:02:22.655
I guess we should be excited,

01:02:22.655 --> 01:02:24.615
but it feels a bit scary,
to be honest.

01:02:27.910 --> 01:02:30.037
I think we just have to
follow it for a bit

01:02:30.663 --> 01:02:32.290
because this is no good.

01:02:34.584 --> 01:02:37.170
>> This is also the place we need to start watching out for polar bears.

01:02:38.171 --> 01:02:39.130
More water.

01:02:39.922 --> 01:02:41.257
More likelier are the bears.

01:02:48.222 --> 01:02:49.807
>> That was a crack, yeah.

01:02:55.104 --> 01:02:56.689
>> There's water everywhere,

01:02:56.689 --> 01:03:00.651
frozen water which we hadn't
seen so much lately,

01:03:00.651 --> 01:03:03.988
looks like lots of little lake,
frozen lake everywhere

01:03:04.572 --> 01:03:08.659
and much more warmer.
It's really strange.

01:03:09.786 --> 01:03:12.121
>> Okay, what about ...
What's going on here?

01:03:18.336 --> 01:03:19.837
Wait there until
we're all with you.

01:03:19.837 --> 01:03:21.464
We'll get across really quick.

01:03:22.089 --> 01:03:24.050
Yes, so we need
to go quickly, guys.

01:03:24.050 --> 01:03:25.968
>> Go, go, go!
>> Are you all ready?

01:03:25.968 --> 01:03:27.220
>> Fucking hell.

01:03:27.220 --> 01:03:29.472
>> You don't know when
this stuff is going to move.

01:03:29.472 --> 01:03:32.433
If anything here moves,
we don't stand a chance.

01:03:34.477 --> 01:03:37.104
>> Get ready. Go, go, go, go.

01:03:45.154 --> 01:03:46.572
>> That's the first time

01:03:46.572 --> 01:03:48.449
I've ever had to take a team
across a lead,

01:03:48.449 --> 01:03:51.118
and you read about it.
You hear about it.

01:03:51.118 --> 01:03:54.497
People talk to you about it,
give you advice, but faced then

01:03:54.497 --> 01:03:56.791
with the responsibility
of choosing a place,

01:03:57.333 --> 01:03:59.544
where it's not going
to go whoosh, and it's ...

01:03:59.544 --> 01:04:00.837
No one is going to go in,

01:04:00.837 --> 01:04:06.300
and, yeah, but I had to
just look confident.

01:04:15.184 --> 01:04:16.936
If you hold this,
I'll go get the shovel.

01:04:18.688 --> 01:04:20.273
>> Anything I can do?

01:04:20.314 --> 01:04:21.524
>> Stomp on it. Ida!

01:04:21.524 --> 01:04:23.192
You need to move
a bit that side.

01:04:23.192 --> 01:04:24.735
It's not straight again.

01:04:24.735 --> 01:04:26.529
>> Sorry?
>> The tent has gone like this.

01:04:27.113 --> 01:04:29.323
>> It's funny. In our tent,
we've got the woman of the house

01:04:29.323 --> 01:04:31.909
and the man of the house.
So Ida and I are the men,

01:04:31.909 --> 01:04:34.954
and we do all the manly work,
so putting the tent up,

01:04:34.954 --> 01:04:36.956
supporting the tent
with snow around it.

01:04:38.416 --> 01:04:40.459
>> We call Misba Mama Misba.

01:04:40.459 --> 01:04:42.795
She's like the caretaker
of the family.

01:04:42.795 --> 01:04:44.964
She's the first one
into the tent.

01:04:44.964 --> 01:04:47.675
When we get in, the house
is nice and ready for us,

01:04:47.675 --> 01:04:49.385
and the water
is already boiling,

01:04:49.927 --> 01:04:51.512
and we can get warmed up.

01:04:52.305 --> 01:04:54.307
>> I didn't get an option
to do the outside

01:04:54.307 --> 01:04:56.267
because I was told
that I'm very mom-sy.

01:04:56.267 --> 01:04:58.144
I should go inside
doing the cooking.

01:05:03.816 --> 01:05:05.151
>> Anisa.
>> I'm sorry, Misba.

01:05:05.443 --> 01:05:09.155
Everyone’s coffee been thrown here. Have you thrown any coffee out front?

01:05:09.322 --> 01:05:10.489
I was here and I told you I’m going to throw it here,

01:05:10.656 --> 01:05:11.657
And you were like, “No, hygienic kitchen.

01:05:11.824 --> 01:05:12.992
You don’t put anything in my kitchen.”

01:05:13.075 --> 01:05:14.327
>> Guys, does it matter now?

01:05:14.327 --> 01:05:16.579
>> Yeah, she never throws her stuff out, I’ll throw it out for her.

01:05:18.414 --> 01:05:20.041
>> The hardest part for me

01:05:20.416 --> 01:05:21.792
not this, not the skiing.

01:05:22.251 --> 01:05:25.171
not the pulling our sledges, not the cold.

01:05:25.588 --> 01:05:26.756
It’s dealing with people.

01:05:27.048 --> 01:05:32.762
You’re cramped up in a tent with four people and you have to be civil.

01:05:33.846 --> 01:05:35.681
You have to not fight.

01:05:36.974 --> 01:05:39.185
You have to control yourself and not get stressed.

01:06:25.940 --> 01:06:32.071
We’re trying to take an aerial view of the landscape
so we can build a new runway.

01:06:32.780 --> 01:06:38.285
>> The magnetic field is crazy.
I'm fighting, fighting.

01:06:38.911 --> 01:06:41.664
It's going like this,
and I have to fight.

01:06:42.540 --> 01:06:45.292
As long as I can see the drone,
I can bring back.

01:06:45.292 --> 01:06:48.713
If I don't ...
See?

01:06:53.592 --> 01:06:54.719
Here ...

01:06:54.844 --> 01:06:56.929
That crack is here.

01:06:57.680 --> 01:07:01.100
No, it’s not this one. It’s a new one.

01:07:01.934 --> 01:07:04.395
Oleg Andreyich, let’s send the tractor.

01:07:04.645 --> 01:07:07.106
We can’t see what’s there, under the snow.

01:07:07.356 --> 01:07:08.733
Tell them I need the layout.

01:07:09.191 --> 01:07:15.740
The Barneo camp, the pilots and where the open water is.

01:07:15.781 --> 01:07:17.158
That’s what I need.

01:07:20.536 --> 01:07:26.459
[ anxious music ]

01:07:50.483 --> 01:07:52.109
>> It's your turn.

01:08:06.582 --> 01:08:08.834
>> I am doing the polar
bear watch

01:08:08.834 --> 01:08:11.629
which is basically the worst
part of this expedition

01:08:12.254 --> 01:08:15.424
because you have to get out
of your warm sleeping bags,

01:08:15.966 --> 01:08:17.259
and we do 1 hour,

01:08:17.259 --> 01:08:19.929
30 minutes intervals
between the tent teams,

01:08:20.638 --> 01:08:23.891
and you pace around, look around
for the three black dots

01:08:23.891 --> 01:08:26.268
and make sure you don't
see them in the horizon.

01:08:44.203 --> 01:08:45.788
>> Morning.

01:08:46.747 --> 01:08:48.582
You know we should have a chair for bear watch.

01:08:49.083 --> 01:08:49.917
A chair ...

01:08:49.917 --> 01:08:51.127
>> But ...
>> ... for bear watch.

01:08:51.127 --> 01:08:52.336
>> Yeah.

01:08:52.336 --> 01:08:55.464
>> I squat, but what about
everybody else? What do you do?

01:08:55.464 --> 01:08:56.841
>> No, see ...
>> What do you mean?

01:08:56.841 --> 01:08:58.259
>> Like this, I can
do this for ages.

01:08:58.259 --> 01:08:59.593
>> I walk about!

01:08:59.593 --> 01:09:00.803
>> Sorry?

01:09:00.803 --> 01:09:02.263
>> I walked about for an hour
and a half.

01:09:02.263 --> 01:09:03.681
>> I didn't see
that many footprints.

01:09:03.681 --> 01:09:04.932
>> Yes, you did.
>> No, I didn't.

01:09:04.932 --> 01:09:06.142
>> Well, then you weren't ...

01:09:06.142 --> 01:09:07.518
You were obviously
inside the tent.

01:09:07.518 --> 01:09:10.271
She spent most of her time
inside the tent.

01:09:10.980 --> 01:09:13.149
>> But last night
during my bear watch,

01:09:13.149 --> 01:09:16.193
I started listening
to a new audiobook,

01:09:16.193 --> 01:09:19.405
"Astrophysics For Those
In a Hurry," super cool,

01:09:20.739 --> 01:09:22.491
and just when I was up
there alone,

01:09:23.325 --> 01:09:25.244
and listening to how
the universe started

01:09:25.244 --> 01:09:28.414
and the atoms and the molecules
and Big Bang and all that.

01:09:28.414 --> 01:09:29.707
>> Yeah.

01:09:29.707 --> 01:09:31.333
>> Can't wait to get back to it.

01:09:41.051 --> 01:09:42.261
Move it slowly.

01:09:44.930 --> 01:09:46.765
So I want to go through there.

01:09:48.058 --> 01:09:51.020
Yeah. Are we ready?

01:09:52.229 --> 01:09:55.441
Come on. Let’s go into the madness.

01:09:59.528 --> 01:10:02.114
Does she know about heading slightly right to pole?

01:10:03.991 --> 01:10:05.201
Misba!

01:10:08.078 --> 01:10:10.289
What’s your marker? Where are you heading for?

01:10:10.581 --> 01:10:12.917
I’m heading to that iceberg. Is that ok?

01:10:13.334 --> 01:10:16.879
Well, north is like here and we were heading there.

01:10:17.254 --> 01:10:18.255
>> Okay.

01:10:19.089 --> 01:10:20.257
>> Okay.

01:10:29.183 --> 01:10:30.184
Oh!

01:10:32.019 --> 01:10:34.021
I’m gonna smash this!

01:10:39.151 --> 01:10:40.402
>> When you are leading,

01:10:40.402 --> 01:10:43.155
and you see the vast ice
in front of you,

01:10:43.155 --> 01:10:46.033
and you have to actually map
the routes out

01:10:46.033 --> 01:10:47.409
and everybody to follow,

01:10:47.409 --> 01:10:50.788
there's a huge responsibility,
absolutely huge.

01:10:50.788 --> 01:10:52.206
>> You can try this one.

01:10:52.581 --> 01:10:55.918
There’s a path in between. This one looks good.

01:10:56.293 --> 01:10:57.878
>> Yeah, looks good.

01:10:58.504 --> 01:11:00.839
>> I actually forget that I work
in an office,

01:11:00.839 --> 01:11:05.844
and I have a family.
I'm looking good. I feel good.

01:11:08.264 --> 01:11:08.889
[ singing ]

01:11:08.889 --> 01:11:11.684
Regrets
I have a few

01:11:12.101 --> 01:11:13.852
I went the wrong way

01:11:13.852 --> 01:11:17.815
Then again
I did it my way

01:11:21.360 --> 01:11:24.697
[ hopeful music ]

01:11:29.326 --> 01:11:30.911
>> That's it. That's it.

01:11:31.620 --> 01:11:34.832
>> Take it up, up, up, up.
>> Well-oiled machine!

01:11:36.875 --> 01:11:38.294
>> Nice.

01:11:38.294 --> 01:11:39.712
>> This way?
>> No.

01:11:39.712 --> 01:11:41.297
>> Oh, yeah, there you go.

01:11:43.215 --> 01:11:44.550
>> Four minutes.

01:11:44.550 --> 01:11:45.759
>> Woo-hoo!

01:11:45.759 --> 01:11:47.052
>> Well done.

01:11:47.052 --> 01:11:48.637
>> Love teamwork.

01:11:50.014 --> 01:11:51.473
>> We keep on having
these discussions,

01:11:51.473 --> 01:11:52.808
and we're skiing,
and I turn around.

01:11:52.808 --> 01:11:54.810
I'm like, "Are you okay?"
She goes, "Mm-hmm."

01:11:54.810 --> 01:11:56.312
And I continue,
and I was crying.

01:11:56.312 --> 01:11:57.938
She turns around.
"Are you okay?" "Mm-hmm."

01:11:57.938 --> 01:12:01.483
And I continue, and when we went
back into the tent,

01:12:01.483 --> 01:12:03.235
she looks at me,
and I was like,

01:12:03.235 --> 01:12:06.280
"Anisa, today was really,
really hard. I fell so much,

01:12:06.280 --> 01:12:09.366
and I just felt very, very weak,
and I kept on crying."

01:12:09.366 --> 01:12:11.618
And she goes,
"You were crying? Which leg?"

01:12:11.618 --> 01:12:13.287
I'm like, "The second leg."

01:12:13.287 --> 01:12:15.497
She goes, "I was crying on the
second leg and the third leg."

01:12:15.497 --> 01:12:17.082
I'm like, "Me, too."

01:12:25.049 --> 01:12:28.635
>> There's 19.44 nautical miles
to the North Pole girls!

01:12:32.931 --> 01:12:34.516
>> What's happening now?

01:12:34.516 --> 01:12:36.769
>> That's Olga and Felicity.
They're trying to find the ...

01:12:36.769 --> 01:12:38.604
>> A route.
>> ... a route for us.

01:12:39.229 --> 01:12:41.398
>> They're over there
just straight ahead.

01:12:41.857 --> 01:12:44.860
She’s like, climbing the little ice cube.

01:12:48.155 --> 01:12:49.782
>> Ay-ay-ay.

01:12:50.574 --> 01:12:52.701
>> What can you see, Felicity?

01:12:52.701 --> 01:12:54.411
>> Nothing that makes me
very happy.

01:12:56.330 --> 01:12:58.207
>> What was the view from there?

01:12:58.207 --> 01:12:59.792
>> There's no crossing that.

01:13:00.376 --> 01:13:02.920
We'd be in there for days
and days and days.

01:13:02.920 --> 01:13:05.798
Just really big blocks
with really big holes so ...

01:13:05.798 --> 01:13:07.049
>> Maybe we just ski ...

01:13:07.049 --> 01:13:08.300
>> Ski.

01:13:08.300 --> 01:13:09.760
>> ... a long way out
of our way, but come round.

01:13:09.760 --> 01:13:11.053
>> And then come around, yeah.

01:13:11.053 --> 01:13:13.430
>> Because if we go into this,
we're never coming out.

01:13:13.430 --> 01:13:15.432
We'll be in there
until next spring.

01:13:15.432 --> 01:13:21.230
So I think let's go out
and then just head south.

01:13:22.981 --> 01:13:24.691
>> I bloody well hope
this is right.

01:13:29.446 --> 01:13:30.739
What do you think?

01:13:30.823 --> 01:13:32.116
Seems much better.

01:13:32.324 --> 01:13:33.784
>> Yeah? Okay, let's do that.

01:13:34.410 --> 01:13:35.869
I think we shouldn’t go in there.

01:13:36.537 --> 01:13:38.789
We’ll take too long. We’ll be there all day.

01:13:39.081 --> 01:13:41.333
>> So we found a route,
and don't get me wrong.

01:13:41.333 --> 01:13:44.628
It looks horrible, but it is
slightly better than up there.

01:13:45.587 --> 01:13:48.424
So I think it's a good option
rather than keeping skiing

01:13:48.424 --> 01:13:50.509
and hoping we see
something better.

01:13:50.509 --> 01:13:52.469
We're going to have to
plunge in at some point.

01:13:52.469 --> 01:13:53.887
>> Plunge in, yeah.

01:14:03.021 --> 01:14:05.774
>> Right, and then Asma.
>> Should we go around though?

01:14:05.774 --> 01:14:08.152
>> Oh, you're coming down?
Okay, okay, okay, okay.

01:14:12.364 --> 01:14:13.282
>> Got it.

01:14:14.950 --> 01:14:18.996
>> Just a second. Hold on.
Hold on it. Just take one step.

01:14:20.080 --> 01:14:21.373
[ gasping, exerting ]

01:14:23.959 --> 01:14:25.502
>> One, two, three.

01:14:27.713 --> 01:14:29.006
>> Phew.

01:14:30.174 --> 01:14:31.758
Okay, we need
one more person here.

01:14:32.759 --> 01:14:34.428
One, two, go.

01:14:39.975 --> 01:14:41.643
Oh, shit, shit, shit.

01:14:42.811 --> 01:14:44.021
>> You all right?

01:14:44.021 --> 01:14:45.647
>> Shit.
Yeah, I just need a minute.

01:14:45.647 --> 01:14:46.899
>> Is your head all right?

01:14:46.899 --> 01:14:49.902
>> Yeah, yeah, it was my bum.
It's fine.

01:14:49.902 --> 01:14:51.487
>> Okay.
>> It just hurts.

01:14:53.197 --> 01:14:56.366
I am busting for a wee.
Will anyone be offended?

01:15:02.414 --> 01:15:04.124
>> We need a better system.

01:15:04.124 --> 01:15:05.959
Shall we make a human chain?
That would be easier.

01:15:05.959 --> 01:15:07.169
>> Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:15:07.169 --> 01:15:08.921
>> Nataša, you stand down there.

01:15:09.880 --> 01:15:12.299
I'll stand here,
and you just pass it. Okay?

01:15:17.930 --> 01:15:20.182
And this is how
the chain works, people.

01:15:20.182 --> 01:15:21.767
>> And this is how it works.

01:15:22.768 --> 01:15:24.561
>> Quite literally a chain.

01:15:38.867 --> 01:15:41.245
>> It's very interesting
understanding,

01:15:41.245 --> 01:15:42.996
as each day goes by,

01:15:42.996 --> 01:15:45.415
these different women
and working with them.

01:15:49.169 --> 01:15:51.964
It hasn't been as bad
as I thought it would be.

01:15:51.964 --> 01:15:54.383
>> What are we doing here?
>> Actually, it's been great.

01:15:54.383 --> 01:15:56.093
>> Olga wasn't done
taking pictures.

01:15:57.553 --> 01:16:02.474
>> Lesson learned from this is,
people can be so much deeper

01:16:02.474 --> 01:16:04.226
than you would perceive
them to be.

01:16:06.019 --> 01:16:07.980
>> This must be
the most fun day so far.

01:16:08.647 --> 01:16:10.566
>> I hope tomorrow
is the same, yes.

01:16:11.567 --> 01:16:13.610
>> If I met Asma back home,

01:16:14.152 --> 01:16:15.696
I don't think I would have
fallen in love

01:16:15.696 --> 01:16:17.281
with her the way I have here.

01:16:17.864 --> 01:16:20.617
Asma, a princess from Qatar,
I thought,

01:16:20.617 --> 01:16:22.452
"Oh, no, that's not
going to work out."

01:16:22.452 --> 01:16:25.789
But strangely that's one of
the strongest bonds I've formed,

01:16:25.789 --> 01:16:28.625
and it feels like
it's a lifetime of knowing her.

01:16:28.709 --> 01:16:29.918
It feels...

01:16:30.794 --> 01:16:31.837
emotional.

01:16:32.337 --> 01:16:33.797
Yeah. It’s emotional.

01:16:33.797 --> 01:16:36.633
I was thinking yesterday, it’s like...

01:16:37.509 --> 01:16:39.970
what’s that called when a woman gives birth?

01:16:40.220 --> 01:16:41.513
Post ...

01:16:41.597 --> 01:16:43.849
Post-mortem depression.

01:16:44.308 --> 01:16:45.642
>> No. Mortem means death.

01:16:45.642 --> 01:16:46.310
>> Mortem Partem?

01:16:46.310 --> 01:16:48.478
No, you’re not post-mortem.

01:16:49.146 --> 01:16:50.564
>> Mortem?

01:16:50.647 --> 01:16:52.899
Anyway, after they give birth they get sad.

01:16:54.109 --> 01:16:57.571
So that’s how I feel.
Like I’ve been having this baby for two years.

01:16:58.071 --> 01:16:59.197
And now it’s going to come out.

01:16:59.197 --> 01:17:01.158
>>You’ve been pregnant for two years?
>>Yeah.

01:17:01.908 --> 01:17:03.035
Like an elephant.

01:17:16.923 --> 01:17:19.301
>> This environment is
so beautiful, magical.

01:17:22.554 --> 01:17:24.640
There's no words
that can describe this,

01:17:25.849 --> 01:17:27.267
the whiteness,

01:17:29.603 --> 01:17:31.021
and then the sky.

01:17:35.317 --> 01:17:38.236
>> I do feel like
I'm on a pilgrimage.

01:17:41.698 --> 01:17:43.575
My religious beliefs
are stronger

01:17:43.575 --> 01:17:45.160
when I'm away from home.

01:17:46.244 --> 01:17:48.872
You have all these things
in life

01:17:48.872 --> 01:17:51.291
that can take you away
from the spiritual world,

01:17:52.584 --> 01:17:55.671
but here you're stripped away
of everything.

01:17:55.671 --> 01:17:58.048
You're down to the basics
of life.

01:17:58.924 --> 01:18:01.343
It's really powerful.

01:18:10.769 --> 01:18:12.312
>> It's 11 kilometers away.

01:18:12.312 --> 01:18:15.023
So we may or may not
get there today,

01:18:15.023 --> 01:18:16.983
but there's a good chance
that we will.

01:18:16.983 --> 01:18:19.361
I think we'll find that we might
be chasing the North Pole

01:18:19.361 --> 01:18:21.613
a bit to stand on it,
and then we'll only be on it

01:18:21.613 --> 01:18:24.408
for a little while
before we're not on it again.

01:18:24.408 --> 01:18:27.244
>> Motivational speech,
"Braveheart" speech, come on.

01:18:27.244 --> 01:18:29.329
>> Do you need any motivation?
>> Yes, we do.

01:18:29.329 --> 01:18:31.206
>> We do.
>> Do you need any motivation?

01:18:31.206 --> 01:18:32.582
>> Yes, we do!

01:18:32.582 --> 01:18:35.544
>> I think you're all very
motivated with or without me.

01:18:36.086 --> 01:18:40.924
The plan is to set out
as normal, see what waits for us

01:18:40.924 --> 01:18:43.635
and maybe, by the end of today,
we're at the North Pole.

01:18:43.635 --> 01:18:45.011
>> Woo-hoo!
>> Woo!

01:18:45.011 --> 01:18:46.680
>> Ready for the North Pole?

01:18:46.680 --> 01:18:49.266
>> Woo! To the North Pole!

01:18:50.350 --> 01:18:53.895
I just hope we don’t hit a massive ridge
within 200 yards now...

01:18:53.895 --> 01:18:55.564
and deflate everybody.

01:18:56.523 --> 01:18:58.400
[ suspensful music building ]

01:19:02.112 --> 01:19:06.074
>> We are 3.14 nautical miles
from the North Pole.

01:19:13.749 --> 01:19:15.625
>> How far is it there, Misba?

01:19:15.625 --> 01:19:18.795
>> One thousand six hundred meters.

01:19:19.713 --> 01:19:23.592
Woo-hoo! We've come down
to meters, I've been told.

01:19:29.639 --> 01:19:31.266
>> We are so close yet so far.

01:19:34.853 --> 01:19:38.023
I wish someone could just run ahead
and plant a flag for us...

01:19:38.273 --> 01:19:40.025
and then we’d know where we’re aiming for.

01:19:40.442 --> 01:19:42.360
>> Five hundred meters.

01:19:42.360 --> 01:19:45.280
>> Mine says 464 meters.

01:19:45.280 --> 01:19:47.199
>> Four fifty-four,
we're getting ...

01:19:49.242 --> 01:19:50.744
>> Okay, come on, let's find it.

01:19:53.330 --> 01:19:55.582
Hundred and seventy-five meters.

01:19:56.583 --> 01:19:58.168
>> About to reach
the North Pole.

01:19:59.920 --> 01:20:01.588
I’m fifty in two weeks.

01:20:02.047 --> 01:20:03.215
>> Ah, it's good.

01:20:03.715 --> 01:20:05.425
>> It's a good birthday present,
isn't it?

01:20:05.425 --> 01:20:06.635
>> Fantastic birthday present.

01:20:06.635 --> 01:20:08.428
>> A hundred and sixty meters.

01:20:08.428 --> 01:20:10.555
Can’t top being at the North Pole at fifty.

01:20:13.892 --> 01:20:15.519
>> A hundred and fifty meters.

01:20:17.521 --> 01:20:19.439
>> Sixty meter, I made you a mark,

01:20:19.439 --> 01:20:21.066
so you can see, 60 meters.

01:20:23.401 --> 01:20:24.611
>> Fifty meters!

01:20:24.611 --> 01:20:26.321
>> Thirteen, 12.

01:20:26.321 --> 01:20:27.906
>> Twenty meters, girls!

01:20:29.533 --> 01:20:31.117
>> Eleven, 10.

01:20:33.328 --> 01:20:36.581
Five, four, three ...

01:20:36.581 --> 01:20:37.958
Don't fall, two!

01:20:38.875 --> 01:20:39.543
One!

01:20:41.586 --> 01:20:43.463
[ cheering ]

01:20:44.005 --> 01:20:45.465
I've lost it! I've lost it!
I've lost it!

01:20:45.465 --> 01:20:47.968
I've lost it. I've lost it.
Who's got it?

01:20:47.968 --> 01:20:51.137
>> Three.
>> Yeah, there ... or here.

01:20:51.137 --> 01:20:52.389
>> Two.
>> Where is it?

01:20:52.389 --> 01:20:53.974
>> Here.
>> Three?

01:20:54.599 --> 01:20:55.851
>> Right here.
>> No?

01:20:55.851 --> 01:20:57.519
>> No?
>> Okay.

01:20:57.519 --> 01:21:00.021
Here we go,
executive decision.

01:21:01.147 --> 01:21:02.315
That ...

01:21:02.858 --> 01:21:04.150
... is the north pole!

01:21:04.150 --> 01:21:05.902
[ loud cheering ]

01:21:11.616 --> 01:21:14.619
>> Woo!
[ Cheering ]

01:21:14.619 --> 01:21:16.121
>> From one Brit to another.

01:21:16.121 --> 01:21:17.706
>> We just shake hands, yeah?

01:21:17.706 --> 01:21:19.332
>> Yeah, we do.

01:21:20.333 --> 01:21:22.210
>> Congratulations.
>> Thank you very much.

01:21:23.003 --> 01:21:25.171
>> I'm just taking a picture
of my North Pole,

01:21:25.755 --> 01:21:28.091
even though everyone
has trampled all over it.

01:21:28.758 --> 01:21:32.053
>> Success is often seen
as planting your flag.

01:21:32.053 --> 01:21:33.305
This is my North Pole.

01:21:33.930 --> 01:21:35.891
>> Ninety, zero, zero, zero, zero.

01:21:35.891 --> 01:21:38.018
>> But I think skiing
to the North Pole

01:21:38.018 --> 01:21:39.895
is more than just
a physical journey.

01:21:40.478 --> 01:21:43.273
It's exploring
what's inside us which I think

01:21:43.273 --> 01:21:46.902
is just as important
as exploring our surroundings.

01:21:53.700 --> 01:21:55.619
>> I hadn't prayed for 10 years,

01:21:56.244 --> 01:21:58.038
and that was the first time
I prayed,

01:21:58.038 --> 01:22:01.207
and I just had this
really strong feeling,

01:22:02.959 --> 01:22:04.544
the feeling of new beginnings.

01:22:05.128 --> 01:22:06.755
>> Anisa, how are you feeling?

01:22:08.506 --> 01:22:11.259
>> At peace finally, yeah.

01:22:12.135 --> 01:22:14.512
>> Anisa. Come on.

01:22:19.601 --> 01:22:21.978
[ crying and laughing ]

01:22:31.655 --> 01:22:33.239
You have done so well.

01:22:33.949 --> 01:22:35.325
>> Thank you.
>> You have.

01:22:35.325 --> 01:22:36.910
>> You, too, baby.

01:22:38.954 --> 01:22:41.289
>> Yeah, finally.

01:22:44.793 --> 01:22:46.711
>> This is it?

01:22:46.711 --> 01:22:48.797
>> No. It's going to continue now.

01:22:48.797 --> 01:22:49.339
>> Yeah.

01:22:49.339 --> 01:22:50.924
>> This is not it.
This is the beginning.

01:22:50.924 --> 01:22:53.134
>> This is what all the
sacrifices were for. This is it.

01:22:53.134 --> 01:22:55.387
>> There's no ending.
This is no ending to anything.

01:22:55.387 --> 01:22:58.723
This is the beginning
of many things to come. Huh?

01:22:58.723 --> 01:23:00.100
>> Yeah.

01:23:00.100 --> 01:23:01.685
>> Yes.

01:23:15.073 --> 01:23:17.867
>> Hi, it's Felicity
from the Euro-Arabian team.

01:23:18.660 --> 01:23:23.123
Our position is ...
Yes, North Pole.

01:23:23.123 --> 01:23:27.085
At the moment, yes. Okay.
See you soon, Victor, bye.

01:23:34.926 --> 01:23:36.344
>> Ah, there's the purple jacket.

01:23:36.344 --> 01:23:38.179
Is that Mariam?

01:23:38.179 --> 01:23:39.389
>> That's Mariam!

01:23:40.473 --> 01:23:42.058
I think it's Mariam.

01:23:42.058 --> 01:23:43.018
>> It is.

01:23:43.143 --> 01:23:45.145
>> So glad that you're here!

01:23:46.438 --> 01:23:48.314
[ excited chatter ]

01:23:56.031 --> 01:23:57.198
>> It felt incomplete.
>> There was something missing

01:23:57.198 --> 01:23:59.367
>> There was something missing.
>> And it was Mariam.

01:23:59.659 --> 01:24:00.910
>> And it was Mariam. Yeah.

01:24:03.079 --> 01:24:04.706
So glad you’ve come.

01:24:06.624 --> 01:24:08.877
>> I'm so glad that your fingers
are getting better.

01:24:08.877 --> 01:24:10.211
>> I'm going to keep my fingers,
yeah.

01:24:10.211 --> 01:24:11.963
So that's good news.

01:24:11.963 --> 01:24:15.091
Yeah, the doctor said,
"No chop," so ...

01:24:15.091 --> 01:24:16.968
I swear!
Literally, he said, "No chop."

01:24:16.968 --> 01:24:18.178
>> Did he?

01:24:18.178 --> 01:24:19.804
>> I swear!

01:24:20.013 --> 01:24:23.058
[ bright, upbeat music ]

01:24:50.752 --> 01:24:53.797
[ transitions to somber music ]