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Hi, Laura.
My name is Darren Berrecloth.

I saw your research
up by the North Pole,

It was super fascinating

and curious if you would be
able to meet up.

I'd love to learn more
about the region.

Can't think of a better guy
to kick off this competition.

Darren Berrecloth probably has
the most experience out here.

Darren Berrecloth
scorching through the desert.

He is a guy who has
pioneered all these new zones.

Cam Zink, this guy's one of
the biggest men in the sport.

A rider known to take
gigantic steps to progression.

The biggest 360 drop in the
history of mountain biking.

To the top of the course,
Carson Storch the 23 year old.

He is here to stay when it comes
to Rampage competition.

Carson Storch, time to
look at him as a freerider,

not just a slopestyle athlete.

Our youngest competitor,
Tom Van Steenbergen.

There it is, no way.

Such a creative run right now.

This could go down
in the history books.

This is amazing.

Thomas actually getting
to his feet.

As you know, Zink and I
have been scouring the planet

looking for the ultimate zone.

Two years ago
we stumbled across some photos

that a scientist took
of a desert island

where you'd least expect it.

After lots of research
we're certain we found the zone.

It's a heck of a long way to go.

This is where the North Pole is,

and we are going to be hanging
out on this island right here.

It's crazy, there's terrain up
there to ride that's worth while

and not only worth while

but might be some of the best
riding I've ever done, ever.

It's just crazy how far it is.

Last summer, me and Zink
went up there and scouted it.

How long did it take you
to get up here?

Seven flights.

Right!

That amount of travel,
you could fly around the world.

Everyday we'd get in the plane

and we'd see something, land.

Unsuccessfully get back
in the plane,

and just over and over and over
we're just getting skunked.

This place kind of sucks.

It looked rocky from up in the
plane but this is ridiculous.

Break out the shovels.

Forty years
and this is the first time.

Come on, Bill.

Yeah.

Not like the entire
arctic is just this wonderland.

There's this one little zone.

Somewhere around here
look for a landing site,

I think this could definitely be
a location we come back to.

Me and Zink came around
this corner with the plane,

came around the corner
to Buchanan lake,

and our eyes were drawn
to these big humongous faces

then ended up landing
below this picture.

These lines here will definitely
be on our biggest hit list.

This is everything
I ever dreamed of in a line,

and to finding a zone
to where it's actually that big.

If this was the bottom
of the hill here at the Rampage,

Rampage would probably be
around somewhere like here.

I believe the sickest
lines on the planet are here.

That all sounds amazing

but obviously, we're gonna
wanna push ourselves,

and what if something
does happen, like we get hurt?

We're 10 hours until you get
to a decent hospital.

That's if you get lucky

and you get a scheduled flight.
Could take two or three days.

You just have to find
that balance like,

how far do you really want
to push it, is it worth it?

It's going to be heavy,
emotionally even for you guys.

I'm sure you can imagine for us
being away from wives and kids

it's a whole other level.

Scientist who took the
photos of Axel Heiberg Island

is Dr. Laura Thomson.

And she's kind enough to join us

and teach us a little bit
about the region.

My work is based on glaciers
in the Canadian high arctic.

The glacier below
that I'm showing

is called White Glacier and
that's where my work is based

and that's one small glacier
on an island

with close to 2000 glaciers.

The geology of Axel is really
diverse across the whole island.

The region that you'll be in

is going to be a lot
of sand stones and shales.

Is there gypsum up there?

That's a random thing we
look for in Utah for like zones.

If there's a gypsum mine
that makes drywall,

it means there's usually
good dirt.

I didn't expect that question
but its perfect,

because Axel Heiberg is known
for its gypsum dominance

You can predict
where good terrain will be,

relative to the glaciers are
and what the geology is.

So our work is based
in this area here.

This is expedition fjord

and you guys will be cycling
in some canyon lands over here.

What's your take on us
bringing bikes up to the North?

I think it's a great idea.

I think that if you wanted to
set up a long term bike highway,

I might take some issue
with that

because the tundra
is quite sensitive.

But also, I think especially
if you're going down couloirs,

or just in little chutes,

erosion is happening there
anyways.

How can we bring back a bigger
goal in terms of awareness?

I think it's really
great to be able to share

the arctic with more people.

Because it is really remote and
it is really isolated.

It is the location of the
greatest changes we're seeing

as a response to climate change

and so to open everyone's eyes
to this is really important.

Axel Heiberg Island,
beautiful, hostile

and devoid of human life.

How does a landscape like this
come to be?

What chain of events
have led to a desert

this close to the North Pole?

To answer these questions

there's a story
I have to tell you.

And like most origin stories,
this one starts with an ending.

Four point five billion
years ago,

Earth collided with a smaller
planet called Thea.

Thea was destroyed

and our moon was formed from
the rubble of the collision,

but more importantly
to our story,

it knocked Earth 23.5 degrees
of its axis.

Way back then
our planet was just water.

But as time passed, continents
emerged, including our island.

Over billions of years
she transformed,

moving through five ice ages,
and 11 super continents

including the most recent,
Pangaea.

As Pangaea broke apart, our
island began her journey North.

Today she finds herself
near the North Pole.

With the Earth's tilted axis
the land falls

into complete darkness
four months per year.

The frigid temperatures cause
the ocean around her to freeze,

limiting the amount
of precipitation.

The result, a desert island
on top of the World.

Four point five billion years
in the making.

Just waiting to be explored.

We're about
a month away from the arctic

and decided to meet up
here on the island,

to just see how the crew
jives together.

Same speed, same pop.
You're not going to over rotate.

-No
-Yeah, Zink.

You got it. Yeah. Oh.

Oh.

Yeah!

You alright?

-Yeah
-You got it.

Yeah, Tom.

Ah, dude that was so close.

What happened?

You gave a good snap

but then by snapping
you got so open so it stalled.

You get back
and push your legs out

but you don't need
to do this you know.

You were like this, your body
positioning when you landed.

Yeah.

The slopestyle scene
right now is infested

with a million kids
that can do a million tricks.

But as far
as big mountain riding,

there are only a few
select riders

that are hungry
and willing to go for it.

Yeah, Tom.

Yeah, Tom!

Tom and Carson, my two
favorites to bring on this trip.

Just because they really are the
future of big mountain riding.

Yeah!

These are going to be
the two young guys

that take our place in pushing
the limits in the mountains.

Oh, yeah.

Lake up here that we're
going to go camping at.

We're staying in tents at this
lake. Isn't that cool looking?

Look at how far away it is
from home.

Did you been here
with your friends?

-Yep, I went there with some.
-What kind of friends?

The Claw.
He's a mystical creature.

Oh, look at you.
Big time for walking.

-How many days of travel?
-Two and a half days.

Lovely.

- How long?
- I think almost a month.

So, are you nervous?

-A little bit.
-About this trip?

Yeah a little bit but also
it's the trip of a lifetime,

and we'll never get a chance
to go up there again.

Say bye-ye!

How will I get
a hold of you if I need to?

I wanna be in reach.
We'll be able to talk a lot.

Will you guys be alone up there?

We'll have guides there
and be working with the Inuit.

Such an opportunity.

Yeah, going on a trip
with Zink and Claw,

it's a once in a lifetime
opportunity,

but also a lot of pressure
that you're putting on yourself.

We're gonna fly
commercial to Yellowknife,

- Okay.
- Then charter a plane.

We'll kind of like island hop.

Total weight of the freight
is 4025 lbs.

Sweetheart,
I'm going to miss you.

Bye, daddy.

Well, that was super easy huh.

Auto pilot, selected.
Hydraulics, auto check.

Flaps, fine. Wind 3.6.0. 14.

What happens if you get hurt?
Who's there? How far away?

We'll have a doctor
with us the whole trip.

He's going to be in charge of
safety and we're in good hands.

1082 is down.

Oh, yeah.

-Feels like winter.
-It is cold.

Arctic summer.

And I think it's a three
to four hour flight

to where we're actually
gonna camp.

Bags in front.
Seats in the middle.

There's only like,
a month of the year

that you can go up there
and have no snow and have light.

It's got to be now or never.

The human obsession
with exploration is nothing new.

Even in the arctic.

Nine hundred years ago
the Thule people

became the first
and only human inhabitants

of Axel Heiberg island.

They thrived for 200 years

until the little ice age
enveloped the arctic,

leaving it uninhabited
to this day.

Uninhabited but not unexplored.

In 1895
Captain Sir John Franklin

led two large ships with 129 men

to find a route
through the Northwest passage.

They were never heard from
again.

But Franklins courage inspired
a new round of explorers.

In 1899,
Otto Sverdrup and his crew

set out to map the high arctic.

They spent three dark winters
frozen in the ice.

And four summers mapping 160,000
square kilometers by dog sled.

They rediscovered the island,
and named it Axel Heiberg

after a brewer
who sponsored the expedition.

They left the island with a name
but still no human inhabitants.

Whoa! Oh, my God.

So crazy. It's just endless.
This is unreal.

Yeah, even like right there.

Looking out the window just
looks like Utah in the winter

but literally like
five times the size.

Look out to the left, guys.

Down there.

It's like the glaciers
almost look alive.

This is insane.

Wow, we're alive.

Wow!

Holy.

Quickly we're gonna
go over things for safety.

I have my shotgun,
Apak has his rifle.

Apak is from Arctic Bay.

He's going to be responsible
for all our safety

and make sure we respect
his land too.

Of course we are
in polar bear country.

We are going to have
a bear fence around the camp.

You have to be careful
with the fence to not...

We're just going
to have the fence up

while all trying to catch sleep,
so everybody can get a rest.

Just be mindful of it
if you wake up at night.

If you pee on the fence
you'll be the siren.

Your bathroom's
going to be here.

We have to really
be careful of...

Pack in what you pack out.

Yeah, so all human waste
to be packed out.

Let's try and keep
a neat and tidy camp

and have a lot of fun
while we're here.

First couple of days we
just spent scoping around camp.

A crazy feeling to be the only
humans on this whole island.

How sick does that look?

It looks awesome.

Ah, that would be epic.

Yeah, those ones
are legendary dude.

You cross and then drop back in

and then traverse over
to where Claw is.

You could go here
or start over there.

Looking up to Darren
and Cam for so long

and it doesn't really make sense
to me how they chose me and Tom?

Let's draw a little map out.

So basically Buchanan Lakes
like this

and that is pretty much due
north and basecamp's right here,

and then we have
our konger chutes here.

Just the way they pick
lines, it's pretty inspiring.

This is definitely
doable, it's just heavy.

It doesn't matter
how good at tricks you are

or how big you can go.

Out here it's all about
experience and they have it.

My goal to take their experience
and try and learn from it.

This one kind of the...

I think the end all be all
as far as what we came here for.

Claw and Zink scouted
these huge lines along the lake.

It's definitely been in their
thoughts for the past year.

Dude, this looks way
better than over there.

I think we looked at this one
on the map and it was 2500 feet,

and it's gonna be so bitch.

What do we want to call this?

Let's call it the drag strip.

Same with Claw,
he found a line

that was right across the lake
from that.

I love this one
that goes into that chute,

on the back side of Buchanan.
It's massive.

It's big.

The pinnacle of our imagination
as far as what we came to do.

It wasn't very rideable

like for them to just be
thinking about a line like that.

Like just massive lines too.

Probably the biggest lines
anyone's ever ridden

on a mountain bike.

Yeah.
There's a lot more to learn.

Let's just get into it tomorrow,

start riding stuff
and build it up,

and then work towards
the bigger lines.

Alright, boys. Epic times.

Yeah, boys.

Get after it.

It cannot get
any more fun than that.

Yeah, boys.

It's honestly more fun than
snowboarding down a fresh face.

Totally.

How sick is that dirt?

I literally feel like
I'm skiing.

Oh, yeah! Hoo! Hoo!

Yeah, buddy!

Whoa.

Oh, yeah, Claw.

Oh, yeah.

What?

Whoa, she's a little soft, eh.

Dude, it's like a foam pit.

Wanted to have a talk
about safety with you, guys.

It's a small team.
We're really remote,

we're going to rely on everyone
to pitch in and help out.

Closest hospital
would be in Iqaluit

which is about a 12-hour flight
under ideal circumstances.

so it's really super remote
up here.

This is by far the biggest first
aid kit I've ever assembled.

These are needles and syringes.
Defibrillator.

We brought oxygen,
all the IV supplies.

So it would be good for me
to know just what you guys

have dealt with in the past
in terms of injuries.

Where do I start you know,
ankles, legs, wrists.

I tore my ACL.

Plates in both collar bones.

Did a numo thorax
which almost killed me.

-Broke my wrist.
-Couple of broken backs.

PCL, meniscus, tibia as well.

-Not bad.
-Nope.

Then we have Zink.

I've never been hurt.

-You've never been injured?
-No.

It was all new to me.

You know, I've been through
the ringer from broken feet,

to broken legs and compartment
syndrome in my leg

and faciotomy,

and six knee surgeries and
plenty of other random injuries.

But I was always fortunate

with never having
shoulder problems my whole life.

But then this past year
I dislocated both of them.

So, kind of my Achilles
heal lately.

Ayla's keeping me safe.
She made this bracelet.

Best friend bracelet,
said it's going to keep me safe.

No way.

Feel a lot better
getting hurt on a big line here,

rather than a jump that
you could have built anywhere.

So we might as well
get some real stuff in the bag

of what we came here to do.

Ended up going
for this line dubbed Oso Negro,

just because we wanted to kind
of get a feel for the dirt.

It's a long way to the
top if you want to rock and roll

Right in there
there's like a light brown hump.

Don't go left there
because that like is a cliff.

It sucks you in, one of
them is better than the other.

I'll follow you, guys.

Oh! Here comes a rock
right behind you.

-What's that?
-Oh, shit.

Not the best dirt.

Well, the dirt is nice,
it's just the rocks.

I think we should just
go down slow to that,

- see what's over that.
- We can go hard right.

Pretty sure,
like I can't remember.

I think that's the good
one right in the middle.

Whoa, what the hell,
it's definitely not this one.

Oh, shit, oh, God.
See you down there.

You alright?

Fucking stupid.

You okay?

You break anything
or are you just choked?

Nah, I'm good.

Did you break your bike
or are you choked?

No, my bikes broken.
That's why I'm choked.

- What's wrong with it?
- Oh, my brake line.

Ah, that's kind
of depressing, man.

After riding this line

and realizing the dirt
isn't consistent,

I'm not very confident
that we're gonna be able to ride

any of the big lines
we came here for.

By the time we got back,
it was like midnight.

It's definitely weird.

The sun doesn't go anywhere,
it just goes in circles.

Funny,
it's like a sun dial in the sky.

-I've been struggling with it.
-Have you?

I've got my eye mask

and then I have my buff
over top of that.

It's tough but also pretty sweet

because you can get
a lot done in a day.

Put your head on a swivel,
we're playing Horse shoes.

Apak with a point.

Oh!

Dude, get out of your tent
for a little bit.

Axel Heiberg
is home to one of our planet's

harshest ecosystems.

From October through February,

the island falls
into total darkness,

and winter temperatures
reach as low

as minus 42 degrees Fahrenheit.

Despite these conditions,

life has evolved and flourished
in this no man's land.

Although most of the arctic
is flat tundra,

Axel Heiberg is unique
for its live mountains,

resulting in the island's
almost 2000 glaciers.

This ancient ice drew in a new
generation of explorers.

In 1959,
glaciologist Fritz Muller

found the island ideal
for his studies.

In 1960, Muller and his team
built a semi-permanent structure

at the base of White Glacier.

His team returned every year
for over two decades.

Before his death
he passed his findings

on to another glaciologist.

Who passed them on to another.

Who passed them on
to Dr. Laura Thomson,

who has returned
to study the glacier

every summer
for the past nine years.

Resulting in one
of the oldest glacial records

in the high arctic.

- What is up?
- Hey, how's it going?

-Cameron.
-Darren.

How are you?

-Nice to see you again.
-You too.

- This is home.
- Yeah.

Have you visibly seen
the glaciers receding?

You see all of that
debris gravel material?

That's where the glacier
was in 1960

and that was actually
the largest outlet glacier

since the last ice age.

All of the retreat that has
happened in the last 50 years.

All our data goes to the World
glacier monitoring service.

Part of United Nation's
environment monitoring program.

On White Glacier
I have three GPS stations.

What I'm measuring actually is
how fast the glacier is moving.

And how fast
are we moving right now?

It's about 30 meters a year.

This helps predict
future glacier response will be.

What future sea level rise
will be.

The Canadian high arctic

is essentially the area
of Western Europe.

Simply because
it's the largest area of ice

outside of Greenland
and Antarctica.

It's actually the largest
contributor to sea level rise

from glaciers and ice caps.

This base has been here
for 57 years?

Yeah, it's pretty amazing

it's like one of the oldest
arctic camps.

The retreat that we're seeing
now is due to climate conditions

about 40 years ago
for White Glacier.

If we were to stop the warming
and melt that's happening now

the glacier would still retreat
for at least another 40 years.

Complicated system,
it's important...

Understand all.

Yeah, exactly.

If you had a message,

what would it be after
these years studying glaciers?

Yeah, I would emphasize
the importance of the North,

and the fact that we have
the most ice out of any country

except Denmark
which is Greenland

and it's so under-studied.

Our responsibility to
be stewards of the ice we have.

For us to get a glimpse
of the hard work

that these individuals put into
doing all this research

for these glaciers and better
understanding of climate,

ice levels and what's going on
up here is pretty insane.

You can't help
but respect this place.

You can eat seed,
how do you pick them?

Can you eat the stem too?

Ah, this is delicious.
Good snack. Thanks, Apak.

- It is blueberry-ish, huh.
- Blueberry for sure.

Yeah.

The arctic is one of the
most epic places I've ever been.

It's hard to put in words.

It strikes hard the
fact that arctic is so unknown.

Something different
about the arctic,

just being above the tree line,

and seeing the raw land
in size and into it.

The landscapes that we now see
covered with beautiful trees,

that came from glaciers

and you can see that in action
now in arctic.

so it's a great classroom
for understanding Earth.

The landscape of the arctic,

you've got to see it
to believe it.

It's just surreal.

Dream come true
to explore a zone like this.

Whoa!

Yeah, dude, get it.

This place definitely
makes you feel very small.

Yeah, Tom.

Alright, Carson.

Yeah!

That was super fun.

Yeah, Claw.

Yeah, look at that, awesome.

-Nice.
-It worked.

Yeah, dudes.

Boys. It's dinner time.

A little four in the morning
dinner time.

Time to eat.

How many days
have we been here?

I lost count, it's really
not technically a day,

because a day really consists
of like morning, nightfall.

There's no nightfall.
Just straight.

It's just the endless day.

Nothing like
dehydrated meat and potatoes.

Brought back to life by water.

I think it's brought
back to life by hot sauce.

When we first laid eyes
on this area,

Zink first saw drag strip.

That line's been
on my mind since last year

and it was my main goal
and focus since we set up camp.

Keep me safe, Ayla.

Back to the good stuff.

There we go.

Oh, my God!

So pumped.
Give me that five, Apak.

Oh, my God! That was awesome.

That literally makes
the whole trip worthwhile.

That was the one.

Yeah, buddy. That was dope.

Yeah, dog.

Zink, Van Steenbergen.
Cleek... Creek crossing.

- Cleek Clossing.
- Cleek Crossing.

-Alright, pop a wheelie.
-Let's do it.

Whoa!

We're soaked. That was so deep.

- All right.
- Let's go.

Zink is obviously a legend
and he's sick to work with,

and we found a lot of similar
things like the step downs.

I think
the hardest thing that we do.

Blind take off
and speed judging.

Are you thinking
you can roll in from here?

I'm going to brake to that
second roll and then let go.

- That felt good.
- That was dialed.

You usually go a little
bit further on cliffs

because like,
you know what I mean,

you're not like going up further

and losing distance
like a dirt jump.

You're like pulling up
and carrying out.

Carson can train us in too.

No matter how many you do it,
it's always still nerve racking.

Like the first monkey shot
into space.

- Carson, you ready?
- Yep.

Alright, dropping in five.

- See you at the bottom.
- Yeah.

Oh, my God!

Whoo!

Oh, fuck.

- My shoulders out.
- Shoulder?

- Which one?
- Left one.

Going to feel intense
for a second once it slides in.

Ow. Ow.

Oh, yes. Oh, man.

Oh, my God,
that was disgusting, dude.

That was fucking gnarly.

Oh, God!

This was supposed to be
the easy part.

We're supposed to get
to the hard stuff tomorrow.

I'm always glad when your head
doesn't hurt, you know.

Shoulders can heal
but your brain doesn't really.

- Bummer.
- Yeah.

Our job is to just get
gnarlier and gnarlier,

but I've done bigger flips
than that like eight years ago.

Which means that it's been
gnarly for a long time.

We have five days left
and we've been battling weather.

Stuck in tents
for a couple of days.

We had a lot of stuff on
our plate that we scoped out,

and for me, being able to
get the Dream Chute in the bag

is my biggest goal,
and I haven't got that yet.

And the weather forecast
is not looking very good.

I'm thinking about
starting on the horizon there.

That looks good.

Yeah, and then it's pretty long
and then it rolls down again,

that point that's coming out
with that rocky cliff line there

and that will kind of feed me
in to a little point.

It will be like a drop
on to a rock slab.

Yes, watch the wind
all morning long.

If it tends to blow one way
in the afternoon.

If you hit it
in the afternoon, good.

Yeah for sure. Afternoon,
as in like 2:00AM for us.

Yeah, Midnight.
Midnight time. Get it.

You alright, Tom?

I'm good.
I just broke my helmet.

Um, I'm going to try
and make my way down.

-That hurt.
-You alright?

I think so, yeah.
No headache or anything.

Does your back hurt?

Yeah, I just scrapped it.

I actually brought
a spare helmet for this reason.

Alright,
see you at the bottom again.

Yeah, man, you got it.

I am in position.

Yes, sir, man, you got it.

Oh, yeah.

He's got this, he's got this.

Okay, dropping
in three, two, one.

Yeah, Tom.

He's gonna get it.

Come on, Tommy boy.

Come on, buddy.

I'm gonna give you
three words to remember.

Green, hope and taxi.

Green hope and taxi.
Remember those?

Still sitting here.

Shit!

How's Tom doing, Doctor?

You okay?

Yeah. I just felt out of it
and I kind of,

I didn't remember what happened.

So, I didn't really know
what to improve.

Yeah,
I shouldn't have done that.

We're just gonna move your eyes,

so don't move your head.

Looking at your eye movements
to make sure they're smooth.

Two helmets, two runs.

It's weird, I don't
remember what I did off the lip

but everything before,
I remember.

I felt fine walking down
the rest of the way and then...

I think you rode down.

Oh, yeah. I rode down.

Yeah.

What are the three
words? Do you remember?

Green, hope, and taxi.

Nice. Was that hard?

-No.
-Okay. Good.

Well I had to, I was like,
"Oh, what was that?" Yeah.

A couple of times but yeah.

So, yeah,
two pretty big head bonks.

We'd call this a concussion
just based on your symptoms.

And probably not a great idea
to keep riding.

I feel fine.
Like, I want to ride more.

But it's obviously,
I don't know.

It's a tough call, man.

It's the hardest
position to be in,

especially on a trip where
you're not gonna come back here

but a long, long life
ahead of you.

You know and your brains
the one thing that doesn't heal,

like bones heal stronger and
ligaments come back you know,

but your brain
doesn't come back,

and I've had some of the
proudest moments of my life,

let alone career,
after a big crash,

but one of the biggest ones
in 2010 like...

Looking back on it,
shouldn't have rode it.

Didn't you win best trick
and Rampage that year?

Yeah, and the World Tour.

No way. Holy shit.

One of the best days of my life.
I probably have taken it back,

and not ridden knowing that
I had hit my head so hard,

and just the gravity
of second impact syndrome.

You have to take a step back
from the pressure and sponsors

and pressure from whoever
and do what's right for you,

and look at the bigger picture
which is always hard

when you're in it.

It might seem like this is
the pinnacle of your career,

but I think you're going to have
more heights than just this.

You go home and then regroup

and then you're going
to keep elevating.

You're still on the climb up.

You'll be back.

We won't be back here,
but you'll be back.

Claw from Axel Heiberg.

Go ahead, bud.

Just so you know,
the dream chute proper itself

is already in the shadow.

Oh, yeah. I figured as much.

Cool.

Seeing a line that big
and that ominous,

it's just left an imprint
in my memory

and I just can't shake it.

Yes, I'm going down there.

Looks rideable, probably...

You bet.

Lots of rocks.

Sketchy.

Alright. Here we go.

Yeew!

Woo!

Woo hoo!

It's a pretty surreal feeling.

Getting a line you've been
obsessed with for over a year.

Woo.

Made her to the bottom.

I've been chasing these lines
for almost two decades,

And that was hands down the
biggest line I've ever ridden.

Woo.

What a journey!

Worth coming
to the ends of the Earth for it?

For sure.

What food are you going
to buy when you get back?

Vegetables.

Burrito.

Definitely one of the best trips
I've ever been on.

If not the best trip
I've ever been on.

Hell of a lot better
than an FMB silver event, huh?

Yeah.

I definitely feel grateful
to be on this trip.

Cool to see the way you
pick out lines and view terrain,

and I think this trip,
I've learned so much.

We're not done by any means,
but I'm stoked to have you here,

and essentially carry on
the torch.

Hopefully guys like yourselves

take what we've learned
through me and Cam's careers,

riding this kind of stuff
and hopefully you take that,

and take it to the next level.

Oh, there he is.

- There it is.
- Oh, yeah,.

Yeah!

Whoa.

- We're going home, boys.
- Woo hoo.

Hurting, but happy.
A little broken but not beaten.

Though we have learned
much from her past.

The future remains
the Arctic's biggest mystery.

Throughout her history, the
only constant has been change.

But it's the speed
at which change is occurring

that creates
these massive unknowns.

Human impact on our planet
is causing global temperatures

to rise 10 times faster than
any time in recorded history.

In the last 40 years,
the Arctic has lost more sea ice

than a land mass
the size of Mexico.

As the darker land and ocean
surfaces become exposed

more sunlight gets absorbed,

causing the arctic to warm
at double the global average.

Making what was once
unreachable, reachable.

In 2016, the first cruise ship
traversed the Northwest passage.

The same route that took the
lives of the Franklin expedition

121 years earlier.

With the passage open,

foreign cargo ships now seek it
as a shorter alternative

to the Panama canal.

The eight countries
sharing arctic borders

are now torn between
conservation and exploitation

of the newly accessible
resources.

The disappearing ice also leaves
the arctic exposed to gas

and oil exploration.

And animals
who have uniquely evolved

over hundreds of thousands
of years

to thrive in this environment
now race to adapt.

A region that was once
one of the Earth's most hostile,

is rapidly transforming into
one of its most vulnerable.

A trip like this
is encompassing everything

that I've done, as a human,
as a rider.

I want to lead by example.
I want to show my kids,

don't try to compare
yourself to anyone else,

or try to be as good
as the next guy,

because then,
you're limited by the next guy.

Look for something new.
Look beyond the next horizon

and this sport is what I've
devoted most of my life to,

and that I care about so much

and doing everything I can to
contribute to making it better

and paving the way for people
to come up and enjoy it

the way I have.

Hey, Bella.

Some think
that achieving the goal

is almost a curse in some ways,

because once the goal
is achieved, what comes next?

You just have to keep learning
from every adventure,

every success, and more
importantly, every failure.

The biggest lesson
that I've learned from this trip

was that as we pass the torch
to the next generation,

it's up to us to make sure
it's still burning.