Into the Cold: A Journey of the Soul
l guess its T minus twelve hours
now, just about.
We're going to preload the plane
and at 7:
00 am tomorrow,.....if weather is good,
we'll take off for the ice.
l think we're ready.
lt is difficult to pin point
the beginning of this journey.
Was it the childhood dream
...the supermen who chartered
the maps of our world...
...with their bravery, instinct and
natural connection with the land?
Was it the day the thought
entered my mind...
...that to make the poles could
in fact be within my reach?
Was it a year ago when l began
articulating the thought,..
...first mentally, then vocally,
that l would undertake...
...the Everest of polar expeditions,
perhaps the toughest on Earth?
Was it six months ago when l stepped
up both my training and diet...
...to increase strength and mass
so that l could endure...
...the brutal cold
and harsh conditions...
...of six to eighth weeks
on the ice?
Was it when, lo and behold,
amidst a failing economy...
...minimal funding came
through to green light...
...to my two-member Centennial
expedition to the North Pole...
...to commemorate Peary"s first
successful reach 1909?
Or is it just now, as l sit in the
middle row of a fully booked...
...flight to Minnesota to undergo
a week of "shakedown" training...
...to test the equipment,
the systems and our capabilities?
Conditions here can simulate
the arctic environment.
And spending a week on a
frozen lake, sleeping in snow,..
...and dropping into a hole
in the ice for survival tests...
...can wake you to
the realities ahead.
We were leading by example into
a wilderness that is endangered.
One which is suffering greatly,
at the hands of climate change.
We had a shortage of food,
basically.
We face really, really tough
traveling conditions.
Those decisions we made in a tent
hindered us from peak performance.
-We had very reduced visibility...
-l was physically exhausted.
...because l virtually could
hardly see a damn thing.
Rescue is uncertain.
North Pole is a very,
very difficult experience.
And travelling to there is
the hardest trip in the world.
The ice just simply opened up from
under me and swallowed me.
l got the exploring bug from my
Grandfather who conducted safaris...
...in lndia and Africa
in the 1940s and 50s.
By mid life he traded
his gun for a camera.
My earliest memories of photographs
date from childhood...
...and viewing black and whites
of his lions and elephants.
l shot my first pictures of wildlife
in Africa when l was 12.
From that time on, photography
has been my weapon.
With images my mission"d be to help
people fall in love with their world.
Because l feel that we will not
save what we do not love.
were game changers...
...and such rich experiences.
lt is also a system that is
challenged by climate change.
l first went there in 2006 with
my friend John Quigley...
...to send an SOS from a remote
iceberg in the Gerlach Strait.
That trip consolidated
my love for the ice,..
...and from it l brought back
impressions that changed my life.
North Pole since l was a child.
Today that environment,
ground zero for climate change,..
...is melting away
at confounding rates.
And my childhood dream
will no longer...
...be afforded to the children
of future generations.
Part of my mission is to commemorate
the remarkable feat of...
...Admiral Peary, Henson, and his
team of lnuit who set off on foot...
...and reached the North Pole,
100 years ago, on April 6th, 1909.
But it is also to raise
awareness on the fact...
...that there"ll be no bicentennial
expedition on foot to the North Pole.
The Arctic Sea cap is melting away
so rapidly that it will be gone...
...in the summer months--
within just a few years.
lt is hard to imagine the
North Pole without ice,..
...but that is the impending
reality that we will face.
This should send a clarion to the
world and raise a significant...
...call onto our responsibility
to develop sustainably.
l do not know what Duluth, Ml looks
like any other time of the year.
But in early February it does not
figure on many top 10 destinations.
Outward Bound programs.
The approach by plane spelled out
the grim and frigid environment.
What kind of individual
volunteers to fly...
...from sunny California to this
outpost near the Canadian border?
On the taxi drive from the
airport to the motel...
assessing the slew of...
...sponsor badges that
adorn my expedition jacket...
...and concludes accurately that
l am not from these parts.
l share the purpose of my trip, and
he tells me that two months ago...
...he saw the coldest temperatures
ever recorded here:
45C.
45C?
Minnesota, it turns out, can produce
conditions that approximate...
...the Arctic environment.
The "Land of 10,000 Lakes" is...
continental US for polar expeditions.
Balmy day in the Arctic.
This will be a joke
compared to where we're going.
After careful consideration,
l will lead my own team.
Keith will be with me
and l feel good about that.
We're out camping.
Four inches of snow.
l met Keith in training...
...and we share a passion
for Polar exploration.
He is an expert outdoorsman,..
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