Into the Cold: A Journey of the Soul Page #5
every stitch of item is wet,..
...this is what we use to
dry it. This line right here.
And this goes for long johns,
base layer, the second layer,..
...third layer, fourth layer,
fifth layer.
So that's my complaint
to management,..
...l'm gonna tell them to
build more cabinet space.
What happened to the stove?
-lt's out.
As you can see, the ice frosts
over the tent at night.
We get the heat up with the
heaters in the evenings and...
...then in the morning again.
But during the night,..
...we've got to obviously
turn them down to save on fuel.
The temperature drops pretty
considerably in the tent and...
...everything gets pretty frosty,
as you can see from all the stuff...
...over here. This is what
we get our water from.
this is our local chef here.
Hey, l got some breakfast brewing.
l'm getting it all figured out
here in the morning.
That's it, life in a tent. lt's
a little tight, not glorious.
But the company is fine.
Second day and we are bushed!
The ice is clumpy as we
negotiated a field of rubble...
...that was pretty discouraging.
After two hours of pulling
...these pressure ridges
the size of trucks, l looked up...
...to see the same landscape
for miles in all directions!
Well, this is day 3, it's been
pretty cold so far.
that's pretty good.
But we've had between
-34 and -40.
Both Keith and l have little
frost nips on our fingers.
lt's pretty chilly.
On the third day we're
treading along, hopefully...
...this will be a good omen
for the future.
Like Sisyphus and his rock,
we pull our heavy sledges...
...across this uneven icy landscape
one step after the next.
Occasionally cursing our decision
to be here in the first place.
Day 5. North.
-What the f..k.
-S..t.
lt is common for the first few days
of any expedition to be...
...the hardest as you get
acclimated and into a rhythm.
We are up for the challenge
and hoping that...
...the temperatures warm up a bit.
Like nomads trekking across the
white desert of another planet,..
...we advance one laborious
step after the next.
A gale grew from the west.
Even 5 knots of wind lashes
the face like frozen razor blades.
a hundred million trillion cells...
...in constant communication
with one another,..
...then mine were all
screaming, ""l am cold! ""
The cold temperatures
crystallize the water deposits,..
...preventing them from
bonding with the ice.
The result is like pulling the
even when hitting nice pans...
...which has been rare.
Mostly it has been rubble fields,
which slow us down and...
...can be quite discouraging
when they sprawl on for miles.
The mood varies between
euphoric and upbeat,..
...and frustrated and doubtful.
Still, the Arctic desert
reveals itself to us...
...in all of its majestic and
endless subtleties in the way...
...that it only does to those
committing to traveling...
...its unforgiving realm. The lunar
vistas are simply breathtaking.
No life here, and no sounds
but for the cruddy break...
...of our feet on the ice and
our constant marching companion:
The steady and heavy
rhythm of our breath.
The sun does not rise above
15 degrees from the horizon...
...at its apex, but
no longer sets either.
All this in the silent and lonely
universe of the intense effort...
...punctuated only by the
sound of heavy breathing...
...and the endless sunset
of the midnight sun.
Time to get up.
We started late today,
as a wind from the south...
...was shaking the tent all night.
Also l think today is Sunday,..
...and on that day we felt,
we too could get some rest.
Every morning is the same exercise.
...your sleeping bag and
hanging it on the line to dry,..
...so that we can repeat
that process again the next day.
We felt no rush in getting
beat up by the elements...
...and were slow out of the tent.
Mmm, porridge.
Sesame seeds, oats and
we render it with some pemmican,..
...which is basically just some
bacon fat and bacon bits and...
...we've thrown in some cranberries
just to spice it up.
Lots of calories make up for
what we're going to burn today.
Lovely day on the Arctic Ocean
here. 87 degrees north.
Three more to go,
two weeks in.
There's my live commentator for you.
Three hours in, we came across
...and with it came the black
color of the Arctic ocean,..
...which of course is
constantly below our feet.
lt's all open water. That's why
lt's open from all the way
there, to back here.
About here it looks like it closes.
So that's what we're going to
try to do, is cross it over there.
cracks in the ice generated...
currents and winds, and after...
...following its banks for a while,
we finally found a crossing point.
When a lead freshly forms it could
actually undulate, rubber ice.
So it had some flex, and we were
okay with how much flex it had.
lt's good.
Open leads and pressure ridges
are the biggest challenges...
...to North Pole travelers.
We hurried as the environment
was rapidly changing...
...and the lead widening.
-Not so bad, huh?
-Not so bad.
l stopped there because l want to
unclip my harness, just in case.
You know if you go in, you may not
want all this stuff attached to you.
By now both Keith and l
have a number of frostbites.
-Getting better, hopefully.
-One here, and one there.
This is certainly not uncommon
when traveling regions...
...where men have no business
spending any amount of time in.
But those nips have to be carefully
monitored or the risk could be loss.
On day 16,
l've got Arctic, 2 and Sebastian, 8.
But it will change...
we keep heading north!
We skied hard and for the first time
began to grow into our rhythm.
We might have done better mileage
but for the many rubble areas...
pressure ridges is consistent...
...with newly formed, and
therefore weaker, ice.
Multi-year ice, which is almost
all gone in the Arctic sea,..
...tends to be thicker
and smoother.
lt has more structural integrity.
awesome power of currents...
...and winds crushing multi-tons
chunks of solid ice like twigs,..
...and piling them on top of one
another like an auto salvage yard!
That is just unbelievable! This
pressure ridge, look at this--
being formed just as we speak.
Just the forces of nature,
...massive pieces of ice, billions
and billions of tons of ice...
...being moved and crumpled.
lt's really unbelievable
and an extraordinary sight.
Such is the power of nature.
Our focus as a people...
0 fans
Submitted on August 05, 2018
Translation
Translate and read this script in other languages:
Select another language:
- - Select -
- 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
- 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
- Español (Spanish)
- Esperanto (Esperanto)
- 日本語 (Japanese)
- Português (Portuguese)
- Deutsch (German)
- العربية (Arabic)
- Français (French)
- Русский (Russian)
- ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
- 한국어 (Korean)
- עברית (Hebrew)
- Gaeilge (Irish)
- Українська (Ukrainian)
- اردو (Urdu)
- Magyar (Hungarian)
- मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
- Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Italiano (Italian)
- தமிழ் (Tamil)
- Türkçe (Turkish)
- తెలుగు (Telugu)
- ภาษาไทย (Thai)
- Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
- Čeština (Czech)
- Polski (Polish)
- Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Românește (Romanian)
- Nederlands (Dutch)
- Ελληνικά (Greek)
- Latinum (Latin)
- Svenska (Swedish)
- Dansk (Danish)
- Suomi (Finnish)
- فارسی (Persian)
- ייִדיש (Yiddish)
- հայերեն (Armenian)
- Norsk (Norwegian)
- English (English)
Citation
Use the citation below to add this screenplay to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Into the Cold: A Journey of the Soul" Scripts.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 22 Nov. 2024. <https://www.scripts.com/script/into_the_cold:_a_journey_of_the_soul_10895>.
Discuss this script with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In