meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Real Survival Stories

Swept Away in Antarctica: Great White Chaos

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Society & Culture, Documentary, Sports, Wilderness, History

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Two friends from Australia attempt the first unsupported crossing of the Antarctic Peninsula. The brutal conditions of the world’s southernmost continent have defeated many an intrepid explorer. But Peter Bland and Jay Watson are undeterred. Disaster strikes though, in the middle of the night. When Peter is mysteriously swept away, it’ll be down to Jay to find his mate and keep him alive… A Noiser production, written by Paul Olding. For more on this story read A Step Too Far: Peter Bland and the Obsession of Adventure (https://www.peterbland.com). For ad-free listening, bonus material and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Click the Noiser+ banner to get started. Or, if you’re on Spotify or Android, go to noiser.com/subscriptions If you have an amazing survival story of your own that you’d like to put forward for the show, let us know. Drop us an email at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

If just thinking about your bills makes you feel confused and disorientated,

0:05.0

like your head is full of Raspberry,

0:08.0

then you need Monzo.

0:10.0

Download your new favorite bank and pay bills from custom pots.

0:15.0

Money never felt like Monzo.

0:18.0

UK Residents Tease and see supply.

0:30.0

It's Monday January the 29th, 2001, at the end of the world. It's early morning in the desolate, frigid landscape of the Antarctic Peninsula, a land of seemingly

0:36.2

endless ice and snow.

0:39.9

More than a thousand kilometers from the southern tip of South America. It's a place of unforgiving isolation.

0:47.2

A biting gale blasts across the tundra. It whips up tiny bullets of ice which flurry all around reducing visibility.

0:57.0

Inside a cave dug out of tough snow on the side of a steep cliff. Two lifelong friends are hunkered down in a small tent.

1:09.0

Australian explorers Peter Bland and Jay Watson are alone in this vast white wilderness.

1:15.3

They've secured their tent with ropes and skis, but it still shakes violently in the

1:21.1

storm.

1:22.1

The pair are nearing the end of an astonishing

1:26.2

adventure, but today it's clear they're going nowhere.

1:30.3

I was blowing like 60 knots, like 100 kilometers an hour and the wind was buffeting us

1:35.3

but all we're going to do today is stay put in our tent and let the storm blow over.

1:40.1

The only problem is their food supplies are outside packed inside two sleds secured 10 paces away.

1:49.0

They'll need to get them at some point.

1:52.0

With temperatures well below freezing, stepping outside for any reason

1:56.5

could spell disaster. Still, Peter volunteers. I'll step out of the tent and I'll go and get the food out of the sleds and I'm coming

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from NOISER, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of NOISER and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.