Victor Vescovo

Now, sometimes it worked in our favor, but it was very frustrating.

But the most dangerous thing about the North Pole is you're on ice.

And with climate change a little bit, the ice is getting thinner.

If you go in the water and it's ambient temperature, negative 30, negative 40, it's a life or death situation.

You need to get that person out immediately, get their clothes off, put them in warm clothes, or they will get hypothermia and die really quickly.

So we had a whole drill for that.

It was a dangerous place.

South Pole...

You're on a high plane, it's land, you just get on a vector and you just keep skiing until you get to the South Pole.

Also very cold, very windy, but it's doable.

How long did it take you to accomplish that?

Each one was about six days.

They literally drop you off in a plane 100 kilometers from each objective.

And when that plane leaves, I swear to God, you just look at your friends and yourself and go like, what the hell did I just get into?

Everest.

Yeah.

And not because the lines, although they are for most people, we had a unique situation where when I went up on my second try, on the first try, I got frostbite at Camp 2 halfway up and I had to come down.

So I went back again two years later.

And on that trip, a storm started when we were at Camp 4, when we were about to launch for the summit.

And it was not good.