Exploring Ice Walls and Waterfalls

Are you?

No, this is not the wall.

Bro, that's the wall.

It's there. Look at that.

Yeah, there.

It's the wall, right?

Yeah. Woo-hoo.

That's the wall right there.

Finally, we are here.

Woo-hoo. Wow.

But it's, uh, it's quite high,

yeah?

Yeah, it's way bigger than I thought.

It's quite high.

Quite high. So, like, today we, we just look and try and find the

waterfall, then we try and find

a way to access the ice-

Yeah

... uh, safely.

Wow.

Imagine this happens when we there.

We just saw a big piece of ice fall down, and it created

this huge wave,

and you start thinking, "What if it's us down there?" When we go

up, we'll be sometime down there, so, oh,

scary.

That was a big piece.

Crazy.

We really need to take a look from close with the small boats.

I'm sure we'll find nice waterfalls.

Wow.

Ay, ay, ay. Man, see how the water has made a,

made its way.

It is not gonna fall any time, huh?

I, uh-

Yeah, I hope ... It will come down eventually.

It's pretty, but-

It's scary, yeah

... yeah, that's good.

We are looking for lots of water, high rated at the bottom, and

that provides us

soft landings. There's lots of waterfalls, it's just hard to find them

with enough water.

Ah.

No.

Yeah. Small and sketchy.

There's about 160Ks of cliffs, so we'll keep

looking. I'm sure we'll find something good.

Oh my God.

Woo-hoo-hoo.

This is so epic.

Wow, that is amazing.

So I really think we might just have found the most beautiful

waterfall I've ever seen, and now the main thing is just getting up

there.

Uh, we found this other place where the ice

wall is

way lower. It's a good access point, and way easier than up there where the

waterfalls are. The ice wall is much larger here,

probably about 20 meters, so we can't get any

closer, and we are going to have to walk almost 10

Ks across

the ice.

Our guides have come up with a pretty smart plan to get up to the ice, but

now we need to check with our Captain Benni, and see if he's okay with that.

Fingers crossed.

Is it this wall that you were thinking about?

No, it, the one on the back. It was ...

Yeah, we will make it somehow.

Yeah.

Okay.

You happy to go, Benni?

Yeah, yeah.

Okay, good.

No Rockies without sticks.

All right, so now the plan is to get a ladder up to

the ice. Filip will get up the ladder, set up a

rope. From there he'll be able to pull us up.

So it's dangerous to be under the ice, so we gotta do it quick

and get out of there as fast as possible.

From what we have scouted on the drones, it doesn't look like it will be

easy.

So we will need to be prepared for river crossings, crevasses,

and much more.

On top of our usual kayaking gear, we have a lot of specialist

equipment for this task:

ice climbing equipment, supplies, GPS radios, polar

bear protection, and a ladder.

"Go light," they said. It happened.

What is the distance now over to the ice?

Model, uh, 10 meters closing.

No distance, uh, five meters closing.

Distance three meters closing.

Captain, hit the rubber and then check it more water.

Benni, you happy if we go now?

Yeah, may- if, if, if you are happy with that, we can try.

Yeah, looks good, Benni.

Yeah, uh, now it's good now. They will try now.

And then when it's up, we take the ladder away-

Okay

... we back out.