Eight Below

All right, Coop.|A hundred and five degrees.

- What do you say?|- 1 05? l can go more.

- 1 08.|- I'm feeling it.

OK, the suspense is killing me.

- All right, 1 1 0.|- 1 1 0?

- 1 1 0.|- A hundred and ten toasty ones.

Right. Ready to go out|and greet the heat?

The warm wind in my hair?

- Are you ready?|- l'm ready.

- Let's do it.|- Let's do it.

Thirty-one. Thirty-one degrees.

- Thirty-one below.|- Thirty-one below! New record!

- Thirty-one below!|- New record!

New record! Oh, it's cold!

"Eight Below"|adventure-drama-family, USA, 2006

l hate to do this, but...

Rise and shine, kids.|No more sleeping in.

All right.|lf "rise and shine" won't work...

Is anybody hungry this morning?

Attaboy, Max.

Hey, what do you say?|Ready for exercise before breakfast?

How you doing?

How does right field look?

I think it looks pretty good.|What do you say, Max? Here we go.

Go get it!

Hey, Maya.

How's my best girl doing, huh?

How you doing?

You keeping everybody in line?

Left field. Go get it.

Left field, Maya. Here we go.

Go get it!

Attaboy, Max. Come here, buddy.

Settle down.|There's plenty to go around, guys.

Here you go, Shorty.

Good boy, Shadow.

Dewey. Truman.

There you go, Old Jack.

That's my best girl.|Here, l'll trade you.

There you go, Maya.

- Hi.|- Hey.

- Didn't think l'd see you this year.|- Guess you got lucky.

- I guess so.|- Crazy Katie!

- Did you get your pilot's license yet?|- Oh, Coop, l missed you.

OK.

- Got that?|- Yeah.

Hey, hey, careful with that.

That equipment's made it 1 0,000 miles.|l'd hate that to change in six feet.

Sorry about that.

Hi. l'm Dr. Davis McClaren.

Earth and Space Sciences UCLA.

Jerry Shepard, expedition guide.|Welcome to the bottom of the world.

- Nice to meet you.|- Same here.

Go any further south,|you'll fall off the planet.

Well, that'd be unfortunate.

Charlie Cooper, cartographer,|mechanical engineer, runway paver.

- Nice to meet you.|- Dr. McClaren! Welcome to the ice.

Andy Harrison, NSF science director.|An honor to meet you.

- Dr. Rosemary Paris, field coordinator.|- Nice to meet you.

You've met our team?

Yeah, Mr. Cooper was just taking|good care of all my things.

Cooper, really?|First time for everything, l suppose.

- Let's get you inside.|- Thanks.

- Sure.|- Yeah.

OK. Lady luck, in my corner.

- What are we playing?|- She is pretty.

- Quarter in.|- Quarter.

- You're going down.|- You're going down.

Crazy Katie, you're going down.

- Hey, doc, you want in?|- No, thanks.

l gave up gambling a long time ago.

Hey, you flew in with Katie, didn't you?

Remind me how you're getting home.

Say, Old Jack, you in or out, buddy?

- Translation?|- That'd be out.

- So, Coop, how's the new girlfriend?|- Mmm.

How's my new girl?

l don't know.

- How about hot?|- Wow.

- Huh?|- Wow.

She's a scientist too.|At the italian base.

- Pretty and smart.|- Smarts.

Yeah. Notice something|missing in that picture?

OK, OK. l think...|l know you mean me.

You're talk... The picture's coming.|She's sending one of the two of us, OK?

Patience, Jer.

- Uh-huh. How many?|- Two.

Doc, you looking forward|to your first trip to Dry Valleys?

lt's a pretty cool spot|this time of year.

Actually, Dr. McClaren|needs to get to Mt. Melbourne

to search for his meteorite.

Melbourne, huh?

Nobody said anything about Melbourne.

Yeah. Meteorite hunting|is a pretty small world

and, uh, l didn't want anybody|to know where l was really going,

'cause l'm looking|for something special at Melbourne

and the NSF let us|keep it off the paperwork.

ls there a problem?

Look, doc, let me show you something.

l'll show you on the map.

- This is where we are, right? OK.|- Yeah.

Here's Dry Valleys.

All the way over here, Mt. Melbourne.|Twice as far and the opposite direction.

l've been over our route twice|in the last week,

but l haven't been to Mt. Melbourne|since the beginning of the season.

Well, that may be so. But|Dr. McClaren has traveled a long way.

- lf we can accommodate him, we should.|- Andy, it's the end of January.

The ice is too thin and snowmobiles|would be too dangerous.

There's only one way|to make that trip, with the dogs.

The dogs?

OK. Will they be able|to carry all my gear?

The dogs'll be fine.

- lt's really late in the season.|- Last year we had the dogs out

right up until the day we left.

All right, Andy.|You're the boss. l'll get things ready.

- Hey, you need some help?|- No, l'm fine.

Coop, say good night to Buck.

Uh, l'm gonna take a rain check, Jer.

Ah...

Kids, come on! Let's go!

Everyone outside. Let's get you|tucked into bed. Come on.

Good, Jack.

Good boy. l'll see you in the morning.

Hey, Maya.

What do you say? One more trip, huh?

Then we'll get you to McMurdo|for the winter. That sound good?

Huh? That sound good? That's my girl.

Hey, Max. l need a good trip out of you.

Lucky star, huh? Let's hope so.

See you in the morning, Max.

Knock, knock.

- Hey.|- Hey.

l warmed up some of|your favorite ice cream.

Strawberry.|That's your favorite ice cream.

Yeah, well, you got here early.|l didn't have time to go shopping.

Uh, yeah, well, they changed things up.

How you been?

Been a good season. Kids are doing well.

Maya's been awesome.|Old Jack's getting a bit older, so...

Jerry, l was asking you how you've been.

l'm not interrupting or anything, am l?

No, Rosie. We were just catching up.

OK.

All right, well, uh...

l guess l'll see you guys|in the morning, then.

Thank you. That was sweet.

No problem. Good night.

Good night.

- Pardon me.|- Oh, sorry.

Oh!

Oh! Head's up.

Sad fact of life in this place, doc.|Floor is more comfy than the bunks.

So, what is it exactly that you do here?

Cartography. l spent the last two years|mapping every inch of this territory.

Hey, dude.|What happened? You strike out?

No. l didn't even swing.

Ah, went down looking.|That's still a strike-out, Jer.

- Ow! Ow!|- Sorry about that, buddy.

l didn't see you there.

We turn the heat off at night, so if|there's anything you need to keep warm,

l suggest you sleep with it.

lncoming.

Ow! Jerry!

Man!

OK, this is the last of it.

Wow, doc.|Won't be losing you, now, will we?

All right, rule number one.

lf you want to approach the dogs,|approach them from the front. OK?

- See how the lines are taut?|- Yeah.

l want them like that at all times.|lf the line's tangled, they'll fight.

- We don't want that.|- Got it.

- Anything else l should know?|- The rest is pretty much up to me.

l gotta watch them.|They're working dogs.

They'll run themselves to death.|They love work.

All right, official introductions.

Up here in front, on lead,|we got my best girl, Maya.

Next to her we got Old Jack.

Just turned ten, and, uh, he's|actually getting ready for retirement.

Back here,|the white one, this is Shorty.

And next to him is the pup|of the bunch. That's Max.

He's still in training.

He's got the right stuff.|l expect big things out of him.

Right here, we got the twins.|This is Truman.

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