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this is a world of incredible natural beauty raw and hostile. one that knows no mercy . and where mistakes can have battle consequences. life here has always been a fight for survival. in a world where in summer the sun never sets and in a. into the nights are full of magic and color. we are

exploring the most remote locations in this inhospitable terrain from greenland through the northwest passage to alaska. we meet people who sense that their world is changing. and those who are changing and. this is a world in which the future of humanity will be decided. the arctic. while taking risky maneuvers at full speed or go barsa lies a feverish look for

a passage through the ice. to go for free ice. it's a race against time. to go right. thanks for. the north easterly wind that's unusually powerful for early july drives a large amounts of drift ice from the arctic ocean into the fuehrer to the freezing headwind makes travel difficult and pushes the ice sheets closer and closer together creating pack ice after traveling almost 700 kilometers in the scoresby sound we find ourselves stranded in the arctic together with of our still eyes and family and one of the most isolated and inhospitable places on earth. a week before we departed iceland on a 2 hour flight over the arctic ocean our destination it took 4 tournament. the

village some 800 kilometers away from its closest neighbors. the descent itself is breathtaking. on the shoreline of one of the few or its branches with land on a gravel runway. it was built by an american oil firm which withdrew from the development in 1990 but the runway remains. we have to continue our journey by boat as there are no roads. the trip takes close to 2 hours. on a peaceful and beautiful july afternoon like this could imagine that anything could go wrong. with. the colorful houses a veto court or a meat stand out like beacons between the rocks and the ice cream in we're overwhelmed by the incredible beauty of the arctic and its bassinets compounds our senses. the icebergs often as tall as skyscrapers.

the boat. it's more than 40 kilometers from here to the shoreline on the other side of the fjord. 350 people live in a talk or 2 i meet almost all are in a way it. most of the work they do is directly or indirectly subsidized by the danish government. which keeps the settlement alive there's a church hospital sports center and a primary school here along with what might be the world's most spectacular soccer pitch it's artificial turf is carefully manicured between the rubble and the snow. even just opened an outdoor pool for children. it's only the 2nd one in all of greenland. the kids splash around to the sound of check on music. even though the water's a little chilly. that still need something from. our one was the water around

. 10 it was too cold for the kids. first step towards what we were working on well more. at the small weather station they're releasing a weather balloon like they do every day at 11 each morning and night at the same time as hundreds of weather stations around the world tore undress and runs the station he's lived. for 46 years but says things have changed dramatically here in recent years well the weather systems of. the precipitation change everything. it's been a lot more wind and not more humid a lot more rain and so much so climate we have now was what they had. south of

us when ike. well it's quite a big change above the village there's a cemetery with a stunning view even if it's getting warmer here in the summer they still do extra grapes to be able to bury those who die in winter when the ground is frozen solid. suddenly there's excitement in the village. the men are loading their guns and everyone's on their feet people drop everything to go and watch the now walser here . those who aren't in the boats watch from the shoreline and tell the hunters which way to go. time and again the whale submerge and the boats chase after them the sound of large caliber weapons resonates throughout the day.

the hunters fear the smell of the corpses could attract polar bears to keep them away from the shoreline and the settlement the dead whales or hold on to an ice sheet and carved up there. outside one of the cabins we meet met up. to spawn knowing the action with binoculars. her husband orca and her brother of god who are taking part in the hunt . for the voyage we ask her why people here are so crazy about now walls. things very. very important. like what a warrior. you believe you need more are in that. you need. to do and be right if you are. you know

2 or. 3 metal invites us to stay for lunch goulash is on the menu it's the children's favorite method tells us that much has changed here in recent years and asks if we'd like to join them on a boat trip up the fuehrer in the coming days. plate we travel almost 400 kilometers with them up the scoresby sound at 50 or 60 kilometers an hour navigating our way through the eyes. glaze after 4 hours of a very cold and for us off a nerve racking journey we take

a break and stunning surroundings. the silence is only broken by the sound of melting glaciers. while her youngest son brian keeps an eye out for polar bears which can appear out of nowhere at any time we ask about the biggest changes she's observed here and recent years it takes years the last years have been smelting roughly like like 10 years ago until now but it's can smell up to one kilometer believe then suddenly 2 polar bears appear a mother and her cub the potentially extremely dangerous encounter for both parties . so it's lucky for us we're sitting safely in our boat and lucky for the polar

bears this year is back quarter has already been reached i don't want to go clear by because they have very few thoughts close. but i like to meet as. you know you make small pieces of meat and make it a little bit. food price 3 the food polar bear goulash. our journey of the börje continues we've been traveling through this magical world of ice for 2 days. but this isn't a family holiday even if it sometimes looks like an. 8 year old brian drives us to our camp for the night at full speed. isn't met a word. or phrase when he was my age because he is still so early

but his father one theme tutor how to drive early as possible and if you already should you know how to bring he was 4 why. as often as they can they bring their children to the field to teach them how to survive here in the arctic how to feed themselves how to hunt and fish how to creep up on polar bears seals and musk ox and how to adapt to the ever changing world around them they have been there we were here but it's all right now before we can get the water here next to the camp so now we we don't have more snow on peer into mountains and now it's all right it's because it's warmer and we have periods and doing to cease in the warmer.

earlier so snow it's only smell the next morning we need to move fast a strong wind is coming up and that could prove dangerous so we need to leave. we still have a 350 kilometer return trip ahead of us. and then we find ourselves stranded in the arctic. mentors brother of god who has gone on ahead crossing the ice floes on foot looking for a passage through the ice. it's . our biggest worry now is that something could happen to the boat they risk being destroyed by drift ice and without the boats there's no way to get back we have to turn around.

in an ice free bay we meet some hunters who are also stuck we launch our drone to get a better overview of the situation a guy who in the other hunters examine our images it really doesn't look good there's thick pack ice all the way to the horizon we're not going to get out of here so quickly. we set up camp and post guards to watch out for polar bears. the hunters share their food with us metta cuts the our wall skin and blubber into small strips to make them easier to chew. i'm always good to. get. the coffee. if it tastes like joint go yeah. people say oh no. now. after being stuck here for 2 days things suddenly move very

quickly the family has made a decision to reach out and forget tells us a call that will bring us back the 3 of us the children and one hunter in one boat . mehta and although i want the children to get back to the village it's growing too cold out here and the polar bears pose an ever present danger. they plan to follow us as soon as there's a clear path through the ice. their boat is too big to haul over the ice. the $400.00 it's a tiring and perilous journey back. anyone who falls into the water here is unlikely to survive. but don't go every.

one theory and. it's hard for us to judge exactly how thick the ice really is. we drag our boat over the pack ice all the time we're afraid that the ice could crack or that someone could slip into the icy water. we make our way from ice floe to ice floe taking advantage of every little ice free passage to use the boat. we drag push and pull getting in and out of the boat for hours on end. this isn't normal for the middle of july. the new weather patterns are making life difficult for the you know with the knowledge they've acquired over many

generations which helps them predict weather conditions is becoming unreliable. before you know. it 1st so. we. close. late that evening after hours crossing the ice we're finally in the clear. a helicopter arrives to pick us up eric the local policeman has come to say goodbye and make sure we're ok nor walls are back in the day and i. after 2 nights on the

ice mehta has also made it home. we leave for tony deeply moved by its people and its natural beauty. the path to the landing strip is still blocked by ice. this is yellow knife canada at the military section of its airport. where traveling with the 2nd battalion of quebec's royal 22nd regiment a unit which supports canada's joint task force north. it's been a long trip from the took we're told to meet almost a 1000 kilometers with stops in quebec and yellowknife before we reach cambridge bay in the canadian arctic. we're taking part in operation

a knock knock put its mission to patrol the northwest passage canadian territory that could hardly be more isolated. the 2 griffin military helicopters fly low taking advantage of the element of surprise. the helicopters head out over the water they have their sights set on a cargo ship and radio the freighter to identify itself. the captain is surprised. he asks why the helicopter is there he never imagined that 2 military helicopters would suddenly appear in the middle of the night this amuses the pilots. the.

the freighter was properly registered but the message is clear anyone traveling through the northwest passage should expect to face questions. back at command central briefings are taking place reconnaissance patrols are to be transferred to observation posts in the northwest passage to monitor an area approximately the size of germany ordered me to 70 during this time of the year worst. traffic. people on the ground and the air air force there is a board wants or i think. it's also for a ship didn't say to come. yet yet is difference between senior submarine or.

fishing boat right wanted to require different did they require different. the base of their operations is known as cam main located at cambridge bay it's part of the joint canadian american north warning system. roughly 2000 people live in cambridge bay it's a kind of rough and tumble arctic front here town in the middle of nowhere that's kept alive with generous support from the canadian government. most of the people here live from hunting and fishing and government subsidies. fishing for arctic char is one of the few good paying jobs here. people can aren't around 4000 euros for 2 weeks' work. but the fishing grounds are spread all over the northwest passage and are often only reachable by float plane. at the dock in cambridge bay we meet some fishermen i'm loading their catch we ask if they've

encountered vessels in the northwest passage that have no business being there. but heard stories of elders out on a boat. in the distance thinking it's an island and also not just some americans there's a yes yes not copper mining area. oh we know based on some cite from other people that they said that there was a russian. coming canadian. art. but that's all we know on that it's been in the news so basically. i know that. the government is. trying to keep it low somehow not make a big deal out of that but. but i'm sure that they know a lot more than what they think i had an observation post we meet the commander of joint task force north brigadier general patrick carpentier say.

he's inspecting his troops who are conducting surveillance in this isolated region he explains how hard it is to maintain a presence throughout canada's north if you take that area of land it's about the size of the continental u.s. so in that area there's only 150000 people that are separated in about 72 different units so and so the challenges are communication transportation infrastructure. everything is a challenge in the north and that's not counting climate. his troops are always accompanied by a group of arctic rangers local you know it who work with the military. they play an important role. here critical because if you think of the arctic that so be. it the rangers are really forcing you to dismiss a lot of ways well what's. the canadian armed forces only have around

$400.00 soldiers permanently stationed here in the north. so they couldn't do without the help of the arctic rangers and the local population. along with 2 arctic rangers and a reconnaissance patrol were being transferred to an outpost on a small uninhabited island. the pilots ask us if we get airsick we're told to be honest because lots of people start to feel queasy when the helicopter picks up speed. they fly low and fast. for more than an hour we travel over a rocky terrain as well as countless lakes. sometimes it feels like we could reach out and touch the ground.

we have to disembark quickly the pilots need to return to base. this is to be our camp for the next few days a couple of tents on a small island in the middle of the arctic there are no trees or bushes for protection we are fully exposed to the wind and weather which often changes from one minute to the next. night has fallen on slightly higher ground the 1st guards have taken up positions using infrared devices and powerful binoculars they search for hot spots on the icy waters. these can even be detected from great distances away. from that is what you see a submarine coming if it's up if it's if it's up we're going to see it.

you know we don't but i know that we have some fistulas for some room with us that's here you know other place. but they don't show us that. the next morning this reconnaissance patrol is searching the horizon they've just spotted a foreign invader. there's a grizzly bear here you know that it's right there and we saw you just came back to this wisdom there are. so hard to see but it's right there because you didn't read. or tribute. amy and allen load their guns the canadian arctic is in a what territory the soldiers are guests here and an armed they don't want to be

viewed as an occupying force so they leave it up to the rangers to defend them. on the side of good if you will come true come. smokes. so what will you do that if you comes. before we are. getting into a group. you want to. but for now the bear is nowhere in sight. suddenly a dense fog moves in from the sea now it's wet and cold around 3 degrees celsius allen says it could take a week for the fog to lift it looks like war once again trapped in the arctic this time on a small island with a grizzly bear. in mind when. they were completely plugged.

most of the time. 'd they can not really think of because they can barely. think of the right so they will think that. a few days later the skies have cleared and the helicopters can fly the brigadier general comes for an inspection he and his staff have one burning question mark their sighting of the going to know what happened to see what it must be a little closer but of course it's not bears that pose the biggest challenge here they are merely a tactical problem. the strategic challenge is that the north is an extremely rich in resources. for the man city. to have a presence such a large territory. germany the arctic boasts a wealth of natural resources diamonds copper iron oil gas and fish. and now the ice is melting faster and the ground is thawing it's getting easier to

extract these treasures. they're in great demand and only those who maintain a presence here can protect their interests it's a huge undertaking in canada the 2nd largest country on earth and a herculean task up here in the far north at the end of the world. we continue our journey traveling almost 2000 kilometers westward to fairbanks alaska and from there another 800 kilometers to the dead horse by the beaufort sea. it's now early october and we're on the dalton highway. much of it is just a mix of mud and gravel it's been called one of the world's most dangerous roads. crossing the yukon river we had northwards in the arctic following the route of the

trans alaska pipeline. and crossing the mighty brooks range a 1000 kilometer long mountain range that runs right across northern alaska. halfway along the route we had cold put a little more than a gas station in the middle of the wilderness until the mid 1990 s. the dalton highway was closed to normal traffic anyone wanting to use it needed a special permit from the oil companies. now truck drivers tell us they're encountering more and more tourists most come here in the winter to see the northern lights but they often underestimate the risks it's beautiful as it is as nice as it is it's not to me it's not worth it because it's it is very dangerous you know and specially come unprepared just think about it you might have to walk you know 10 miles in this weather i thought people up there they got there and just not that you know you know they have light jackets they have you know tennis shoes or and it's just not very smart it's jurists pretty much. 'd 'd 'd

we drive further into the mountains there's been a lot of snow fall in the last few days unusual for early october. we stop off in a wiseman a village that bloomed during the gold rush. everywhere you can see relics from the days when the dalton highway and the trans alaska pipeline were being built in the arctic. just 14 people still live in weissman. where the freezers look like this and it's only october. here everything is pretty rustic. in his cabin jack recall office telling a group of chinese tourists about my friend the wilderness and how he shoots most and bears in order to survive. it's heavy caliber 8.6 millimeter does

this is where the ball of most light when it snows is moving the bullet hits the adam open and shot for a few here oh right along and up when the ball with most of the long the heart continues to pump blood to the long. national long. run stay at home. but jack tells us the hunting's not as good as it used to be as we had a 15 day most i travel plaza right find a lot of books but i looked at a lot of country but hardly anything in it. makes it hard to make sure what makes it hard jack came to weisman in 1971 with his parents that his father helped to build the doulton highway jack explains why there are practically no more moose up here in the woods now i have 3 deep snow years since 20041.4 meters of snow it's the most especially when it melted on top and that froze there were breaking out of

the snow to their chest that outing themselves up on the on the edge of the snow sounds like it was thick crust like there's shelling. and it looks like this might be another bad year there's already too much snow for early october the air is too warm and too humid. the moose population doesn't have enough time to recover if deep snows occur every 4 or 5 years as they have in the last 2 decades. jack shows the chinese tourists some mighty moose antlers a popular photo motif. we ask these visitors what brought them here to the far north trying these people become a researcher on the reacher i know and that's it want to see it's all side those awards. are us the best but i've never seen before i've never seen so far i hope hopefully i can see our us at night. as they attempt to drive away we hope they'll

get to see the northern lights tonight. the conditions are favorable. the night sky is clear and full of stars suddenly the heavenly light show commences. gradually becoming more and more spectacular. to. the people the next morning we continue our northward journey towards the arctic ocean following the trans alaska pipeline. the road is icy for hours we fight

our way across the brooks range which separates central alaska from the north slope region. at the northern foot of the brooks range lies the 2 liquid beeld station scientists from around the world come here to research the changes in the arctic jed tim manages the station he says they now have mosquitoes and snakes that conserve the winter here that's something new there's no denying climate change is real it's hard to argue with. that i i'm kind of in a weird spot because i you know i'm surrounded by science i grew up around science but i'm also a little bit of a redneck you know i like to like plants don't machines but it's hard to argue with . you know with the research that i see in the glaciers and ice he's disappearing 1st hand. you know just how much warmer are seasons are it's pretty obvious jeb says it's one thing that it's getting warmer but want to

happen as a result of this will be the really big problem there's enough for a frost up here that if. that thick surface later that layer that 2030 meter layer melts. the hole in our slope is going to drop about 30 feet or 10 meters high for he says it hasn't gotten to that yet but things are getting critical he also stresses that he's no expert he suggests we talked of lattimer romanov one of the world's foremost permafrost researchers from an oscar who advises governments and companies says the situation is quite clear already have 35 years of measurements and during this period of time we started to is from a frost temperature about minus 8 now it's minus 4 on the north slope of alaska. from 20132014 we have new really strong wave of warming where all sides in interior laska show very

substantial warming. should this continue it could also have serious consequences for energy supplies around the globe as more and more of the world's oil and gas supplies come from the arctic. in many areas distributional prices vary on the vendors some big chunks of a few almost fewer eyes there and when this chunks are melting then surface of size developing very very uneven surfaces and there's many occasions already exist where this subsidence reduce. oil structure infrastructure. heading north the trans alaska pipeline leads us out of the mountains and across the frozen arctic tundra a region of stunning natural beauty. then

we pull into a dead horse and the contrast couldn't be greater it's one big money mess and much warmer then further south. the dalton highway ends and dead horse at its only stop the general store terry underhill is one of the few women in deadhorse she runs the store and like everyone here comes from the south she flies into work for 2 weeks and has 2 weeks off that's the rhythm of life here she tells us she's a big fan of donald trump like everyone here. we ask why obama made it so you can

drill up sure which killed us and he out lot a lot of stuff he put a lot of regulations on everything which made it to where they couldn't do anything and then went truck carolina lifted all the regulations and let us drill offshore again everything started opening up again so it was almost over it was like a ghost town. but now dead horse has been brought back to life and work has returned. the workers camps are fully booked the huge containers stand on stilts like everything here that's built on or in the permafrost. because the land here lies just above sea level and in summer the upper layers of permafrost keep melting more and more gravel is spread to stabilize the ground. the question is how long will all this hold. all this infrastructure built to. extract material.

to it's a very warm. period of thawing of crossed and we'll make more and more problems for the infrastructure in its design and build to extract this its goods so that's kind of irony here. we board a private plane for supplies to get a better overview of the situation the oil companies won't let us film their operations even though we did produce them weeks ago over hundreds of kilometers huge plants come into view built into the slowly warming permafrost all connected by the pipeline which runs through this swampy landscape. even offshore in the middle of the arctic ocean there are drilling platforms. our pilot tells us normally there'd be ice here. but he says this year things have changed.

like someone. like government legal or they make your life please. let me eat every day a new. day and when i get out very unusual that my dear that i haven't done anything all over. bob says it keeps getting warmer here. we wonder if the instability of the ground isn't already causing problems. already on the infrastructure of your fields. yes but it's it's it's not official information. and they ask us not to talk. but yes yes they have problems and that's why i may do the selling they sell in peace. because come from more slow.

oil giant b.p. is withdrawing from alaska entirely even though more and more oil fields are being discovered and opened up for drilling our journey around the arctic circle ends here in the alaskan oil fields for some there the promise of a brighter future for others they're part of the problem. we've traveled thousands of kilometers through this immense isolated region a world that's warming more quickly than any other on earth. a world that will determine the future of humanity. the huge demand for wrong materials and climate change are making life more unpredictable by the day. should the permafrost and ice crust disappear our world will be a different one. and the knowledge acquired here over the generations is already

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