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the arctic has always represented more than just a longing for unspoiled beauty. for thousands of years, it's been considered untamed level. but these days a race has begun about who will conquer it for the future. ah, we have flown around the globe once across the far north to discover what the future holds for all of us into a world that is changing. mm hm. and we are approaching the aleutian islands. a chain of volcanic islands, frequently battered by storms and extending from the alaskan mainland far into the

north pacific. the rugged islands are blanketed in soft green. our journey through the arctic begins here far south of the arctic circle. all over the island, there are relics from world war 2 shipwrecks and bunkers. here we have come across a story that suggests a new dangerous conflict is on the horizon, high up north than the arctic. but now at the end of july, with high temperatures of around 11 degrees, the aleutian islands revealed their gentle good natured side. ah, dutch harbor on the main island of an alaska is a top us fishing port. a $1000000000.00 business. every year, some $350000.00 tons of seafood, pollock, cod,

halibut. as well as huge king crabs are offloaded here and shipped all over the world. the leftovers are picked over by the eagles that live here like pigeons do in berlin or venice. in 1741, the 160 or so islands were discovered by betus bearing a danish officer commissioned by the russian czar to find out if there was a land bridge between the americas and russia. a small russian orthodox church as a reminder of the days before 18. 67. when russia sold the islands along with alaska to the u. s. for $7200000.00. a good deal for america. a deal that russia regrets to this day. the fishing boat sets off from dutch harbor for the fishing grounds in the far north in the bearing see more than a 1000 kilometers away. it's one of the most inhospitable places in the world. it's

about 4 o'clock in the morning when the blue north docks in dutch harbor. one ship that can venture deep into the north for 3 months and they had been navigating the bearing see close to the russian border. the blue north is the most modern ship in the american fishing fleet with room for more than $600.00 tons of fish. we've arranged to meet captain david anderson. he's been working the seas as a fisherman since he was 19 1st as an ordinary deckhand. now as captain, 4 months we've been in contact with him by a satellite, he sent us videos that demonstrate what it means to fish in the bearing see. just watching that makes us queasy. captain anderson wants to tell us about a dangerous encounter, possibly a new frontline, which in his view has received far too little attention manager rod. like why i gotta listen this guys who knows what we're capable of everything. ah.

and they're unpredictable. i got to protect the crew for captain anderson gives us a tour of the ship, his pride and joy. the highlight is the so called moon cool, a large shaft in the bottom of the ship for holding in the lines during storms, so that the crew isn't exposed to the weather. the blue north is a so called long liner. these lines are a total of 70 kilometers long. we have 55 magazines, or one magazine has 1200 hooks on it by 55, which is what we have on board. you're looking at $65.00 bells, lowes. hey, on board that we have that we're, we fish in a 24 hour period. the blue north is a floating state of the art machine, a battleship, if you will. nearly everything is automated. the fish, mostly cod, are gutted and clean sorted by size and weight packed and finally,

deep frozen all on board. it's a huge business. each shipment brings in more than $3000000.00 to be sold all over the world. however, every year it becomes increasingly difficult to find the fish the fisher definitely my rule, there is no, no doubt about that there. and there's only one way for him to go and that's north . north is, you know, obviously it's cold waters. so there they are moving up north further and we're fishermen, we gotta find the vision. we go over the fish that so we're going to follow 10 years ago. we would only have to go 18 hours out, you know. and then now all to have days, we're going to and a half days out, fine fish. that's how much it's changed. it's changed quite a bit. but the further the fish migrate north towards the arctic. the closer the coasts of russia and america become on there is more on the bridge. captain

anderson tells us the story that made us want to meet him. he recorded the whole incident with his phone point was going to see video. this is rose stanley to take a shot like an airplane was approaching from the distance. when i 1st saw a plan, i just thought of us. no big deal than think twice about it. seated before when i found out was military now was a different story. ok, now we're, we're, we're in some service, especially when i found out that it was in our military the air crew ordered them to turn back demanding that they said a new course at maximum speed. what made the situation so volatile was that it was

russians ordering and american fishing boat to leave american waters. also on the bridge was mike fitzgerald. the 2nd in command of the blue north middle bo, where we haul gear. well mean it was just short of action. i mean, they're telling us to get out of the way they're charging. and i mean, if you had tanks and, and trucks plowing across the us border, any were telling civilians to get out of the way. it's the same thing, world war fishing, or fishing in our waters and we have, they have until it remains unclear why the russian military acted so aggressively in the harbor. we meet the crew of the sun word, a small wooden fishing vessel with a crew of 4. there is an atmosphere of concentrated tense activity. the crew is preparing to set off to their fishing grounds, 800 kilometers north of the bering sea. after some beer and whiskey, the night before captain garret gunderson has invited us to come for

a trip around the island while they refuel and stock up on food. that's good for morale on board. he says. then the crew has something to talk about over the next few days. it's going to be a strenuous trip. we're going to serve the whole way. there will be 10 foot seas, but i'll be on the stern soul surf our whole way there. by the time we get there, we'll said here the weather will lay down for about 3 days, and then it's gonna blow 40. and so we'll try and go around the backside of the island, get protection. it is anger up there for a day on deck. the crew secures the fishing equipment. waves over 10 meters high are not uncommon in the bearing see, but the fishermen are used to storms in waves. there are other things. the crew is more concerned about. it turned on 25 years ago, and they only deal half down a counter level once or twice. and they know what you're doing. they wait for you to all your gear and then they steal your fish

a really or pray on your fish. they pray it, they on fishermen up there, they wait for you. we killer will show of the team over the years. the fishing hedge in this, the killer well show you how to run from them. we did actually started going further north and further north and for the north to where there aren't any water to hold on there for whatever reason. they don't go that far near but there will come a time when even the sun work can't make the trip. the northern journey has its limits . the farther north we have to go it. yeah, it'll start to take us out of the fishery and we can only go so far about st. matthews's about as far north as we can go and still have enough fuel and water and what not to to make it back to dutch harbor. otherwise, just not big enough. we ask the captain if they have ever been driven off their

fishing grounds or if they've ever heard what happened to the blue north and other fishing boats. we heard about that last year on the but i never saw it. we never saw, we were headed out west. we were told that there is russian war ships, and i'll let you guys finish russians. we want to know what he has captain would do if the russians drove him off his fishing grounds, reviewed by the russians. i'd be paused. but what, what am i gonna do? is it like the military? her? yeah. oh oh, i'd love, i love it, guns. throw fish out. but back on the blue north. after their encounter with the russian military, the 2 captains are now expecting the american government to act. they knew that the arctic is changing. so this is the fisher moving north. fishing vessels are moving north. we've been military should move north to. i think it would be

a pretty good decision on, on the u. s. military, the bread, but honestly, i think it would be very good, especially for the, for the future of fishing and the future. who knows what the future holds with the arctic? because the fish keep migrating further and further north towards the arctic. the fisherman hope for military support. we're beginning to get the feeling that our journey through the arctic will hold many surprises for us to. we leave the aleutian islands. we're heading east to pond inlet and the canadian arctic at the entrance to the northwest passage. as per canada, they are already preparing for new conflicts. baffin island is the 5th largest island in the world, one and a half times the size of germany, and virtually uninhabited. the ice breaker, harry, the wolf of the royal canadian navy,

is on patrol. often for days on end, they travel through uninhabited terrain through a world that is increasingly turning from white to blue. captain gleason and his crew are surveying the sea floor, water, depth, and geological structures. to operate here in the remoteness of the arctic north, you need to have a precise grasp of what it looks like above and below the water. according to this, our depth should be 50 years. um, but the reality was that it was 80 meters not 15 waters. it was not good enough to navigate safely on to, to keep a ship's particular example no ship or by 300 yards on deck. the crew prepared for something canada has never carried out appear before. this is only a test, but it will soon be standard procedure for patrols through the northwest passage.

my router, i so the resolute reversal they further real 5 minutes way versus slowing down. so the way in the boy as the ship slows down, gleason's crew lowers a thick cable into the water attached to the cable as a kind of sled, a state of the art. so nar device that they will pull through these remote arctic waters. i can conduct the 1st on the water solvent you patrol using the toll racism to look under the water and to listening to water and start building more of an understanding of the arctic waters and how submarines and other other vessels can operate on up in the north to either support sovereignty or challenge in canada wants to demonstrate that it's not only capable of staking its claim in the arctic, but also of enforcing it also on board or a squad of paratroopers from a southern canada there making final preparations before going ashore. the soldiers

are to get a feel for how large and remote this land is in case of an emergency. they'll have to defend it. okay, so we're going to send you all the for all it was initially. you said yourself before what you're sure if you savish your position. so i think you guys just warmly review there for, for about our on make sure you have water in that, that with the people on here for a lot of calories pulled. if you know mom, just to care for what else. well, infectious. couple. only very few canadians know their own country here in the north. it is still too far away and too difficult to reach. one can sense that it's also a great adventure for the soldiers to be out here at the northern edge of the world to experience for themselves, the power of this wild and pristine nature. their training to work

together with the arctic rangers, a local intimate unit that patrols the entire north of canada from the west to the east coast. they will be learning from and with each other. the rangers show the soldiers how to survive in this harsh world. where they are often left to their own devices. shooting and gutting. seals is one of the most important survival strategies. because seal meat contains a lot of vitamin, see they say it's important in an area where there are neither trees nor fruits or vegetables, especially nutritious is the liver. oh, not the consistency of i tell you. but in addition to the vitamins it contains ra seal, meat has another advantage that is particularly important up here in winter, the santa if you call in the winter time, little bit of dye love it only for 3 minutes. no arm. yeah. yeah, it's

a chemical reaction in your body. could i'd react to the seo blood then everything starts going right fuel huffy fairly. the arctic rangers are the eyes and ears of the north local fishermen and hunters who rone the arctic virtually year round to provide for their families. and they explained to the soldiers how one survives here. i have the soldiers in turn. shall the arctic rangers, how to use a radio to communicate over long distances and equipped them with the tools they need for the job. so the all program to thought with any one around so they can talk with the plane with the military plane. they can talk also with the ship. so when you do a search and rescue mission, ah,

you can talk with the plane order and he got there with this with the channel line . and even if things don't always work out right away, they're becoming more and more important for the canadian troops. we're our job is to see what's happening in the north, in our territory, respective territory. and if you see anything out of ordinary ships, submarines or other activities, we're to be ported back to our headquarters. the last one was $300.00 clicks out towards the navy board in which is about towards north north area and reported seeing something and took a picture of submarine yours to one of the vessels. yes. as to where the ships and the submarine came from,

there still no answer. but since discovering soviet underwater maps of the northwest passage from the cold war period that are much more accurate than canadian maps, canada has been under the assumption that undiscovered visitors have been navigating canadian waters for a long time now. for the soldiers, one thing is very clear, military wise that we need to wave the flag. i think we need more boots on the ground just to, to show just to show that your average canadian or people overseas that yeah, we are here. we're patrolling the area, there's been too much debate about what to who owns what, or whatever i think in order for us to we can't just lead the backyard open, we got to put a fence around it. so we would be that fence line. we just show people that were here. the north is changing at a breathtaking pace. and canada's government is trying to keep up. the harry, the wolf, is its 1st response. additional robust patrol boats of this type are under construction and canada plans to deploy them in the arctic. in the next few years. we're just

starting to the operator up in the north as a matter of routine business. because the arctic ice is allowing us to do that. now the ships don't normally operate up that far north at any time. but as, as the other than that the canadas arctica continues to open. the ice allows ships operate for the north. it puts candidate in position that it has to put ships further north in the royal canadian navy, as part of that plan. canada wants to preserve its sovereignty over the northwest passage and doesn't want to become a pond of the arctic superpowers, the us and russia. but even if the ice is slowly disappearing, captain gleason has a message for all those who intend to roam around up here. don't underestimate the arching. it's not something that you ah can't control. it will change you, you need to go into the arctic with the plan. but understand that your plan may

fail at 1st contact. and then you need to adopt the situation. we continue on in a small single engine, propeller plain, accompanied by decoy tuck. he's an experienced pilot who has made landings in aunt arctica. before we take off, we have to practice putting on our survival suits. dear, gives us 4 minutes. it fits. oh, okay. wow. 2 minutes and 30 seconds. this is pretty damn awesome. thanks lou beth. previously, derek was as successful i t entrepreneur in banker to day he travels the world and is familiar with the flying conditions and places where there is no quick assistance. if something goes wrong, ready to go, he's considered one of the best. ahead of us lies an adventurous journey across the labrador, c, greenland, and the north atlantic. as we travel many hours over uninhabited territory,

on to the loneliest corners of the earth, only accessible by air or ship and the west coast of greenland emerges in front of us. dear descends visibility is good. we can't quite comprehended 1st, what we're looking at. where we are headed this is a world that hardly any one has seen before. a world that immediately mesmerized as us. we fly over jacket ice landscapes that continuously change colors. ah. we fly low over

glaciers and through fjords. and it leaves us breathless again and again. it's a world of such natural wonders that we are humboldt in its presence. but this is a merciless world that permits no mistakes. many have died up here or have crashed while trying to cross the mighty ice sheets. here it is rarely as peaceful and gentle as it was for us. the early days of aviation web traffic to young women, 3 north american yellow with loudly propeller driven, grabbed, they went, climbing a lot higher than the top of the ice cap like 14000 feet. but there was situations where people to white like the frog, you know, look perfectly fine, although it was all with web people just thought that like, like,

like of the props. i think the ice that the i class of lead hopefully they'll dalton out really quite well. we travel for hours over a mountain range with valleys filled to the summit with ice. the gigantic glaciers have formed over the last 2 to 3000000 years. 80 percent of greenland is still covered by ice. light is only possible on the coast. we approached peluso in the southeast of the island. small houses appear below us. their bright colors announcing that we are no longer alone. peluso is one of the few settlements on the east coast of greenland, about 200 people live here. subsisting on hunting and fishing

in the last century, this isolated place where time seems to stand still was swept into the torrent of history as if over night. and now finds itself at the mercy of the global politics of climate change. mm hm. after landing, we are amazed when airport security drives a large bulldozer in front of the plane. the boss of the airport himself is in charge of the operation. i went very, go back on it on the basis, al windbreaker. otherwise everything flies away. when the wind comes list of last month, we had $100.00 knots, which is about 158 kilometers per hour. i confessed to kill, didn't be that we're going to concrete blocks are moved under the wings to tie the plane down. many years ago, a frenchman was here with a much larger aircraft. he didn't think it was necessarily what the damage can

still be seen at the end of the runway. we're in the tower. we ask what else we should watch out for? the air traffic controller has a rifle. next to his computers. we asked cons what this is all about sunday. so we need to go. we need to war so well we had to be careful of for the polish treatise. yeah. i mean was he one? yeah. but we won't meet any polar bears. not until much later that is we have an appointment with rasmus paulson. he's the fulton captain of a local police boat. he has something to show us to illustrate that the arctic has long ceased to be the white cold wonderland that we imagine far off the northern end of the world. even in the most remote places,

a 2 hour boatright awaits us. full speed ahead, deeper and deeper into a world that seems so pure and christine and yet it is not. we landed appear surrounded by crystal clear water with stone and snow towering above us. with name, we still can't see what's hidden further ahead. first, we've got to get ashore and get back, but at an older age this can be quite a challenge left or, and you know about once that's done and we've carried our equipment up the shoreline. we come across a bizarre landscape of rust and steel. a still life that tells a story that few know we

are on buoy east to an american military base from world war 2, or rather what the u. s. troops left behind after they left the airfield was built here in the forty's as a part of the world to it's about of the atlantic bridge. so in case some of the planes going from the south shore, kind of a frog had any troubles they could land here at that time. far out behind these mountains in the atlantic, a merciless submarine war was raging. german submarines were sinking. many allied convoys and naval units, greenland and its east coast was vital for the battles in the atlantic and the bombing of germany. greenland is known as the weather kitchen where weather is cooked up for europe. whoever controls greenland knows what is coming and thus has a decisive tactical advantage. thus began

a cat and mouse game between the americans and the germans. best both tried secretly to build weather stations on the rugged, virtually uninhabited coast. but the german attempts failed. not least because local inno, it detected them in the wilderness, but the war forever changed the lives of the info it who previously had little or no contact with the outside world. but at that time, if you had so if you're feeling of what they could find nature using her own with animals and the things they could find in nature. and then you as came in and they brought coca cola can food, all these different things. so so it basically escalated to him would, will 2 people got a got in touch with all these nice new things. so after all, they couldn't take all these things away from them. again,

if they're working at 1st glance, blue east to looks like a monstrous environmental crime in a pure and completely untouched wilderness. but for those who live in this barren place where they are dependent on driftwood washing up from siberia, it's been a real blessing. he will have been out, he had taking things, we have houses inside the sea, look around the settlements coming from this area. so they have been out here taking the houses apart, bringing them into the town. we have all the oil drums laying around, which used to be full of fuel at some point. they have left some with fuel and so people have been out had taken the fuel. we have no engines in the cottage because what happened to them, they have probably been used for generators in town. they've been used for boat engines and so on. so people have been hitting the things that have been looking, been looking, i'm saying so i can use that for something and that could be an engine that could be light, that can be a steering wheel, whatever they know there have been debates about whether to remove blue east to,

to dispose of the traces of the war here. grass has paulson and many others here are against it. blue eas, too, is a fascinating open air museum and a cautionary reminder. i think it's a, it's a very nice place to come because it tells history about, well to green. and then we can see how, how much influence people can have on something. and then when they leave, it will last. it takes time for the nature bessie to the arctic nature taken things back with the end of world war 2, u. s. troops left the fjord along one of the loneliest coasts in the world. but the conflicts are returning to the north surfacing and places that are still out of reach. for most people we have to get back before it gets dark but planned to travel further north the next morning. it will be a night filled with magic. ah

. the next morning a tractor arrives with the fuel tank. we want to fly on to a talk or tour me possibly the most remote settlement in the world. it will be a long cold flight. dear add something to the gasoline. oh, it's an idea that prevents said the, you'll fall, you know, setting out the ice christmas and bits and stuff that would be good to have a little be edited tickler at this point. because we have all the one and with the aircraft refueled and cleared. we had into the tower one more time to say

goodbye. and for one last briefing about the flight route, we have nearly 1000 kilometers ahead of us on a route that very few have flown before it's an o, uncontrolled, all the way up to constant point. if you find, you know, with one man, if i want to, we have to take care of lang up north. well, we have big a small some the trina console fight on the occlusal. it's so late so long. it's the cold be a good gums fumes surround fall could i mean so should i 4000 meters for our meters? it is so along here. i'm not sure we quickly clean the windows one last time. in case of poor visibility, we must be careful not to fly too low. in this rough terrain, it could be a while before we rescued. we cram ourselves into the small plain as best we can with equipment and survival suits stopped into the cabin. up and off into

an unknown world after take off, we followed the coastline. and once again, we are enthralled by the power of such majestic nature. ah ah after half an hour or so we once again cross a rugged ice landscape up across the ice sheet were greenland highest mountains

tower ah ah ah. the peaks of a mountain range rise up from under sheets of ice, several kilometer steep even deer. his amazed for example, watching like laces close up to have the sort of i don't know what he called the birthing box. right? deep structures, whether glacier is hitting the water, that for the op, as the ice fuel is basically 100 percent smooth, looks like a what like a out us know, paradise mosquitoes. and then it between we have this section right now. basically

one met on after the other. i don't know enough about geology, but it's a stunningly beautiful with this pyramid shapes. somehow as i pull stripey for the snow and, and the contrast from the black rock or dark gray rock and the white snow is just gorgeous. but what may seem from the safety of the sky to be heavenly is in fact, brutal and unforgiving on the ground. in 1930 during his last greenland expedition, german meteorologist alfred bagginger perished somewhere out here on the ice. in the german research facility that bears his name, the alpha begun or institute, they continue beginners adventurous research and the arctic. in 2019 as part of a spectacular expedition, scientists aboard the research ice breaker polish down, buckled down for a whole year,

a drift in the pack ice at the north pole. they collected data on climate ice and water. before our trip, we met with the leader of the expedition and blame a haven hoping to get an idea of what was in store for us. gotten through, i don't, emma. previously, there had always been more than 8000000 square kilometers of ice out on the arctic . what these days during our expedition. we have less than 4000000 square kilometers. i'd be at the thickness of the is also decreased by half in a few decades. there will be no ice in the arctic and summer. i viet. however, the disappearance of the arctic pack ice is having dramatic consequences. bar beyond the arctic and as active. hm. yeah. if, if in that, if the arctic sea ice disappears, the dark ocean will absorb much more energy is on the sun. since most of the energy from the ice is radiated right back again. in other words, a white surface will be replaced by a dark one. this will cause the arctic to warm even more, and this may also act to destabilize green lent the. we're now seeing it rain in

greenland, which is an extremely rare weather phenomenon. but it is now happening more frequently in green like rain off in greenland convenient, blue rain on the ice sheets of greenland. scientists expect that it may soon rain here more than it snows, which would have dramatic consequences for the entire planet. that couldn't. and if i said it may, i should in greenland is immensely important for the climate, it contains gigantic quantities of fresh water, which unlike the arctic sea ice is on the land and not on the ocean. and that's very important that if this ice melts, the sea level will rise and there's so much ice in greenland that it is enough to raise the sea level globally by 5 to 7 meters meters. just imagine that my footing as we fly over it for hours one can hardly imagine that such a mighty layer of ice up to 3 kilometers thick at some spots will ever melt completely. ah!

then suddenly, it turns blue. ahead of us lies scores be sound. the largest fjords system in the world on the other side of the inlet, is it talk or to or me, a small in what community? their closest neighbors live on iceland, some 6 to 7000 kilometers across the arctic ocean. here they are still sheltered from major political conflicts, but they too consent that underneath it all, something is changing. a short ravel runway lies at the end of this arm of the fjord, 70 kilometers away from the small settlement. the airport was built by an american oil company in the 1980s, but was abandoned after 5 years. to day it's the only connection to the outside

world. i think we go down to the beach with a luggage cart. the only way to talk to me is by boat. there are no roads here. all go and his son brian are waiting for us at the water. they greet us warmly. visitors don't come by that. often. the trip to the settlement takes an hour and a half on this cool, late autumn day. we must hurry. this time of year it gets dark early, olga and his wife meta invite us to dinner with their children so much. there will be something very special force, homemade musk ox burgers, from the 1st musk ox that brian the youngest recently shot. first thing the next morning we put on an extra layer of clothing with our thick jackets we squeezed

into insulated suits that will protect us from the wind, water, and cold. this time of year, it can drop to minus 15 or minus 20 degrees. as we set off, it's about minus 10. we ride in an open boat with olin on an aka loo? oh, the knots parents say good bye. dear can brian, one of our 2 cameraman, go with aga. long distances, far into the fury of the ocean, are always done with 2 boats for safety. we set out on an experiment. we want to go to a place that no inno it has ever reached in october. it's too deep in the pure too close to the ice sheet. 250 kilometers from it talk or tor me. as the crow flies, we will spend several days traveling through the fjord and no doubt some of that time. we will regret ever coming on this journey at all. on this cold but peaceful late october day, we could not begin to imagine what was in store for us. ah

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