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The famous naturalist John Muir once wrote
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you should never come to Alaska as a young man
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because you'll never be satisfied with any other places
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as long as you live.
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But despite the state's natural beauty Alaska's weather
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can be a sinister beast.
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I mean the weather is so incredibly dynamic up here.
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I mean this is where storms are born and it's amazing
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how fast it changes out here.
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Just incredibly fast.
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Hey did you check the weather cameras before we head out?
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I did check the weather, it is deteriorating.
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It is getting windier.
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(guitar music)
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I don't trust the weather.
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It's gonna turn on me.
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Changing conditions can turn a routine flight
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into a nightmare.
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Takes some nerves of steel sometimes.
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I've been in some nasty weather where it closed in on us.
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And harsh storms can turn an afternoon hike
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into a life or death search and rescue mission.
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My hope today is that we can get up there
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and at least circle around the area that I believe he's in.
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I'm hoping that we can find him today.
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There's some urgency because the weather's changing fast.
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It's still windy but it looks like a little break.
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With the sun heating the snow during the day
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and it freezing at night and then heating it
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the snow can become unstable and...
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He could've gotten into an avalanche.
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Oh my gosh.
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Big avalanche.
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Oh my god.
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This area's scary.
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I'm not gonna lie.
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I just hope we can find him.
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Before it's too late.
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(wind blowing)
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It has been said
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that there are only four seasons in Alaska.
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June, July, August and Winter.
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The record low temperature in Alaska
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is an unimaginable minus 62 Celsius.
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Alaska holds the U.S. record for record low temperatures
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for every month except for July and August.
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While the last frontier is notorious for its long winters
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and extreme cold.
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The weather in Alaska is treacherous year round.
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With major storms constantly moving in from the Arctic Ocean
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and the Bering Strait.
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If you come to Alaska you should be prepared for sun, rain,
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snow and wild temperature fluctuations.
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These low pressure areas build in that environment
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and they just come barreling down, you know,
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along the Alaska Peninsula.
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You know, it's bad is when they stop
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and decide to park here for a little while.
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(plane engine running)
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Pilot Josiah Freeman
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and rescue expert Cory Williams
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are scouring the Alaskan landscape for a missing hiker.
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There's some urgency because the weather's changing fast,
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it's still windy but it looks like a little break.
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But it's probably not gonna hold
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so we're gonna head out right away.
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Let's see if we can find him.
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The original search took place starting here.
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Anchorage National Guardsman Nefi Sofir
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left on a hike two days ago and never returned.
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Where do you want to start?
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You wanna see if we can climb up the ridge
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where you think he went first?
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Yeah.
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Nefi Sofir was hiking through
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the Chugach State Park when he disappeared.
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Rescue personnel have been searching night and day
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and have not found a sign of the missing hiker.
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I'm a big hiker myself.
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I understand the area, I understand the risks,
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the dangers and so, you know, I feel like I can relate
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to him in the way that he did things.
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Okay so this is the trail that he was on here.
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Alright.
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We're on the right track here for sure.
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My hope today today is that we can get up there
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and at least circle around the area that I believe he's in.
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I'm hoping that we can find him today.
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Every hour that goes by diminishes our chance
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of getting him back successfully.
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We've got to get back there.
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We've got to find him as soon as possible.
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Big updraft there.
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Ohlaha, these drops are major.
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We're at 2,000 feet right now.
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The higher we climb up here into the mountains
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the more the wind is affected by the terrain
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as it comes over these peaks.
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Then you get more downdrafts and more turbulence.
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Pretty gnarly terrain.
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This is Alaska and no matter how much heart,
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how much knowledge, how much skill you have
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this can still take you.
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(helicopter blades chopping)
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Josiah is smart enough to fly and poke his nose into it.
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If it gets too rough he'll get out of there.
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He will try to find Nefi if he can.
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Weather is something you deal with in Alaska,
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so sure enough, true to form, we had winds,
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squalls going through so weather's always something
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that you're dealing with and this time was no different.
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Okay so here we go, these off the left side here,
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this is our peak.
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Okay.
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I think we can pretty much rule out
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that he's still stuck up here.
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Cause I'm not seeing anything.
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No signs.
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However I can see where he'd go down on this other side.
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Right.
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So right below us here we have Eklutna Lakes.
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One of my fears is that he might have been hiking up in
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the Eklutna Valley and may have somehow fell into
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some sort of crevice which dropped him down into the lake.
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(dramatic music)
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The biggest problem after Nefi went missing
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was that it was really windy.
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Flurries would come in and just snow the place out.
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Yeah, there was no visibility.
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Know what's really hard is, even if he did
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find a place to, you know, hunker down,
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he had to keep moving.
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Without shelter hypothermia
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can set-in in a matter of hours.
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Oh my gosh.
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Big avalanche.
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Oh my god.
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This area is scary.
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I'm not gonna lie.
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In the past decade 38 people have died
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in avalanches in Alaska.
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The most dangerous time of year
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for avalanche conditions is spring.
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As everything starts to melt it's just becoming more
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and more of a hazard.
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Oh my god, dude.
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The avalanche is an issue.
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With the sun heating the snow during the day
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and it freezing at night and then heating it
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the snow can become unstable
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and he could've gotten into an avalanche.
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It's springtime here so the avalanche conditions
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are pretty, pretty big right now.
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If somebody gets buried in an avalanche
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which is high potential right now you only have about
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four and a half minutes before somebody
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has possibly permanent brain damage.
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People die in avalanches all the time up here,
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every winter.
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You know even though there is a chance that he's stuck
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in an avalanche they are survivable.
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I mean if you get stuck at the top of it, if you're able
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to at least pull yourself out of it.
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I mean, there is a chance that you could climb
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your way to safety.
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Oh yeah, it's the real deal.
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Boy, the wind is so weird here.
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I've never seen anything like this.
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Josiah and Cory are battered by erratic winds.
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It seems like it's spinning all around.
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Swirling.
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It was bad turbulence and the blades on a rotor craft
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don't handle turbulence all that well.
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I think I see a good spot.
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I'm seeing it.
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So we're coming down and it's windy, it is really hard
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and honestly I'm kinda shaken.
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Cory will you pop your door open
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and look at my tail rotor and see if it's clear as I land?
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You're good so far.
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Okay.
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I get out of the helicopter and right in front of
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the helicopter there was a big pile of bear poop.
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That was, I mean, it was super fresh.
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So the bears are out.
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Then I made my way over to the bush
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and it was absolutely what I thought.
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It was the perfect shelter.
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There was this little spot just underneath
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that somebody could've easily slept in.
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Unfortunately we didn't find him or any signs of anyone,
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but, you know, that's, we tried.
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Let's look again tomorrow.
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Good idea.
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I just hope we can find him.
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Before it's too late.
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(helicopter blades chopping)
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(dramatic music)
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It's been seven weeks since Nefi went missing
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and it's hard now to believe of any positive outcome.
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When it's one, two, three, four, five, six,
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10 days maybe there's a chance but now there's...
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It's just been too long and the state finally
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called it off and said we're in a recovery mode now.
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Yeah.
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It's unforgiving out there, especially, he went at night
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and then that storm rolled in and, man...
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If and when the family comes up
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I'd like to give them a flight up there.
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Show them where he was.
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Yeah.
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What he was doing.
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Yeah, I would want to know.
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Yeah.
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I try to put myself in their shoes.
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I'm not sure how you deal with it.
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It's just tough.
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(dramatic music)
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(airplane motor roaring)
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Maneuvering in Alaska's unpredictable weather
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can be extremely dangerous.
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A lesson pilot Mark Barker learned the hard way.
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(dramatic music)
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Hey did you check the weather cameras before we head out?
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Alaska's extreme weather
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is a formidable challenge for bush pilots.
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I checked the weather, it is deteriorating.
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It is getting windier.
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And the aviators rely on
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precise weather forecasts.
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So, this evening's storm should be pretty interesting.
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Here's the main front from this giant low
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out in the Bering Sea.
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Precipitation is all on, right over Kodiak.
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This looks like 35 maybe 40 knots.
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This is a rock right out in the middle of
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the Gulf of Alaska and we get hammered
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by every storm there is.
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Once we realize that Mother Nature is in control
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of Mother Nature maybe we'll all be a little bit better off.
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Mark Barker battled the elements
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and a heavy cargo load during a flight he will never forget.
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(dramatic music)
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When I first started flying I was up at about 6,000 feet
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and the two passengers I had were big guys.
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I'm not mister miniature myself.
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Of course when you have big working guys
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they have big giant tool boxes.
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It was one of those typical things, the weather
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starts moving in, I tell the guys come on, hurry up,
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we gotta get going we got...
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Oh, almost done.
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Almost done.
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Finally they get done.
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We load the helicopter up.
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So we're at high altitude, three big guys on board
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and a toolbox.
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So I'm power limited up there.
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Picked up to a hover and I started moving forward.
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It was winter time, I'm on top of a mountain.
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So we're at high altitude, three big guys on board
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and a toolbox and I didn't have enough power.
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I just picked the best place to kinda plant it on the ground
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and I slid along a little bit at a angle
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and it's like a 4,000 foot drop off on the side.
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Almost to a stop and buried under the snow
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was a big old rock.
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Big old rock.
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I slammed into that, it kinda cocked me sideways
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and I'm sitting right there on the mountain.
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Kinda going oh baby, oh baby, oh baby.
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Now it's starting to get dark.
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We're kinda getting to a survival situation.
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You gotta keep moving fast.
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I shut it down, looked the whole machine over.
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The machine looks to be okay.
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(helicopter blades chopping)
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Then I told one of the guys,
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okay I'm gonna take one guy at a time down.
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That time I'm lighter.
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Hop off the mountian, go down and land.
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Go back up to the top of the mountian,
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picked up the other guy.
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Left the tools up on the mountain then I came home here.
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I said, "I'm never doing that again."
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(dramatic music)
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(helicopter blades chopping)
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(light music)
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Under rough conditions
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the skies of Alaska can be deadly.
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But on clear days Alaska offers stunning views
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and breathtaking vistas.
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At night the Alaskan skies put on a spectacular light show
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known as the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights.
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This phenomenon is best seen at latitudes
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between 66 and 69 degrees North.
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A sliver of the planet that includes Canada,
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Greenland, Scandinavia, Russia and Alaska.
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(dramatic music)
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With Alaska's location in the far north
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extreme weather is to be expected.
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But because Alaska is surrounded by the Pacific Ocean,
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Arctic Ocean and the Bering Strait, weather patterns
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can change at a pace that can catch
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even seasoned outdoorsmen off guard.
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I mean the weather is so incredibly dynamic up here.
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I mean, this is where storms are born.
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Right here.
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This is where weather begins in North America.
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It's amazing how fast it changes out here.
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Just incredibly fast.
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You know this Alaskan weather kinda reminds me
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that when I grew up in Wisconsin there was a great t-shirt,
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showing a map of the state of Wisconsin.
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It said partly crappy, getting ready to be crappy,
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mostly crappy.
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Pretty much the same in Alaska actually.
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And that's all within the hour.
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We've had sunshine, we've had everything but snow basically.
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Just about every day.
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Bring your rain gear.
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But it's still worth it, it's still Alaska.
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No place like it.
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If you get depressed because of weather and darkness
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you probably oughta move to Arizona.
341
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(dramatic music)
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Alaska offers many pursuits
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for outdoor enthusiasts.
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As long as you keep in mind that the weather
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can change in a minute.
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And Mother Nature does not always follow your schedule.
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(dramatic music)
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Surfers are pretty stoked at a time like this
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when we have the weather coming in.
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It means bigger waves for them
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but on the other end we're a little stressed.
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I don't trust the weather.
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It's gonna turn on me in a minute
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and then what am I gonna do?
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Sherri Ewing and her family
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run an outdoor catering business in Kodiak, Alaska.
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They're prepping for a gourmet meal on this rocky shoreline
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for their clients who are here for a surfer's beach party.
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Yeah, this wind's not stay like this.
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It's gonna get worse.
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Winds are going to be up to 30 miles per hour.
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We've already got three inches of rain.
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The world is our dining room.
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This is either going to be really awesome
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or it's gonna be a complete disaster.
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Three, that's good..
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Yep.
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(laughter)
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Woo.
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(together) Whoa, whoa.
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(laughter)
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Yeah, walk with your back to the tables.
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Oh, sweet you just feel that wind coming?
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Ooh, wind break.
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And about the time we sit them down I look up
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and I can see the rain coming.
377
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Oh, here we go.
378
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You guys look right out there, we got a bunch of rain.
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A wall coming.
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It's pretty much like an emergency
381
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but I wanna keep on partying guys.
382
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So I got a tent, it's a crazy big tent
383
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and it's gonna take all of us to get it up.
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Just everybody into the middle.
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Watch out!
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Oh, seriously.
387
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We have the blue tarp.
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C'mon get that over here.
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(dramatic music)
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The conditions quickly turned a relaxing day
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at the beach into a scramble for cover.
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(dramatic music)
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A couple people at every post.
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Let's get this going guys and keep this party rolling.
395
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There are a lot of things that become difficult
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when we're setting up our kitchens
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out in the middle of nowhere.
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Well we gotta put the top on.
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Alright, fine.
400
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But I'd say the weather is probably one of the worst
401
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because it changes on a dime.
402
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C'mon get that over here!
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(grunting)
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(rain splattering)
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Pick it up.
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Punch in your ends.
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You're, the corner posts punch the button.
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Ready?
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Yeah.
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Alright let's put it over the dinner table.
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00:17:02,286 --> 00:17:03,241
(dramatic music)
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Oh my god.
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(dramatic music)
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Just everybody in to the middle.
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(dramatic music)
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You know, you really have to have some grit to be able to
417
00:17:14,159 --> 00:17:17,001
be out here and have that rain pour on your head
418
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and not to pack it in.
419
00:17:19,326 --> 00:17:22,243
(light rock music)
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That was a little intense, man.
421
00:17:25,211 --> 00:17:27,299
But you know what, you know that's what we do in Alaska
422
00:17:27,299 --> 00:17:28,946
is we always just helping each other out
423
00:17:28,946 --> 00:17:31,332
and just coming together and making it happen.
424
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Now the party is still on, we're setting up
425
00:17:33,868 --> 00:17:35,400
for the next course.
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Ready to rock and roll.
427
00:17:37,613 --> 00:17:41,194
We want a little heat up in that bad boy.
428
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All righty.
429
00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:44,623
Now I'm going to garnish
430
00:17:44,623 --> 00:17:45,956
and we are done.
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00:17:47,427 --> 00:17:50,170
(rock music)
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It is a red pepper corn grit.
433
00:17:52,618 --> 00:17:53,526
Mm mm.
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(laughter)
435
00:17:54,455 --> 00:17:55,288
It's delicious.
436
00:17:55,288 --> 00:17:56,121
It's really good.
437
00:17:56,121 --> 00:17:56,954
(laughter)
438
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To watch everything come together
439
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and the energy be so high,
440
00:18:00,827 --> 00:18:02,959
that's what it's all about for me.
441
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I'm so happy this dinner went off.
442
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To pull it through with this really bad weather.
443
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I mean, it was a really big success.
444
00:18:11,148 --> 00:18:13,898
(dramatic music)
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Alaskans know to watch the skies
446
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for signs of changing weather.
447
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Especially the pilots.
448
00:18:23,512 --> 00:18:24,958
One of the types of clouds the pilots
449
00:18:24,958 --> 00:18:29,125
do not like to see forming are known as cumulus clouds.
450
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Cumulus clouds as they get bigger and bigger,
451
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it comes to the point where there's too much activity.
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Wind shear, turbulence, they can hold hail.
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All kinds of terrible things.
454
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Big cumulus clouds that form over the mountains
455
00:18:44,202 --> 00:18:46,488
is basically a sign of a lot of lift
456
00:18:46,488 --> 00:18:48,532
and they can actually suck you up into the cloud
457
00:18:48,532 --> 00:18:50,652
which is really dangerous.
458
00:18:50,652 --> 00:18:52,353
(helicopter blades chopping)
459
00:18:52,353 --> 00:18:54,722
It's weird, the wind is just whipping around
460
00:18:54,722 --> 00:18:57,390
all different directions down there.
461
00:18:57,390 --> 00:18:59,489
It's probably from that big cumulus right there.
462
00:18:59,489 --> 00:19:01,698
Cumulonimbus is like a vacuum cleaner.
463
00:19:01,698 --> 00:19:03,720
On this side of it it's pulling the wind this way.
464
00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:05,515
On that side of it it's pulling the wind this way.
465
00:19:05,515 --> 00:19:06,781
So there's these localized winds
466
00:19:06,781 --> 00:19:09,698
that can really be swirling.
467
00:19:09,698 --> 00:19:11,426
Are you more concerned with downdrafts
468
00:19:11,426 --> 00:19:12,398
than updrafts?
469
00:19:12,398 --> 00:19:13,231
Both.
470
00:19:13,231 --> 00:19:14,064
Yeah.
471
00:19:14,064 --> 00:19:14,897
But mostly updrafts.
472
00:19:14,897 --> 00:19:15,730
Okay.
473
00:19:15,730 --> 00:19:17,191
You just don't want to get sucked up into a big cloud.
474
00:19:17,191 --> 00:19:18,024
Yeah.
475
00:19:18,024 --> 00:19:19,314
We're seeing some cumulus clouds
476
00:19:19,314 --> 00:19:21,374
that are starting to build over the Talkeetnas.
477
00:19:21,374 --> 00:19:22,207
Yeah.
478
00:19:22,207 --> 00:19:23,354
They're looking big already.
479
00:19:23,354 --> 00:19:24,187
Uh-huh.
480
00:19:24,187 --> 00:19:25,290
We'll just have to keep an eye out
481
00:19:25,290 --> 00:19:26,984
for overdevelopment.
482
00:19:26,984 --> 00:19:30,734
(helicopter blades chopping)
483
00:19:32,004 --> 00:19:34,421
(rock music)
484
00:19:44,316 --> 00:19:46,518
Flying in Alaska means you need to be
485
00:19:46,518 --> 00:19:49,522
comfortable with being uncomfortable.
486
00:19:49,522 --> 00:19:52,022
Pilots have to pay attention to the weather patterns
487
00:19:52,022 --> 00:19:54,562
that they can see and anticipate the weather patterns
488
00:19:54,562 --> 00:19:56,078
that are coming in.
489
00:19:56,078 --> 00:19:57,750
(airplane engine roaring)
490
00:19:57,750 --> 00:19:59,711
(dramatic music)
491
00:19:59,711 --> 00:20:01,794
To be a pilot on Kodiak
492
00:20:02,870 --> 00:20:05,353
takes nerves of steel sometimes.
493
00:20:05,353 --> 00:20:08,527
I've been in some nasty weather where it closed in on us
494
00:20:08,527 --> 00:20:11,060
and you're half way through the flight and you can see
495
00:20:11,060 --> 00:20:12,499
the pilot scrambling.
496
00:20:12,499 --> 00:20:14,486
Because of the extreme winters
497
00:20:14,486 --> 00:20:16,928
many of the businesses in Alaska are seasonal
498
00:20:16,928 --> 00:20:19,527
and shut down during the snowy months.
499
00:20:19,527 --> 00:20:21,742
Larry Carroll finished shutting down his lodge
500
00:20:21,742 --> 00:20:23,694
for the season and was waiting to be picked up
501
00:20:23,694 --> 00:20:26,122
by pilot Bob Stanford on a float plane
502
00:20:26,122 --> 00:20:29,235
when the Alaskan weather changed their plans.
503
00:20:29,235 --> 00:20:31,360
(light rock music)
504
00:20:31,360 --> 00:20:32,856
We were trying to make it out
505
00:20:32,856 --> 00:20:33,820
and we were looking at the weather.
506
00:20:33,820 --> 00:20:35,955
It was a little dicey but you know Bob said,
507
00:20:35,955 --> 00:20:37,779
"You know if we can get you out here
508
00:20:37,779 --> 00:20:39,975
"in the next two-three hours it's still pretty good."
509
00:20:39,975 --> 00:20:43,238
They're calling for winds to pick up later in the afternoon.
510
00:20:43,238 --> 00:20:45,988
(dramatic music)
511
00:20:58,394 --> 00:20:59,698
Bob came in.
512
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Decided to come in on a Beaver
513
00:21:01,499 --> 00:21:04,818
because he thought it was a little risky to take the 206.
514
00:21:04,818 --> 00:21:07,568
(dramatic music)
515
00:21:10,973 --> 00:21:12,053
He got here.
516
00:21:12,053 --> 00:21:14,437
The weather's the biggest obstacle.
517
00:21:14,437 --> 00:21:17,198
We have to deal with a lot of weather.
518
00:21:17,198 --> 00:21:18,712
The winds had picked up.
519
00:21:18,712 --> 00:21:19,796
It was one of those situations
520
00:21:19,796 --> 00:21:22,305
where it was getting worse rapidly.
521
00:21:22,305 --> 00:21:25,328
(dramatic music)
522
00:21:25,328 --> 00:21:29,843
So we loaded the plane, we got in, we got out around the bay
523
00:21:29,843 --> 00:21:33,467
and we hit 60-65 mile an hour head winds.
524
00:21:33,467 --> 00:21:35,836
(dramatic music)
525
00:21:35,836 --> 00:21:39,382
We hit those winds head on and the plane almost seemed
526
00:21:39,382 --> 00:21:41,269
like it just stopped in mid air.
527
00:21:41,269 --> 00:21:44,019
(dramatic music)
528
00:21:45,593 --> 00:21:47,562
One minute you're okay and the next minute
529
00:21:47,562 --> 00:21:49,729
the plane is free falling.
530
00:21:50,702 --> 00:21:52,092
It just dropped.
531
00:21:52,092 --> 00:21:54,842
(dramatic music)
532
00:21:56,179 --> 00:21:58,179
That plane fell
533
00:21:58,179 --> 00:21:59,914
400-500 feet.
534
00:21:59,914 --> 00:22:02,332
You see that ground coming up really fast
535
00:22:02,332 --> 00:22:05,139
and Bob is doing everything he can
536
00:22:05,139 --> 00:22:07,947
to get control of the plane.
537
00:22:07,947 --> 00:22:10,763
You're at God's mercy at that point.
538
00:22:10,763 --> 00:22:12,670
Oh man, it was just like a roller coaster.
539
00:22:12,670 --> 00:22:14,503
Your stomach goes back down.
540
00:22:14,503 --> 00:22:18,591
The nose comes up on that plane and we start climbing again.
541
00:22:18,591 --> 00:22:20,263
He pulled it back up, got us back up where
542
00:22:20,263 --> 00:22:21,630
we're supposed to be.
543
00:22:21,630 --> 00:22:24,442
And Bob had this look on his face
544
00:22:24,442 --> 00:22:27,342
like he had just cheated death.
545
00:22:27,342 --> 00:22:30,112
We hit that dock, Bob tied that plane up permanently
546
00:22:30,112 --> 00:22:31,922
for the night.
547
00:22:31,922 --> 00:22:33,216
Looked at us and said,
548
00:22:33,216 --> 00:22:35,296
"Phew, man if we'd have been in a 206."
549
00:22:35,296 --> 00:22:37,358
He said, "We'd have been in the drink."
550
00:22:37,358 --> 00:22:39,598
We wouldn't have survived that.
551
00:22:39,598 --> 00:22:42,485
That was just like an epiphany, like,
552
00:22:42,485 --> 00:22:45,015
thank God I got a great pilot.
553
00:22:45,015 --> 00:22:47,092
And a great plane.
554
00:22:47,092 --> 00:22:48,677
(light piano music)
555
00:22:48,677 --> 00:22:52,177
(airplane engine roaring)
556
00:22:53,057 --> 00:22:56,025
The De Havilland Beaver is a durable airframe
557
00:22:56,025 --> 00:22:59,081
built in the 1950's that continues to be the aircraft
558
00:22:59,081 --> 00:23:01,852
of choice for Alaskan bush pilots.
559
00:23:01,852 --> 00:23:04,020
All Alaskan aircraft take a beating from
560
00:23:04,020 --> 00:23:06,362
the weather conditions and need to come into the hangar
561
00:23:06,362 --> 00:23:08,731
for regular maintenance checkups.
562
00:23:08,731 --> 00:23:11,315
So every 100 hours when you're working an airplane
563
00:23:11,315 --> 00:23:14,330
for hire you gotta pull it out to do a 100 hour inspection.
564
00:23:14,330 --> 00:23:16,471
With a severe storm approaching the island
565
00:23:16,471 --> 00:23:19,972
they need to get this Beaver out of the water immediately.
566
00:23:19,972 --> 00:23:22,170
Commercial ramp to crash boat harbor.
567
00:23:22,170 --> 00:23:24,920
(dramatic music)
568
00:23:29,284 --> 00:23:30,732
It just gets more difficult to pull it
569
00:23:30,732 --> 00:23:32,591
when the weather comes up.
570
00:23:32,591 --> 00:23:34,750
When sitting untethered on the water
571
00:23:34,750 --> 00:23:38,278
float planes are extremely vulnerable to high winds.
572
00:23:38,278 --> 00:23:41,210
This extraction will not be easy.
573
00:23:41,210 --> 00:23:44,665
(mumbles) Gonna want to keep spinning.
574
00:23:44,665 --> 00:23:47,500
I might back in further and then out.
575
00:23:47,500 --> 00:23:49,705
(water splashing)
576
00:23:49,705 --> 00:23:51,289
Just start it.
577
00:23:51,289 --> 00:23:53,259
(plane engine roaring)
578
00:23:53,259 --> 00:23:54,896
(dramatic music)
579
00:23:54,896 --> 00:23:56,931
(plane engine roaring)
580
00:23:56,931 --> 00:23:59,939
(dramatic music)
581
00:23:59,939 --> 00:24:03,189
(plane engine roaring)
582
00:24:06,508 --> 00:24:07,833
Starting a Beaver's engine
583
00:24:07,833 --> 00:24:10,732
might give them enough momentum to get out.
584
00:24:10,732 --> 00:24:12,905
Bob's pickup truck does not have enough traction
585
00:24:12,905 --> 00:24:14,134
to pull the plane.
586
00:24:14,134 --> 00:24:16,334
One wrong move could damage the airplane
587
00:24:16,334 --> 00:24:18,557
or submerge his truck.
588
00:24:18,557 --> 00:24:22,255
$400,000 airplane, $15,000 truck.
589
00:24:22,255 --> 00:24:24,719
There was no doubt in my mind, I'm backing that truck in
590
00:24:24,719 --> 00:24:27,170
as far as I have to.
591
00:24:27,170 --> 00:24:28,489
Go, go, go!
592
00:24:28,489 --> 00:24:31,476
(dramatic music)
593
00:24:31,476 --> 00:24:33,229
Peter decides to turn off the engine
594
00:24:33,229 --> 00:24:35,661
and try a more hands on approach.
595
00:24:35,661 --> 00:24:38,411
(dramatic music)
596
00:24:39,413 --> 00:24:41,080
Start it up, Pete.
597
00:24:42,889 --> 00:24:45,472
(howling wind)
598
00:24:47,548 --> 00:24:48,631
Go, go, go!
599
00:24:49,536 --> 00:24:51,535
(howling wind)
600
00:24:51,535 --> 00:24:53,018
The winds were the worst they could be.
601
00:24:53,018 --> 00:24:57,510
They were exactly opposite of what we needed.
602
00:24:57,510 --> 00:24:59,217
The mission is accomplished
603
00:24:59,217 --> 00:25:02,539
and Peter paid a small price for his efforts.
604
00:25:02,539 --> 00:25:03,394
You saved me.
605
00:25:03,394 --> 00:25:04,227
Yeah.
606
00:25:04,227 --> 00:25:06,095
Course he's bleeding all over everywhere but...
607
00:25:06,095 --> 00:25:07,894
Part of the job.
608
00:25:07,894 --> 00:25:10,644
(dramatic music)
609
00:25:12,459 --> 00:25:14,375
The weather of Alaska creates chaos
610
00:25:14,375 --> 00:25:15,625
and destruction
611
00:25:16,958 --> 00:25:18,488
and beauty.
612
00:25:18,488 --> 00:25:21,238
(dramatic music)
613
00:25:27,906 --> 00:25:31,874
I would encourage all viewers to come to Alaska.
614
00:25:31,874 --> 00:25:35,806
It is truly the great wild land and it's big wild country.
615
00:25:35,806 --> 00:25:38,368
It's unlike anything else we have.
616
00:25:38,368 --> 00:25:41,454
And we oughta come up and enjoy our lands and waters.
617
00:25:41,454 --> 00:25:43,871
They are truly, truly unique.
618
00:25:44,774 --> 00:25:47,524
(dramatic music)
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