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The Native Americans
who first came and set eyes
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on these lakes and mountains
encountered a vast wilderness.
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An entire continent
that still lay wild and free.
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These Native Americans believed
that the greatest natural wonders
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belong to no one.
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They belong to all.
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Over a hundred years ago,
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these treasured places were protected
for eternity, for everyone.
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And the National Parks were born.
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Conrad says, "Go slowly.
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Listen for those who came before."
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Oh yeah! Whoo!
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Yeah!
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Woo!
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Woo!
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Woo!
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The first people here
had no idea what they'd find.
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The adventure
is stepping into the unknown.
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Conrad Anker is a world-famous climber
and a National Parks Ambassador.
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I think I got everything
to shoot up there, Dad.
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Looks good.
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During semester break, Conrad
always takes his step-son, Max Lowe,
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on a climbing trip through the parks.
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Their family friend,
Rachel Pohl, comes along.
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Let's roll.
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Yellowstone.
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The land sits over the molten fury
of the largest super-volcano on Earth.
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Each year, over two million visitors
are carried back in time.
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Heat-loving bacteria create
the vibrant colors.
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Over half of the geysers
on this planet are here.
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Yellowstone is a place where you
can feel the beating heart of the planet
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and gaze into its eye.
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From this beating heart, great rivers
flow out to all corners of the continent.
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In past trips,
we've rafted down these rivers,
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the highways of the Native American.
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The Colorado River
carved the Grand Canyon,
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digging a mile down into the earth,
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exposing rock layers
formed 1.7 billion years ago.
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In the great river valleys,
Native Americans hunted and gathered.
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At Chaco Canyon, in New Mexico,
they built a thriving city.
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If you listen, you can still hear
their voices on the wind.
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We're heading' north, towards
Wyoming, and another Native American icon.
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The Lakota Sioux
revere a thousand-foot monolith
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called Devils Tower.
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Here they passed down stories
of powerful spirits,
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and giant, terrifying bears.
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The National Parks protect land
and animals, too.
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The threatened prairie dogs are safe here.
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Prairie dogs
have a highly-developed vocabulary,
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which includes specific warning calls
for each predator.
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It's the females who sound the alarm.
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Look at him!
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Yeah, come on.
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Max, get a picture of this one.
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And flip it.
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You're not helping, Max!
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Max and Conrad
are amazing climbers.
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Get back on there.
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-It's so hard.
-Come on, you've gotta take that dip.
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-Me?
-Yeah.
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I'm working on it.
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Oh, now you're just showing off.
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Fall off already, so I can try.
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Max!
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The Native Americans believed
there is a solemn power here.
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They tie prayer flags on the trees.
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The columns are said to be
claw marks made by the giant bear.
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And we're trying to climb
those claw marks.
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The claw marks
are massive crystals of rock,
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formed in the heart of a volcano.
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The rest of the volcano has eroded away.
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It's very slippery.
It's really deceiving.
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Devils Tower sits like
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a lightning rod up
on the Wyoming highlands.
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Not a good place in a storm.
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Lightning! We're going down!
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From Wyoming, we head northwest
into Montana, my home state.
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Welcome to Glacier National Park.
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? This land was made for you and me ?
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Here, too, nature can
catch you off guard.
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No, no, no! Oh.
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Waterton Glacier
International Peace Park
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spans Canada and the United States,
and is a World Heritage Site.
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? This land was made for you and me ?
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The team plans
the rest of the summer.
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We came up through Colorado
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to Devils Tower,
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and then we're gonna go through
Yellowstone, to Glacier National Park,
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across the Great Divide,
down to Redwood National Park.
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Redwood National Park,
in California,
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shelters the tallest trees on the planet.
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But these ancient survivors,
some 2,000 years old,
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are now as vulnerable
as a field of wildflowers.
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That is a nice looking tree.
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Over here, Jim!
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Some scientists
devote their lives to the study
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and urgent protection of Redwood forests.
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These graceful groves almost didn't
survive an onslaught 150 years ago.
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Ninety-five percent
of the redwood forest...
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was felled for lumber.
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In the western states,
scientists who study trees
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understand that in order to thrive,
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forests large and small
all depend on fire.
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Many conifers seal their cones with resin,
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which must burn away
before the seeds can germinate.
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Out of the ashes springs new life.
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Here, at Yosemite Valley,
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trees are born in fire.
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Wild nature needs protectors.
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A hundred and 20 years ago,
the fiercest of those protectors
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was John Muir, a poet of nature.
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The sun shines not on us,
but in us.
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The rivers flow not past, but through us.
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Break away, once in a while,
and wash your spirit clean.
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Muir loved Yosemite Valley.
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But he couldn't stop it
from being destroyed by loggers,
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ranchers, and developers.
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But then his passionate articles
and sketches
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caught the eye of a powerful man.
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In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt
visited Muir in Yosemite
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where they camped for three days.
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The President had good reason
to treasure wilderness.
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When Roosevelt was 25,
his mother and his wife...
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fell ill.
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They both died on the same day.
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He wrote,
"The light has gone out of my life."
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He took his grief out into the wilderness,
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where he discovered
nature's power to heal.
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He never forgot it.
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Their camping trip
saved America's natural wonders.
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Muir and Roosevelt
crystallized a sweeping vision
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for the first unified system
of National Parks anywhere on Earth.
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Slowly the idea caught on.
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National Park Service lands now encompass
an area three times the size of England.
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These 400 sites range from Yosemite...
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to the volcanoes in Hawaii...
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Niagara Falls in the east...
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the Channel Islands of California...
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King's Canyon...
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Death Valley,
arguably the hottest place on Earth.
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From the caverns in the south,
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to the spires of Monument Valley, Arizona.
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From the Grand Tetons of Wyoming...
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To Acadia, in Maine.
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These lands became your lands.
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Lake Powell...
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Yellowstone.
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Crater Lake, Oregon,
the deepest lake in the nation.
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The National Mall in Washington DC,
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where cherry blossoms
chase away the winter.
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New York City.
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Here, Teddy Roosevelt
is memorialized near Central Park.
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And a proud lady
standing in New York Harbor
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extends a welcome to all.
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Bird life thrives in Florida's Everglades.
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But it wasn't always so.
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Ladies hats were once decorated
with elaborate feathers.
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By 1900, plume hunters were killing
over five million birds a year.
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But then local women's clubs,
in the spirit of John Muir,
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fought to form
the Everglades National Park...
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and end this outrage.
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This is once again a safe place,
even for a baby Godzilla.
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These lands are their lands, too.
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Nothing better than waking up
from a nap to an ice cream bar.
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Yeah.
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We're traveling across the country
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from Death Valley, past the Hoover Dam,
and Lake Mead, and straight into Utah.
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Utah has 13
National Park locations.
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Which is precisely
why I choose to live here.
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In Bryce Canyon,
rain water seeps into the rock.
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The water freezes in the winter.
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The ice expands, shattering the rock
into a fantasia of spires called hoodoos.
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The spires reveal layers of time,
stacked up in the rocks.
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Below the base,
you're running with dinosaurs,
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then up through the Cenozoic,
to the dawn of mankind.
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Let's get a picture up here.
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OK!
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I'm going to be tall.
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Yeah!
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Perfect!
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All right, let's keep on the pace.
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John Muir said,
"Get close to nature's heart.
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Listen."
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We all get such different things
out of the parks.
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On their perpetual road trip,
their friend, Eric Porter,
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takes them to just outside the park,
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where the wind has left its fingerprint
on the sandstone...
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Creating a playground for all to enjoy.
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Woo!
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Nice!
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Woo!
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Conrad is a hero to me.
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On one extreme climb in the Himalayas,
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Conrad's party was hit
by a terrible avalanche.
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He lost his best friend, Alex Lowe.
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Alex Lowe was my father,
and your parents are your entire world.
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So my world kind of just turned off
for a while.
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Conrad came into our lives months after
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because he was a close friend
of our family's.
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And through that shared grieving,
I think we kind of came together.
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It was nice to have that father figure
back in my life.
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And going on these amazing adventures,
and going to these wild places
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and taking me with him
has been an amazing gift.
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The whole universe,
flying through space with other stars,
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all singing and shining as one,
appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
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Here, nature may heal,
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and give strength to body and soul.
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Over the years,
on these trips with Max and Conrad,
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I have had some unforgettable experiences.
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Like in Katmai National Park, in Alaska,
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where young brown bears
were learning from their mother
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the art... of catching salmon.
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Or not.
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For the youngsters,
it can take a while.
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Older brothers know a few tricks.
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And it's frustrating.
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This year, the team finishes up
with a winter trip over semester break.
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Above Wisconsin, in Upper Michigan,
is Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.
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At the edge of Lake Superior,
now frozen solid,
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is the East Channel lighthouse.
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Normally, where we're skiing
is open water.
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But we're here to climb frozen waterfalls.
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It's really nice
having Ryan Hudson join us.
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Ryan climbed ice with us last year
in Alaska.
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-Let's roll with it.
-Yeah.
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Ice climbing
is very special to Conrad.
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Oh yeah!
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It's his idea of heaven.
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Woo-oo!
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Heads up down there!
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A storm moves in
and it turns colder...
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twenty degrees below zero.
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Conrad loves it.
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Woo!
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It's so cold
that the steel ice picks can shatter.
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I place ice-screws to secure the rope
for Rachel and the team.
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My hands... are so cold!
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OK.
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In the extreme cold,
with her hands above her heart...
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Rachel's fingers shut down.
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I can't!
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Help!
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Later, Rachel's eye for beauty
catches what the others had overlooked.
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Sweet.
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A secret ballroom in a palace of ice.
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So magical.
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Pretty cool... wanna try this one?
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John Muir got close
to the heart of nature.
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And here...
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I feel it, too.
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Oh, that's a good shot.
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It is said, "The National Parks
are America's best idea."
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John Muir knew it all along.
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He said, "In God's Wildness
lies the hope of the world."
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And it all started under a big ol tree.
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with a great President...
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a fierce poet of nature...
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and a handshake.
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