it's called smallbard. it is known for the wildlife as much as the intrepid explorers who track these animals. but we traveled here to meet a group of scientists who work deep inside this mountain. in this mountain is a bank designed to last 10,000 years. call it the ultimate exercise in planning ahead. this bank holds something far more valuable than any currency. inside is the world's largest collection of seeds. it's a kind of global insurance policy for world's crops. which are threatened by climate change, war, and natural disasters. this is the entrance to the global seed vault. think of it as the noah's arc of seeds. contributing stashes of all kind of seed imaginable to be stored inside this mountain. now the thinking is if something really bad were to happen, human kind can start all over again. to keep the backup specimens of all these crops protected, security has to be tight. first off, the vault is far from civilization. located half way between europe and the north pole, a series of passwords,