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0:02Antarctica it is like that,
0:04from one moment to the next the weather changes
0:05and you have to adjust to what happens.
0:08Any change in temperature,
0:09in the rest of the world, a degree more or a degree less
0:11means putting on a sweatshirt
0:13or going out in a t-shirt.
0:14In Antarctica, a degree more or a degree less
0:17indicates that there is ice or that there is no ice.
0:23Today we are going to embark on an adventure to Antarctica
0:26to discover this uninhabitable territory
0:28and understand why we could not live without it.
0:32The trip begins in Argentina,
0:34but much further south.
0:35Cataloged as the city at the end of the world,
0:37Ushuaia is the last bit of land
0:40that we are going to set foot on before embarking
0:42on this adventure to the ends of the earth.
0:45- I don't know, I'm excited, I'm nervous.
0:48But things are just beginning.
0:50The trip consists of two days of navigation,
0:52passing through one of the seas considered the most dangerous in the world,
0:56the Drake Passage.
1:02The boat goes up and down, up and down
1:03and you want it to stop, but it won't stop.
1:06Our companion on this expedition
1:07will be the Ocean Victory,
1:09it is a pioneering ecology ship
1:11specially prepared for trips to the poles.
1:15And when we least wanted to agree,
1:17we are already on the boat.
1:18-Well,
1:19we are already reaching the rooms here.
1:20The suitcase, they already brought us everything.
1:22- My suitcase, Gastón's.
1:28Wow! Look, on top of that we have the balcony here next door.
1:30And the funny thing is, look,
1:31here there is a kind of dryer,
1:33because it seems that the last trip they took
1:35was quite hectic in the Drake passage.
1:37So from the start it seems to me that it's scaring us.
1:40Well, this is our next home
1:42for the next 10 days,
1:43so we couldn't be happier.
1:46Let's see what's going on around this boat that seems small,
1:48but is quite big
1:49and try the bed obviously. Ira,
1:53a Spanish filmmaker who will be accompanying us,
1:55also joined this trip .
1:58- Ready, for the adventure!
1:59I love it, I love these trips
2:00where there are photographers, there are creators
2:02and we are going to do epic things,
2:03that's the best.
2:05Wah, we're not going anymore!
2:07We are about to say goodbye
2:08The last goodbye to the city to civilization
2:10In 10 days we are going to see each other again
2:12Bye, bye, Ushuaia
2:13Now we are going to Antarctica
2:15Now, we already left, goodbye
2:19We are leaving now
2:19look, yesterday I couldn't sleep good because I was very excited
2:22about what was going to happen today.
2:23But hey, let's make a dream come true.
2:25I can't believe we're doing this.
2:28How crazy!
2:29The day has arrived,
2:30I have faith that it will be excellent.
2:34And it's crazy because people who are already used
2:36to watching travel videos on this channel
2:38and have seen me traveling for a long time, really people who know me
2:41know that one of my biggest dreams
2:43has always been to come to Antarctica.
2:45What's more, I have a paper here where it says one of my short-term dreams
2:49in the next 5 years and it was to come here.
2:52So it really is a dream that I am fulfilling personally.
2:58Come on, seriously, look at our passage through the Beagle Channel.
3:00The sunset is beautiful,
3:01both Argentina and Chile views.
3:03How beautiful, how incredible.
3:08It doesn't feel so good to me
3:10when I see that everything is attached with a strap.
3:14Well, we just took the pill
3:15because in a few hours we entered Drake Passage
3:18and the truth is that I'm starting to feel a little dizzy,
3:22a little with a strange sensation,
3:24my body can already tell that it's going through something.
3:26Anyway, everything is super calm, but I feel strange.
3:29If the body already knows,
3:31like you do move very fast,
3:33then something is already noticeable, something strange that I can't explain.
3:36Drake Passage
3:44Well, good morning.
3:46We have just woken up on our first day through Drake Passage,
3:49which although it may not seem to you to be moving,
3:51I feel it quite a bit. You
3:53can't see it around me, but I feel it.
3:55I think the closest sensation that I can explain
3:58this feeling is as if it were a roller coaster,
4:00like it goes up and down and the body feels that.
4:03We've already taken the pill,
4:04we're already kind of tired,
4:06I think it would be like the side effect.
4:09Today is going to be a whole day of navigation, you're going to see different types of talks,
4:13instructions, because we're going to Antarctica
4:16, I mean, it's not We are going anywhere,
4:17we are going to Antarctica and it is a very sensitive ecosystem.
4:21They don't know how complicated it is to walk here sometimes.
4:25You have to be careful.
4:26- How are you walking?
4:28- A little difficult and even more so with this dream.
4:31What you are going to realize is that
4:32on every corner there are like cardboard bags
4:35for people who vomit,
4:36I already saw several fall,
4:38and they said that it is quite calm now,
4:41I can't imagine if it is calm now,
4:43what it would be like when it is strong.
4:48Well, now what we have to do
4:49is how to clean all the little things
4:51that we are going to take out, because it is a very delicate ecosystem,
4:55so we cannot bring in bacteria, viruses,
4:58little things that we obviously bring,
5:00all of this has to be super clean
5:02hats, cameras, everything, everything that we are going to take outside.
5:07But before arriving you have to know some very interesting information.
5:10Antarctica is the fourth
5:11largest continent in the world,
5:12surpassing Oceania and Europe.
5:14Being so low,
5:15Antarctica can be in complete darkness for a month
5:18or complete light as it is now in summer.
5:20And for that reason you need a little help to sleep.
5:23The truth is that I feel terrible and I need to get there, see you tomorrow.
5:27Land in sight
5:29Good morning.
5:31Well, today's weather dawned exactly the same as yesterday,
5:34that is, the boat moves quite a bit,
5:36but it's not a tragedy either
5:37, it can be resisted, it can be endured.
5:42The boat goes up and down, up and down
5:43and you want it to stop, but it won't stop.
5:45The interesting thing is that they told us that today starting at three in the afternoon
5:47we are already entering Antarctica,
5:50at least we are going to be able to see
5:52the first glaciers, so that excites me a lot
5:55and already makes me really want to start the day full.
5:58We are arriving, we are arriving.
6:01- The life of what?
6:01- It is very difficult for the filmmaker, because they have to have energy
6:04when no one has energy.
6:06And I just want to sleep
6:08and I can't because I'm the filmmaker.
6:11I don't know if it was impatience or nervousness that we are about to arrive,
6:14but I couldn't stop looking at the sea.
6:18We took advantage of this sailing time
6:20to share with the experts on board
6:22and have them tell us what could await us on this expedition.
6:55I think we have land in sight.
7:09When out of nowhere the cloudy sky
7:10cleared in the early morning,
7:12I knew that this was our welcome to Antarctica.
7:45We are already in Antarctica,
7:46I can't believe it.
7:47Four in the morning I got up,
7:48and we looked outside, everything was absolutely white,
7:51you could see the white mountains,
7:53the icebergs passing by the sides.
7:56This is crazy, it's like you wake up in another world.
7:58And the temperature is also noticeable
7:59because they have already dropped a few degrees compared to yesterday.
8:02I am not cold, I am a girl of ice,
8:05of darkness.
8:06The truth is that wherever you look, it is spectacular.
8:10There is no view that disappoints.
8:12Quite a blast, really.
8:15Look at that, look at that.
8:16Wow!
8:18What's there?
8:20It is so beautiful!
8:22- Literally out here.
8:23- From the room we have it here.
8:25Wow, the best view.
8:29We're going to the Mudroom
8:30to change because we already went outside.
8:33So it will be our first contact with Antarctica.
8:41We are ready!
8:43We already put on our boots, the grim reaper.
8:46We're ready to go.
8:55Antarctica is the coldest and driest continent on planet Earth.
9:00which is also covered by 95% ice.
9:43Well, we just set foot on
9:45Antarctica.
9:47There are a lot of penguins,
9:48there is a lot of life.
9:49You have to be very careful, be quite respectful of nature
9:53and simply admire it.
9:54The penguins here are quite curious,
9:56they want to see who we are, what we do.
9:59That's why they get quite close,
10:00but a distance of 5 meters must be respected.
10:02I'm going to cry.
10:04It was nothing to live there, to walk beautifully.
10:07It's crazy.
10:08Look, look over there.
10:14Those stones they have there are basically to build their nests.
10:17In other words, they carry pebbles in their mouths, which will lead to their members.
10:22We are watching a live
10:23penguin fight .
10:25What regret!
10:26He ran away!
10:27They are fighting because basically
10:29if one of them steals one of the stones,
10:31the other will go look for it and take it quite personally.
10:34If you can see, there are some small paths
10:36that are not created by humans,
10:37but by penguins.
10:39Those are the rows, the corridors where they pass,
10:41all the penguin colonies when they pass from one to another
10:44and you can see how they go down and so on.
10:47There we continue climbing. We are climbing a small mountain.
10:49We have a view
10:50Wow! incredible.
11:00- Come on?
11:00- Come on!
11:07While we were dodging giant icebergs on our second day.
11:10We were able to come across fauna and some cabins with the Argentine flag.
11:15Right there I asked myself,
11:16Who owns Antarctica?
11:18Antarctica is the only continent that does not have a native population
11:21and is also the only continent
11:23that does not belong directly to any country,
11:26but is regulated by an international treaty.
11:28Where 12 countries agreed,
11:32they somehow left
11:34their own and national interests in the background to associate in this international framework
11:39that prioritizes peace and international scientific cooperation
11:43regarding Antarctica.
11:45Well, we arrived at Cuverville Island.
11:47This has one of the largest
11:49penguin colonies in all of Antarctica.
11:51And now what we are going to do is go up this hill
11:53so we can see all the colonies above.
11:55Hit it with a few more meters
11:57and we're already at the top.
11:58From here
11:59you can see a spectacular view.
12:03What you see is all red there,
12:05it's not dirt, it's penguin manure
12:08and it smells just like it looks.
12:12Antarctica works as the great regulator of the climate of planet Earth
12:16that you and I can go out in the street in short sleeve t-shirts,
12:19we can thank Antarctica for this,
12:21since it is covered in ice,
12:22it works as a great reflector of the light of the sun and returns it to the atmosphere.
12:27This is called the Albedo effect,
12:29through which we can cool the Earth's temperature a little more
12:33and inhabit it at these 25 or 30 degrees that we have today
12:36in the tropical areas.
12:38In addition, Antarctica is very interesting
12:40because of what happens below what we see.
12:42Antarctica is surrounded by the circumpolar current,
12:45which functions as a conveyor belt for nutrients
12:49along the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans.
12:52So basically
12:53Antarctica fulfills the function of being the heart of the ocean.
12:57It pumps nutrients
12:58and we could say that its veins and arteries
13:01are the oceans and currents.
13:03White paradise
13:14We woke up to the sound of ice breaking with our ship.
13:17Waking up looking out the window in this place is difficult to assimilate.
13:22But the calm and splendor of the moment
13:25inspires us to enjoy it in silence.
13:30Look, is it true that we have to go through there?
13:33The reason is that I don't know how you are going to get through that small gap there,
13:36I don't know how many meters it will be,
13:37but it assumes that we are going in that direction.
13:40They said it was going to be complicated
13:41but that they were going to try anyway,
13:42so...
13:43Nothing, I'm a spectator.
13:45Just a spectator.
13:54Something I hadn't told you about is that I'm trying a new camera
13:57that just came out from Sony, it's the A7C2.
14:00Which is basically like a body similar to the A7 IV,
14:03which takes very good photos and very good video.
14:05And on this trip I brought it to test it
14:07because it is very compact, it is very small,
14:09it is perfect to take it anywhere.
14:10It has a new feature, for example
14:12that it recognizes the eyes of birds, of animals.
14:16then I can have much better focus control.
14:18At this moment you can see some icebergs in the background, already quite far away,
14:22so I'm going to arrive with the 70-200
14:23and I'm going to leave you some photos of what I could have been taking here.
14:42Well, I was here, normally,
14:43I'm observing here in front that there is like a colony of penguins
14:46and there is a bird that seems to want to steal the eggs.
14:51He stayed there waiting for the perfect moment
14:53to attack.
14:55I grab it there.
14:57Although the skua was able to steal the egg,
14:59this is not the biggest threat to the penguins,
15:01as is global warming.
15:05This past season,
15:06we have seen how out of 5 monitored emperor penguin colonies,
15:104 lost 100% of their chicks
15:13because the ice melted before they could generate
15:16their waterproof feathers.
15:17By leaps and bounds we can see
15:20the changes that the climate in Antarctica is having.
15:50And also, as it is covered with ice,
15:52but not with a thin layer of ice like an uncleaned freezer,
15:56but with glaciers that are 4 kilometers thick.
16:00All this contribution of water to our oceans
16:03would increase sea level
16:04and therefore endanger all coastal communities,
16:08which in the world in which we live
16:09are the vast majority,
16:10since we depend on water sources.
16:13Life in Antarctica
16:16Good morning people, now we are in the zodiac
16:18to see whales and behind us are the whales, you have to see this.
16:22There is a humpback whale, but very close to us.
16:25Usually there is always a mother and daughter
16:27and now we saw only one.
16:28- Or were there two?
16:30- Two
16:31There are two, there are two, there are two.
16:42A few meters from our sighting,
16:44there was a temporary Argentine base that we did not hesitate to go down.
16:49This Brown base is one of the Argentine bases
16:51that were established before the signing of the Antarctic treaty
16:54and was occupied permanently,
16:57in 1984 the base's crew was ordered to stay for another year.
17:01Because they couldn't come look for them.
17:03And that winter, the base doctor went crazy
17:05and set it on fire.
17:06The doctor ended up in prison spending his years, instead of on the base.
17:10And they never rebuilt the base again.
17:12Currently, the Argentine navy is not located in this place,
17:15it is used more for scientific purposes.
17:16Apparently they arrive in January and stay for a short time.
17:20As you can see, the bases are separated from each other.
17:22There is the main base and then there are some secondary ones.
17:25Why do they do this?
17:26Because in the event of fires, something catches fire, something happens,
17:29it has a second basis.
17:30I mean, I'm still amazed by the scenario that people have.
17:33Imagine waking up here and seeing this.
17:35And what will it be like in winter?
17:37Wow!
17:37I'm also fascinated to see how the penguins
17:40took over the whole place. They literally made it their home.
17:43What are you saying? Will that be the bathroom?
17:50Well, people, the time has come, the time has come, so we came to Antarctica.
17:54We are going to do what is known as the Polar Plunge.
17:57What's that?
17:58We are going to get into minus zero degree water.
18:01- 0.5ºC
18:02- In other words, that is freezing.
18:04- Yes
18:05- It's just not frozen because it's salt water.
18:10- Are you going to jump?
18:11- I don't know.
18:12Guys, I'm from Colombia.
18:14I mean, I don't have snow, I don't have...
18:16That's so cold! I don't know!
18:18Look how I am!
18:19- Let everything be taken out...
18:21Before we jump into the water, let's warm up a little
18:25- That's it.
18:26-We're.
18:28The soul of the cold!
18:34Oh my God! No!
18:40Let's go! Go Go!
18:421, 2, 3!
18:56- I can not speak!
18:59Let's go!
19:01I think he was waiting for this moment.
19:02So, here we go.
19:07Let's go!
19:17Cold water is needed to raise the adrenaline.
19:24Saying Antarctica sounds so far away for us
19:28that it is difficult to take into account that the impact of our actions
19:31can worsen or reverse
19:33the transformation that such a virgin place is undergoing today.
19:37But coming here and seeing how fragile the ecosystem is
19:40that practically makes life on Earth possible
19:43generates more awareness of the situation that exists today
19:47and that is clearly a reality.
19:51But on this trip I also learned
19:53that if you want you can help reverse it,
19:55speaking and raising awareness in our community
19:58so that what we do above
20:00does not affect what is below.
20:02I thought the most complicated thing
20:04was going to be getting to Antarctica.
20:06When the hardest thing is actually to leave her.
20:10I will be eternally grateful
20:12for the experience I had in this place.
20:14Until next time.

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