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Crew vs. Cold - Behind the Scenes | Life Below Zero


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·Nov 11, 2024

Campers aren't working. That's getting super frustrating. This is what it's like on Life Below Zero; cameras are already down. Tough conditions all around. A fill-in, no heat, no power, no anything. Won't even turn on. We have balance; that's just a typical day of the Arctic. They confessed, "What we got."

It's super windy, and our cameras aren't working, and it's getting super frustrating. It is an impressive storm, and I'm only supposed to get a little bit of a lull. So, like it or hate it, even though I've still got wind, even though it's still a blizzard, I have to start moving the snow. Just blowing, blowing, blowing, and it's messing with their cameras. It's getting frustrating. We have visibility of maybe... it's just a typical day of the Arctic here, filming a cabin.

What I'm doing is setting up, suit clearance. Snow conditions are a little... plus tree battery, thanks. Coming up, we're unable to do our job; that's what I'm doing. This sucks. Can't really always rely on gear operating properly.

Here's the top of a building right here, so we've gotten a lot of snow, a lot of wind. Let's move to a lot of snow. So, setting up these shots, I really don't know if they're gonna work a lot of times. But we want to maximize our time out here, so we've got GoPros set up on Sue's Bobcat. You never know if they're going to last very long or if those are going to fail, and then we'll be running to other cameras watching her clear snow.

It's probably around 15 degrees ambient temperature, but with the windchill, it's probably more like negative 15, negative 20. I guess I don't know; it's cold enough you don't want to touch anything with bare fingers for very long. Electronics don't seem to last very long in the cold either.

Trying to clear the path so that our plane can land at some point to pick us up, but it's intense. So, to get this shot of her doing it, we need the T300. Tough when you GoPros up, and I need to be a badass and fly or go through everything. Mark, toot won't even turn on. Seriously? Yeah. Making TV, we'll see what happens.

The drone's a valuable tool; I mean, GPS is just messed up, and I don't know. I'd hate to lose this drone. Not a bad way to spend a day digging a little snow cave. I feel like it's important for me to brush up on my skills, and I'm not gonna wait until I have to have one to figure out. At 55, do I still remember how to make one?

It's been kind of trying with flying the drone lately. Between super high winds and currently cold temperatures, I haven't really been able to have much success in keeping the drone kind of where I want it. I think we're so far north that I can't determine if where the GPS is, where the GPS signal is, and so it honestly just leaves. No matter which way I push the controller—left, right, up, down—the thing, the drone just takes off.

I mean, look at where we are. There's a chance that I'd probably find this thing where it ends up; I have no idea. You never know what the weather's gonna do. Zero wind. We've been up here for two weeks, and this is by far the nicest day we've had.

See, right now it says my GPS is good. See what happens here. Sue's walking out to the Argo, and I'm really hoping this works.

[Music] Just do one more move, and then what? Cost good?

[Music] How's the good light? That was the best one of the whole trip. How's the best one for two weeks of flying? This is what makes me happy right there. Drone's down; that's great, and we got a good shot.

[Music]

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