World’s First Iron Man in Antarctica | PROJECT ICEMAN (Full Movie 4K)

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The film has won:
– Best Doc & Special Jury Award at Riviera International Film Festival 2023
– Best Doc at Rome Independent Film Awards 2023
– Best Picture & Best Doc at Los Angeles Film Awards 2023

About the film:
Project Iceman is the odyssey of an ordinary human setting out to achieve the extraordinary.

Anders Hofman attempts to become the first-ever human to complete a long-distance triathlon in Antarctica (3.8 km swim, 180 km bike, 42.2 km run), “the Iceman”, to show that limitations are perceptions.

In this death-defying journey, we witness how Anders conquers his fears, doubts, and adversities as he risks everything in one of the most extreme athletic feats ever attempted.

It’s a triumph of human potential and spirit, showing that we all can achieve anything we set our minds to.

A FILM BY YES THEORY

DIRECTED BY AMMAR KANDIL (Ammar)

VISION BY ANDERS HOFMAN
(Follow his next dream on https://www.instagram.com/andershofman — find out what he’s doing now)

PRODUCED BY YES THEORY & ANDERS HOFMAN

IN ASSOCIATION WITH BURNING BOAT

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: AMMAR KANDIL & ANDERS HOFMAN

LEAD EDITOR: VICTOR PALM

DOP: JAN BUE LAUMARK

DIRECTOR IN ANTARCTICA: CORY S. MARTIN

For more about the film: https://www.theicemanfilm.com

For Seek Discomfort: https://www.seekdiscomfort.com

A SPECIAL THANKS TO THE 111 ICE SQUAD MEMBERS, who collectively funded over half of post production: Alan Booker, Alessandro Solberg-Carrara, Alex & Aubrey Wasner, Alex Chapman, Alicia R. Ramos, Andrew Healey, Andrew Wolverton, Austin Allen, Beichen Zhang, Benoit Kim, Cainã Gomes, Chase Miller, Chloe Johnson, Christoph Geiger, Claudia De Bruycker, Cormac Rowe, Cricket Averett, D Lemelin, Dalton C. Collins, Dalton Jack, Damgaard Company, Daniel Mejia, Daniel Waldschütz, Danielle Lukins, David Sylvia, Donovan Unsell, Eddy Medina, Elsie Koo, Endstate, Erna Korkotyan, Frederik A. Lynge, Gina Torres, Gurleen Singh, Hector Guerra Jr, Iris Kattar, Jelle Claus, Jesper Brummerstedt, Jibril Syed, Joel Tranby, John Pham, Jonathan Spaarschuh, José A. Azevedo, Joshua Montpetit, Kieran Osborne, Kiley Carlin, Kilian Hobi, Koen Peters, Kristof Valgaeren, Lars Schilling, Lea K. Schröder, Levi Green, Levi Lina, Lisa Katharina & David Braun, Mantas Ruzgas, Mathew Pound, Maximilien Sock, Melissa Dabback, Michael Saier, Michael Shriver, Mohsi Khan, Morgan Karas, Morten Rongaard, Natasha Klutke, Nathan Meeks, Nuri Hodges, Olga Raptis, Omar Awadalla, Petter Rasmussen, Priyamvada Kundu, Rauph Souleimanov, Rebecca Villarreal, Richard S. Liu, Romain Couperier, Ruaidhri Nolan, Sai N. Muthyala, Sajjad Jairaj, Sam Ethiopia, Samantha Schueler, Shervin Shares, SUPERMOMMALOHA, Tobias Weidemann, Trevor Silence, TRIO Stories, Tristan Townsend, Tyler Bernatovicz, Yassine Laaroussi, Member 15, 23, 31, 32, 37, 39, 43, 48, 52, 53, 54, 56, 57, 60, 61, 62, 64, 66, 71, 77, 79, 80, 83, 88, 91, 97, 107

EXPEDITION TEAM
Project Manager: Anthon H. Laursen
Expedition Leader: Phil Wickens
Polar Guide: Oliver Grant
Skipper: Cath Hew
Co-skipper: Greg Scamporlino

FEATURING
Iron Cowboy: James Lawrence
Sister: Amalie B. Laursen
Mother: Grethe B. Laursen
Father: Michael H. Laursen
Yes Theory: Matt Dajer

BURNING BOAT PRODUCTION
Post-Prod Supervisor: Mads Beier
Post-Prod: Taylor Jenisch
Lead Editor: Victor Palm
Ass. Editors: Paulius Neverbickas, Julieta Balasch & Grayg Noireault
Graphics Supervisor: Robin Watson

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Andreas Hem, Bryce Perry, Cory S. Martin, Herman Berger, Jacob Buchhave, Jan B. Laumark, Jesper Christensen, Kasper Bøttern, Lex Overtoom, Nicklas K. Nagel, Oliver D. Frederiksen, Sam Newton, Simon Jacobsen

SOUND
Original Score: Hannes Schönberg
Sound Design: Hannes Schönberg, Rune Thuelund & Gustav Wittendorf
Recordists: Jakob Brink, Mathias Brogård & Oliver Mehl

COLOR
Colorist: Jonas Møller

ANIMATIONS
Story Animation: ‘Squid’ & Santiago Lozano
Animators: Campbell Peddle, Jack Sullivan, Jonathan Cuvelier

YES THEORY
Bryce Perry, Campbell Peddle, Derin Emre, Diezavel Mandl, Dora Bobanovìc, Jack Sullivan, Maryam Khan, Matt Dajer, Mélida Berton, Nathan Lam, Pedro Nordskog, Thomas Brag, Thomas Dajer & Tristan Kevitch

This movie is for every kid and determined soul out there to dream the biggest and the wildest you can. The world needs it and for you to be who you are.

With love,
Ammar & Anders

[slow tense music] [soft footsteps] [crushing sounds] [people talking] [slow tense music continues] Everybody questions when you do something that nobody else are doing. Nobody questions when you’re doing what everybody else are doing. I believe the ordinary can achieve the extraordinary. [voice echoes] To prove this,

I’m doing something that has never been done before. [speaking in a foreign language] Whoo. [Grethe] One. [young Anders] One. [Grethe] Two. [young Anders] Two. [Grethe] Three. [young Anders] Three. [Grethe] Big brother. Big broth-ee. [muted bang] [wind blowing] [voice speaking on the radio] [wind blowing hard] [somber ambient music]

[voice speaking faintly on the radio] [voice on the radio] Wind. [signal crackles] …kilometers an hour. [cart clanging on the jetty] [luggage thuds] [Anders grunts] [all laugh] [camera person] Oh, how’d we do that? Oh. That was close. [laughs] Good save. Oh my… [camera person] Holy shit. [group chattering softly]

-So you have warm tea by your bed. -Yeah, true. [group continues chattering] [Anders] Thinking ahead. [camera person] Always thinking. Always thinking, aren’t you? I’m packing up in my tiny bedroom. This is mine. And this is Anthon’s. [camera person] Yeah. That’s Herman… …and Nicklas. [camera person] What do you feel about it, Anthon?

Let’s see. [chuckles] When we get to the Drake Passage, it’s just a big unknown awaiting. It’s very heavy. That’s 60 days of food. So I’ve just been measuring 60 portions of porridge, 60 portions of milk. [people speaking in a foreign language] Come back. Would you guys go forward? -Let’s go. -Righto, sand drain.

Safe travels. I hope your engine is good. [Anders] And we are off. Day one… [Laughs] …of 33. [boat horn blows] You ready, Jan? It’s the last time we’re going to see land for a long time. [both chuckle] [boat horn blows] [Cath] We’ll see you down there. [voicemail playing on the phone]

I’ll return to you as soon as possible. [chuckles] [voicemail in a foreign language] Hey, Dad. It’s Anders. I just wanted to say that we’ve sailed off from Ushuaia and I’m steering the Icebird. So thank you for all your support and help the past weeks.

I really appreciate it. We’ve assembled a fantastic team. Now it’s all about arriving safely and completing the Iceman. Love you, love you all. Mom, Amalie, and you. Anthon says hi. -It’s a voicemail. -Okay. Hi, Dad. See you on the other side. I’m not sure how long we’ll have a connection. Bye! [voicemail beeps]

[interviewer] What’s your first memory of Anders? ANTHON KARDEŞİ I actually don’t know what the first memory- I just have this… …image of him with a cap. So when he was young, he used-he wore a lot of caps. [gentle music] As a child, he was the happiest boy you can imagine. MICHAEL BABASI

From infancy until… …he was seven or six years old, he always whistled. [young Anders laughs] Anders as a child was… …very bubbly, very playful. Before he started school, he always wore a cap. [children chattering] He used to run around and was always happy. But he was robbed of that when he started school

Because his kindergarten teacher took his cap off. That was like taking away his identity. But people did that back then. And his identity sort of… …disappeared. [children chattering] [low ringing] [somber music] I think in his early days… He just… I think he had some anger. Something happened around when we became teenagers.

I felt like Anders was kinda distancing himself from me and I didn’t really know why. I remember I was just like… I felt very excluded from his life. He didn’t really want to communicate, he didn’t really say anything. I didn’t know if we were like ever going to get that close again.

And if this was just… …how it’s going to be. Something was holding him back because… Well, I’m not sure what it was. As a parent, you also say what’s right or wrong, which isn’t always correct. But you did it with the best intentions

Based on your situation at the time and experiences as a parent. But as to what held him back… I don’t know. [somber music] [speaking in a foreign language off camera] [spectators applauding] [train chugging] My brother was working as a management consultant. And from the outside, at least I believe, well…

That’s-it seems that that’s what he wants to do. But I can see now that… he was conforming and not flourishing. [projector slides click] He had just followed this path for so long in terms of what the society wants him to do and maybe what his family thought he should be doing and…

In the family, we always knew that Anders was the kind of person that has to work for himself. [commentator] He has to be the man that could… Well, I think it’s going to be very interesting. I think there’s no doubt about this area. Timekeeping will be very, very important. [message ringtone]

Players already having to report at specific times to training. [dramatic somber music] [people cheering in a foreign language] [keyboard clicking] [keyboard clicking] [people cheering] [keyboard clicking] [dramatic music continues] Check this out. My next guest just accomplished a tremendous feat. 50 Ironman Triathlons in 50 states in 50 days. Sounds impossible, right?

Not for the man they call the Iron Cowboy. [keyboard clicking] [mouse click] [dramatic music continues] [keyboard clicking] [mouse click] [mouse click] [mouse click] [wind blows low] [dramatic music continues] [keyboard clicking] [dramatic music builds] [music fades] [mouse click] [interviewer] Why do you think nobody has ever done an Ironman in Antarctica? [James chuckles] Yeah.

[camera person] This is day zero. -We could almost call it– -Ground-yeah, day zero. [camera person] We got support from Mr. Anthon. [Anders] From bro. [camera person] The brother. In the middle of the winter, he wanted to go in ice water and try to swim.

I was like: “I’m going. I want to see that.” [chuckles] [camera person] There we go. [water splash] One in. [Anthon] In my mind, I was not saying you cannot do that. There was a small part of me saying, you know, “Yeah, you could pull this off.” At this time, I had-had some experience

With being in cold water in the military. [both gasp] [camera person] 30 seconds, 30 seconds. Come on, come on. [grunts] 35. [Anthon] But what I kind of pushed him was “Then, show.” Oh. [camera person chuckles] I mean, “Can you- can you be in ice water? Can you show…

…improvements and can you show that you’re actually moving towards that?”. Breathe. Breathe motherfucker. [laughs] So it’s day two of the seven-day ice swim challenge. My entire body is trying to tell me not- …not to do this right now. [water splash] [Anders gasps] [camera person] More than a minute. [Anders yells] One, two, three.

[water splash] [water splash] [Anders shivering] It feels… …really cold today. [water splash] Day seven of the Iceman challenge and… Yesterday was a tough one. And today I’m trying to push it further. [Anders claps and yells] [water splash] [camera person] Christ! [Anders breathing hard] [Anders shivering] Take it easy. Easy, easy.

Be careful not to fall. [Anders shivering, breathing hard] Oh. Fucking cold. So… Day seven is over. …is over. It’s difficult to hold the camera steady. 11 minutes and 5 seconds. -Well done, Anders! -Thanks. You’re fucking badass, man! I don’t think I knew where I was going until…

This moment in the gym where a… …chairman of a company that I’d been working in told me that I couldn’t swim four kilometers in ice water. For me, when I look back, that was the trigger point… of realizing that… people will tell you what you can or cannot do

Without having the foundation of knowing what is possible. The people who didn’t think I could become a football player, they hadn’t been football players themselves, they hadn’t gone through that journey. The people who told me that I- it was too risky to start my own business in my early 20s,

They hadn’t started businesses themselves. And I think that was just a realization saying: “You know what? People have no idea what they’re talking about.” They have their… perspective on what-you know, what is realistic, what is possible. And without thinking about it… they place that upon you.

And then you have to sort of accept it as the truth or reality, which is not the case. It’s just their perspective on… life and what is possible. The thing is, it’s- it was a natural thing to say and obviously he didn’t think about it. And that’s the whole point of it,

That often we don’t think about what we are actually telling other people. But that has an impact. You know, it’s like the math teacher telling a kid who’s 12 years old that “You’re not good at math.” The kid’s going to live his entire life… believing that. Right? And that’s the whole point.

Being aware of what you tell other people, especially kids, because they- they’re going to accept that for the rest of their lives even though it’s not true. That’s what pisses me off and that’s what made me say, “You know what? I hate the freaking cold, but I gotta do this.”

I believe the ordinary can achieve the extraordinary. To prove this, I’m doing something that has never been done before, completing what I call an Iceman. I’m going to swim 3.8 kilometers in ice water, bike 180 kilometers, and run a marathon on Antarctica. People tell me it’s impossible, but I want to show you

The limitations are really only perceptions as to what we can achieve. My name is Anders and I promise you, you won’t regret following this crazy journey. [waves gush] [gentle tense music] There were 10 spots on the expedition team. One was for myself, two for polar guides in charge of everything

On glacier and setting things up. And two for the skippers sailing the boat, four videographers to document the journey. Then there was one spot left, and the question was whether I should bring a doctor, or my brother. I was doubting him, I was doubting myself, I was doubting the team.

Didn’t seem like a super good idea for a team with very little glacier experience to go on a continent that’s pretty much just one big glacier. [gentle tense music] Anders sent me a document from Phil, our expedition guide, that I needed to sign out. It was basically Phil wondering about

Our previous expedition experiences. And I remember reading through the doc maybe like, “Oh… I don’t have this. I could maybe have some of this.” But it was basically just blank. It was fucking terrifying knowing that, you know, the closest hospital was on another continent, and the closest rescue wasn’t a helicopter away,

It was a military plane. Traveling up this once. Yeah. And for the team that will be safe enough? That is a big concern. It’s a very big concern. I know there is a big hole there. There’s a reason I know there’s a big hole there

Because I pulled someone out of that big hole there. It’s okay, we can always get another brother for you. [Phil laughs] Don’t record that. Don’t tell him I said that, okay. [both chuckle] The two biggest dangers for inexperienced people, number one falling in a crevasse.

If you fall in a crevasse without a rope, there’s a very high chance you are not coming back. Then there’s the weather. If the weather closes in, as it does so very quickly, you can easily become lost, become hypothermic. So we’re talking about things that will kill you. [dramatic music]

[waves crashing against the boat] [equipment clanging] [Anders retching] [waves crashing softly] [upbeat music] [camera person] We have the barrel here. [Anders] And it is. [laughs] [ice sloshes in water] [camera person] Three, two, one. Go. Get in there. Oh. He told this idea, and I was like, “Oh this sounds interesting.”

But you know, it was still just talking. Right? And then suddenly he starts taking things serious. [slapping] Hi guys, welcome to the first vlog of Project Iceman. And then I realized, “Okay, you know. This-this could be fun. Have you thought about this? Have you thought about that?

How are you going to brand this? What’s your goal?” Like it was just my curiosity, you know, asking these questions on a Saturday afternoon. It will take approximately five days to get just to Antarctica? [Cath] Well, from Ushuaia, yeah. [Eric] I think if you want to do this properly,

You want to be running and cycling on snow, correct? Exactly. Exactly. Yeah, this is going to be good. And then I started actually helping him, like seeing this is fun. Now we need to pitch, we need to fundraise, we need to brand, we need to actually go out with this message.

[dramatic music builds] I’ve done some stuff in this sport. And when I first heard that he was attempting this, I gotta be honest bro, it was like, “That ain’t happening.” Like just- Okay, dude’s done one full-distance triathlon. Zero credibility, he’s got no resume.

And so now you’re going to add in the element of freezing cold and you’re going to add in incredible amounts of fatigue. That’s a recipe for disaster. [engines humming] Obviously, there’s a lot of struggles of training in Denmark and trying to prepare for doing an Iceman in Antarctica. [feet landing on treadmill]

Like you don’t really have any chance of getting into super-cold water, or biking in snow or on ice, anything like that. So… Anders was constantly forced to go to extreme places to try and train. [water crashing on shore] Shit. [water crashing on shore] Oh my gosh. [Anthon] It’s beautiful. [Anders] It’s quite terrifying.

[camera person] Okay, so you’re ready now. -Yes I am. -[Nicklas] You’re in your wetsuit. This is perhaps the biggest challenge of the Iceman, swimming in the cold water. How long are you going to swim? -We’ll see. -[Nicklas] We’ll see. No goal? -No. -[Nicklas] Okay. I remember himself being quite concerned before going in,

Because we were standing on the rocks looking out and you see chunks of ice, and a lot of current, and it was quite a new experience for him. He just barely touched the water before going out. He was in there for probably half-half a minute.

-It’s fucking cold. I’m done. -You’re done? All right. It’s easy for you to say, but you don’t realize how fucking cold it is! It was just a wake up call. If there was, if I had done it with a boat or there was a beach, like where we did the first test…

That would’ve been better. I mean, if I go down 30 meters, 50 meters out, that’s… [interviewer] Did you ever consider doing it in Antarctica? For years, I toyed with the idea. I put a team together. I just couldn’t figure out the water side of it. Trying to figure out how to safely swim,

Not only with the wildlife but with the temperatures. You’re at such a high risk of hypothermia, like those are some big dice to roll. [waves crashing] [gentle suspenseful music] It’s just really annoying that it’s so cold for my face, getting under and… Can’t cut, I mean… [sniffs] Right now I can’t.

Can’t manage to breathe. [Speaker Off-Screen] Okay. To keep, I-you really… I really just want to get my head underwater and start swimming properly. But I can only do it for like five seconds, 10 seconds maybe. [Speaker Off Screen] Because of headache? Ah, it’s… Fucking annoying. [gentle suspenseful music]

-You need something like that. -Yeah. [Anders] So the plan is go a bit out and then go down, and then swim back and forth a few times, and try to get through the 500 mark. [gentle suspenseful music] [Anders whoops] [gentle suspenseful music] [water splashing gently] How long can you keep going? What?

Can you keep going? -I’m halfway there. -Okay. You got this! [Anders whoops] -Great fucking success. -Fucking yes. He was obviously really, really happy with his achievement. 500 meters is still something in those conditions, but he’s still far away from four kilometers. Hi, Yes Theory. I’m Anders. I’m 28 years old from Denmark,

Where I’m right now in my apartment in Copenhagen, where since I woke up this morning, I’ve been planning the Yes Theory ~ Seek Discomfort master marketing campaign. Looking forward to see what you say. Cheers. Looking forward to hear what you think. Cheers. [calm tense music] Today… I felt a… ultimate physical low…

In terms of energy… being on top of things, feeling well. For the past few weeks… I haven’t really had a sort of new next physical goal except for the trip coming up in a month. The focus has been on… more the business side of the project. [sighs]

I don’t know what the fuck I’m doing here. [interviewer] Did your brother have a childhood dream? Yes. I believe that dream was and still is to be a professional football player. Anders just finished the game. Are you done, Anders? My… brother was later developed than his peers…

Which you know, directly, you know, when you’re a young kid affects your physical performance. Everything he talked about back then was football. And he wanted to play for Haforia, which is great league. And he really wanted that and his friends were doing it

And he was envying that they were allowed to do it. But… someone told him that he couldn’t, “You can’t do this.” He played football and really cared about football. [birds chirping] And struggled with it. He often talks about how others didn’t believe he’d succeed in football.

As a parent, that was hard to see because he wanted it so bad, but nobody really saw him. He’d be on a football trip where he had this coach. They went far away from home, but he didn’t get to play one minute. That doesn’t really encourage your motivation

Yet he didn’t want to give up. He’s not a quitter. Can you play more? [gentle tense music] So tomorrow it’s going to be quite a lot of wind and most likely current in here where you’re going to swim. So this is too dangerous. And it’s also the hypothermia

That normally will come in about 15 minutes. So the main concern is going to be his safety. And if anything happens we just drop the cameras, and we bring him to the shore. So Anders, he hooked me up on this Svalbard trip. And he asked me to come and join him

Because he wanted to do a half iceman in Svalbard. And Anders assembled the team. And we went up there, super naive about what was going to happen. And it turned out to be a proper, proper, proper struggle. [water splashing] [tense music] -You’re fucking great. -Fingers are fucking cold.

[Nicklas] You had a good pace. Where did I drop my mask? [Nicklas] The mask is there. He’s been shaking and showing signs of hypothermia for the whole time he’s been changing. So we are looking quite closely at him. [slow tense music] [Anders] I had never been riding a bike in snow before.

So just riding through the snow and Svalbard, realizing how tough it was and starting to fall over and over again. Yeah! [cheering in a foreign language] And, you know, not only finishing the bike leg, but then having to, you know, run a half-marathon afterwards. And I couldn’t really imagine finishing that.

That was sort of where I realized the challenge that I was facing. We went on for hours and hours and also way longer than we were expecting. And… he pushed himself to the limit. And to me, that was just another doubting moment on this journey because he obviously had to double that

Once we reached Antarctica. [tense music continues] [music fades] [wind blowing] [gentle serene music] [Chilean Antarctic Base] I believe you are bringing someone to do an activity here at Base O’Higgins. Much bigger wall than I had anticipated. Is it a triathlete? -This is not a bad ramp here. -Yeah.

The question will be what are the crevasses like? Yeah. It’s all an unknown. Yeah. Wow. [somber music] It looks like there’s a lot of penguins. Like in front of the piers. Penguins means leopard seals. [gentle suspenseful music] [water gushing] Two years, man. [laughs] It’s fucking happening. [Anders whoops] [Anders sighs aloud] [Anders laughs]

-We’re here. -[Speaker Off Camera] Yes. You fucking did it. It’s fucking insane, bro. Jan, the man. [Anders laughs] Ah, yeah. Yeah. I mean, what… [laughs] You ready? I don’t know. -It’s insane man. -It’s absolutely insane. I mean… [wind blowing] What we have done before up until now,

Is nothing compared to what this will be. [pensive music] [team chattering] [Anders] But otherwise… It’s interesting though. I find often on these trips that the fittest, most hard core dudes are the ones, who cope seasickness the worst. -Yeah, you told me that, so that was… -Yeah, I don’t know why I’m.

I’m always really seasick. [team laughs] Okay, so our plan for tomorrow is make it to shore. Kiss the ground because you actually… [laughs] [Anders] Yeah, I made it. You’ve actually finished with the sea passage. And what are we doing, some practicing tomorrow as well? -I think we should. -Yeah. We will. [everyone laughs]

We will, we will. I think high on the priority is learning how not to die. -Yeah. -That’s pretty high up there. -That’s a good idea. -High on the list. Yeah. That’s goal number one. -Yeah. -Come back safe. This time. I’m a big boy. [team chatters] [waves crashing] [birds chirping] [Cath sighs] Yeah. Phil.

[Anders] Phil. -Phil. -[Anders] Phil. Hmm. Okay. [Cath] Doesn’t allow landings at all. That’s ridiculous. For consideration. I mean, for consideration. So it’s early next week. It’s not for a decision early. So number one. It’s going to be put forward for a decision to be made. It’s not.

So we’re going to talk that experience, maybe send them a copy of your certificates, first responder. All the experiences like over 700 days skiing in Antarctica. Almost 150 different mountains climbed. So in the meantime… As the email says, we are not authorized to conduct the project here. So…

Do we say that the project is now on hold, Project Iceman is on hold, until we get confirmation from the Australian Antarctic Division that we can’t continue? [Cath] Yeah. I think I feel this in terms of the morale, I feel like this has been the essence of the project.

That it’s supposed to be difficult. I mean even-even five… five freaking meters from the shore. And I don’t want to postpone it anymore. I mean, we’ve sailed across the Drake. I’ve been puking for, you know, two days, and I’m not in control of, you know,

When you do a regular event or triathlon or whatever, you know the date, you know the time, you know everything. Here I have nothing, zero clues. I don’t even know, I mean… I don’t know where I’m going to swim. I don’t know where I’m going to bike. I don’t know the conditions.

I don’t know where I’m going to run. I don’t know what the weather’s going to be like. I don’t know how cold it’s going to be. I have zero clues, and I have to do it within 10 days probably. Right? And I’ve spent, I mean I’ve invested everything I have to be here.

I have nothing left. [gentle music] I mean, when I first thought of the idea, I just no way expected it would be this challenging besides sort of the physical challenge. I had no money to pay anyone else. So I had to be in charge of everything,

Both the training but also the logistics, funding, the financial side of things, the legal stuff, the social media. If you have any questions, put them in the comments. Otherwise follow and subscribe. I cut down my financials completely. I lived up my, you know, I lived in my own living room on the couch.

Back to reality. Luckily there’s something called Airbnb so I can… cover my expenses. So I’m cleaning this shit up. Everything just went into this project. The first deposit for this trip, I paid all the money that I had. And it was nonrefundable. In order to get the financials from sponsors,

You need a sort of awareness. I was not, you know, a publicly known person, just a random guy with this crazy idea. I was just a nobody. Haven’t found a partner yet that really… believes just as much in it. And obviously, you know… [chuckles] Why would they? [sighs]

And the fact that I’m sitting here doing this… feels kind of- feels kind of pathetic sitting in the morning complaining about my life. Another thing to also fucking remember why I’m doing this. And that is… to prove, to do this. And to show that limitations are only fucking perceptions. [pensive music]

It would be so much easier to know that finances are taken care of, and you know, “I’ve got X amount of dollars to pay for a team, and nutrition, and nutritionist.” [exercise bike whirs] You’re trying to figure out just physically how to do this, mentally

And then you throw on top of it financially. I’ve been doing this for over a decade. When I first started going on this journey, I was like, “Oh, I’m going to break a world record. I’m going to go get financing, I’m going to get backed by big corporate sponsors.” Corporate sponsors would say,

“We can’t afford to associate ourselves with a failure.” And I was like, “I haven’t- I haven’t failed yet.” But they’re like, “But you’re going to fail.” -All right. Thanks anyways. -Sorry I couldn’t help. -It’s okay. -Have a nice day. I knew I was running out of time in terms of getting sponsorships

To make the expedition happen. So I had to figure out, you know, what else can I do? [pensive music] I did what everybody advised me not to do. I borrowed $100,000. My father thought, you know, I was completely out of my mind. For me, I think at the time,

I was just looking at doing whatever it would take in order to make the expedition happen so I could give myself the chance of actually doing the Iceman. [soft knocking on door] [door creaks open] No way! [friend clapping] Are you kidding me! Yes Theory! [Anthon] No.

[Ammar] I know it was supposed to be a phone call. Oh my god, I… So great to meet you guys! Oh my God. Let’s go upstairs. [Ammar] This is the operation room. This is the operation room, man. This is where it all started. Dude, I’ve seen a bunch of your videos.

So this is where it happens. [Anders] This is where it happens. -[Matt] You know, I love that. -I’m happy to hear that. People make fun of my accent when I speak in English. [Matt] Oh no, dude. Actually, I didn’t meet you. Anders. -Nice to meet you. Herman. -I’m from Norway actually.

[Anders] Nice to meet you. So, let’s sit down. I’ll give you the recap of what’s happening right now. You told me about your mission, about what you’re up to, and everybody was just so down to figure out a way to support you. And support the mission that you’re on.

And you mentioned the loan that you’ve gotten. -[Anders] Yeah. -Which is like, the dedication. -[Anders] Yeah. -Just blew us away. That was not really the plan from the beginning at all. I didn’t think it was going to be so difficult to get sponsorships and all this.

But banks said, you know, “Forget about it.” They told me that a long time ago. I started reaching out to, yeah, friends, and network and then I actually made investment deals. So I actually give them a return of 20%. -[Matt] Wow. -[Ammar] Wow.

To actually show not only so they are helping me out but so it’s actually a good investment for them. But I just wanted to show that you know, how much I actually believe that I, you know, I can make this happen. Throughout the years

I’ve seen so many people go after big audacious goals and some people just do it out of, you know, the show of saying that they’re doing this crazy thing. But very few actually end up following through. So the thing that was different about Anders

Is that he had already made the bet on himself. We also believe that you can make this happen. [Anders] I really appreciate it, man. We came with a request. -Yeah? -It would be an honor for us, for you to be the first-ever Seek Discomfort-sponsored human. -And, we’re not– -You’re kidding me, right?

No, we’re not. There was just something about the quality of his spirit and the way he spoke from his heart. I think the most difficult thing in life is that, you know, the belief has to start within yourself. Telling yourself that it is, you know, “It is possible and I will do this.”

And eventually, when you do this over and over, you know, we start believing in ourselves. And when you start believing in yourself, ironically other people believe- start believing in you as well. Right. I mean, I still can’t believe it. Crazy. [audience applauds] There is nothing that we love doing at Yes Theory

More than supporting dreams and dreamers. We would like to offer Anders Hofman a check for 100,000 Danish Krone. [audience cheers and applauds] [interviewer] Can you talk to us a little bit about the responsibility that you felt when they all set sail to Antarctica? Oh yeah. That kept me up at night.

-[wind blowing] -[water sloshing] [Anders] Oh, there’s another one. There have been attacks and sadly fatalities from leopard seal attacks on humans. [leopard seal snorts and grunts] Something swimming in its environment with, say a black wetsuit, looks very much like a seal, except seals swim very well.

So human swimming would look like an injured seal. And that, of course, is easy prey. [team member 1] There’s two of them. -Two of them? -[team member 1] Yeah, there’s one over there in the front back here. [team member 1] We can’t really see it. -That means… -[Oli] The word’s out.

That means-that’s, that’s, that’s five. [Oli] The word’s out. Right? [team member 1] You said the word’s out. Was that the-the first one we saw? Was that the one that went… [laughs nervously] [team member 1] Yo, that’s freaky bro. [team member 2] Go back. Hey, so bro, just want to say that, you know…

I’m not going to do anything. I’m just going to have a little swim here. I hope that’s okay with you. You over there as well. I feel like, you know, when we arrive we’re talking about it and then just like 50 meters from where we’ve anchored and just like five leopard seals.

[leopard seal snorts] [calm music] ♪ I wish I never saw the sunshine ♪ Woohoo. It’s approved. [laughs] There you go. That’s amazing that they did it that fast, to be honest. [Anders] What are you saying? [Cath and Anders laugh] “That the delegate has approved your authorization variation request.” [chuckles] Let’s go! Oh.

Yeah, I’ll take charge of that. I’m impressed they did it so fast. Like-that’s pretty awesome for a government department to move that quickly. Yeah. -Oh my god. -That’s really good news. Yeah. -[wind blowing] -[waves crashing] So what this is suggesting is our window… It’s here between 9:00 p.m. Saturday night.

I’m not fussed about the light snowfall. We want to be finished by Sunday 1800. How long do you expect to last with the current conditions up there? Because we have… a good window of 24 hours. But I agree with Phil, to start basically the earliest we can on Saturday,

Because that will leave 24 hours. Yeah. And then I have 36 hours. Yeah, 36 hours. [Cath] Yeah. [Anthon] And that’s when you- that’s when you… So the route starts four kilometers along the coast in front of the ice cliffs, and the swimming route will be accompanied by two boats

Until Anders reaches the shore in front of the glacial ramp. The route then goes up the glacial ramp where we’ve marked a safe route around the crevasses for about five kilometers to reach the main circuit. And the main circuit is two kilometers long in the middle of the glacier,

In an area that is free of crevasses. We’ve placed two camps, each one, a kilometer apart. And from those camps, we have two people in each tent that provide safety cover and pacing for Anders during the project. [somber music] [somber music continues] [water lapping] [somber music continues]

-[Oli] How many hours of energy is– -36 hours. -It should be. -Yeah. -It should be enough. -Mm-hm. Should be enough. [horn blowing low] [Anders] Oh cold day. Can I help you with something? [Phil shivering] Can I help you, Phil with something? No, I just need to…

I think I need to go and get… [Anders] Yes. Should I go make it ready for you? [Anthon] Bring him some sugar. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There you go. Just chuck that. That’s gross. Yeah. [chuckles] But it’ll help. It’ll help you. It’s going to be cold. Cold for my feet. You want any help?

It’s all right. Can I just put these on the dryer? Because I need my boots. [Anthon] I’ll have some hot water soon for you. [equipment clanging] Good night. [Anthon] Good night. Sleep tight. -See you tomorrow. -See you tomorrow. See you tomorrow, Jan. [Jan] See you tomorrow. [Anders exhales] [wind blows] [boat creaking]

…playing games. There are not going to be any left. There are not going to be any left. I like that mentality. It’s nice living in a dream world. [low rumbling] [Anders exhales] [wind blowing] [Oli claps] Conditions are perfect. [team claps] [Anders] We all live in our own perception of the world, right?

And that’s influenced by everyone. It’s influenced by ourselves, our friends and family, our society. [zodiacs hum softly] And that becomes the construct of our world, and sort of the box that we live in. [pensive music] We accept that story. But I think the dangerous thing is

When you follow the experiences and advice from other people. In this world, people have opinions about anything and everyone. So I only see two major reasons why we’re going to have to stop this: fatigue or exhaustion, and cold. I’ll monitor that and that’s my role to make that call.

The other one is seals, wildlife problems. Anders has a bloody loud whistle. I think we all agreed that if we see a seal, we put a time-out. [Anders] Yeah. [speaker off camera] Yeah, pull him out of the water. [Anders] Because when you listen to people around you, especially when you’re young, you know,

You think that comes from somewhere, right? And they must have a point. -[team member] You got it. -[team cheering] [Anders] You don’t make those reflective thoughts and are critical towards that input. There’s only one person who can find out where my limit is. [Anders splashes in the water] [team cheering] [boat engine chugs]

[soft humming] [tense brooding music] [water splashing] [tense music] -[water lapping] -[wind blowing] [water splashing] [boat engine whirs] [whistle blows] [tense music] [water gurgling] [whistle blows] Anders, got some big ice here. -All right. -Just got two big bits of big ice. Well done, Anders. We’re almost there. [Anders coughs] [gentle suspenseful music]

[team member] Fuckin’ hell. [water lapping] [waves crashing] Oh… my feet are frozen. Oh. Oh. Oh. I can’t feel my feet. Oh. Oh… I can’t believe I fucking did that. [equipment clanging] [Anders breathing heavily] I forgot the towel. [wetsuit gloves squelching] [Anders breathing shakily] [Anders continues breathing shakily] [pensive music] Yeah. [Phil laughs] Nice.

No looking. It’s okay. He’s wearing shorts. I fucking swam four kilometers. I went in fucking ice water. [voice over the radio] Let Anders know that the conditions are firm and very good. Over. [Anders breathing shakily] Cramp, cramp, cramp… Oh. [Anders exhales] Oh, cramp!

[voice over the radio] He’s walking the bike up to the start point now. Hurt my back. [feet squelching snow] Oh. Oh. [wind blowing] [Anders inhales sharply] [Anders exhales] [voice over radio] He’s reached the starting point. He’s about to take off now. And we’re off. [gentle suspenseful music] [radio crackling] [radio chatter]

[gentle suspenseful music] Anders was up the glacier. I was high-fiving people on the boat, and we had really planned for having this weather window of 36 hours. And I… I was like, “Conditions are looking good.” [low wind blowing] [Anders sniffs] First lap. Four kilometers. 1 hour and 20 minutes.

I have 43 left to go. [Anders exhales] I’ve already given up on counting my falls. One thing is for sure, I’m never going swim that again. So I need to do this. [snow squelching] Whatever it’s going to take. [snow squelching] I’m carrying enough shit.

The only place I can drive is where you’ve been skiing or walking with snowshoes. So that’s the place we should try to harden even more. [Phil] Okay. Is that both north and south? Yes. [tire hissing] The swim was physical torture. Bike is just mental torture. [camera person] [chuckles] [snow squelching]

From the get-go, the bike was just a pain in the ass. At many points, he felt like, “Okay, this is 180 kilometers of this. It’s not possible.” When you do reach Anton, can you tell him to bring my spare cycling shoes? Herman had them in the camera bag,

Or the bag with all your… with the camera team’s… sleeping stuff that came up yesterday. [snow squelching] 10 kilometers. 3 hours and 53. That’s the conditions. We’ll try to walk the track. What do you suggest? -How do you feel like– -I suggest you make a new track.

Give me some feedback. No more excuses! I know this looks shit, but give me some feedback. We’ll try to… give it a go on the south track. [snow squelching] Excuses? What the fuck are you talking about? [Nicklas over radio] Are we abandoning north camp? Should I join you guys?

[voice two over radio] Hey Nicklas. We need you ASAP in south camp. We made the decision to change the location of the route to the boundary of the snow line, so where it’s just bare rock-hard ice. And Anders started cycling backwards and forwards on a much smaller track just to keep cycling.

[team member] The easiest way to do it now is just with the boots. But once we get the shovels, that’s going to be prime. Get the shovel, yeah. [team member two] There comes the shovels. Fuck, we forgot to tell fucking them to bring down the shovels.

[camera person] I told Cory so he should bring down the shovels. How, how can you tell him that? [camera person] I told him before he left. We could only make it the length that it was because outside of that zone… was potential crevasses, and that was unexplored areas,

That was marked as our death zones. [scraping] [voice over radio] We have four hours before dark. Over. Understood. [snow squelching] Yeah. Well I think you need to drink more as well. How many liters have you gone through now? -[Anders] I don’t know. -[Anthon] You need to drink more.

You don’t have to worry about me. As long as I have food here, you don’t have to worry about me. Our minds were just like after 10 hours in different places. [conversing in foreign language] 41 maybe. 41. Fuck, it’s still a long way to go.

I know, dude. And that’s why we had to do something. Yeah, yeah. You’re right. We should keep going, but… He was struggling so much. There was a part of me that was like, “Okay, when will he break? When will it stop?” There’s just a slight voice in the back of the brain,

“Okay, we tried today, condition not working, let’s rethink, regroup, and then do it tomorrow.” Anthon. Get over here, we have a team meeting. It’s really important that you listen to what I say now and respect everything I say. We are now… 13 hours exactly into the Iceman.

And we haven’t been combined as a team at one point. I know a lot of things hasn’t gone according to plan, but that’s why it’s really freaking important that it does from now. I have been going for two hours longer than I’ve ever been active and I’ve only biked 45 kilometers.

That means I have 135 kilometers to go and a marathon to run. And… that’s a fucking lot to do. I don’t want to see anyone standing, not doing anything. If you’re not doing anything, I need you to rest. I need you to eat. That is crucial because I haven’t come here

To not finish this. And I have no clue what awaits, I don’t know what my state is in 12 hours. And at that point in time, you guys need to know where my stuff is, how I get warm, how I get a hot drink, and how I keep on going

Because I’m not going to stop this. But I might get to a point where I can’t, you know, figure out what two plus two is. And I don’t know that. This is the only time I’ve seen Anders say, “Okay, I’m fucked. I need you guys just to be on point

If this is going to happen.” I think from that point on, everybody just stepped up. [Anthon] At least, I go up to get the gear for Anders and then bring it down. Yeah. Okay, cool. -Bring some more gas. -[Anthon] Yeah. Where’s the gas? In your tents.

There should be a few things. Bring-bring 40 bottles. I don’t want to-I don’t… It’s… I feel like I left it a little negative. I don’t want it, I don’t want it to sort of, you know, come off negative. I really appreciate everything you guys have done and I can’t do this without you

And that’s just, you know, I want to bring this home together with you guys. Let’s do that. [team member] You’re doing good buddy. Okay, great. [camera person] Keep cruising, boy. Keep cruising. [splint sparks] Dig snow before breakfast. Dig snow before lunch. Dig snow before dinner,

And then we’ll dig snow all through the night. [Anders] Fastest 5k until now, guys. -[Oli] Yeah? -[Anders] Yeah. [Oli] Nice one. Look there, dude. This I borrowed from my neighbor, just to save up. Only 55. I thought it was 60. Damn. [pensive music] It’s going to be a long cold night.

I’m sure it’s going to be longer and colder for Anders, but it’s still going to suck balls for us. [laughs] [snow squelching] [tense music] [Anders] My hands are… Should I put on a head torch now? That’s not going to spring off, right? [Anders] The night shift begins, huh? Let the night begin.

[shovel thumping on snow] Your knee okay? -I don’t know. -Just bend it. -When I’m at 90, I would like a break. -Okay. A hot meal and change my socks. -Where are you at now? -I’m at… 78. Okay, good. -A little over an hour. -Good. Keep going, Anders. Hold on.

You start raising the risks when you start going through the night. And the colder you get, the more you start to shut down. 21 hours. Yeah. Right now I feel the worst is just, I want to sleep. I’m only half-way on the bike. You want more? I can get the rest for you.

-It’s fine. -No, let’s get it for you. You need it. Last bit. So after a year back, I was struggling with, well I didn’t necessarily know it at that time, but I was struggling with anxiety and that were also coupled with stress. And… Then I kind of came into the living room

And told my brother, “Hey, I, you know, I’m… I’m not good. I’m not feeling well.” And, you know, “Here’s the situation.” And then again, it was kind of this conversation with my brother that made me realize, “Wow, I, you know, I… This is… First of all, this is okay.

And second of all, who’s your priority?” You know, I asked me that question. And you know, the reason why that makes me emotional was that… [somber music] [shakily] You know, I think- I think first of all, he knows me really well. So we knew at that point I just, you know,

I’d stretched myself, I stretched myself, you know, too far from my core. And… You know, he kind of let me know that with tough love. But the reason why, you know, I’m emotional now is that, you know, he… you know, he really cares for me. Good job, man. How you feeling? You warm?

Yeah. How is this holding up? Is it working? We’re brewing coffee to you right now. Have a sip. I’m just looking forward to the sun comes again. Yes. [wind blowing] -How are you doing, man? -I’m broken. You will be. That’s the point of this. Keep it up, man. He’s suffering. He’s suffering hard.

Anders was cycling 200 meters, and back 200 meters for 20 hours. And how he persevered, I don’t know. [strong wind blowing] In my ultimate low, I had that conversation with myself. What if I didn’t make it? [pensive music] I was going to tell my brother that I couldn’t, I can’t do this.

[pensive music] That was where I reminded myself of why I’m doing this. I wanted to show that limitations are perceptions. I just don’t think that I really realized that I had to break my own perceptions of where my limit was. I’m broken, but I can’t give up now.

Well, it’s fair to take a break. It’ll probably be quite nice to change scenery for your head. It’s firm enough for you to ride up there, definitely. Should we go up? Cool, let’s go up. We got our stuff together. We changed the tactics. We could see another day.

And then we went to the upper track. And I remember this was not filmed. We were like giving each other high fives, and you know, shouting, because the track was good up there. So suddenly you’re know, “Whoa, we can do this.” We’re going to get there.

I was on a low down there, but I’m going to be on a high up here. [snow squelching] And then, you know, before we know it, the wind picked up quite significantly. [wind whistling] He’s had cold feet for almost two days by now. It’s not getting better.

This weather is going to continue until tomorrow afternoon, apparently. [strong winds blowing] [wind whistling] [wind whistling] I can’t believe I did that as well. First the swim, then the bike. Now I really can’t believe that I have a marathon to run in this weather. Ah. [Anders exhales]

-What are you saying? -It’s impossible to get through here. 35 hours and 30 minutes. Total time. So far. [chuckles] Oh. [team member] If you snack well and then… My right knee is so fucked. [Anders exhales] [Anders exhales] I’ve been having trouble with the knee for now… a month and a half.

And there’s only one month until we take off. So that, I mean, I have to do everything to fix it. [physical trainer speaking in foreign language] In November and December, those were tough months. So I think my parents saw that. And then they saw that as, you know, am I,

You know, am I taking care of myself? Am I healthy through this process? You know, I just clearly remember that conversation in my apartment. Why does it have to be now? I could just postpone it. Yeah, I think I would see like 2% on, you know, just breaking completely.

[family conversing in foreign language] So New Year’s Eve. Home. I can’t remember since I had a long bike ride… because of the troubles with my knee. You know, having a night like this… We really just… [exhales deeply] want to relax, party… like everyone else. [conversing in foreign language] [speaking in foreign language]

I could feel the amount of pressure, the amount of risk that my brother had taken. Some frustration that I experienced was this somewhat fear of the unknown. It’ll be fine. -I love you. -Love you too. And… I was worried for his knee. Two, three months before, I’m not seeing him move.

And that worries me. I was worried that we would get there, and he would not be able to run. [strong winds blowing] [strong winds continue blowing] [Anders] We were 36-and-a-half hours into the Iceman, which meant we had passed the weather window. The team knew that.

But I wasn’t really focused on that at all. In my mind, I just wanted to finish it. [strong winds blowing] -How many kilometers? -7.5. [strong winds blowing] [strong winds continue blowing] I kind of lost track of time. I forgot to have some patience and to take care of myself.

I found myself making bad decisions and I had to tell him I need to sleep. And in my mind I was just like, “You’re not fucking leaving me now.” If Anthon tells me, “I need a break,” then Anthon really needs a break. [pensive music] Being in that state, being tired yourself,

We had to go back to our tent. This is 500 meters away. This was dark heavy winds. You couldn’t see anything. We had to rely on our GPS. I had this realization where I was like, “This is too dangerous to be out.” [wind howling] [strong gusty wind blowing]

We decided that I was just going to walk, and everybody else would go back to their tents for safety. And so I walked with Oli for seven kilometers. It was pitch-dark. You couldn’t see two meters ahead of yourself. I was getting dizzy. It was difficult for me just to walk.

We quickly went through the pros and cons of continuing at the point. It wasn’t a race anymore. It was basically just survival. [gusty wind blowing] -[Cory] Anders. -Yeah. [Cory] Can you give us an update? We have this blizzard. And I will start walking with Oli. And we decided to…

Postpone it three hours until everybody is more rested. Because right now, time is not… Time doesn’t matter anymore now, just- Now it’s just important for me to finish this and… Yeah, we would just be risking it, if we kept on going just two of us. Anthon, Anthon, this is Cory. Do you copy?

It’s not good that they have radio silence. I don’t understand that. They should be… -Ahead of things. -Yeah. It’s been a long time since we heard from them. [wind whistling] -It could be because… -They could’ve run out of batteries. Yeah, or their tent could be covered in snow.

[Cory] Yeah. I don’t think we’re getting a hold of them. [wind blowing] [shovel thumping] [team member] I remember waking up at one point being completely like fixated by the weight of snow on top of the tent. [shovel continues thumping] So Cory had to dig the snow from the tent.

You just hear the shovel and in the meantime, you know that if he hits like, the tent, just scratches it, it’s game over. [snow squelching] [strong winds blowing] Where’s Herman? I think it was day two, around eight o’clock in the evening, Greg and I got back to the boat,

And I started dumping all the footage before I need to go off to reach you guys again. I tried calling Phil and I got no answers. And then suddenly, I just hear like scratches. [imitates radio noises] Like no solo travels, not safe. And to give a little context,

We had the boat anchored up in a bay where we had six safety ropes to all angles holding the boat in one place. -Holy fuck! -What? -The white line is nearly about to snap. -Oh no. What do we do? And then, one of the ropes snaps. It was just panic on board.

Greg’s tried to scramble some ropes and see how we can solve this problem. And while he’s outside in winds, way over 100 kilometers an hour, this rope snaps. [loud bang] I could see the fear in both Cath and Greg’s eyes because now it’s serious trouble. And then, another rope snaps. [loud bang]

Cath picks up the radio and calls in Mayday. Like Mayday is the last, last thing. We’re slamming against the rocks. And then, Cath tells me, with the straightest face, “Herman, stop filming. I need you to jump on land. We need this rope that we have used to block the ice.

I need you to go up on land and toss it to me.” I tell Cath… “I’m not sure I can do that, handle that task.” We get a small glimpse of a bit slower wind. At that point I was like, “Fuck it, I need to try.”

So I jump in the Zodiac, pull myself across. I just basically had to jump from the Zodiac onto land. So I was soaked. I started crawling along the land, because of the wind, there was no chance to be able to walk. And I start untying this rope and it’s so tight.

While I was reaching the rope, my hat and my mittens blew off. Finally, I kind of thought just slowly with one hand loosening the rope, and then pause it while laying on the ground, and I start crawling back to a big rock where I could shelter.

I was so scared. And this was the first point where I actually feared for my life. And I lay there for what felt like an eternity. [wind howling] [strong winds blowing] I don’t know how I made it through that bike ride. I’ve never been so broken in my life, both physically and mentally.

[wind flaps tent noisily] Anthon, do you copy? Anthon, Anthon, this is Anders. Do you copy? [tense music] [strong wind blowing] Anthon, Anthon. This is Cory. Do you copy? We ran out of food… and we had an ice cave that we built early on

As a surplus for us if we ever needed to go and gather more food. [strong winds blowing] I remember just looking around and then looking back at you and being like, “Is this where it is? Is this it?” I realized that there was no way that we’re going to get it.

I do have something I want to say. There was a moment with Anders and I that… I will never forget. As an independent artist, I was going through a really hard time. And… [chuckles softly] I was coming home for Christmas. It was a very dark time for me and

A lot of thoughts about giving up or is it all worth it? And I hadn’t really said much that- that those days up until Christmas Eve. But someone asked me like, “How are you?” And then, we started talking and then in our family, it’s instantly like,

“This is what you should do. This is the plan. We can work this out. And we’ll, you know…” Or Anthon will always have the good questions and like, “But you don’t need this. Why do you need this?” And I keep thinking like, you know, I have to have the good argument.

I have to defend myself in my case. And as I was doing that, I just totally like lost it. I started like, I got a panic attack basically. And I remember… I just remember being on my couch and like had… I remember thinking like, “You’re about to pass out.”

So I like, I put my head between my legs, and I remember like, the whole room just froze and no one knew like, what to do. And Anders just like runs over and grabs my shoulders and just shakes me and be like, and he starts crying and like…

Just-I’ve never seen Anders like that. I just felt like he just understood. [sniffles] He just understood. He keeps telling me that what I’m doing is so much harder, because to him, what he’s doing is he’s the only one. But what I’m doing is like, there’s millions of us.

So for me to stand out and do my thing is a completely different Iceman, as he says. [radio beeps] [Anthon] Cory, Cory, Anthon, Anthon. Anthon, Anthon, this is Cory. [Anthon] How is Anders doing? He’s all right. [Anders] What luxury do you guys have over there? How are you guys doing?

We’re good. We’ve all peed in the same water bottle and now Jan is cooking some porridge for us for dinner. Sounds like brotherhood. Happy to hear that. [radio beeps] The storm was gone. And then suddenly, nobody was doing anything. And then, I felt we cannot wait anymore. The time is 2:32.

We’ve been here for about… 27-28 hours. But we made it. The weather is calm. We can trust the weather now. [radio crackling] I just told Anders, “15 minutes, you’re going to meet out here and then we’re going to finish this.” I think he was caught up in the struggle at that moment,

Running on a glacier. And I realized that… You don’t see what we see right now. And what we are seeing is that you have 10 kilometers left on something people thought was impossible. And you need to realize that yourself as well. You show that it’s fucking possible!

You show that you live out your message! You show that you are what you fucking say! You’re doing it, Anders! You’re fucking doing it! [snow squelching] That’s it! That was already 1 km. That was 1 km! [team member] He needed that. In that moment, I had this feeling of just…

Finding my purpose there. [snow squelching] Something in me just says that Anders shut down for these years probably to figure out “When am I going to press that button?”. And that happened in Antarctica. It started as a calm morning and it ends with a calm morning. [snow squelching] [calm ethereal music] [team cheering]

[Anders and Anthon sniffling softly] I want to be the first person… I will be the first person doing an Iceman in Antarctica. [camera person] 30 seconds, 30 seconds. Come on, come on. I just have to remember that I can do so much fucking more than

I think I can, that I allow myself to believe. This was just as much a project to test himself of how much he could believe in himself when nobody else did. He now knows that that voice comes from a truth. [gentle upbeat music] 72 hours and 54 minutes. [Anders sighs]

We fucking did it. [team applauds] [team cheers and whoops] Good morning to you. [Anders whoops] Let’s go! [Anders whoops] Anders is giving people a gift. He’s giving people the gift of hope. And his willingness to suffer intentionally gives people hope on their journey where they’re not suffering intentionally.

That’s the greatest gift you can give anybody. Well done, Anders. A new beginning. [Anthon sighs] You’ve finished what you started. -I’m proud of you. -I’m proud of you too. -I love you. -Love you too, bro. [calm uplifting music] We get in contact with the base.

They’re telling us to stay calm and they will get people come help us. The marine guys were like, “Okay, this is not safe for you anymore. All of you guys need to come back to the base.” We wait there while the divers do their job and attach on new ropes

And try to pull the boat slowly back. Greg ended up being-swam back to the boat with the divers because our skipper Cath, she refused to leave the boat, which was eventually pretty heroic thing to do. I get back to the base and I was just sitting there alone.

I was so in shock still, I think. So I just ate, got a room and I just laid down. It was the first time in over 48 hours where I could actually sleep. So I wake up, naturally, early in the morning, like 6:00 or something, and as I walk out the door,

I turn around the corner and I just see Anders. Suddenly, it just hit me. I was like, “Oh, fuck.” Because then I realized also you guys have been on the glacier when this whole thing has happened down by the boat. And you guys probably needed to be rescued as well,

Was my first initial thought. So I was just, “Oh fuck, you guys got rescued.” I mean, does that mean the whole race was just canceled and stuff? And I was asked- I just asked Anders plain, “What happened, dude? Are you okay?” And he was like, “Yeah, I just finished the race.” [everyone chuckles]

And I was like, “The fuck you mean you just finished the race?” And I was so confused, but at the same time, I was so relieved that kinda he was safe and he was like, “Yeah, the rest of the guys are kind of in the food area.”

And I walked out and saw the whole gang sitting in the dinner area, and it was just the most surreal moment. Everyone was just safe. Everyone’s smiling. I-you got something which ended up with my bag, coming home from the expedition. And that is the tag from the Chilean base you got

When you finished the race. Huh! And it’s been two years now, I’ve had this. I haven’t said anything to you, but I’ve always had this to bring you so we finally meet again. And this belongs to you. Crazy. Yeah. [Anders exhales] [speaking in foreign language]

You know, it all came from it being ironic that you know, during the Iceman and going out and doing speeches at primary schools and to young kids… I’m telling them to pursue their own Iceman in life. When the fact is I’ve not pursued my own Iceman in life. [interviewer] Here you go. Yeah.

So Project 30. [interviewer] What’s Project 30? Project 30 is pursuing my childhood dream of becoming a professional football player. [interviewer] And what’s 30? 30 is the age I’m restarting my football career. [gentle music] ♪ I’m ’bout to do this shit ♪ ♪ Sick of sitting here ♪

♪ Only got a couple years before I disappear ♪ ♪ I don’t know, just a man ♪ ♪ But there’s more inside me than these people understand ♪ ♪ Oh, I think this time I went and found ♪ ♪ A way ♪ ♪ I’m looking for something different ♪

♪ To clear my mind ♪ ♪ I’m headed to someplace distant ♪ ♪ That I might not find ♪ ♪ And I know ♪ ♪ That you’re worried ♪ ♪ I won’t make it, but ♪ ♪ No ♪ ♪ Don’t worry ♪ ♪ I’m going to make it home ♪

♪ I could die ♪ ♪ I’ma do it though ♪ ♪ Hope my life becomes a symbol of what’s beautiful ♪ ♪ Take it there, make it back ♪ ♪ All these people think I’m crazy ♪ ♪ I’m okay with that ♪ ♪ Oh, I think it’s time ♪

♪ I went and found a way ♪ ♪ I’m looking for something different ♪ ♪ To clear my mind ♪ ♪ I’m headed to someplace distant ♪ ♪ That I might not find ♪ ♪ And I know ♪ ♪ That you’re worried ♪ ♪ I won’t make it, but ♪ ♪ No ♪

♪ Don’t worry ♪ ♪ I’m gon’ make it home ♪