Alex Honnold Climbs a 4,000 Foot Sea Wall (Full Episode) | Arctic Ascent | National Geographic

It's Alex Arnold, everybody.

>> Climbing El Capitan was something that I've been dreaming about for years and then

spent probably a full year in

>> Is there anything left to climb after you climb Mount Al Capitan?

Is there anything bigger than that?

>> I mean, there are technically some bigger walls in the world, but they're in

very remote places like Greenland.

Oh my god, it looks insane.

>> this is insanely big. >> it's crazy, huh?

That is so much

It's taken more than 3 weeks,

but we finally made it to our main objective.

a giant 4,000 ft sea cliff

and one of the biggest unclimb

rock faces on the planet.

Oh man, this thing is absolutely huge.

There's just not a lot of

cliffs this big in the world.

>> I don't know how we're going to do this.

>> What's the obvious line?

Can you see >> Nothing yet.

>> So far, I'd say nightmare on all sides.

>> Like everything just looks terrifying from there.

>> It definitely looks bigger than nail

>> Yeah, it's bigger than nail cap. >> Total. Yeah. Yeah, it's huge. It's huge.

It's nearly three times the height of the Empire State Building

and nearly 1,000 ft taller than Al Capatan.

>> To have such a large objective

completely unexplored is is pretty

>> If we manage to climb the Ingma Cortac,

it'll be the biggest first ascent I've ever done.

The size and scale of the challenge is insane.

I don't know what your definition of adventurous is, but it's hard to imagine

anything more adventurous than an uncime 4,000 ft wall

with icebergs floating down below.

I mean, yeah, when little kids dream about adventure.

I mean, I think this is basically it.

You see way to the left how it kind of gets lower angle.

>> Very slim right facing corner.

>> Yeah, I'm thinking way to the left of >> here. Let's see.

I'm going to just take my backpack and just jump off the front.

>> Well, we got on the mountain. >> Wow.

Should we try and expand the look of it? >> Wow. It's so smooth. >> Yeah. It's like slippery. Huh.

>> When you look at photographs,

things can feel a lot friendlier

than when you see something in the flesh.

And this wall is just so

insane looking in the flesh.

Hazel and I will focus on the climbing

while Mikey helps Aldo to fix the ropes and haul up the gear.

We'll get as high as we can each day before descending to base camp.

>> Okay, I'm going to start.

Don't let me >> Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

I could only speed out so quick, so just don't run.

I'm going to move back over and go across his other right. >> That's 30 m. >> Oh, wow.

>> We just don't know what we'll face up there.

So, you just don't know if we'll we'll make it to the top.

It's just a massive undertaking.

Like, I think it could be

the biggest undertaking potentially of my climbing

>> Has he actually put any gear in?

>> We can't just start up one line and be like, "Oh,

this isn't the route."

And if we chose the wrong one and it turns into like,

you know, a bunch of loose rock and awful climbing,

like then we're just done.

I think that top section could be so hard. >> Way up high.

>> It looks so steep from here, doesn't it?

>> None of the options look easy.

The middle section is blank and

and the right hand section looks like a death route.

So, we're going with the left side, which seems to be the safest way up.

All the roots wind up on the head wall.

1,000 ft of vertical rock, which will definitely be the hardest part of the >> Came off, Hazel.

>> Okay, I'm climbing on green.

>> There's Hazel climbing below me and Mikey. Everybody's cruising.

The views starting to improve. More icebergs. Crazy glaciers. Epic big wall. We're doing it. Very Oh, look.

You can see the wave from that big one over there. Little baby tsunami. >> Oh, yeah.

What's scary with a place like this is that if one iceberg

starts to roll or to

it can really trigger a domino effect

and everything starts moving very

In Mikotillac is just a few miles away from one of the largest and

fastest moving glaces in the Arctic, the Dog Guardian.

It's a huge 40m

long glacia flowing from Greenland's

vast inland ice sheets down into the sea.

It's more than 3 miles across.

At this time of year,

huge chunks can break off with no warning, unleashing massive icebergs.

There's so much ice.

It's like navigating through a minefield,

like making sure you don't

trigger anything that's going to collapse on you.

I think this this is definitely the front of the glacia.

Yeah, >> think we can still keep on going a little, but yeah, it looks really dramatic, huh?

>> Past data has shown us that the dogen

glacier loses about 10 billion tons of ice per year.

This is a natural process.

But as the ocean and air temperatures

have warmed, glacias further south

and slightly further north are now losing

much more ice than they were 40 years ago.

I want to find out if the dogansen

is following the same wearing trend.

>> Do you think we can get a little bit closer or

this is the final destination?

We can't get closer to them. >> We're stopping here. Okay. Yeah. You >> Yeah. There you go.

>> look at those pictures. The colors.

I'm going to use my drone to map the fronts of the Gacia

to start the new survey line.

It is absolutely huge,

up to 300 ft high.

And it blows my mind to think there's much more of it below the

water No one has been here to study the Dogardian

for almost two decades.

So, I want to know if it is losing more ice

and making an even greater contribution

to sea level rise.

The drone footage combined

with data from an experiment I'm running back on land

will hopefully tell us what state this gigantic glacia is in.

How does it look above, Alex?

>> Yeah, it's really hard to decide where to go.

After night in base camp,

we ascended our fixed ropes and have pushed on past yesterday's high point. in classic style.

This crack is all rotten, like

all soft and >> Is it pretty trusty?

>> Yeah, it's like really sandy.

It's like the first uh

like bad rock we've experienced. Really? >> holy shizzle. That is heinous.

So, the loose rock poses a couple

The initial danger is just as the lead climber,

which has only been Alex at this point,

he could pull a block off and hurt himself.

And then as we progressed up the wall,

it's sort of just a train.

Like you can always hit the person below you

>> because like you could just knock a block off now and it could kill me. >> Yeah, totally. Totally.

>> If there are multiple members on the team, whoever's

furthest back is at the most danger of rockfall cuz there's more things bouncing

and they've been going further.

They're traveling >> Okay, I'm off.

Baldo, >> just shout if you kick anything off.

>> You know, if a mediumsized

rock hits you from 50 ft away, it just kind of hurts.

>> it hits you from 500 ft away, then you'll be dead.

I'm like standing on just teetering chaws. rock. Aldo. Super sketch.

To use climbing terminology,

it's a massive chs pile.

Chs is basically lots of rock and gravel and things.

It's just continually shedding or exfoliating

down the fall line.

>> Don't particularly want to be hanging around under you.

I'm below Mikey, so most of the rocks are coming down my way.

And that's actually what I think

is worrying Mikey and Hazel

more than than anything else is that they kick something off which comes down

and kills >> This thing is a >> Yeah. No. Yeah.

No, we're fully like this is >> we're mountaineering.

>> We're doing something, but it's not super safe, that's for sure.

>> Do you want to lead this one?

>> I don't have shoes.

>> Oh, I thought you said you had 37s.

>> There's they're who knows where.

>> Oh, they're the Constable Point ones.

>> All our gear is

held up in various places.

So that's why our whole

jumaring ascending rope setup is a little uh

improvised and improvising a fair bit right now.

I mean, we're sort of lucky that Alex even has shoes and that was

just like >> I know. Thank goodness. Huh.

>> That was just an off chance cuz you brought three pairs instead of two,

>> More than a week ago,

we had to leave a lot of our climbing gear at the top of the pool wall.

>> The weather has been so bad up there that our support team hasn't been

able to recover yet.

We don't know when or even if it'll get

Alex is the only person on the team with climbing shoes right now.

I mean, he's the strongest

member of the team, so it's lucky that it's his shoes that we have

and not anyone else's.

But at the same time,

>> it would be really good if we could

share the weight of the leading

I'm at the high point for day two.

So, this is the next pitch above me.

And then that is the top over there in the

There's hazel going down.

Another beautiful day on the wall.

>> sit well in your palace. >> Oh, yeah. So nice.

>> Where are the life jackets?

>> I think they're on the boat.

Today, we'll start hauling up everything we need to camp on the rock face.

If all goes well, we'll spend one last night in base camp

and after that we'll be committed to the wall.

>> What you thinking, Hazel?

>> Should we pack a whole bag and

start >> So, here's two people's food.

>> How much water do you reckon?

36 L is like a maximum. >> That's heavy.

One of the hardest things about climbing something like this is you don't just

have to bring your person up the wall with you.

You also have to bring all the things you need to survive with you

as We're doing this climb

without the right stuff.

We don't have a drill to back up the anchors.

>> What's that anchor like there?

>> You guys just pull the pin out.

The first pitch, one piece of our two-piece anchor blew out.

>> What point do we all just give up and >> too dangerous?

>> I just don't have the gear to be >> You know what?

I think it's just easier if we juggly

with really heavy load.

>> I'll just carry that as I go.

Oh, it's hard work at the back.

it is actually some of the better

>> Well, yeah, but like

I mean the gray rock is like

full of death blocks.

I What all we got here? Something.

Uh, I'm on this lead line.

What do you think is safer?

Let's go with the blade device for now.

>> So that you don't drop me to my death.

>> If you really think that that

has anything to do with the overall safety of what we're doing. >> Yeah, it helps.

>> You have horror risk assessment at the moment.

>> Like, is really grumpy. I'm just saying. >> No, dude.

I'm not being grumpy. I'm being real.

Like, this is definitely like

the chauiest thing I've ever

>> I mean, do you know how many rocks have just missed my head?

Ideally, when you're climbing with

people, you need them to be able to

empathize and relate with how you're >> Got it. >> Oh, rock. >> It's so sketchy.

This is terrifying, >> dude. Yeah, Alex. >> I know.

>> It's like literally getting shot at by your buddy.

>> Alex is not doing a great job

at understanding the experience

that the rest of us are having.

>> How many So many times, man, you can dodge rocks and stay psyched. >> That's fair.

I mean, everybody's bummed

because it's really hard work.

And normally you justify that level of hard work by the fact that it's

enabling you to climb this wall.

>> Oh man, it's so hard in approaches.

>> But in this case, no one else on the team is getting any of the upside.

>> I mean, in general, I felt like I was being pretty careful.

But I mean, I'm sure I knocked some rocks. >> Well, yeah.

I mean, rock routes have been coming down the whole time.

They don't have any other gear, so they're just improvising

random bits and bobs to

slide their way up the rope.

I mean, they're basically just following me like pack animals.

>> You know, I get it.

But I think that we're doing the safest and easiest thing that we can Okay, you're off.

>> We're poised to do the first scent of one of the biggest

uncime walls in the world.

It's great opportunity as a climber, but if anybody

doesn't want to do that, then I mean that's, you know, it's like we're

all here by choice.

>> You can come up on the white when you're at it. >> Yeah. One sec. >> So, yeah.

What the honest take right now of this whole thing? Oh, god.

Here, if you hand that to me, I can

>> I think I got

I mean, those last two pictures were >> ready.

I mean, there's just no way to like

I'm just struggling to figure out how to make it remotely safe.

>> Like, there's more loose stuff than there is solid stuff. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> Yeah.

I mean, >> and not having the correct gear is real kick in the teeth. >> Oh, yeah.

That this was brutal.

Not going to lie, I'm pretty borderline at this point.

>> Like it just this is not like what I signed up for, you know?

Mikey has a lot of experience under his belt.

And if he's saying that his intuition

is that he shouldn't be on the wall, then I'm like,

you know, maybe I shouldn't be on the wall either.

You know, it's making me think

that it's riskier than I thought.

>> Is anyone coming up? >> Yeah. Yeah, I'm jogging. >> Oh, wow.

Is Hazel going down?

>> I feel like morale is really low today. >> Yeah.

No, morale's tanking at the

just so you know.

It's just the danger.

>> Well, what do you think we should do to uh make it better? >> That's the problem.

Some climbs are just really dangerous.

Doesn't matter how good you are.

And over the years, I've lost

quite a few friends to climbing.

You know, more than I can count on my hands and my feet.

And at this point,

it's hard to be optimistic

that the climbing is going to improve at all.

It is more the same, if not harder up there,

cuz the head wall looks steep.

It's like I don't want to die. Oh man. Yeah.

Oh, >> you survived another day. >> I did. Yeah.

>> Anyway, should we uh go down and join our friends on the boat?

>> Um, Alex, you know, he does have the confirmation bias, right?

Like nothing's essentially bad happened to him.

>> Piece of a joke. >> Cool.

I'll see you at the bottom. >> Okay.

And it is how some things get

It's amazing to be right here.

>> So close to this giant glacia.

>> Wonder how fast it's moving.

We need to pick up time-lapse

cameras that are focused on the Dog Guardian Glacia.

And using the images that I've captured,

we'll be able to work out its current

All glaces move, but when ocean temperatures

warm, they can start to melt from below,

which makes them speed up,

have more icebergs, and contribute

more to sea level rise.

The future of New York,

London, and Shanghai is directly

linked to glacies like this one.

Oh, they look good, huh? >> Let me see.

All the data from the time-lapse

cameras on these cards.

Ah, I can't wait to see what there is on

Two time-lapse cameras have taken pictures of the glacier

every hour over the entire

duration of the experiment.

These time-lapse cameras are my eyes.

>> I'll just demount this. >> That's great.

>> By tracking features like creasses

and rocks, we can use the time-lapse

images to determine how much the glacia has moved.

And from that, we can work out if it's moving faster than when it

was last studied two decades ago.

Today is all about pressure.

There's so much to do.

We really have to maximize

the science we can do and every second matters.

Should we chat about our future?

Love chatting about our future.

>> Mikey, do you want to start and

let the team know where you're at? >> Yeah.

And Alex, obviously, like Hazel and I have like chatted

on the side a bit, you know.

>> Well, quite a lot really. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I was trying to sort it all out and I think you were fairly

aware of my uh as you said, grumpiness. >> Yeah.

you know, an overall take and and you've known me for a long time

and sort of know where I

stand as far as overall,

you know, safety habits.

>> What are you thinking?

>> There isn't enough value in it for me to like continue on.

And like I just think that to me there's like risks that are going

to be like too hard to mitigate continuing on.

>> It's like you don't want to climb a giant sea cliff.

>> No, I mean >> I mean it's pretty cool.

What What if you go first the whole way?

I had was definitely hoping that like

conditions were going to improve

and they have definitely not improved.

>> You don't think so?

I thought the rock was slowly getting a little better.

>> I mean that last pitch, you know, pitch you led you like changed course

cuz you're like, "Oh, these are like Jenga blocks."

And I'm like, "Yeah, those are proper Jangga blocks." >> Yeah.

And even fall off.

>> Yeah, but like they do fall off, you know?

Like >> it's just too bad cuz you've already taken so much risk up there.

It's a shame to not that.

>> That is always a poor reason to take

as that's >> and I would be more disappointed

in myself if something happened

while I was up there

than the disappointment I'm going to have by not going.

I think Mikey is an old friend of mine

and we've been climbing partners for a long time.

I just worry that he won't be as satisfied if he's not actually climbing the wall.

>> But like, are you sure you're happy with that? Cuz >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

you know, I I you know, and I've never been one to like

like dwell on my decisions.

>> Alex's biggest concern is that I would be

disappointed in retrospect, which that was

was very nice of him.

>> What uh what do you think,

>> I think for me is I need to know that like

you're thinking clearly about it, you know, cuz it's really cool how positive and

psyched you are, and that's one of the reasons I really like climbing with you.

But then sometimes it's like, are you being so optimistic

you're not actually seeing?

>> Do you feel like it's been been too too optimistic so far? >> Yeah. Yeah.

And like I'm definitely more riskadverse than you.

And so I think it it would just be cool to

like hear from you that you're

listening to that, you know, and that,

>> you know, I just I just want to make sure we're on the same page, basically.

>> I I hear you. I hear you.

I mean, we definitely want to be on the same same page.

I mean, I guess to me the thing is, are we all

I don't want to sound hogy, but like when we all go home, I

want to make sure we're all still friends, everyone's happy, no one's like bummed

to the decisions, nobody, you >> No, I mean, I think

we're making decisions and we've talked it through a

>> But you still need you need I think you need to tell me that

like this is going to be good up there.

You know, >> you're not the sole partner.

>> So, I would say that

now suddenly your opinion carries a lot of weight because if you don't feel

comfortable, then the party's over.

Hazel was very clear

that she wanted me to respect her opinion on anything up there

and to be understanding

about however she feels on the wall.

And honestly, if our opinions are going to be totally equal,

you know, if she wants to go down, we have to go down.

>> If you get your gear, then you can basically lead us as far as

you want to the top.

And I think you'll enjoy that.

I mean, it is pretty cool.

>> Overall, I still want to climb that

I have that pull

to have the adventure.

I want to know what that head wall's

So, it was really important to kind of sit down with Alex and be

like, "Look, I'm your only teammate now."

And so, >> I think he got it

in his own way.

>> Climbing the steep final head wall is definitely going to be a challenge,

especially if it's just the two of us.

Oh, the boat's here.

That could be our climbing gear

or some of it.

>> What do you got there, Aldo?

>> One bag of climbing kit. Finally, a break.

>> Some of the climbing gear that we left behind at the pool wall has

caught up with us.

>> We got some stuff at least. Hello shoes. >> Yes, my shoes.

>> Is this your helmet? >> Yeah, my helmet. >> Oh, sweet mercy.

>> Mikey is right that it's a dangerous

>> Oh, you found it.

>> But for me and Hazel to climb one of the biggest uncime walls in

the world, something that hasn't been done, that's big, that's meaningful, it's worth it.

The ropes are about halfway up.

A lot of food and water is already up on the wall.

Now we just have to grab our sleeping bags

and finish the route.

So, we're splitting the roll mat up there.

I'll use my backpack as the rest of my pad probably.

>> I've got um I'm going to borrow Heidi's

like lightweight blowup thing.

>> Okay, I think I'm good.

We'll see you guys in a few days then. Nice. Nice.

Up the trip, huh? >> See you soon. Okay. >> All right.

See you guys in a bit. >> All right. Good luck. >> Good luck, guys. >> Be safe. >> This is it.

It's just me and Hazel and Inga Cortac.

Our goal for today is to get as high as we can and then camp.

Then tomorrow it'll be a big push up the head wall to the summit.

>> Each piece of rock is different and each wall is different and it's been

weeks since I'd even climbed properly, you know.

Should you go first or

>> No, you you should go.

>> I just watch out for little rocks.

>> After we climbed the ropes,

we get to the first bit of unclimbed wall. So exciting.

Putting my shoes on for the first time in a really long time.

And I put my shoes on and I stepped on the rock and I'm

like, "Yes, this is why I'm here.

Oh my god, we're climbing.

We make good progress through the

getting closer and closer to the head

Hazel with a really nice view of our route down below.

The nice arcing swirl of the wall. Pretty cool.

Icebergs have gotten even prettier

and the reflections in the mountains, but it's all pretty beautiful.

But, you know, we're just cruising >> Yeah.

It's sad to not have Mikey up here, huh? >> Yeah, it's sad.

We miss you Mikey.

Oh, this actually is a great place to camp. This is amazing.

We should definitely stay right here.

>> Yeah, it's pretty flat.

>> This is Yeah, this is really flat and really beautiful.

Look at the wall.

Oh, you've got your life raft.

Is that because we're on a sea cliff?

I mean, if I fall off, I'll float down and then I'll float back to camp.

>> Oh, that'd be nice.

That looks pretty How do you feel? >> Yeah, pretty good. Yeah.

Now I just need my sleeping bags.

>> I absolutely love sleeping on walls.

It's one of my favorite things about big walling.

>> And take a picture.

>> It's this moment to actually enjoy the wall and be present and calm with

the wall without wanting to just be climbing up it. >> That looks sick.

How's your bed, Alex?

>> This is actually really comfy.

I've gotten pretty I just used the rope to prop up my head more

and it's very What a nice spot.

Oh, it's so nice to wake up with some Okay, you're ready.

Take us away, Hazel. >> All righty.

>> We've still got a good 1,400

ft between us and the summit.

We're traveling light with limited

There's no plan B.

We're going to the

Yeah, who knows what this head wall will

>> The blank face that you want to go towards is looking blanker and blanker

as we get closer to it.

>> Two pitches later and we're finally starting into the hardest part of the climb, the head wall.

It's my turn to lead.

It just looks so scary though.

>> All the features are big blocks waiting to fall off.

If you touch it with your rope, if you touch it with your foot,

it just showers loose rocks down.

The whole mountain is like a stack of

because it's just stacked blocks teetering on top of each other.

And it feels like if any one of them goes,

then they're all going to crumble.

Like normally you climb a little bit, you might be a little scared, but

then when you finish, you're safe,

but on this there just are hardly any points where you feel safe. >> Halfway, Alex. >> Okay.

We just feel kind of on edge the entire time. >> How's it look?

>> This is like Definitely stay hidden down there, though.

This is all incredibly

It's just hard to know exactly where I want to go.

>> I'm thinking about going left into that corner

and then up through some cracks and kind of like

aiming for the left side of the big roof.

>> As we get higher up the wall, we realize that the whole

summit is guarded by these big overhanging roofs.

And so the route finding starts to become a lot more important

where we have to nail the right way to navigate through this

>> There's the little tower right above us.

Like you see that little like block?

>> Basically, I think it's like not a terrible place to try to tackle this roof.

But for literally hours as we're slowly moving up towards this,

you know that it might not work.

Just not really knowing

whether or not it will dead end.

I mean, should I just go easiest possible line like as if I was soling?

>> What would that be? Left.

>> Yeah, just take the corners.

>> Do we think right is better?

>> Yeah, I think right leaves our options open for longer. >> little rocks. Rocks.

We switch and Hazel takes the lead.

>> All right, that's a really good pitch you did so far. It's halfway, Hazel.

>> You'll catch me though if I fall right.

>> Well, these ledges will probably catch

>> I think you can just go left and follow that big corner.

I was just going to place a piece, but I'll suck it off. >> It's terrifying. >> Oh, that's terrible.

I mean, I can't put any gear behind that.

Oh, I don't even want to hold that.

It's hard to describe

how hard it is to do something like this.

>> You really don't know if the next pitch is going to be possible.

>> It's like not many footooth holds that aren't going to break. >> Just tread lightly.

>> You really don't know if like your next handhole is going to break.

How does it look trending up and right?

>> It's just like pretty blank protectionless railways.

>> We only have enough food and water until the end of the day.

So, we really need to get to the top of that wall.

>> You should probably try to build an anchor in the next, you know, 20.

>> Yeah, I'll try and aim for those ledge

>> The only viable route is sideways

across a blank section.

But this wall, it's crumbling with every move we make.

It's really sketchy, but it's the only option we have.

>> Now just have a terrifying traverse.

Oh god, you're doing great.

Oh my god, it's so scary. Nice job, Hazel. >> Yay!

Finally, >> Hazel switch was awesome.

She did a great job.

It was uh it might be the crux of the route so far.

I swing back into the lead for what we hope will be the last

pitch, but it's still so choy.

>> That almost hit me.

>> A bit scared to come out with my nook.

Here you hear the rock

just came right past my head.

You can feel it now. boat.

I don't know about up there. Scary.

Hopefully this is the last pitch and it will all be over soon.

The most important part of climbing the wall for me is just staying in

the you know, focusing on each task at hand and not thinking about the

scale of the wall in front of us, not thinking about what might happen.

Really, you just have to focus on

can I do this move

and just take it one move at a time all the way to the top.

I think I'm uh I think I'm getting >> Sweet Percy.

Never been happier to get to the top of something.

We're so over it.

It's It's I'm so psyched.

>> Alex is at the top. >> Oh, so psyched.

>> Yeah, >> we made it to the summit.

>> I was like, please say yes.

We're at the >> The dominant run. High fives.

>> Yeah, this is amazing.

Alex is a bit of a difficult character

to be friends with sometimes,

but there was nothing but good vibes between us the whole climb.

>> That is so cool.

>> This is the coolest summit I've ever

>> Can we stand right on the tub?

>> It was a really nice experience for us to share and I think we're

going to be better friends

because we shared this experience.

>> Please don't break your uncle's doing this. No.

>> Climbing with Haze on the wall was a total pleasure. Summit.

>> Of all people, she was well equipped to handle the challenges of that wall.

Definitely pretty satisfying to get to the top.

>> We came up a terrifying wall.

Anyway, >> you know, for literally two days we were climbing on terrible rock.

Neither of us has ever climbed anything that's so consistently

scary, but it did feel like we sort of got away with something.

You know, it's like you can only roll the dice like that so many times.

>> It's the kind of climb that you do

only if it matters enough to you. >> Oh, wow.

And look at the Dogar Jensen.

>> Oh, that's a crazy looking Glacia.

It was pretty incredible

to get to the true summit of the peak and then suddenly see

one of the biggest and most active glaciers in Greenland

shedding these enormous icebergs

into the It's like one of those things that you kind of have to see to believe.

>> Down at camp, Heidi's got good news about the huge glacier.

I've analyzed the information from the time-lapse

cameras and to my surprise,

I've discovered that the docansen

is still quite stable,

moving at the same speed it was

10, 20 years ago,

more or less 25 to 30 ft per day.

>> I don't know exactly why,

but somehow the dogen

glacia is still quite stable

while the rest of the Arctic is collapsing around it.

And to me, this tells me that

all is not lost,

that some glaces are

trying to hold it together and trying to stay strong.

But for how much longer?

The Dogardian is the exception.

If we don't act now,

we'll lose the Arctic as we know it

and we'll be forced to live in a much more challenging >> Welcome back. >> Thank you.

Oh, >> hearing that the Duke Aar Jensen is relatively

stable so far is interesting and encouraging.

>> It's nice to know that

some glaciers haven't begun

a terminal decline >> But I think that I just have a natural sort of

an innate optimism around it.

You know, like a lot of the environmental issues that we face, if we resolve

them, it also vastly improves the human quality of life.

We have this amazing opportunity to make the world better.

We just haven't quite chosen to yet.