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- I thought I knew who got to the North Pole first. It turns out that it's a lot more complicated than you might think. [Pull down the description!] Frederick Cook; Robert Peary; Roald Amundsen. They all have claims, and they can all be disputed for one reason or another...
Over at Matt and Tom's Park Bench, I'm talking about my behind-the-scenes stories and showing photos from the trip: • Tales From The Arctic ...
I'm here because of Chris Hadfield's Generator Arctic - go check out everyone else who was on the trip, and have a look at tickets for their show at Massey Hall, Toronto, on November 12th! generatorevent.com
Thanks to all the team at Quark Expeditions - www.quarkexpedi... - who made it possible for us to get there, and whose crew and staff on board were just amazing! In particular, thanks to Robert Headland, world-leading polar expert, who fact-checked my script.
The fellow traveller at the end is Ben Brown - / benbrown100 - who's been putting out daily vlogs of his experiences!
Also on the voyage:
Norm and Joey from Tested are putting together videos from inside the ship, and Joey was camera op for today's video: / testedcom
Elmo Keep is writing about the people we met:
/ elmo_keep
TimToTheWild is putting together beautiful footage: / timtothewild
PLUS: These folks took incredible photos:
Vivienne Gucwa: / travelinglens
Paul Colangelo: / paulcolangelo
Simone Bramante: / brahmino
AND: writing an album on board, singer-songwriter Danny Michel: / dannymichel
I'm at www.tomscott.com/
on Twitter at / tomscott
on Facebook at / tomscott
and on Snapchat and Instagram as @tomscottgo
I believe it was the Clarkson and May expedition.
RIP hammond
Clarkson and May went to the magnetic north pole, not the geographic north pole
It was UGG, the caveman.
Agreed
Clarkson I know it's you! I'm on the bloody throne!
“Alright that’s 3 minutes thanks lads, take me back now”
The fun thing about the top of the Noth Pole is that everywhere you look, you're looking to the south.!
unless you look up.
You guys got me!!
up
That's the name of a movie...
Tobias TvdE
"where would someone be looking if they look up?"
not south.
Highly disappointed at the lack of a red shirt...
How do you know? I'm pretty sure he has one on underneath his jacket
Yeah, if it was too cold you could wear a larger one over the top of the coat.
Tofu burger
At least he is wearing the grey hoodie!
Look like he has a gray sweater underneath.
You can tell how damn cold it is because he's not wearing the red t-shirt.
daverapp it’s probably beneath the hoodie
The only place where your phone won't overheat with pokemon go
The Osmo was still making a whirring-fan noise, even in that temperature...
+Tom Scott do the South Pole next please!
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Ah.. back when Pokémon go was a thing lmao
ah yes , but what about a Macbook??
Props to Joey who apparently managed to keep you perfectly in frame even though you seemed to stumble around a bit (presumably from hitting a few ice sheets here and there)!
So this video is "you might not know that no one knows that..."
known unknowns are something nice to know about
You might not have known that a sextant was even a thing...
Djorgal kinda trhe but most people have seen treasure planet or at least pocahontas.
"Things humanity might not know"
That's odd, I typed Icebreaker into google and got an advert for a red t-shirt...
I got a sniper
*’murica*
Tom, how do you end up doing all these incredible things? Where do you get the opportunity to host robot battle shows and travel to the arctic and visit Bielefeld and so on?
Money
Fame, money and relationships I would say. Oh and of course his incredible sense for adventure and his search for new ones.
@@seancpp Money doesnt get you into Bielefeld.
@@slyseal2091 getting into bielefeld needs a lot of imagination.
He's been making quality content for years and gradually became known for that. This makes the owners/organisers of interesting places/events aware of his existence and gives him a sort of credibility that makes them more willing to invite him to film.
Will Steger actually lives in Minnesota, my homestate, where he has an ongoing wilderness center project including a five-story 100% sustainable "house" that is still being volunteer-built after decades. It's absolutely amazing, and I actually got to meet him and do some work on the site back in high school. Highly recommend checking it out if you ever find yourself in the vicinity of Ely MN.
I could watch that Icebreaker move for hours... its an amazing piece of machinery. beautiful to watch. great video
I'm honestly amazed at how you manage to go to so many different places around the world, and manage to make so much great content to put up here on youtube. And within such a short timespan! You're great.
Very interesting stuff! By the way, why did you keep losing your balance? Was it the wind, was the deck slippery?
I would assume he was on a moving boat going through ice which naturally should shake the boat around a little bit. If you're not focussed on the horizon and instead looking around and at a camera it is really easy to lose your balance.
If you look closely you can see the deck is wet. Which means it could even be icy. But it's definitely wet.
We kept hitting, and breaking, ice -- and even though the boat wins, that's still a lot of mass colliding. The boat kept shaking!
+Tom Scott will you go to the South Pole next?
But there are in the south pole which is what he was likely referring to..
I liked before I watched, i like to live on the edge, Ladies
ok?
Sure but have you ever been to the north pole?
My dislike negates your like. :)
+M3NO451 Peasant.
Tom, you have an unique way of talking to the camera, only few people have. It's amazing how you can do that, congrats! And also thanks for another amazing video. Cheers
Amazing sound quality and camera tracking given that wind
Or you can get there by Hilux
Top gear!
with toy jesus giving inspirational speeches
Or toilet strap on the rear bumper of your hilux pickup truck 😂
Except Hammond, Clarkson and May only drove and sledded to the magnetic pole, which is vastly easier to get to than the proper geographic pole.
With a considerable amount of alcohol. Remember, because they're in international waters there's no drink driving laws...
Thor Heyerdahl just arrived in his fantastic little boat.
Kon Tiki!
Matt's getting pretty good at using the camera gimbal thing, it used to be horrible a while back but now it's pretty good
Give this man a TV show already!!! wait, no, I hate TV. Tom, please keep on giving us these great pieces we can watch anytime we want.
I've never seen a building on a boat before. I find that combination very intriguing.
"On this episode of 'Things No One Knows...'"
I want to see how Horlicks is made, because its something I don't know.
The fact they they were able to comfortably drive to the North Pole in top gear amazes me.
This is so incredibly cool! Your arctic adventure is amazing! Thanks for the video!! :D
How to reach the north pole:
1- wake at sunrise
2- put the sun to your right
3- start walking
Must be at the equator
Sadly, that stops working after a while. If I had done that when I was in Greenland during the summer, I'd have just walked around in big circles without any chance to sleep.
Who knows how long on an ship for a 3 minute video on the North Pole! Now that's dedication!
Great video. I was wondering who was the camera person while you were catching yourself from falling as the ship heaved up and down over the ice. Good to know it was in good hands, and of course, the drone photography Ben Brown let you use from his shots with his drone made this video just fantastic. I've been watching you and Ben Brown for years and following you both on Twitter, now on Instagram, too. Thanks for the info about early explorers to the North Pole. I'm still not sure how far magnetic North Pole is from geographic North Pole, perhaps you have explained it somewhere, or will do so soon.
Great vidoes ! Thanks
Santa Obviously!!
Lapland is quite a bit further south.....
In Lapland that would be Father Christmas of which Santa is just a pretender.
i seen randomly one of his videos and now i'm addicted :(
I love your videos. Easily my favourite youtuber.
Your ability to go everywhere is impressive.
HOLD ON. how does a sextant help during a polar day?
The star tables record the positions of a number of stars and celestial objects including the Sun. So if you know the time of day and day and you know the position of the sun (the elevation basically) you should still be able to calculate from the tables and some trigonometry how much north you are.
The sun and the moon can still be sighted during daytime.
TIL you can see the sun during daytime.
this made my laugh heartily.
Are you sure? Have you ever been to Britain?
1. Was the shot at 0:07 a drone or a helicopter?
2. I swear for a second I thought it said Tesco on the side of the icebreaker.
I think it was a drone shot from ben brown
The drone shot was probably by Mr. Ben Brown. Check his vlogs out!
It does look like tesco they appear to have branched of so much that they now deliver to the north pole
Can't believe you don't have more views, great videos.
Fascinating! Thanks Tom, very informative.
Please more did you know videos! Love them! Great filming and cutting by the way!
A few years ago I would have called Tyson the new Carl Sagan. But today it is clear that the person poised to carry that spirit forward is Chris Hadfield. He''s got his finger on the pulse of the next generation in their mediums.
Very nice drone filming. Good job staying on target!
Why don't you do a video on why travellers are not allowed to travel to the Antarctic?
what? no way!
If you'd go through every little test researches do to live there for 6 months (or whatever the time) and if you had enough money to pay for your stuff (and maybe a bit extra), you could still go there with reaaserches. I think.
Flatearth in 2k16 LUL
although you can go there, i do think it is restricted mostly to scientists, and military. The main reasoning is to try to reduce human pollution and damage to the continent.
Norwegian Børge Ousland crossed it on skis and with kite-power in 96/97.
what is considered convincing evidence?
I am 12, and that test is fake and gay.
Evidence that is convincing.
Evidence that holds up to scrutiny. For example, you can claim that you made it to the north pole, but if your records say it took you 8 days to get there when all other expeditions took 14 to not get even as far, that would be suspect. Or if your recorded measurements seem off, numbers that wouldn't correspond with an expected path or that take too big of a jump. These are just some examples that i came up with off the top of my head, so they are likely much better reasons why they would look at the data as suspect.
He said it very, very convincingly.
If he has at least 6 charisma.
Ben brown showed me your channel tom, so much great content!
Those early explorers were brave (and a bit crazy) in their attempt to reach the North Pole, and all deserve major credit even if they didn't quite make it.
Hello Tom Scott! I am so glad I found you by searching random stuff, I found your computerphile videos and your one about the emoji keyboard. Its so amazing, and I look up to you and what you do because you want to work and have fun and teach people. Thank you!
Wait is he uploading this videos from the Arctic? If so what a time to be alive
No, they got back last week.
No internet from an icebreaker in Arctic is low bandwidth email only. Norm from Tested.com said he got out one low res image per day via email.
Hm ok. so we have to wait a couple more years for 100k bandwidth on the north pole.
Still better internet than Australia
I always wondered if Ice Breakers cause any kind of lasting damage to those areas in terms of the ice caps
I wouldn't think so, the ice probably cracks by itself from time to time and would probably freeze back together. I'm not sure though, it would be interesting if there was some measurable effect
no
Basically, the ice cap is very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very big and an icebreaker minuscule in comparison, so, no.
At 0:17 - I may be showing my ignorance of modern ships but WOW, _that bridge_
it looks like they should supply a sunstone or some other polarizing filter so you can use the sextant when its cloudy.
Surprised he didn't mention the top gear attempt to reach the north pole
Top gear only went to the Magnetic North pole, that's in the Canadian arctic, about 800 kilometers from the geographic North Pole.
Yeah, the geographic north pole is kind of surrounded by an ocean.
Still.. I think it's a noteworthy expedition
I believe it's pronounced Hlebnikoff. The "K" in the beginning is there to emphasize that "h" is not silent.
Did you catch articuno while you were up there?
What about the USS Skate in 1959, when it surfaced through the ice at the North Pole, and scattered the ashes of Sir George Hubert Wilkins, the Australian polar explorer and aviator?
Interesting fact: The geographic poles are not red and white stripey barbers poles or lasers, they are geological size features. When your compass starts to spin, it isn't because you've reached the pole, you've only reached the edge of it.
Those windows on the boat creep me out. It looks like there's people standing behind most of them, just staring...
Why would they be doing that? People don't have time for that.
Shout out to the cameraman... Dude stood still throughout the whole video
On the E-3 AWACS, there is a port for a sextant, just in case both GPS systems fail...
Tom, I have to know. How do you keep that information in your head and then manage to turn it around into a two or three minute story, accurately? I can't fathom doing that without a solid script and / or several takes!
nICE to SNOW all these facts...
Get out
Come on man, be cool.
Yeah, chill.
Cold you please stop?
+tim tk. no u
that water is so wonderfull
During the day, if you know the time, you can also use the sun to track your position. As long as you have some calcite.
Jeremy Clarkson
Team G&T
I have to say, I can't help but be a little jealous. I wish I could visit the Arctic.
Prince Albert of Monaco made a North Pole visit a few years back and is shown in a photo standing there holding the GPS for proof, not that there was anything to mark the spot.
Great video Tom.
That looks cozy
If you "use the same technique as explorers centuries ago" are you expecting the same level of lost, lamed, and dead as was common among explorers centuries ago?
He was referring to using the same *navigational* technique. Obviously, if their GPS rolled over and died, they'd still have the rest of their modern survival gear.
You forgot to mention that north pole was also reached using submarines in 1959 (under ice) and 1962 (surfaced).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Skate_(SSN-578)
USS Nautilus, 3 August 1958
Hi Tom! Idea for future vid! Talk about the technique of dead reckoning and noon sight and how it basically allowed Europeans to sail west!
Is that the borealis?
Wait. WHAT!!!?!?!?! CHRIS HADFIELD?!?!?!???!!!!!!
Go watch Ben Brown's videos that he recommended. Chris Hadfield was on the trip with them the whole time, and Ben Brown even filmed Mr Hadfield giving a little presentation to Canada's most northern school. Also it shows Chris Hadfield singing a lot and it's a great video :)
That's some amazing noise-cancellation.
You need a polarizing sunstone to look through to make the sun more visible while overcast! :)
It was me.
Sir Tom of Scott's how shall I thank you for these presents (video) ;)
Did you bribe the Russian Captain to get on board or did you work your passage as Tom the Cabin Boy.
So did anyone do anything before recording equipment if they didn't return with evidence?
I'm guessing that no one had reliably done it earlier because a lot of potential explorers had thought that someone had beaten them to it years or decades earlier.
That's sick tom! Did you meet chris?
Hey Tom!
I've been watching your videos for quite a long time. Just wanted to tell you how great they are. I'm pretty sure in a few years time you'll be doing something for the BBC.
cheers!
i spent a little under a week with will steger and he's an amazing person, if you can do a school project or something on an explorer do it on him
Lots of people asking who the camera op is, the answer is in the description.
How often does the equipment actually fail and you need to use a sextant?
Where has Chris Hadfield NOT been?
0:13 who just saw a weirdass heavy and scout there?
LMAO IT IS
"It's a sexton!" **Ed and Eddy laughing hysterically in the background**
Did you say you took this trip with "Chris Hadfield"?? As in the astronaut? That sounds pretty awesome.
great video
On navigation; I'd love if you did a TYMNK about Loran! :D
Holy crap you worked with the guys from Tested Tom!? I didn't see that one coming but damn that's cool!
He was also roommates with Chris Hadfield for the trip.
I think it's waaaay cooler that he roomed with Chris Hadfield for the trip!!! Sorry for the spoiler if you've not yet watched this weeks park bench!
I personally would geek out more about Norm than Chris but that's just not my field of interest so I can see why others would find Chris cooler.
Niels Schellekens Both are geek out worthy.
That's pronounced Will StEEger (2:35), and don't leave out Paul Schurke or Ann Bancroft or the rest of the team. Their 1986 trip by dogsled was an amazing one!
Are we gonna ignore the Top Gear Polar Special here?
They went to where the magnetic north pole had been in 1996; they were nearly 1500 km south of the geographic north pole.
You know what I just realized? Tom may be this generation's Sir David Attenborough.
1986 ? I thought a group of american students went there in 1968 by "land" , after they found out Peary couldn't had reached there .
How about a video on Louise Arner Boyd and her exploits as an Arctic explorer.
in 2007 two British guys drove a toyota truck up there
@@Smellygoat235 And a shotgun and some SPAM.
This isn't the icebreaker I expected
Wow, flying a drone in that wind? That's a tough machine.
Just dropped like 1500, not sure why I am posting this.. but I like nice round numbers like that
Yes Bennnn