The edge of the ice

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🗓️ 8 February 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Life on a scientific mission to one of Antarctica’s most remote glaciers.

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0:00.0	Elizabeth Rush couldn't sleep.
0:04.0	It was really early in the morning and I felt like a kid on Christmas who just kept waking up and is like,
0:11.0	is it Christmas yet?
0:12.0	No, it wasn't Christmas. It was February. kept waking up and is like, is it Christmas yet?
0:12.7	No, it wasn't Christmas.
0:14.5	It was February 2019 and Elizabeth was aboard
0:17.7	a special ship called an icebreaker
0:19.9	at the western edge of Antarctica. Sometime between four or five in the morning I woke up.
0:25.0	You know, there's not really night in Antarctica at this time of year,
0:30.0	but it's a little bit darker this time of day.
0:33.2	a day.
0:35.2	After a month at sea, she was about to witness something nobody had ever seen up close.
0:42.4	The leading edge of an absolutely enormous wall of ice. Thwaite's
0:47.4	Glacier. The only thing that I have is a visual reference point is that it sort of looks like the wall in Game of Thrones.
0:57.0	So, you know, this wall of ice that's probably two times higher than the ship. The ship's like six stories high and I was
1:07.8	really in awe of it. Folks who'd spent more time along ice shelves than I had noticed things that I wouldn't have noticed.
1:17.5	They said like, it looks mangled or gnarly.
1:20.5	It looks sick.
1:30.0	this is outside in I'm Nate Hedgy and I'm Justin and I'm Justin Paradise and today we're sharing a behind the scenes look at an international expedition to an
1:35.7	unexplored part of this world. She told me it's going to be easier for us to get
1:42.2	help to folks on the space station than it is for us to get help to you while you're at the weights.
1:48.0	And we'll get to know a glacier which could reshape every coast on this planet.
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