ICE PICK CLIMBING A GLACIER

Good morning, everyone. We just woken up on day two of our Alaska trip, and it's a bit Misty it's pretty much raining all night. I slept like all night the sleeping bags We have are amazing mm-hmm like for a first campy night's sleep. I was happy yeah It's so misty and foggy this today. You can't even see the glacier. We're gonna be on soon like that's the glacier I know that looks like clouds, but there is a glacier there, and then that's all the mist. There's Jess See now we're just gonna go get some breakfast and then in about 45 minutes to an hour We are gonna be picked up by bus and taken up to the glacier All right, so we are now heading over across the bridge because apparently this is a parking lot for the town It's not just campers that are here, and they park here and then walk across to what they call a town I think it's literally population 70 people, and there's a pub and maybe a little marketplace But yeah, then we're gonna jump into another bus, and they are gonna take us up to the glacier Well, they're gonna take us to the base. I think we have to hike up It's a two-mile hike once we're on the glacier you're going ice climbing And I'm gonna go and actually hike the glacier just so we can check out things yeah And then I think you're not coming back to like 530 a long day for you, and it's 830 right now Mmm, and that's the base camp we are at it's raining at the moment And I assume as soon as we get up the mountains gonna start turning into snow Which is always fun to to watch snow falling? So I'm guessing this is the ice picks that we have to use Dig into the ice Are you nervous? You are? I'm not strong, and that's what I'm nervous about because I have no upper body strength Yeah Show us your Bradley Copper that's been left About a 40 minute to an hour hike up the glacier before we start Start ice climbing so this town If you remember yesterday, we showed you the train this town was founded on like a copper mill copper mine, and that's Pretty much the mine that's now shut down, and that's where they loaded up the trains Goodbye Jess This might be the last time we see each other Are you nervous? No, I'm excited now. Yeah, yeah, have fun. I'll see you in a while The bears don't really digest that and they eat thousands and thousands of these berries in a single day This is what eating too much food in Utah does to you so on it the views are very Very beautiful day Wow, that was just incredible walking past that waterfall hard to see if it's cold yet Even though the glacier is right there because we are walking and sweating so we're heating up a lot But I assume the minute that we stop and we have to change our normal shoes into our hiking boots and when we're not moving It's gonna start getting cold All right, and there's the glacier and all that is glacier as well It's just rock above it at the moment, that's pretty much what we're gonna be hiking on We now have our crampons on we're walking on the glacier so you can see we got these spikes So we can dig into the into the ice We've climbed to the top of the glacier It's getting a little bit chilly, yeah, but not too chilly, but now we've found our practice wall That we are gonna practice before we go into a cavern and climb out This is a waterfall just here with some fresh mountain fresh glacier water and apparently is fresh and delicious What's it like? Okay, let's give some a try. Oh that is good. It's freezing cold as well. The ice looks so beautiful Nothing's better than hot chocolate on an ice cold glacier Oh Yes, I just finished my climb such an incredible experience, I'm so happy I did that it was tough though I will say that but I Never thought I'd do that and never thought I'd ice climb here in Alaska, and I'm so glad I did attitude on the list It's incredible I Look up here harder than a look but incredible Did you do it? What was it hard so hard? How are your arms? No, they're fine Yeah It's good though, how's it good it's like when I was up there all the water ice falls in your hands Yeah I Okay, guys I couldn't talk to you much today because I had the big DSLR camera that Stephen's filming on right now Stephen's back by the way I filmed a lot that I couldn't talk much because it was very hard on top of a glacier to hold the camera in front of Me and make sure it's focused and try and talk so I couldn't really talk But I try to show you as much as we could it was incredible walking on the glacier I'm walking looking down the big holes. I don't even know what they're called Milan's Milan's Milan's. Yeah, that's when all the water comes in and then Hey guys, so just got back from the ice climb just take took all my clothes off because everything was drenched So yeah, we got to ice climb as you saw. I hope I got some good footage But when we went down the Milan, it was one of the most incredible experiences I've ever done like I think that tops skydiving is number one, but this easily comes in at number two. Was it scary it Was scary I don't think you could have done it Jess because you literally you just do it and you just back up and then he lets You down like 20 30. Oh my goodness And then you just stop and he's like look around and I looked around and you just see water coming in You can't even see the bottom of the chasm. Oh my gosh. My heart was pumping I had so much adrenaline inside of me It was insane like and then when I got to the top I had to sit down Because I was just too much adrenaline because it was so amazing. I'm so glad I did that but but our camera is Officially dead day two in the wilderness and we're not gonna see a Best Buy for 13 days So, yeah, unfortunately it It got smacked on the side of the Milan show them I mean you can't really tell but it's been smacked and then I guess you can turn the camera on and show you them They're quality So it's been smacked and then because it was drenched because it just it turned so bad like it was so wet down there It just like water leaked in it. Can you see that's so blurry like you can't I can't even see you It's so blurry through there. So it's just officially dead. So it means that for the rest of this trip We're gonna have to film on this big DSLR And then when we get back, we're just gonna have to buy a camera again. Yeah, we're just gonna buy a camera So officially Mr. Squiggle is dead Yeah, Mr. Squiggle is gone. No longer we have to buy a new camera and hopefully the audio That's the only thing I'm worried about with this camera. Like I love the quality but the audio Yeah, I think we've done it before and the audio was okay But I guess now it's time for dinner because you are starving I haven't eaten since breakfast because we made sandwiches and left them off the glacier Yeah, we got to the glacier at 9 a.m. And it is currently like 6 6 45 Wow And I haven't eaten since 8 because that's but you would recommend people to go ice climbing again. Oh my good Incredible. Yeah Amazing ready for dinner Warm and back up. I'm trying to get all the water off Stephen's shoes They're steaming. There's fog all out there and Finally, it stopped raining. It's been raining all day It's so spooky it's so steamy. Well not steamy foggy. Oh, yeah, we just had some dinner We had like a really nice pasta ravioli. Yeah tomato base was delish I'm so much better now. Yeah And now we are just going to go brush our teeth and then head to bed Yeah, everyone's like two days of wet and then in the wet for nine hours. Uh-huh. Everyone's dead. All right guys Good night. We start 830 tomorrow and we are heading to another like wilderness kind of camp