Encounters at the End of the World Page #4

McMurdo when Frosty Boy goes down

It's really good stuff

HERZOG From the very first day,

we just wanted to get out of this place

McMurdo has climate-controlled housing

facilities, its own radio station,

a bowling alley and abominations

such as an aerobic studio and yoga classes

It even has an ATM machine

For all these reasons, I wanted to get out

into the field as soon as possible

But before we could do that, it is mandatory

that every inhabitant of McMurdo

attend survival school

before being allowed to leave

This two-day exercise

is called Happy Camper

Students learn to build

survival trenches and igloos

The bad news is, that night

you have to sleep in your own construction

As long as I end up with 10 fingers

and 10 toes at the end, it's all good

Oh, God, sorry!

We just need to break ourselves

into two different groups now

We're gonna brief this group over here

for the burning vehicle scenario first,

then we're gonna come back over

and we're gonna brief

the bucket head white-out scenario

for everybody else

Essentially, we're trying to create conditions

where we wouldn't be able to see

The wind is so severe, the snow is blowing

so severely Very, very cold

Exposed skin might actually

create frostbite instantaneously

The winds are so severe

you could be blown off of your stance

of just simply standing out,

and visibility is pretty much none

You can't see flag to flag

You might not be able to see your hand

in front of your own face

Therefore,

what we're gonna do as a simulator

is incorporate a bucket to simulate

a white-out condition

to a point where I can barely hear myself

You can't necessarily even hear me, and

I certainly can't see any of you right now

So that's the whole idea

behind the bucket head

is to actually be a white-out simulator,

and it works really quite well

So, some of the parameters

for this are gonna be,

we're gonna start inside the sea-ice hut

I said I was gonna go to the bathroom,

and in fact I did

I needed to go to the bathroom, right

So, I've gone out

I've been gone for

quite some time now though,

you know, like 10, 15

All of a sudden 20 minutes, you're like,

"First off, where's the chocolate,

second off, where's Kevin?"

- EMERY:
Are you with us, Number One?

- Number One is out

HERZOG The goal is clear,

to find the instructor next to the outhouse

Number Two is out

Number Three out Number Three out

EMERY:
All right, Number One, you're

gonna have to walk in one simple direction,

and I'm gonna keep the

Pull on one rope for me

Four out

HERZOG It looks pretty good They seem

to be heading in the right direction

Five out

Six out

But very soon the front man veers

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