Beneath The Polar Sun Documentary Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: An Arctic expedition is caught in the grip of the ice it has come to study. In the Arctic’s Last Ice Area, 500 nautical miles from the North Pole, a scientific team is on a rare mission to measure the world’s oldest ice floes. Tiny specks in a vast ocean wilderness, they are alone. And they’re in trouble. Jumbled slabs of sea ice are closing in from every corner. Hauling loaded kayaks, the team struggles to follow a route that had been navigable only years earlier. Trapped in a frozen maelstrom – caught in the grip of the floes they came to study – something has to give. The science is scuttled: bearing witness to Earth’s most pressing existential threat, what matters now is survival. They must escape the chaos by traversing a narrow channel between Canada and Greenland – the most formidable passage of the polar North. Credits Co-directed by Stephen Smith and Diana Kushner Production company: Enduring Ice LLC
00:30The Arctic Ocean is warming incredibly rapidly, and as the Arctic warms up, this warms the rest of the world.
00:53Sea ice reflects the sun, and it's important because of that.
00:56And it's so simple, it's just the sea ice is white. I mean, that's really all it is.
01:01A lot of my preconceptions about this particular environment were based on earlier journeys to this area.
01:17In the early 2000s, you would see flows that were 20, 30, 40, 50 square kilometer flows.
01:23There are no large flows in this rate anymore.
01:28Are you stressed out at all?
01:45Well, there are only hurricane force winds. Nothing serious.
01:50We thought this was going to be, you know, kayaking every day type of trip, but it's turned into a, you know, pretty much sledging, pulling the kayaks every day.
02:07I think we should get Mike up here, guys.
02:10Don't pull. Don't pull.
02:12I did not expect the jumble and chaotic flows that we're seeing here. It's crazy.
02:19How are we going to get out of here?
02:25It's unclear.
02:28We've got immobile, messed up, ridged, and screwed up ice.
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