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Ages of Ice

Greenland Traverse

Season 2026 Episode 1 | 4m 48s

Dr Adrian McCallum and his team ski into headwinds in temperatures of minus 40°F, dragging sleds and radar equipment across 350 miles of the Greenland ice sheet to collect valuable climate data. For a whole month, the team of five skis up to thirteen hours a day, battling exhaustion, storms and isolation, hoping to complete their mission before deadly weather closes in.

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The team from Real Ice work with the Inuit community on a radical plan to refreeze sea ice.
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Dr. Melanie Lancaster is a marine mammal specialist and advocate for quiet Arctic oceans.
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Discover epic science in the most extreme places on Earth.
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Greenland Ice Sheet
Professor Alun Hubbard is studying the cause of meltwater on the Greenland ice sheet.
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