6 years ago, the Katelyn Stats and Travis Vengroff launched the Whitefall. A psychological horror

story set in the frozen archipelago of Svalbard. Today, the Whitefall has a crew to cult

following, and fans wait expectantly for what might happen next with the franchise. It's

here we join Travis and Katelyn, fool and scholar, as they explore the land, air and sea of

Svalbard.

North of Europe and the Arctic Sea, Svalbard marks the midway point between the northern

coast of Norway and the North Pole. And so it's become a hub of sorts for expeditionists,

from survivalists to researchers to people who had to physically carve their way through

the ice in order to build a base of operations. One such person is Chad Davenport.

I'm Chad Davenport, I'm a National Geographic photographer. My name is Travis Vengroff, I'm

the son of the way vault. And where are we? We are the far northern coast, northwest coast

of Spittsburg Island in the Svalbard archipelago. And if you look at what you're seeing right now,

is the cliffs of Sparigan. And to our, off to our left is nothing but sea ice. You could

head up to the North Pole about 600 miles away. This is amazing by the way. And we're kind

of floating right here in the pack ice. And we're not far away from Dane Island, which I want

to say it was back in the 1800s. There was a guy named Solomon Andre, who was a balloon aviation

expert. And he wanted to fly a balloon over to the North Pole. No one had flown up to the

North Pole. No one had been to the North Pole.

What Chad won't tell you is that he's also a filmmaker, a writer, a rescue diver. He was a

war photographer, where his work contributed to real life war crimes investigations. It was

after this he migrated to National Geographic, where he took his photography skills under water

to study the most isolated islands on earth. So yeah, that's Chad.

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