00:01Late April 1975, and young Prince Charles embarks on a royal tour like no other.
00:09You can't be formal here. Look at this.
00:13Ten days in the frozen Arctic, taking part in extreme adventure,
00:20and learning about the way of life of local Inuit people.
00:26It's a trip that will shape the future king's lifelong passion for the environment,
00:31and his belief in the importance of living in harmony with nature.
00:39Your Majesty, how are you, sir?
00:41Thank God I was younger. I could never survive.
00:45Now, half a century on, we're back in the Arctic, following in the 26-year-old Prince's footsteps.
01:00The Arctic is an extraordinary place. It's incredibly beautiful. It can be brutal.
01:10It's somewhere where you as a human being feel very, very small, but it's changing faster than anywhere else on Earth.
01:16Fifty years to the day since Prince Charles was here, I want to find out how it's changed,
01:21and also see what the future is for this fragile frozen frontier.
01:31Yes, we have one!
01:34Oh my gosh, that's amazing. Did you see that?
01:38We've kind of got to ask ourselves whether pushing on is a good idea?
01:50Because I blew the thing up, see how far it would go.
01:53Yes, there is a slight air of the Teletubby about that, if you don't mind me saying.
01:57There was more than a metre of ice above my head right now.
02:06This is a really dangerous place to be.
02:13Well, that's a surreal sight. Giant blue obelisk.
02:18Gainweed have always depended on our dogs. They're not our pets, they're part of us.
02:23Very few people have seen this so far, and we just retrieved this footage.
02:28Are these their first steps?
02:30Yeah, absolutely.
02:35If it carries on like this, all of this will be gone within a matter of decades.
02:40That's the tragedy now, is that it's all going so fast.
02:45I'm very glad I was able to see it, and I just want others to be able to witness the same things.
02:54Bye.
02:59Bye.
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