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outside. [ wind buffeting tents ] then all of a sudden, the storm stops. but it's not that it stopped, it's that you're buried. >> 200 centimeters of new snow and counting rapidly. i would assume it'll be more of the same when we wake up tomorrow. >> at this point, almost two weeks in on the trip, with the boat ride and being in juneau. and it's been a constant beat-down. [ tent flap rustling ] whoa.
>> [ sobbing ] >> one mistake, and you're dead. >> come on, now. >> if you harness that fear, you can do something that you never thought possible. >> whoo! [ water rushing ] >> is the pursuit worth the risk? [ wind whistling ] [ soft, dramatic music plays ] >> the trip started in juneau, alaska, which is -- there's roads here, but it's not connected to anywhere. the mountains are so radical that the only way to get here is on boat or plane. so we're going to get on a boat from here, take that boat about 25 hours up into glacier bay national park. we're going to get dropped off at the edge of a glacier, and then we're going to walk 15 miles to a base camp and, ideally, go and ride one of the most beautiful mountains in the world -- mount bertha. i mean, this is certainly one of
it's just more heartbreaking, thinking you've come all this way and might go home with nothing. high record temperature for juneau got smashed yesterday. >> wow. >> yeah, it was 70 degrees in juneau yesterday. >> holy -- >> whoa. >> we might hit 80, like, once or twice a year, you know? so to have 70 in april is smashed. >> at this point, there's a lot of concern with what we were going to do and how we were going to adjust our plan to be able to still have a successful mission. >> we did a recon skin up-valley, and walking around,
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