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Hello and welcome to a Top Gear special.
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That is Resolute, the most northerly town in Canada, in the Arctic Circle.
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We're here to have a race.
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400 miles over mostly frozen ocean in that direction to the North Pole.
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I shall be travelling using husky dogs, sledge and skis.
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I'm gonna try and beat him in a car.
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That's never been done before.
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No-one has ever tried to drive to the North Pole.
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Here's why.
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On the way, he would encounter ice boulders as big as cathedrals.
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Polar bears the size of hatchbacks, temperatures that would freeze the fuel in his tank,
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and, if Al Gore is to be believed,
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open water into which he would sink.
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Victory, then, would be mine.
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Time to meet my team.
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The engines powering me to the Pole would be ten husky dogs.
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Where the car would crash through the thin ice,
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they'd be fine.
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Driving them would be Matty McNair, one of the world's leading sled dog explorers and racers.
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The dogs have been living here for 4,000 years.
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They can go through anything - cold, blizzard.
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I have a lead dog that can go through hard packed ice.
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He figures out a good route.
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So that's terrain, weather - they're made for it.
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I've just been weed on!
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Did they have to wee on me?!
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They're fast!
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To beat the human lamppost, I would be using, a Toyota pickup truck.
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It's a tough old bird this
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but for the trip to the Pole, it had been sent to Iceland,
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for a few modifications.
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The biggest change, apart from the gun, obviously,
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are the enormous wheels - Cuban wheels, I like to call them.
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They give it extra height.
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The tyres are hand-made - cost �2,500 each.
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They are so vast that the front suspension has been moved forwards
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otherwise you wouldn't be able to open the door.
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Other changes - it's got heavy-duty diffs, heavy-duty suspension,
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it's got a sump guard about that thick in case we hit a pretty much solid piece of ice.
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At the front, I insisted it was fitted with these spotlamps,
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although that might have been unnecessary, since it's currently 11.30pm
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and this is as dark as it ever gets.
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Inside, there was marine satellite navigation
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and underneath, a long-range fuel tank filled with a freeze-resistant mixture of diesel and avgas.
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All I need to complete the picture is a guide and a navigator.
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Richard Hammond has been given Matty McNair, one of the world's leading Arctic experts.
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Me. I've been given him.
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Can I make it clear now that I'm only here because the producer said I had to be. I don't like snow.
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I hate being cold. I hate outdoor pursuits.
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I hate the idea that I've got to "push my body to find the limit."
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I can't stand this stupid clothing that makes this rustling noise.
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I hate the zips and the toggles and all the pockets and that.
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And I hate your stupid truck. Listen, if we make it,
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you will be the first person to go to the North Pole who DIDN'T want to be there.
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DOGS BARK
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We have the right tools for the job, which just left us.
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We're not what you'd call polar explorers.
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So earlier in the year, we'd been sent to a cold-weather training camp in the Austrian Alps.
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We were put in the hands of some Arctic experts who showed us what salami was and
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how to put an anorak on.
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To be honest, our minds kept wandering.
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There WAS a man who ate a car once. Was it that bloke who hate everything?
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Then, a doctor snapped us to attention.
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Your foreskin has been frostbitten. Right.
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Shall we go straight to the frozen penis?
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ALL: Aarrghh!
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He'd been walking with it hanging out of his trousers.With your willy hanging out?Why?
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It comes down to organisation.Good job he didn't do it on the London Underground. He'd be arrested.
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On public transport with it out...
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The doctor moved on to how we'd do our number twos.
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You've got to be quick.
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We've nearly missed entire programmes...Sometimes, Top Gear is delayed by an hour.
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I get the runs, especially if I go abroad, which the North Pole is.
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Doctors say better out than in. That's not true of your penis in minus 50.
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Essentials for the Arctic crap.
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Take your bog roll and your gun with you.Take your gun with you?To the loo?Absolutely
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Bears love to creep up on you when you're taking a crap.
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That's not sporting of them.
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The next day, it was time for outdoor training. To be honest, it was freezing
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so we went for a coffee instead.
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If it's like this when we get to the Pole...
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We should cross that bridge when we get to it.
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How can you practise being cold?
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Snow is snow. There's no point going out there catching our death.
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You wouldn't be able to go - you'd have a cold.
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Eventually, though, the weather cleared,
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and I gave May and Hammond their first ever skiing lesson.
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I can't go because of the wind...
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Richard, in particular, would spend a lot of time skiing beside his dogs.
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Aarghh!
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Keep them so that the tips are like that...Aargh! Don't worry about him.
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You need to go more downhill or level your skis out.
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If I go more downhill, I'll slip! James wasn't much better.
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Just put them on. I'm coming down here otherwise I'll fall over.
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It's the same here as it is there.
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Push off and kick this arse out of the skis with your heel.
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Don't cross them.Aarghh! Thanks a bunch!
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It's taken me 20 minutes to get there!We can go together.I've got only one ski on.
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Progress was painfully slow.
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It's not on.
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Aarrghh!
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Oh, God! Sorry! Sorry! Sorry!
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Sorry! Sorry! Sorry!
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Sorry! Sorry! Sorry!
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Sorry!
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Right.
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We've done... See where we've come from?
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Yeah.
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30, 40 yards and you've got 400 miles to ski.Jeremy...
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We were then taught how to erect a tent.
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Our instructor was a former special forces soldier who arrived with a pixelated face.
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He was very bossy.
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We can do it now or four o'clock in the morning.
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The only good thing is it can't possibly be colder in the Arctic.
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You have to push it. You've got it stuck in here. You have to get out...
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I didn't break it. Who broke the elastic then?
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The man with the funny face was getting more and more irritated.
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I've just had a brilliant idea. Why don't we just tow a caravan?
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James, feed it through.
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Put your foot on that.
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Put your foot on there.
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If this blows away, it's game over.
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There's no, "We'll just get another tent."
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It's a case of this tent is it.
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Go on, catch it.
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You haven't got that end put in.
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These are packed with ice.
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HE LAUGHS
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Take it back to where we're putting the tent up.
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Finally, quite a bit later, the tent was up.
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It's...I think you can sleep in it.
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WIND HOWLS
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Sadly, our ordeal was not yet over.
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The man with the ruined face was going to show us how it would feel
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to fall through the polar ice.
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In your own time, I want all three of you to jump in.
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What's the problem?Hang on.
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At the Pole, we'd all three be standing with safety harnesses on...
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It's a silly test. I'm not doing it.
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The point of this is that you have to be able to take your clothes off and put more clothes on again.
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I can practise that in the hotel room.
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You've got a tingling down your arm...
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Pull yourself out. Come on, put some effort in!
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You don't want to stay in there all day. Drop the pole.
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How dare you... Hands above your head!
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Hands above your head!
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OK, roll in the snow, roll in the snow.
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Roll in the snow! Roll in the snow, Jeremy.
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That'll make it much better, rather than a big, pink, fluffy towel.
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That looked awful.I'm staggered.
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Do you know what, though?
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I like to think of us as a unit on Top Gear,
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and as a unit, we've done that test.
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'Our instructors were not impressed with that theory,
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'and decided we needed our heads banging together.
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'So they drafted in the legendary Arctic explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes.'
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The problem we have
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is that we can't really get into our heads
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that this is a particularly dangerous place to go.
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But you think it is.
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I don't think it is, I know that it can be
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because of what's happened to me in that area over the last 36 years.
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You will have the polar bear problem,
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you will have the ignorance problem,
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cos you lot are apparently ignorant,
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and thirdly,
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the fact that you will all start hating each other
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because of the extreme cold having an effect...
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The hatred is very real.
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You don't want to laugh about it.
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'Then we moved on to frostbite.
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'He showed us what had happened to his hand
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'after it had been immersed in polar water for just a few moments.
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Have a look at that - that's my left hand.
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So, eventually,
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all those red areas were amputated.
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That is... If you look at the proper hand there,
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you can see how much is missing and froze off.
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That was a three-minute mistake.
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If we were in the car, say, went through a hole into the ice
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and you fell in the water at that temperature,
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what are the chances of survival?
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If your whole body fell in
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and the car had gone in and your tent had gone in,
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cos you presumably stow that in the car,
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you could probably survive for, if there was no wind, hours.
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But I'd prefer in those circumstances
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to go quickly rather than slowly, really.
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Back in Resolute, I was glad I'd had the talk from Ranulph,
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but not so glad that I'd had a skiing lesson from Clarkson.
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What?You're not very good.
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Because you taught me the wrong kind of skiing!
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You may as well have taught me to play the banjo!
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DOGS BARK 'And as zero hour approached,
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'I was also struggling to bond with the dogs.'
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Ah, there's a pile of poo there!
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Mind you, Clarkson wasn't doing much better with his snow driving.
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Er...
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'And James was rubbish with a shotgun.'
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Woah!
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And then, to make matters worse, we met the local weatherman.
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My colleague here is convinced we're going to fall through the ice.
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Have you seen on the map...?
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You're going to this island.OK.
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Now, that's all frozen to a depth of nine feet.
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Not all of it is frozen. There you go!
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The problem is,
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we know only so much about that region,
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and you are exploring that region at an incredible speed.
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How safe is it up there?
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With a car it's a total unknown.
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There's all kinds of dangers waiting for you,
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and you don't see that the ice is just a few centimetres thick.
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It wouldn't look any different from the top.Yes.
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That's what gets most people.
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I just wanted Richard to see it.
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This was a man who attempted to go to the North Pole on a sledge.
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People go to the Pole all the time on sledges, don't they?
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And he's being eaten. He's giving him a cuddle.
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Zero hour, and even though our talent was small
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and the dangers ahead were plainly immense,
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we were looking forward to the off.
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Well, two of us were.
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Look at that awful expanse of misery.Are you cold?
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No.Are we falling through the ice?Not yet.
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Well, cheer up.How far have we gone?We haven't set off.
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Quite.
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WHIP CRACKS
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DOGS BARK
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Who do you think's gonna win? We're all gonna die.
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GUNSHOT
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Let's go to the Pole.Go!
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I can't believe it.
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I'm going to the Pole with a dog team.
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HE LAUGHS
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Hang on, stop.What?
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Stop.
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Oh, and they're stuck. They're stuck.
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Forgot the gloves.
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Give me strength.
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I knew he was gonna be bad on this trip.
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I didn't know he'd be THIS bad.
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Hurry up!
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Don't go in now. Here we go.
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CAR HORN HONKS Yeah!
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JEREMY LAUGHS
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You're such a pikey.
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Gently.
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No gently.
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There's no time for gently now cos you forgot your gloves.
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HONKS HORN
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So here we are going further north than any car had been before.
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Riding on a thin crust of ice over an ocean 1,500 feet deep.
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Just us - a film crew, two Icelandic mechanics and a soldier.
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An insignificant nine-man blot
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in the pristine white vastness.
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How far have we gone? Three kilometres.Three?Yes.
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And it's taken us three minutes? See, James,
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I said we'd be there in no time.
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This won't last, this sunny sky,
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smooth snow.
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Yes, it will.It won't. It will.It won't.
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Ow!
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But it did last.
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The sky stayed blue, the ice stayed smooth
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and we opened up a huge lead over Team Dog.
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It's the third time, I've told Matty...
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This is only the third time I've had skis on my feet.
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It's really hard.
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I know lots of people ski these days but I grew up on Birmingham.
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The car had disappeared into the distance,
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but Matty told me the hare
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would be unstuck by ice that was too thick or drowned
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by ice that was too thin
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and that the tortoise would then take the lead. I wasn't so sure.
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Oh hell!
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BLEEP!
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HE GROANS
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With things going so well for us,
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I tried to get James to buy into our expedition.
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I admire Hammond for doing what he's doing, I admire Arctic explorers,
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but I think the time has come to say, let's see how easily we could get to the top of Everest.
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Let's see how easily we could get to the North Pole.
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I think we could forge a career as the world's worst explorers.
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Surprisingly, James was ahead of me on that one.
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What would make it nice is a gin and tonic. Don't you think?Yes.
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I'd like a gin and tonic.
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I can't have one because we're in the Arctic Ocean.I'll make one.
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What?
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HE LAUGHS
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You've got gin!I have.
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And we're in international waters so there are no drink-driving laws.
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Have you got the ice?
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That's a stupid question, isn't it?
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Will you slow down while I slice the lemon for the gin and tonic?
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Now THIS is Arctic exploration.
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CAR HORN HONKS
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Please don't write to us about drinking and driving because I am not driving, I am sailored.
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Cheers.
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HMS G&T ploughed on
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and although we occasionally got stuck,
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our Icelandic mechanic showed me a neat trick
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for getting going again.
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So you rock it gently
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and scoop a tiny bit of snow with each rock.
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Woah! Woah, woah, woah!
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Good boy.
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Our target was five to six miles an hour but on the first day
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we hadn't done anything like that.
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Been on the go ten hours.
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We've done 36 miles. Not good.
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Not good news.
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The problem is, we're standing on sea ice.
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It means it has salt in it so it's incredibly grippy.
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The sledge can hardly move.
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I've been skiing for nine and a half hours of those ten.
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I'm broken.
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James and I had problems too.
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We couldn't kip in the car
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in case it fell through the ice while we fell asleep.
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So we had to build a tent.
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Everything about tenting is designed to make your life
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just a bit more difficult than it need be. I would dearly like
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to meet the man who designed this and took it to his boss
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and said, "Sir, I've made a bed!"
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Because...you take this piece of elastic off...
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It just isn't a bed.
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It's just half a mattress, look.
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You roll it out like that...
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..and then...you've got to go back and get the other one.
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I mean, why didn't his boss just say to him,
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"Jenkins, you imbecile, it's not a bed, it's rubbish!"
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Everything's crap!
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DOGS HOWL
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Morning.
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This is what I wake up to every morning.
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Frost.
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All over my sleeping bag, it's frozen.
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I took my balaclava off cos it had frozen all round
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where I was breathing through it in my tent with the floor made of snow.
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With us, of course, things were more civilised.
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As you know, what I'm trying to do with this mission
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is prove that Arctic exploration needn't be tough.
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Which brings me onto the delicate question of number twos.
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You see, what a traditional polar explorer would do
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is simply go out there and squat down...like an animal.
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What I've done though is fitted this bumper dumper
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into the tow bar attachment and now I will try it out.
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Ooh-wooh! That's nippy.
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James, meanwhile, was on guard duty.
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HE COCKS GUN
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James, are you showing off or are you actually looking for bears?
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Cos I can't run.
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Oh, Bartlett, not on the ropes!
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Matty?Yeah?
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How many poos a day do these dogs need to have?
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SHE LAUGHS I'd say two.
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It's ten.
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It's ten each at least.
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Sometimes I'd look forward to the sledge bogging down
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so I could get out of the poo stream and run alongside.
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Take it up.
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Meanwhile, James was breaking out the elevenses.
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Chocolate bars.
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Ooh, chocolate, yes.
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Look, that one is called Big.
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I'll have one.Have a Big.
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We should say, if you're watching this, this is not gluttony.
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We have genuinely been told by our experts that if you are trekking
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across the Arctic, you need 5,000 calories a day
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so we're only too happy to shove that much in.
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I'm not certain
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when they told us we needed 5,000 calories a day
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that we weren't in a slightly warm car sitting down
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but better to be safe.
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After our morning snack,
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James found my Jesus.
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Why have you brought Jesus?
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What?Why have you brought Jesus?
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The Jesus, I thought, could sit in the car
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and guide us in our hours of need if we ever have one.
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It's a Jesus action figure.Yes.
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There's a map on the back to guide us.To Galilee?
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I was now back on the skis and starting to get
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the hang of it.
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Today, Richard,
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you've got to learn how to pee on the move.Pee on the move?Yeah.
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Watch out.
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I'm not on. Matty!
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We, meanwhile, had reached the vast, uninhabited wilderness of Bathurst Island
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and we were going, if anything, even faster.
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Our lead over Hammond kept getting bigger and bigger.
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He's the plucky Brit, and like all plucky Brits, he'll come in second.
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But at this point, he had other things on his mind.
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Around in this area,
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seals make little houses, known locally as aglus,
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and they raise their pups in there all warm and safe.
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Unless a polar bear smashes its way in
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which is what's happened here...obviously.
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Oh look,
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there's its jaw bone
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with some teeth in it
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and that's, er, the rest of the bits of seal
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the polar bear didn't fancy that day.
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Maybe it was full.
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I hope it still is.
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On Bathurst, we got bogged down in the deepest snow we'd encountered so far.
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But it wasn't a problem because the Icelandics had another trick up their sleeves.
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They told us to let nearly all the air out of the tyres.
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How's that?Brilliant.
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We should explain. Four pounds per square inch in the tyres,
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we'd normally run with 28 or 30 in the normal road car.
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Four makes the tyres almost nearly flat so we're more flobbery,
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you have a wider area touching the, um...snow and ice. That's the plan.
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Once on firmer ground, we had to put air back in the tyres.
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But that was OK because the car had an onboard pump.
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If only we'd had a pump for our stupid tent.
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HowBLEEPmonstrous is this?
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It's beyond... It's not normal.
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I was now over 50 miles behind, but Matty had come up with a plan.
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We know we haven't got the edge on speed, so we need to use tactics.
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This is what we're going to do. It's now about 8pm.
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We've run all day. We've made brilliant progress.
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We'll put these guys to bed, we've chained them up. They'll have a sleep.
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They'll only do so for about three hours,
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then we'll get up again and then we can run at night.
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The dogs prefer it. They love the colder temperatures, cos they can run faster.
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And so, in the early hours of the morning,
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when the temperature had dropped to minus 35,
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we roused the dogs and ran.
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The silence is beautiful.
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'Then, suddenly...'
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Oh! Oh, no!
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DOGS BARK
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I think it caught our scent earlier on in the day,
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followed our tracks, but whether or not it's just hanging around,
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and picked up the scent now as it comes downwind.
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As I was pinned down by the bear, Team G&T were getting away.
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Clarkson!
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I know it's you, you insufferable oaf!
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I'm on the bloody throne!
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We ate up the miles...
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..and discussed how we'd celebrate when we made the Pole.
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So, of all the things you could have brought,
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champagne, whatever it might be,
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you've brought a tin of Spam?
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Yes.
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And then we, too, encountered a bear.
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Oh, it's got babies!
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Sweet!
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Not being Attenborough,
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I couldn't think of anything else to say!
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BEAR GROWLS
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So we set off and, with a bit of divine guidance...
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'I am the vine, you are the branches.
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'If a man remains in me, and I in him,
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'he will bear much fruit.'
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We made it uneaten to the other side of the island.
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I mean, look at that.
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That's not bad, is it?
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Absolutely astonishing.
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Can I spoil it for you by...?
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I've been running all day, all night,
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and now it's day, or night,
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and I've got to sleep.
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I'm confused.
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My body clock's broken.
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Our progress was so good, I decided to find out
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what Hammond was making such a fuss about.
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# Round, round, get around I get around
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# Get around Whoo-hoo
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# I get around
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# I get around Get around, round, round... #
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This is brilliant!
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# ..I get around... #
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Yeah!
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MUSIC STOPS Oh, hang on...
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Guys!
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Can you bring a car to tow us out?
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First time at the wheel, James has managed to put it, basically, into the sea!
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That is seawater.
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If this car goes through, it's game over.
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The car was sinking...
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but luckily the Icelandics had another trick up their sleeve -
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a bungee rope.
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The tow car would set off at a huge speed,
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building energy in the elasticated rope,
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which would then pull our stricken car gently but firmly out of the slush.
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OK, Hal, are you ready?Yes!
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ENGINE REVS
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It was brilliant.
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Thank God for that!
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We were free, but for the first time, James and I had real problems.
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We'd been warned before we set off
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that constant tidal movement weakens the ice where it meets the shore.
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They told us not to drive near the coast,
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but how do you avoid them
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when you're in a fjord?
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Look how narrow it is here. It can't be more than a mile, if that.
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They say don't go near the coasts...
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And we can't NOT go near the coasts. We can't not go near the coasts.
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To make things worse, the ice here was perilously thin.
503
00:31:47,260 --> 00:31:49,340
LOUD CRUNCHING
504
00:31:49,380 --> 00:31:52,620
Look, it's just completely covered in cracks.
505
00:31:55,500 --> 00:31:56,980
We're facing a problem.
506
00:31:57,020 --> 00:32:00,380
There is no other way through here.
507
00:32:00,420 --> 00:32:04,420
I mean, that's a cliff. It's a sheer cliff that way.
508
00:32:04,460 --> 00:32:06,300
We cannot go on the land.
509
00:32:06,340 --> 00:32:08,060
If we go back,
510
00:32:08,100 --> 00:32:13,140
the only way we can go is all the way back to Resolute, giving up.
511
00:32:13,180 --> 00:32:17,660
Based on no knowledge at all, we decided to push on
512
00:32:17,700 --> 00:32:19,340
in our three-tonne truck.
513
00:32:19,380 --> 00:32:21,980
It's blue.I know.
514
00:32:22,020 --> 00:32:24,780
Looking at the ocean.I know.
515
00:32:24,820 --> 00:32:28,980
If we went through the ice, our only chance of escape
516
00:32:29,020 --> 00:32:31,740
would be to smash the glass.
517
00:32:31,780 --> 00:32:36,380
See, I don't like the look of that bit.I don't either, but if we go...
518
00:32:36,420 --> 00:32:38,260
CRUNCHING
519
00:32:38,300 --> 00:32:39,420
BLEEP
520
00:32:41,420 --> 00:32:43,540
This isBLEEPscary.
521
00:32:44,740 --> 00:32:46,140
As it dawned on us
522
00:32:46,180 --> 00:32:49,700
the nearest hospital was 1,500 miles away,
523
00:32:49,740 --> 00:32:54,340
and the nearest rescue helicopter even further than that,
524
00:32:54,380 --> 00:32:57,060
we began to understand the danger of where we were
525
00:32:57,100 --> 00:32:59,460
and what we were doing.
526
00:33:01,580 --> 00:33:04,540
If we go in here, we're dead, aren't we?Yep.
527
00:33:05,700 --> 00:33:07,180
I mean, dead.
528
00:33:09,260 --> 00:33:13,700
It went on like this for mile after mile.
529
00:33:13,740 --> 00:33:17,020
We just drove over here and the whole thing's collapsed.
530
00:33:17,060 --> 00:33:18,420
That's nothing.
531
00:33:19,660 --> 00:33:20,860
Look.
532
00:33:24,380 --> 00:33:28,260
Mercifully, though, the ice eventually thickened.
533
00:33:33,100 --> 00:33:35,500
But we were still in all kinds of trouble,
534
00:33:35,540 --> 00:33:38,420
because we knew from pilots who'd flown overhead
535
00:33:38,460 --> 00:33:41,340
we were about to enter a massive ice boulder field,
536
00:33:41,380 --> 00:33:45,860
and we'd been told we wouldn't have a hope of getting through it.
537
00:33:45,900 --> 00:33:49,940
That night, for once, it was James trying to cheer me up.
538
00:33:49,980 --> 00:33:53,660
Tomorrow, we hit the boulder field, OK?Quail's egg?
539
00:33:53,700 --> 00:33:56,900
Ooh, lovely. Got any celery salt?
540
00:33:56,940 --> 00:33:58,820
So we've got a choice.
541
00:33:58,860 --> 00:34:02,340
We can go west, where it's new ice, which is likely to be jaggedy,
542
00:34:02,380 --> 00:34:07,660
or we can go straight on or east, which will be old ice, which is terrifying.Yes.
543
00:34:07,700 --> 00:34:11,860
We'll be down to two miles a DAY going through that way. Pate de foie gras?
544
00:34:11,900 --> 00:34:14,340
I know it's cruel, but I really do like it.
545
00:34:14,380 --> 00:34:16,500
So, which do you prefer?
546
00:34:16,540 --> 00:34:20,700
Or this is a 24-month-old Parmigiano. Stravecchio, in fact.
547
00:34:20,740 --> 00:34:22,300
That should be superb.
548
00:34:22,340 --> 00:34:25,620
Anyway, go on, the ice?We're likely to be down to two miles a DAY.
549
00:34:25,660 --> 00:34:29,620
We have to make this decision. Tomorrow, we should leave fairly early.
550
00:34:29,660 --> 00:34:33,020
What would those salmon eggs go really well with?
551
00:34:33,060 --> 00:34:34,460
Well...
552
00:34:34,500 --> 00:34:35,900
a crisp white,
553
00:34:35,940 --> 00:34:37,300
but we can dream...
554
00:34:37,340 --> 00:34:38,700
Like a Chablis, really.
555
00:34:38,740 --> 00:34:40,940
Yes. So, do we get...
556
00:34:40,980 --> 00:34:43,420
NO!
557
00:34:43,460 --> 00:34:45,620
No! James!
558
00:34:45,660 --> 00:34:47,660
JEREMY GASPS
559
00:34:47,700 --> 00:34:50,020
Look what he's got - wine!
560
00:34:50,060 --> 00:34:52,620
I haven't had any for days!
561
00:34:52,660 --> 00:34:54,380
I knew you'd like that.
562
00:34:54,420 --> 00:34:58,980
A week in Resolute and three days on the ice, and just surviving on only gin!
563
00:34:59,020 --> 00:35:02,660
WIND HOWLS
564
00:35:02,700 --> 00:35:06,540
Over at Team Dog, we were covering good ground
565
00:35:06,580 --> 00:35:08,780
with the night-time running.
566
00:35:08,820 --> 00:35:12,340
But I was getting knackered.
567
00:35:12,380 --> 00:35:15,500
It's weird the way being very tired affects you.
568
00:35:15,540 --> 00:35:20,100
Today, privately, whilst being towed along by the sledge,
569
00:35:20,140 --> 00:35:22,500
I had a little weep.
570
00:35:22,540 --> 00:35:24,860
I haven't done that for years.
571
00:35:24,900 --> 00:35:26,460
And, out here,
572
00:35:26,500 --> 00:35:31,020
the tears cause moisture in your ski goggles,
573
00:35:31,060 --> 00:35:32,900
and it froze on the inside,
574
00:35:32,940 --> 00:35:34,380
so I couldn't see.
575
00:35:34,420 --> 00:35:36,940
So then I had something to cry about!
576
00:35:36,980 --> 00:35:42,500
After just two hours' sleep, though, the dogs were raring to go.
577
00:35:42,540 --> 00:35:45,140
DOGS BARK LOUDLY
578
00:35:45,180 --> 00:35:47,060
Out, Tamar!
579
00:35:47,100 --> 00:35:48,980
Get out!
580
00:35:49,020 --> 00:35:52,140
Don't touch him. If he's scared, he'll bite anybody.
581
00:35:57,180 --> 00:36:01,980
Today, it would be a killer getting over the mountains,
582
00:36:02,020 --> 00:36:06,100
and Matty's never-ending bonhomie was starting to grate.
583
00:36:06,140 --> 00:36:10,940
Nothing like a couple of hours' sleep to bring your morale up. Hup, hup!
584
00:36:15,740 --> 00:36:18,140
ZIP OPENS
585
00:36:19,620 --> 00:36:22,580
Oh, God, what's he doing?
586
00:36:24,060 --> 00:36:25,420
Ohh.
587
00:36:30,780 --> 00:36:32,460
Where's my tea, Clarkson?
588
00:36:33,740 --> 00:36:36,860
That's from trying to defrost our foie gras.
589
00:36:36,900 --> 00:36:40,700
I put it on the fire and the tin all went manky.
590
00:36:40,740 --> 00:36:42,900
Can you open the fire-lighters?
591
00:36:42,940 --> 00:36:44,500
OK, I'll race you.
592
00:36:44,540 --> 00:36:46,380
STOVESQUEAKS
593
00:36:51,220 --> 00:36:56,220
I knew we were in for a tough day and was impatient to get going.
594
00:36:57,860 --> 00:36:59,740
Very unfunny!
595
00:36:59,780 --> 00:37:01,380
Idiot!
596
00:37:04,700 --> 00:37:08,860
My iPod has stopped working. My little camera doesn't work.
597
00:37:08,900 --> 00:37:13,260
My radio transmitter for my microphone outside the car doesn't work.
598
00:37:13,300 --> 00:37:16,580
Everything is being ruined by the cold,
599
00:37:16,620 --> 00:37:21,300
and yet the car and everything on it is still working fine.
600
00:37:21,340 --> 00:37:22,540
It's...
601
00:37:22,580 --> 00:37:24,780
It is remarkable.
602
00:37:24,820 --> 00:37:31,300
Which was good, because soon it came face to face with this...
603
00:37:47,660 --> 00:37:50,980
This is what we'd been warned about -
604
00:37:51,020 --> 00:37:54,420
a massive boulder field, full of smashed-up blocks of ice,
605
00:37:54,460 --> 00:37:56,620
some the size of houses.
606
00:37:56,660 --> 00:37:59,420
How the hell did nature come up with that?
607
00:37:59,460 --> 00:38:03,220
This is the absolute definition of the chaos theory.
608
00:38:03,260 --> 00:38:06,860
However, as we were 90 miles ahead of Hammond,
609
00:38:06,900 --> 00:38:10,860
and we had no idea about the horrors that lay ahead,
610
00:38:10,900 --> 00:38:12,620
we entered in good spirits.
611
00:38:12,660 --> 00:38:14,740
Look at it! Look at that!
612
00:38:14,780 --> 00:38:17,540
It's all those Star Trek scenes,
613
00:38:17,580 --> 00:38:20,580
you know, in Star Trek, when they land on a hostile planet.
614
00:38:20,620 --> 00:38:22,460
And that's some other...It's that!
615
00:38:34,940 --> 00:38:36,620
Get up, get up, get up!
616
00:38:38,780 --> 00:38:40,420
Whoa!
617
00:38:40,460 --> 00:38:42,780
Pick it up.
618
00:38:45,340 --> 00:38:47,140
Ho-hup!
619
00:38:53,740 --> 00:38:56,140
THEY GASP
620
00:38:57,780 --> 00:39:01,260
The boulder field immediately started to bog us down.
621
00:39:03,740 --> 00:39:06,260
We couldn't drive over the ice blocks.
622
00:39:07,740 --> 00:39:09,300
That's impossible.
623
00:39:09,340 --> 00:39:14,060
And between them were snow drifts 15 feet deep.
624
00:39:16,380 --> 00:39:20,180
Each time we spin the wheels, we sink a little bit more.
625
00:39:20,220 --> 00:39:24,580
Even the Icelandic rocking trick stopped working.
626
00:39:24,620 --> 00:39:27,620
ENGINE REVS
627
00:39:35,500 --> 00:39:39,180
Honestly, James, I can't see the bloody...
628
00:39:41,100 --> 00:39:44,460
This is interesting.Hold it there! Hold it!
629
00:39:46,420 --> 00:39:48,460
God Almighty!
630
00:39:50,140 --> 00:39:56,780
It's very hard work, and very cold, and quite lonely out here.
631
00:39:59,620 --> 00:40:04,900
The boulder field was also a maze. We'd spent hours picking a route...
632
00:40:04,940 --> 00:40:07,140
That way.What?That way.
633
00:40:08,540 --> 00:40:11,100
Then hit a complete dead end.
634
00:40:11,140 --> 00:40:13,580
There has to be another way through here.
635
00:40:16,300 --> 00:40:17,620
Down there, down there.
636
00:40:19,220 --> 00:40:21,380
Then it got even worse.
637
00:40:21,420 --> 00:40:23,460
ENGINE SPLUTTERS AND CUTS OUT
638
00:40:23,500 --> 00:40:25,740
God!
639
00:40:25,780 --> 00:40:29,020
This is a lump of solid ice,
640
00:40:29,060 --> 00:40:32,260
and another one at the back. The car's sunk in between them.
641
00:40:32,300 --> 00:40:35,580
There's no help, either, because the other two cars are...
642
00:40:35,620 --> 00:40:38,140
I can just see one, the other one's miles away,
643
00:40:38,180 --> 00:40:39,940
and they're both stuck, as well,
644
00:40:39,980 --> 00:40:42,500
so we have to get this out, somehow.
645
00:40:42,540 --> 00:40:46,700
And with each passing minute, Hammond's getting closer.
646
00:41:04,620 --> 00:41:07,700
No, James, it won't do it. It's not going to work.
647
00:41:09,620 --> 00:41:11,820
Oh, that's ice, as well!
648
00:41:14,660 --> 00:41:18,780
It took us three hours to chop ourselves free.
649
00:41:21,140 --> 00:41:22,420
Try that!
650
00:41:22,460 --> 00:41:25,140
ENGINE REVS
651
00:41:25,180 --> 00:41:29,540
This has just crippled us. We've been in here nearly a day.
652
00:41:32,740 --> 00:41:36,020
As we got more and more lost in the ice maze,
653
00:41:36,060 --> 00:41:39,060
we lost all sense of time and distance.
654
00:41:44,340 --> 00:41:47,020
It's four o'clock in the morning. It's a nightmare.
655
00:41:47,060 --> 00:41:51,980
We're just covering inches per hour, literally.
656
00:41:52,020 --> 00:41:54,420
By the time we pitched camp,
657
00:41:54,460 --> 00:41:57,340
we'd been in the boulder field for 20 hours,
658
00:41:57,380 --> 00:42:00,260
and we were only one mile nearer to the Pole.
659
00:42:06,940 --> 00:42:08,300
Come on!
660
00:42:08,340 --> 00:42:11,460
In the meantime, we'd cleared Bathurst Island,
661
00:42:11,500 --> 00:42:14,700
but the brutal pace was starting to fray my temper.
662
00:42:14,740 --> 00:42:18,900
Did you manage to keep it fit?Yeah. I do need a new lead dog, he's...
663
00:42:18,940 --> 00:42:22,780
You can try, but there's nobody else here, and I have a shovel.
664
00:42:22,820 --> 00:42:24,020
I wouldn't.
665
00:42:29,820 --> 00:42:37,500
At one point today, I had to count the dog traces onto the carabina that holds them to the sled.
666
00:42:37,540 --> 00:42:40,020
We untangle the leads, and put them back on.
667
00:42:40,060 --> 00:42:42,140
There are ten, cos there's ten dogs.
668
00:42:42,180 --> 00:42:45,900
It took me three attempts to count to ten.
669
00:42:51,380 --> 00:42:54,340
After two hours' kip, we too were frazzled,
670
00:42:54,380 --> 00:42:59,340
and starting to understand why no-one had ever taken a car to the Pole before.
671
00:42:59,380 --> 00:43:01,980
Agh! Oh, no!
672
00:43:02,020 --> 00:43:05,700
Right...Look at that!I know.
673
00:43:05,740 --> 00:43:09,060
That is on the horizon, and that is still a lump of ice.
674
00:43:09,100 --> 00:43:12,060
That means there's bad ice right out there.
675
00:43:13,420 --> 00:43:15,220
We're gonna be here forever.
676
00:43:15,260 --> 00:43:17,260
ENGINE REVS
677
00:43:21,060 --> 00:43:24,900
But we had to get out, because we had limited fuel, limited food,
678
00:43:24,940 --> 00:43:28,740
and in here, absolutely no chance of rescue.
679
00:43:28,780 --> 00:43:33,740
My dream of a luxury trip to the Pole was in tatters.
680
00:43:33,780 --> 00:43:36,220
My hands are freezing, James.
681
00:43:39,580 --> 00:43:41,460
No, James, it won't do it.
682
00:43:46,420 --> 00:43:49,060
When I got down to the bottom of that slope,
683
00:43:49,100 --> 00:43:51,340
we were back where we were... I know.
684
00:43:51,380 --> 00:43:54,620
..an hour and a half ago. You don't have to remind me.
685
00:43:54,660 --> 00:43:57,740
In eight hours, we went nowhere.
686
00:43:57,780 --> 00:43:59,300
ENGINE REVS
687
00:44:03,460 --> 00:44:06,020
Can you turn the cameras off?Yeah.
688
00:44:14,820 --> 00:44:17,140
We, meanwhile, were cruising up the fjord,
689
00:44:17,180 --> 00:44:21,780
where May had gone through the ice, but we had no worries, sort of.
690
00:44:21,820 --> 00:44:23,820
Oooh! Ooof! Agh!
691
00:44:24,740 --> 00:44:29,300
..because Matty had unleashed her secret weapon.
692
00:44:38,460 --> 00:44:41,220
Good boy! Good boy! Come on! Good boy!
693
00:44:42,740 --> 00:44:46,740
It's a kite. Matty puts it up and skis with it,
694
00:44:46,780 --> 00:44:48,860
that saves weight, motivates the dogs.
695
00:44:50,180 --> 00:44:51,180
Yeah!
696
00:44:51,220 --> 00:44:55,260
Now we're making progress! Now we are making progress! Ha ha!
697
00:44:58,500 --> 00:45:00,100
CAR ENGINE REVS
698
00:45:00,140 --> 00:45:05,860
After two days of going nowhere, Jeremy's patience had snapped.
699
00:45:13,500 --> 00:45:15,140
Uh-oh.Oh my God, what is that?
700
00:45:15,180 --> 00:45:17,340
I think that's the auxiliary fuel tank.
701
00:45:17,380 --> 00:45:21,060
I'll tell you something else... A whole fuel tank has dropped off.
702
00:45:21,100 --> 00:45:22,620
Tell you something else.What?
703
00:45:22,660 --> 00:45:25,060
It smells remarkably like it might be leaking.
704
00:45:25,100 --> 00:45:28,180
Oh, Christ, hang on a minute. James, James, James!
705
00:45:28,220 --> 00:45:31,980
The propshaft is gouged to hell, and the fuel tank is gouged to hell.
706
00:45:32,020 --> 00:45:33,980
How much is in the main tank now?
707
00:45:34,020 --> 00:45:35,500
If we're losing fuel,
708
00:45:35,540 --> 00:45:39,340
we've got to get as much as possible into the other tank.
709
00:45:41,660 --> 00:45:44,820
The miles were tumbling.
710
00:45:51,860 --> 00:45:55,460
We'd managed to pump some of the fuel into the good tank,
711
00:45:55,500 --> 00:45:57,620
but then we hit another problem.
712
00:45:57,660 --> 00:46:02,020
That's what the fuel tank did to the shock absorber when it came off,
713
00:46:02,060 --> 00:46:04,460
so we've had to replace that as well,
714
00:46:04,500 --> 00:46:06,860
and we've now ended up with one full tank,
715
00:46:06,900 --> 00:46:10,300
the standard tank the car comes with, the other one is empty.
716
00:46:10,340 --> 00:46:14,540
Er...crossed fingers, really.
717
00:46:14,580 --> 00:46:18,140
The crash had also ripped a tyre off the rim,
718
00:46:18,180 --> 00:46:22,700
but luckily, our Icelandics had yet another trick up their sleeves.
719
00:46:22,740 --> 00:46:27,340
They filled the tyre with lighter fuel, and...
720
00:46:29,420 --> 00:46:31,180
Great success!
721
00:46:31,220 --> 00:46:36,220
However, we now had barely enough fuel to get to the Pole.
722
00:46:36,260 --> 00:46:40,820
We were still stuck, and then came a call from Team Dog.
723
00:46:40,860 --> 00:46:46,380
In the two days that we'd been trapped, he'd closed us down,
724
00:46:46,420 --> 00:46:49,140
and was now in the boulder field, as well.
725
00:46:49,180 --> 00:46:51,900
THEY SHOUT TO DOGS
726
00:46:55,980 --> 00:46:58,860
The news caused a bit of a row.
727
00:46:58,900 --> 00:47:01,140
Sometimes, James, you have to move fast...
728
00:47:01,180 --> 00:47:04,180
Sometimes, Jeremy, you have to move slowly, for example,
729
00:47:04,220 --> 00:47:05,540
going over the soft snow,
730
00:47:05,580 --> 00:47:08,660
where we've been told there are huge lumps of immobile ice,
731
00:47:08,700 --> 00:47:10,180
which is what's caused that.
732
00:47:13,100 --> 00:47:16,740
We wished we'd paid more attention at the Alpine training camp.
733
00:47:16,780 --> 00:47:20,660
We wished we were fitter. It really was starting to get tough.
734
00:47:24,340 --> 00:47:29,060
And we were both absolutely worn out.
735
00:47:37,340 --> 00:47:39,060
Oh, bloody hell!
736
00:47:39,100 --> 00:47:42,100
We felt certain that Hammond was ahead,
737
00:47:42,140 --> 00:47:45,100
but we had to stop and put the tent up,
738
00:47:45,140 --> 00:47:46,940
and it was a nightmare.
739
00:47:46,980 --> 00:47:49,660
It was minus 42, we were exhausted,
740
00:47:49,700 --> 00:47:55,100
and Reynolds' prediction about falling out was starting to ring true.
741
00:47:55,140 --> 00:47:57,740
Hang on, hang on.Are you in?No.
742
00:47:57,780 --> 00:48:00,100
JustBLEEPput it in!
743
00:48:00,140 --> 00:48:03,900
Just...please, James...Look, I am so unspeakably outraged with you.
744
00:48:03,940 --> 00:48:04,980
Be quick, for once!
745
00:48:05,020 --> 00:48:07,620
You're not even doing this intelligently.
746
00:48:07,660 --> 00:48:11,020
You have to push it through until it goes in the other end.
747
00:48:11,060 --> 00:48:14,580
James, I am dying here. You cannot build a tent by shouting.
748
00:48:17,220 --> 00:48:18,900
Oh,BLEEP!
749
00:48:18,940 --> 00:48:22,460
That, frankly, is a pathetic effort.
750
00:48:25,460 --> 00:48:31,060
The dogs were also fighting, and Matty dispensed swift discipline.
751
00:48:31,100 --> 00:48:32,740
Get out! Out!
752
00:48:32,780 --> 00:48:35,700
Out! Out! Out! Out!
753
00:48:35,740 --> 00:48:37,100
SHE CONTINUES TO SHOUT
754
00:48:40,500 --> 00:48:43,660
I need to run 'em for a bit, this is crazy.
755
00:48:43,700 --> 00:48:45,620
They mean the world to her,
756
00:48:45,660 --> 00:48:47,500
but they're not domestic pets.
757
00:48:47,540 --> 00:48:51,820
They're pack animals, and sometimes, she has to remind them who's boss.
758
00:48:55,460 --> 00:48:59,020
With order restored, they blitzed the boulder field,
759
00:48:59,060 --> 00:49:00,580
and soon we were clear.
760
00:49:00,620 --> 00:49:04,180
Look ahead! Look! We've done it! We are out!
761
00:49:04,220 --> 00:49:06,620
Whoo! Come on, guys, let's go!
762
00:49:10,260 --> 00:49:15,540
Meanwhile, we were beginning a third day stuck in the same frozen hell.
763
00:49:15,580 --> 00:49:17,340
SAW WHIRRS
764
00:49:17,380 --> 00:49:19,420
Whoa, whoa, whoa. James, James...
765
00:49:19,460 --> 00:49:22,140
What?You're standing on, like, an ice bridge!
766
00:49:22,180 --> 00:49:25,740
Yeah, what's wrong with that? You'll cut yourBLEEParm off!
767
00:49:25,780 --> 00:49:27,620
To try and speed things up,
768
00:49:27,660 --> 00:49:31,700
we'd broken out a chainsaw to cut away the bigger boulders,
769
00:49:31,740 --> 00:49:35,220
and some snow ladders to cross the deeper ravines.
770
00:49:35,260 --> 00:49:41,100
Where I've sawn it off square... James?What?
771
00:49:41,140 --> 00:49:47,580
This bolt's stuck to my lips. Oh, Christ. This bolt's stuck there.
772
00:49:47,620 --> 00:49:52,660
Oh,BLEEP!James, hurry up. Put some coffee in your mouth.
773
00:49:52,700 --> 00:49:54,500
ItBLEEPhurts, man.
774
00:49:56,500 --> 00:49:59,100
Oh, God. Agh!
775
00:49:59,140 --> 00:50:01,700
Agh, it's hot!Put it in there, put it in there.
776
00:50:03,020 --> 00:50:05,940
Shove your face in it. Oh, thank God for that!
777
00:50:05,980 --> 00:50:08,660
Bloody hell!
778
00:50:09,660 --> 00:50:13,660
That's just gonna fall down. It's not, cos I'll dig it in.
779
00:50:17,580 --> 00:50:19,260
OK!
780
00:50:24,980 --> 00:50:28,180
James...Oh,BLEEP!
781
00:50:38,540 --> 00:50:41,300
Right, better hand me down, Matty, we are in a race.
782
00:50:41,340 --> 00:50:43,900
We need to make good speed on the flat we've got.
783
00:50:54,460 --> 00:50:58,180
Do you know, over the last two days, two and a half days,
784
00:50:58,220 --> 00:51:01,220
our average speed was less than a mile.
785
00:51:01,260 --> 00:51:03,300
I have, um...
786
00:51:03,340 --> 00:51:07,260
Oh! Ow!Do you know what I was about to say?
787
00:51:07,300 --> 00:51:12,260
Do you know what I was about to say?What?I think we're coming to the end of the boulder field.
788
00:51:12,300 --> 00:51:16,500
Look about. What can you NOT see?
789
00:51:16,540 --> 00:51:22,020
I think we have actually got to the edge of the good ice, haven't we?
790
00:51:23,060 --> 00:51:25,260
That's very flat over there.
791
00:51:25,300 --> 00:51:26,780
James, we're out.
792
00:51:26,820 --> 00:51:31,020
We've made i-i-i-i-it!
793
00:51:31,060 --> 00:51:33,380
It's flat!
794
00:51:33,420 --> 00:51:35,900
It's so smooth!
795
00:51:35,940 --> 00:51:37,940
No more going up and down!
796
00:51:37,980 --> 00:51:39,660
Oh!
797
00:51:39,700 --> 00:51:43,380
It had taken three days of almost non-stop driving,
798
00:51:43,420 --> 00:51:46,860
but this incredible machine had breached what the experts had said
799
00:51:46,900 --> 00:51:49,220
would be an impregnable wall.
800
00:51:49,260 --> 00:51:52,860
It had taken on the impossible... and it had won.
801
00:52:20,500 --> 00:52:23,020
75 miles to the Pole.I know.
802
00:52:23,060 --> 00:52:25,660
And my celebratory tin of Spam.
803
00:52:27,220 --> 00:52:29,980
What if I ate your Spam?
804
00:52:30,020 --> 00:52:31,460
You're not eating my Spam,
805
00:52:31,500 --> 00:52:34,180
unless you want to go home to your wife and children
806
00:52:34,220 --> 00:52:36,300
with the hatchet buried in your head.
807
00:52:36,340 --> 00:52:42,020
We knew that with just 75 miles to go on flat ice,
808
00:52:42,060 --> 00:52:44,580
we could easily overhaul Hammond.
809
00:52:44,620 --> 00:52:48,460
So we decided to treat ourselves to a spot of tenting.
810
00:52:48,500 --> 00:52:51,980
I am never, ever, ever, ever going to complain ever again
811
00:52:52,020 --> 00:52:53,940
about the quality of a hotel,
812
00:52:53,980 --> 00:52:57,740
as long as I get to a hotel and I don't have to actually build it.
813
00:52:57,780 --> 00:52:59,180
"Ah!
814
00:52:59,220 --> 00:53:01,260
"Do you want a room, sir? Certainly.
815
00:53:01,300 --> 00:53:05,740
"Here's some bricks, some mortar, a lavatory seat, some wood, some nails, a hammer,
816
00:53:05,780 --> 00:53:08,580
"some carpet, some glass..." What?
817
00:53:08,620 --> 00:53:11,180
Seat the pole.
818
00:53:14,620 --> 00:53:19,260
'We too knew that the car would reel us in.
819
00:53:19,300 --> 00:53:20,940
'So we kept on going.'
820
00:53:20,980 --> 00:53:25,380
Oh-h! I know I need to get off.
821
00:53:29,700 --> 00:53:31,500
After 90 minutes' sleep,
822
00:53:31,540 --> 00:53:35,060
we pulled down the tent for what would be the last time.
823
00:53:35,100 --> 00:53:37,660
This is what I have to put up with at night -
824
00:53:37,700 --> 00:53:40,140
sleeping next to a six foot sinus
825
00:53:40,180 --> 00:53:44,420
that then wees in a bottle and leaves it for me to clear up.
826
00:53:44,460 --> 00:53:47,460
'A spot of revenge was in order.'
827
00:53:47,740 --> 00:53:49,140
GUN COCKS
828
00:53:51,940 --> 00:53:53,860
Result.
829
00:53:56,900 --> 00:53:59,860
There was another result as well.
830
00:53:59,900 --> 00:54:04,820
We figured out that we must have retaken the lead from Team Dog.
831
00:54:04,860 --> 00:54:06,500
BARKING
832
00:54:06,540 --> 00:54:10,140
As they struggled on, we tried to rekindle
833
00:54:10,180 --> 00:54:14,660
some of the fun that seemed to have gone missing from our journey.
834
00:54:14,700 --> 00:54:16,380
I spy,
835
00:54:16,420 --> 00:54:19,340
with my little eye, something beginning with...
836
00:54:19,380 --> 00:54:21,260
S.
837
00:54:21,300 --> 00:54:24,060
Snow.Yes.
838
00:54:24,100 --> 00:54:28,020
I spy, with my little eye, something beginning with...S.
839
00:54:28,060 --> 00:54:30,140
Sky.Yes.
840
00:54:30,180 --> 00:54:32,340
I spy, with my little eye...
841
00:54:32,380 --> 00:54:35,660
If it begins with S, I'm going to kill you.
842
00:54:35,700 --> 00:54:39,860
'But then, amazingly, we spotted something beginning with P.'
843
00:54:50,300 --> 00:54:52,740
It's a DC-3.It is.
844
00:54:55,780 --> 00:55:00,020
Or a C-47, strictly.What, because it's the military one?
845
00:55:00,060 --> 00:55:01,860
Exactly.
846
00:55:03,820 --> 00:55:06,540
Imagine surviving that plane crash
847
00:55:06,580 --> 00:55:09,180
and then finding yourself here.
848
00:55:09,220 --> 00:55:10,980
That's a bad deal.
849
00:55:15,540 --> 00:55:18,020
We'd run for 15 hours straight.
850
00:55:18,060 --> 00:55:21,900
Even so, I knew we were going to lose.
851
00:55:27,340 --> 00:55:29,780
Um...
852
00:55:33,940 --> 00:55:38,540
You know, we are now the most northern people in the world.
853
00:55:38,580 --> 00:55:42,300
Apart from Michael Parkinson, obviously.
854
00:55:49,060 --> 00:55:52,220
With the Pole just ten miles away,
855
00:55:52,260 --> 00:55:55,500
it really did look like we'd win the race
856
00:55:55,540 --> 00:55:59,780
and be the first people ever to drive there. But then...
857
00:56:03,900 --> 00:56:07,180
It can't be. It can be.It is, mate.
858
00:56:11,460 --> 00:56:16,380
It couldn't be more than a few miles deep, but it didn't need to be,
859
00:56:16,420 --> 00:56:20,380
because if Hammond was anywhere near, we were history.
860
00:56:25,300 --> 00:56:26,900
Come on!
861
00:56:34,020 --> 00:56:34,900
Which way?
862
00:56:45,420 --> 00:56:50,940
James, is it stuck in the snow? It's working.We're side-slipping.
863
00:56:50,980 --> 00:56:52,860
Drive!
864
00:56:52,900 --> 00:56:54,060
Oh, this is just unreal!
865
00:56:54,100 --> 00:56:57,100
'It took us three hours to do a mile.'
866
00:56:57,140 --> 00:56:58,220
Hold it!
867
00:56:59,700 --> 00:57:03,300
'And then the car beached itself on a block of ice.
868
00:57:06,700 --> 00:57:08,980
'We were desperate.'
869
00:57:09,020 --> 00:57:12,180
Ho over! Gee, gee over. Gee, gee!
870
00:57:12,220 --> 00:57:15,260
Right, Matty, let's make this camp.
871
00:57:18,500 --> 00:57:21,340
POWER TOOLS BUZZ
872
00:57:21,380 --> 00:57:24,820
Right, let's go!
873
00:57:26,220 --> 00:57:27,660
Stop!
874
00:57:35,940 --> 00:57:38,700
By that boulder.We can't lose this!
875
00:57:43,340 --> 00:57:45,260
Try that.
876
00:57:45,300 --> 00:57:49,580
'Even though we were on fumes, I threw caution to the wind and went for it.'
877
00:57:52,460 --> 00:57:54,060
Ooh, gosh!
878
00:58:09,020 --> 00:58:11,060
You're gonna bust it.I'm not.
879
00:58:26,060 --> 00:58:27,540
Come on. Come on.
880
00:58:36,900 --> 00:58:38,980
I will not be beaten by a dog.
881
00:58:45,180 --> 00:58:48,420
'At last we were clear.'
882
00:58:48,460 --> 00:58:51,860
James, we're gonna do it!
883
00:58:54,860 --> 00:59:01,020
'All we had to do now was match the known bearings of the Pole with the readout on our satnav.'
884
00:59:03,460 --> 00:59:05,300
Left, left, left.
885
00:59:06,340 --> 00:59:08,900
Where are you?
886
00:59:08,940 --> 00:59:13,660
I expected a sort of shining beam of light coming from the Earth's core.
887
00:59:13,700 --> 00:59:17,580
I'll go in this direction...Yeah.
888
00:59:17,620 --> 00:59:21,060
Are you ready for it? Ready, ready, ready...
889
00:59:24,180 --> 00:59:26,260
Yes!That's it!
890
00:59:30,300 --> 00:59:32,860
It's here!
891
00:59:32,900 --> 00:59:36,020
It's here!
892
00:59:36,060 --> 00:59:39,420
Hammo-o-ond!
893
00:59:40,420 --> 00:59:42,100
PHONE RINGS
894
00:59:42,140 --> 00:59:43,300
Ooh, bugger!
895
00:59:43,340 --> 00:59:45,900
Matty, I'm off!Where are you?
896
00:59:48,060 --> 00:59:49,780
Hammond!
897
00:59:49,820 --> 00:59:51,340
Yes?
898
00:59:51,380 --> 00:59:53,380
We're at the North Pole.
899
00:59:53,420 --> 00:59:56,380
You've done it? We've done it. We're here.
900
00:59:56,420 --> 01:00:00,060
The truck got there?Yeah, the truck didn't fall through the ice.
901
01:00:00,100 --> 01:00:02,980
Presumably you're not very far away.No. No...
902
01:00:03,020 --> 01:00:06,420
Sorry, mate, wait. James wants a word. Hang on a sec.
903
01:00:06,460 --> 01:00:09,100
Oh, righto.
904
01:00:09,140 --> 01:00:11,940
Hammond?Yes, mate.
905
01:00:11,980 --> 01:00:14,220
Mate, bad luck.
906
01:00:16,260 --> 01:00:19,020
That was it, really.
907
01:00:20,060 --> 01:00:22,580
Oh...
908
01:00:24,620 --> 01:00:27,340
Can't be far.
909
01:00:32,780 --> 01:00:36,500
'As James tucked into his ruined Spam,
910
01:00:36,540 --> 01:00:40,060
'we thought a little bit about what we'd actually achieved.'
911
01:00:44,900 --> 01:00:49,100
I'd set out to prove that Polar exploration could be easy.
912
01:00:49,140 --> 01:00:53,900
But it isn't. It's brutal and savage.
913
01:00:53,940 --> 01:00:56,140
The fact is, though,
914
01:00:56,180 --> 01:01:00,100
that two middle-aged men, deeply unfit and mostly drunk,
915
01:01:00,140 --> 01:01:01,660
had made it,
916
01:01:01,700 --> 01:01:05,780
thanks entirely to the incredible machine that took us there.
917
01:01:07,860 --> 01:01:13,060
They'd said we'd never get to the Pole, because of the damage the car has already done to the ice cap.
918
01:01:13,100 --> 01:01:18,180
Perhaps, then, that's what we'd proved most of all, really -
919
01:01:18,220 --> 01:01:23,420
the inconvenient truth is it doesn't appear to have even scratched the surface.
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