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  • - Feeling cold is physically painful.

  • It hurts your fingers, it hurts your feet,

  • it hurts your face.

  • It's also potentially very life threatening.

  • My focus really is anything cold, so if there is ice

  • or snow, or a cold breeze, I wanna go there.

  • But I have focused mostly on the polar regions,

  • both in the Arctic and Antarctic.

  • Only 48 people have completed the unsupported,

  • unaided expedition in the North Pole,

  • compared to Mt. Everest where 6,000 people have summited.

  • It's the most difficult expedition on the planet,

  • to a place that few people understand.

  • A lot of what we see on an expedition

  • to the Arctic Ocean is nothing.

  • It's like being on the inside

  • of a ping pong ball, basically.

  • You can't see any sort of differentiation from the sky,

  • to the horizon, to the snow surface.

  • It's also incredible to look out on a clear day

  • and see the sheets of ice that are rafted together

  • like blocks, as big as houses,

  • pressured in these amazing, incredible shapes.

  • You can't help but just stop and be amazed.

  • This is my third expedition in the North Pole.

  • The Arctic Ocean is changing very quickly

  • compared to a lot of other places.

  • Scientists estimate that the Arctic Ocean

  • will be ice-free in less than 50 years in the summertime.

  • Unfortunately, we find ourselves not doing these adventures

  • because they're there anymore,

  • but because they might not be there in the future.

  • Our North Pole trip realistically may be the last

  • of its kind in history, and so it was very important for me

  • to do this adventure so that people have an idea

  • of what this place is like right now,

  • so that we can look back and say this is what we once had.

- Feeling cold is physically painful.

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