00:00remote sites and sounds as seen by a
00:08Harrogate history maker Yorkshire
00:10explorer Chris Brown has become the
00:12first person to reach seven of the
00:14world's poles of inaccessibility some of
00:17the most remote and hard-to-reach spots
00:19on the planet they're the points on a
00:21continent or ocean that's the furthest
00:23from any coastline in all directions
00:25Chris had already checked off six of them
00:28across North and South America Africa
00:30Australia Antarctica and even in the
00:33middle of the Pacific Ocean at Point Nemo
00:35now he's reached the northern pole of
00:38inaccessibility deep in the Arctic Ocean
00:40around 400 miles from the geographic
00:43North Pole this frozen shifting and often
00:46dangerous region has defeated many
00:48explorers over the years from Sir Wally
00:50Herbert in 1968 to modern-day exhibitions
00:53that had to turn back due to unstable ice
00:56and extreme weather Chris himself had a
00:58failed attempt in 2019 after geopolitics
01:01and weather grounded his aircraft this
01:04time aboard the icebreaker Le Commandment
01:06Charcot he made it the captain agreed to a
01:09detour dropping Chris and his small team
01:11within one kilometer of the target from
01:13there they hiked across the ice reaching
01:15the pole on the 18th of September
01:23at the pole there's just 30 minutes of
01:25sunlight a day and while it's technically
01:27warmer than Antarctica
01:29Chris says the moving ice and
01:30unpredictable currents made it just as
01:32hard if not harder
01:33he now has one pole of inaccessibility
01:36left to reach in northwest China
01:38his advice never give up no matter how hard
01:40your dreams may seem
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