# Alex Honnold Survives Deadly Ice Falls (Full Episode) | Arctic Ascent | National Geographic

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- **Канал:** National Geographic
- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUgfWBH3FqI
- **Дата:** 08.05.2026
- **Длительность:** 44:44
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- **Источник:** https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/49948

## Описание

What is next for Alex Honnold? In the second episode of Arctic Ascent, he and the rest of the climbing team are hit by deadly ice fall before attempting a first-ever traverse of the Renland Icecap in eastern Greenland enroute to their final climbing objective.

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### Segment 1 (00:00 - 05:00) []

(creaking) ALDO: 3, 2, 1. Heave. Again. Did I get most of the blood off? ALDO: Yeah. Does it hurt? ALEX: I'm definitely like a little sore, but. I think the thing with the ice falls is really scary, but there's nothing you can do about it. You either give up on the climb entirely or you play through it. Combat medic Aldo frickin' taking care of me. HAZEL: Okay, I've got ya. Go for it. ALDO: Nice one, mate. ALEX: Classic, we're like, "Oh, better conditions today," like, nope, different set of bad conditions. It's always something in Greenland. To get there, we want to be the first people ever to cross the Renland Ice Cap. But to reach the ice cap, we'll all have to complete a two-day climb up what we're calling the Pool Wall. I was the last one climbing up. That's the point where I was the most scared. It just struck me, okay, this rope is the only thing holding me. A rock could hit the rope and just cut it. HEÏDI: Whoa, okay. (exhales) (breathing heavily) ♪ I'm now about 1,000 feet up. I've made a decision not to look down. If I do, I'm worried I'll be paralyzed by fear.

### Segment 2 (05:00 - 10:00) [5:00]

HAZEL: Yeah! ALEX: Yeah! (Hazel laughs) ALDO: All good, Heïdi? HEÏDI: Horizontal ground! (laughs) ALEX: Nice climb. ALDO: Yeah. ADAM: This is crazy, huh? (Heïdi laughs) Yoooo! HEÏDI: And the view is pretty nice, huh? ADAM: It's, it's beautiful. I got a bit scared actually! HEÏDI: It's hard to imagine, but you're gonna spend the night attached to a thin tent made of fabric that is only secured by one bolt stuck into the rock. I'm glad that tomorrow is the second and last day. (chuckles) Yeah. ALEX: Yeah, nothing like 9 o'clock bedtime. (Heïdi laughs) ADAM: I think I'm ready to sleep. ALEX: Yeah, how do you feel? How was the day? ADAM: Good, I was actually a bit scared down here, I was kind of left alone like the last man. And you guys? ALEX: We, we're good, we're pretty beat. Our hands, like... ADAM: Must have been cold. ALEX: Yeah, the climbing today kind of took a little bit out of us, actually. ALDO: Here we are, me and Mikey. MIKEY: Hey there! ALDO: But look at this for a view. (unzips) There we go. Sorry, Hazel. (laughs) ALDO: I think I was filming when Hazel was having a wee. (laughs) ALEX: What was the drama of the day? HAZEL: day was Alex got hit on the noggin with a piece of ice. And at one point it looked really extreme, because there was blood dripping all down his face. ALEX: into my mouth, I was like, that's unusual when you get hit on the face hard enough that it bleeds into your mouth. ADAM: Sleep well. ALEX: Bonne nuit! We're about 900 feet up. To summit, we have to get through the steep top section of the wall. We only have thin cracks to follow. Plus the rock is constantly crumbling. It's really difficult to get good gear. Ah! Rock! ALEX: You alright? HAZEL: It's actually just making hand-fingerlocks big enough. ♪

### Segment 3 (10:00 - 15:00) [10:00]

Ah, okay. Ah, (bleep). It's just so (bleep). Ugh. Ahh! ALEX: Ugh! HAZEL: Nice. Yeah. ALEX: Nice lead. That was very impressive. My fingers hurt, they're numb, they're bleeding. HAZEL: We're losing the sun a little bit, actually. ALEX: Yeah, at least we only have 300 feet to the summit, and they're much easier. Great success. HAZEL: High five. Nice one. ALEX: We're on top. Yay! HAZEL: Yay! ALEX: That's something. We're on top. HAZEL: Nice, Aldo. ALDO: What a mission. ALEX: Yeah. ALDO: Woo-hoo. Not bad for a practice wall. MIKEY: Practice run? This is like my retirement run. ALDO: How you feeling? ADAM: Worked. HAZEL: Nice one. You did so well, hey? ADAM: Crazy experience. Right now, never again. Never. HAZEL: Yeah. ALDO: Heïdi! HEÏDI: Hey, guys! ALDO: Welcome! ADAM: Yeee! ALEX: Yeah.

### Segment 4 (15:00 - 20:00) [15:00]

HEÏDI: We made it, huh? ADAM: We made it. HEÏDI: The two newbies. ALDO: Well done. HEÏDI: Thank you, team. It's all thanks to you guys. ADAM: Thank you, guys. HEÏDI: Ahhh. Oh, this is incredible. ALEX: Two Ravens. I'm starting to think that Ingmikortilaq, which is three times higher than the Pool Wall, might be a bit of an undertaking. So next up we'll have to try to find somewhere flat to camp. We still have a long ways to go before we sleep tonight. Finally we've made it onto the Renland Ice Cap, a 42-mile-wide reservoir of ice, some of which has been here for tens of thousands of years. It will be the highest and coldest part of the expedition. ADAM: Aldo. ALDO: Yeah. Huh? ADAM: Where we putting up the tents? Somewhere over here? ALDO: Yeah, where do you think? Here's good. Up here we're so exposed, temperatures are well below freezing. It's quite a bit of a change from being on the wall and being slightly protected to being out in the elements and needing to get things done fast. What's your thoughts with bears up here? ADAM: We'll put up a bear fence, make sure... we have a good night's sleep, because we need that, all of us. ALEX: It's been a long day. Our skin is killing us, my fingers, the skin on my fingers really hurts. Hard to believe that Ingmikortilaq is supposed to be at least two, maybe three times bigger. I just don't know if we can do three times more. Hopefully we'll recover a bit before then. (wind blowing) ALEX: This is my first expedition as a father. And I do miss my daughter. It's a pretty long trip to be away from family. And it's certainly gonna be hard on my wife, to have to be a single parent for six weeks. I really hope that June will grow up on a healthy planet. We're in the midst of a crisis, and we need to actually help change the world as quickly as possible. The first year that I started earning more income than I needed, I started donating a third of my income to help fund solar projects around the world. (wind whistling) ALDO: Morning. You guys sleep well? MIKEY: Good thing we got skis, huh? ALEX: Today we head out across the ice cap. It should take around four days, but we don't really know, since no one's ever done it. To lighten the load, we're gonna leave a lot of our climbing gear behind. Our support team will pick it up later. It's time to shift into science mode. Heïdi's going to be gathering important data as we cross the ice. HEÏDI: So we have here two different radars. This will help us to measure ice thickness, and the way it works is that the transmitter here will send pulses of radio waves into the ground and it will give us information on how thick the ice is. It works almost like a sonar. It enables us to see what's underneath our feet. ALEX: Okay, we're all ready? HEÏDI: Yeah. ALEX: Okay, walking. ♪

### Segment 5 (20:00 - 25:00) [20:00]

ALEX: It's not as if I've ever wanted to be a polar explorer, you know, I'm a rock climber for a reason, but in this case, to spend, you know, between four days and a week going somewhere that no one's ever been to help Heïdi for science, I mean, it's rare to have that kind of opportunity in life. ALDO: So difficult to get any bearings in this light. (wind whistling) ALDO: So we're just skiing in on, on the bearing now because it's kind of whiteout, but you can see the relief of that crevasse there. ALDO: You go out in front, Mikey, I'll keep you on track. MIKEY: Yeah, I'll be the crevasse poodle, I'm the lightest. MIKEY: A landmark would be great. ALDO: So difficult when there's absolutely nothing to focus on. MIKEY: I just close my eyes. ALDO: Yeah. MIKEY: I feel it, Aldo, I just feel it. ALDO: 10 degrees right. MIKEY: Oh, that's not working, is it? ♪ HAZEL: What's the plan? ALEX: I mean, my goal for the day is to get all the way across the ice cap. MIKEY: Okay, I think we should stop. ALEX: Are you kidding? ALDO: Basically we need to make a decision about whether we push on or not. ALEX: We've only been skiing for an hour and a half. I don't like stopping if I don't have to; I'd much rather keep moving. ALDO: The fact from my point of view is that Mikey and I looked at a map and we're heading straight into the center of that crevasse field. I know that it's probably pretty dangerous.

### Segment 6 (25:00 - 30:00) [25:00]

Is it safe to push on? Or is it better to stop and put up camp, and maybe we get better vis later on. We do have 24-hour daylight, when the vis is good, we crack on again. ALEX: We could also rope up and just keep going through. ADAM: I don't think, roping up doesn't make it much safer, because we can't see. ALEX: But you're less likely to die. ADAM: The hazard is already there. I'm, I'm in on camping here. HEÏDI: Absolutely, same for me, I think it's totally unsafe to continue. MIKEY: With Alex, it's, you know, it's a little different, because he has so much self confidence and so much ability. It's a little harder for me to blindly sort of trust what he says to do. ALEX: What's the group vote? MIKEY: I don't think we should move right now. HEÏDI: Yeah. ALDO: We'll go and probe an area for camp and then we'll whack up some tents and then we'll just ride it out for a bit. MIKEY: Where's your tent, Heïdi? HEÏDI: Just here. HEÏDI: Being on the Renland Ice Cap is such a rare opportunity for a scientist that I felt a lot of pressure to collect as much data as I could. ALEX: I've never met anybody who likes the snow or ice as much as Heïdi. This is like, this is insane. Here, I brought you dinner, too. HEÏDI: It's getting so deep. Oh, you have! Oh, that's so nice. ALEX: Though now it's probably a little bit cold, but. I want to see what the snowpack is like up here. ALEX: I don't think this will take me that long, actually, you see I'm making pretty good progress. HEÏDI: This far north, and this high up, I'm expecting the snow to be more or less pristine. This is like the ultimate snow pit. And in between the two holes is a very fine wall of snow, that will kind of reveal itself when the light is shining through it. ALEX: Okay, cover me in! HAZEL: That could be your bed tonight! ALEX: This could be my bed! Oh, it's pretty cool, actually. You can just really see the layers. HEÏDI: Nice. ALEX: It's like very clear lines. ♪

### Segment 7 (30:00 - 35:00) [30:00]

HEÏDI: Thanks, Adam. ADAM: Okay? HEÏDI: Alright, let's do it, Ahh. Oh, this is great. I mean, what I'm seeing here is a very clear picture of the snowpack. The depth of this snow pit spans a period of about 12 months. And every time we have one of these layers, it means that the Renland Ice Cap was melting. I was hoping just to find beautiful snow without any melt, but actually melt is happening all the time throughout the year up here. The entire snowpack is crippled by these ice lenses. This is really concerning. I think there's a good chance that the Renland Ice Cap is melting faster and making more of a contribution to sea level rise. And that contribution is only going to increase in the future. HAZEL: Kind of scary that there's one right there. HEÏDI: Yeah, I'm glad we stopped eventually. ALDO: Yeah, I think based on that, Mikey, you and I should be roped up at least. MIKEY: Yeah, seems reasonable. ALDO: We're slowly dropping altitude. MIKEY: Yeah. No, I think it's all downhill now. ALDO: Yeah. ALEX: Now that we've gotten our bearings, it's easier to scout the route and avoid crevasses. HAZEL: Ah. It's so horrible. ALDO: This is not fun. Wait! Whoa! Does that look like a bridge down there we could cross straight in your front? MIKEY: Yeah, I think we'll go through these flats and then, like, arc around. ALDO: Yeah. ALEX: It's wild to think that we've almost completed the first crossing of the Renland Ice Cap. Basically the glacier just gets more and more broken and difficult to navigate as you descend down to the fjord. HAZEL: Ah! Danger. That was sketchy. ALDO: If you go in there, you're in a bad way. ADAM: Keep moving, that's the main thing.

### Segment 8 (35:00 - 40:00) [35:00]

Uh, here, watch out, watch out. HEÏDI: Wait a sec, wait, wait. ALEX: Somebody pull. ALDO: Whoa. That was close. ALEX: You alright? HEÏDI: That's it, one, two, three. ALEX: Awesome. ALDO: You still good, yeah? HEÏDI: Yeah, I'm good. Wait, wait, slowly. ALEX: Whoa, don't push it. Here, if you go up and over. ALDO: Yeah. ALEX: Yeah, and now, like, walk to your left. HEÏDI: But take it very slow. ALEX: And then hard right and just go fast. I think we did a good job of finding a decent way off the glacier. And as we were descending you can hear big chunks falling off and things moving, and it's all pretty dramatic, very living area. But it definitely just reminds you how alive the glaciers are, like things are constantly moving. MIKEY: Hey, Alex, don't you think we should get going? ALEX: Yeah, let's go. Okay, we're going. It's such a relief to see our support team. (Adam speaking Greenlandic) ALEX: This landscape is one of the more beautiful things I've ever seen, it's pretty incredible. MIKEY: Wow. This fjord is like just absolutely magical. HEÏDI: Yeah, honestly, I can't believe the amount of ice there is here. Makes me sick when I see this, yeah. ALEX: We're all looking at this landscape and thinking it's amazing. But where we see beauty, Heïdi sees something completely different. HEÏDI: This is all ice that is of course being lost by the glaciers. And it's not a good sign when you see so many icebergs floating around. Yeah, no, it's quite scary, actually, yeah. I mean, when I see what's around me today, my heart shrinks. The Greenland Ice Sheet contains enough ice to increase sea levels globally by about 24 feet. These are the GPS coordinates for the launch.

### Segment 9 (40:00 - 44:00) [40:00]

So is it okay if we give it to the captain? ADAM: Yeah, go in there and give it to the captain. HEÏDI: Okay. ALEX: When it comes to science, I've never met anyone as committed to the mission as Heïdi. She just never quits. Before Ingmikortilaq, she's got something special to do on behalf of her friends at one of the coolest agencies on Earth. HEÏDI: Hi, is it NASA? Hi, Beth! (laughs) ALEX: Heïdi is launching a probe for NASA that will help monitor how the ocean is melting Greenland's glaciers from below. HEÏDI: Ah, fantastic news. Okay. Beth has just received the package from the float, and everything looks well. We have barely any information about the interaction between the ice and the fjords. And NASA very quickly understood that this is a key factor in global sea level rise. ALEX: Known as the Oceans Melting Greenland project, or OMG, more than 1,600 probes have been launched around Greenland. HEÏDI: It's a robot, and what it does is measures salinity, temperature and depth of the fjord here. And it will keep going up and down the fjord, from the surface to the bottom for more than a year. ALEX: Our probe, number 9317, will send daily readings via satellite, and record thousands of measurements over its lifetime. We've spent a whole month getting to this big wall. HAZEL: This is like the craziest wall. ALEX: I know, it looks, it looks evil. HAZEL: Ingmikortilaq is growing in front of us, but it's also I think growing in our minds. HEÏDI: They are the best climbers in the world, and I feel that they are totally unstoppable. But actually when they were on the boat looking at the face for the first time, they felt human. ALEX: Ultimately what's at stake with climbing is always your life. You could die in a lot of different ways on a wall. The fact that Ingmikortilaq is so remote and big makes it more intimidating for sure. It looks insane. It looks impossible. ♪ Captioned by Side Door Media Services