[music playing]
We are here to document the lives
of people living in Alaska.
The harsh reality is the environment we're up against,
it makes it tough to do our job.
Get out of there.
Working on "Life Below Zero" can be very dangerous.
Guns here.
Cameras here.
Never know what to expect. - Hey, hey!
Did you [bleep] see that [bleep]??
Going to be tough, but we're going to get the shot.
Every scenario, we've got to prepare for this.
But we're still smiling.
We're having fun still making "Life Below Zero."
Yes.
Bring it on.
It's the 2019 Iditarod.
Definitely excited to be back this year.
We're just trying to keep up, keep up with our boy
Jessie Holmes.
I'm back with the Iditarod for my second run.
Last year was my rookie run.
It was an incredible experience.
For me as a dog racer, I feel like after last year,
this is what I'm cut out for in my mushing career.
It really changed my life.
Honestly, we worked really hard for years for it.
Today is the official start of the race.
You've got to have all your things
together because once you leave here, it's 1,000 miles to Nome.
All right.
Easy.
We're setting off a 1,000-mile ride.
Our goal is to just get out in front of most of the pack
without having to pass many or any mushers,
film Jessie's story, see how the race
evolves for him day to day.
It should be pretty amazing.
(ON RADIO) [bleep] Son, did you just get stuck?
Nacho, how you doing?
Are you stuck?
I mean, the trail is just complete water ahead of me.
I don't know.
I'm not sure how we get out of this.
Yeah, Rob, maybe if you come up here,
you'll be on some firm-enough ground to pull me out.
It started off well.
We got some great shots with Jessie,
and then everything just went to hell.
I hit this huge pocket of overflow, sunk my toe sled.
My machine stopped moving, and I just threw
up my hands like what next?
Enough.
So the trail basically just disintegrated around us.
You're in this slush pond, and the snow
machines lose traction.
Sleds get stuck, and we just ground to a halt.
[engine revving]
Just basically just keep full throttle, keep the faith,
and hopefully you can keep up the momentum
and make it through the ice.
30 miles of horrendous overflow.
Sounds like we're going to have a really slow-moving trail.
You know, it's always a good day when you don't actually
think you're going to die.
So it definitely could have been worse,
but at least it wasn't open water.
Nacho and I have just arrived at the blowhole,
which notoriously last year kicked our asses.
I'm going to go inside there, and we're going to film Jessie
going by.
I've been dreaming of this shot of Jesse
coming through and having a camera set up in this window.
He's coming pretty quick right now on the trail,
so we're going to get in there.
The other tricky part is we don't have any communication
with Jessie, and so he keeps turning off his headlamp
to kind of just enjoy the ride, so we never really
know when he's coming or not.
Sometimes we set up and he just goes by in the dark
and we can barely see him and don't get a shot at all.
So this could be worth nothing in the end.
You see that right there?
That's Jessie.
Yeah, we've got him coming.
Here he come.
All right.
Iditarod 2019.
Iditarod 2019, man.
Back at it, boys.
We finally got some sleep last night.
We've been going 40 hours, 30 hours, something like that
without sleep.
Getting up early and doing all that we had to do to cover
Jessie's race, we weren't sure whether we were going
to be able to do it, but it worked out great,
and we're feeling really proud that we
kind of pulled this off.
And we made a lot of friends along the way.
It's incredible to see how people come out for this race,
all the people in the villages who just come out to cheer
on the mushers and see the dogs, all the kids that come out
and the enthusiasm that they show to welcome
people to their home.
Just to have that, we're fired up.
We're excited.
A long trip.
We were 12 days out on the trail day
and night really, very little sleep, kind of living
the life of an Iditarod musher.
So we made it to Nome, over a thousand miles on the trail,
safe and sound in one piece.
Feels pretty amazing to be here.
We really feel privileged to have been able to do this.
It's the trip of a lifetime, really.
And then to be able to come out here and travel the trail,
experience it, that was really special to be a part of that.