floes that enter nares strait end up being carried south with the prevailing current.e is on a journey of no return. we came from fort conger, and that took us all day, and now we have to go all the way across there. it's interesting to have a journey up here in this really remote place, where you think of these hardened explorers coming, and just have kind of regular people, like except for steve, you know, the rest of us are pretty much ordinary people just plucked out of life. like mike's plucked out of silicon valley, and bryce is plucked out of college. and you know, chris is plucked out of academia, and i'm just lifted up from my farm. it's 13 nautical miles to the other side of lady franklin bay. with the ice about to break up at any time, i don't feel safe. those men of the lady franklin bay expedition might've been the last people to walk across this bay. i'm imagining sodden wool jackets and leather army boots. aaaargh! whoahhh! come onnn! look what happened! i wanna take a picture of this! i work on these floes, and try to understand how the sea ice itself e

there's isn't anything big enough here to plug nares strait. to me, it's alarming. in this area there's nothing that stops sea ice from escaping the arctic ocean. yeah, you see this big mumbo-jumbo of ice, you think -- “hmm, might be sledging today”" not just sledging, but lifting kayaks, fully loaded kayaks, that's the part. you see how we're going to go across there, that's going to just -- aghhh! alright, so the one thing we want to be careful of here is actually that we don't damage the boats, right? steve's got a ton of experience with this place and i think even he is just baffled right now. and as it's going down, you're just going to ease it down as much as you can. ahh, watch yourself... we thought this was going to be kayaking every day, but it's turned into pretty much sledging, pulling the kayaks every day. wait, mike. wait -- wait. ahhhh! don't pull, don't pull, i'm getting pulled underneath it. give me a second. looking out there i'm not too optimistic about having open water or actually really sea kayaking. there just doesn't seem to be any -- let up.