so over the past month I have traveled to some of the coldest destinations on
planet Earth four weeks ago I was standing on the top of Mount Kilimanjaro
in Tanzania three weeks ago I was stranded in a blizzard in the middle of
Iceland and in ten hours I will be in Lapland Finland
that's right Finland welcome to Finland just arrived it is minus 8 degrees
Fahrenheit in Finland on this trip to Finland I will be testing out a brand
new camera I'm proud to say that this video is sponsored by Canon I will be
testing out the brand new hand power shot g1x mark 3 on this trip putting it
through the test of the cold of the weather have you been following my
youtube channel since the very very beginning it you know that I used a
point-and-shoot camera for almost the first year and a half of making videos
the Canon Powershot g1 X mark 3 has a 2.4 megapixel aps-c sensor which is
basically camera nerd talk for saying that this camera is incredibly powerful
it's unheard of for a point-and-shoot to have a sensor that large normally that's
the size sensor that you would find in a larger camera with an interchangeable
lens when I'm travelling and himself filming one of the most important things
I look for is auto focus this is the first point-and-shoot in the Canon line
to have the advanced autofocus dual pixel CMOS AF which up until this point
has only been found in Canon DSLRs I'm a huge fan of the canon powershot g7x mark
ii but i'm thinking that this is my new go-to for on-the-go point shoots and now
back to earlier this morning to start this video off right we're going to go
for a traditional finish ice bath in the river let's do it so normally what you
do is you go into the sauna you warm up your body real nice to the point where
you are so hot that the only way to really appease this heat and to get rid
of this heat is to run down to the river and jump into the river into this little
hole which they call the finish ice bath now the tradition of the smoke sauna is
a massive massive part of Finnish culture there are approximately 5.5
million people living in Finland and are an estimated 2 million saunas that
is how much the Finnish people like their sauna
the smoke sauna is an art form as sunrise a fire is made and it is stoked
for 6 to 8 hours until the rocks are heated up to the proper temperature
normally when you do this you go naked but because this is going on YouTube and
I want to film the whole thing from memory we're wearing a bathing suit but
this is the entrance to the smoke sauna stop going in here shut the door behind
you this is it put some water on this rock really get that skin going in here
now we just sit and marinate get nice and toasty because in a few minutes now
the air is so cold that even moving river water can freeze in a matter of
minutes I'm ready for my eyes back ready yeah let's do let's go over let's go it
gets so warm and they're so fast yeah like I don't even feel cold right now oh
you will in a second my friend see or doesn't exist fear is a mental thing
well the muzzles gonna freeze up so baby I've never felt so alive you are
screaming you wanna just get the hell out 15 seconds later you calm down your
breathing slows you look up with the sky to the blue the best way to start the
day you're probably watching that like Eric what are you doing I cannot even
tell you how invigorating it is to jump in ice-cold water
when it's minus 8 what is that in Celsius it's cold as is what it is it's
very cold the reason why I'm here in Finland actually I'm staying here at
this castle this is the manor house I mean look at this this is basically a
castle outside of Helsinki the reason why I'm here is because I'm giving a
talk today at a conference on the future of work you know talking about my
youtube channel and my production company how I started a career on the
internet because you know five years ago this wasn't a thing like making videos
and traveling the world didn't really exist oh yeah and I also forgot to
mention that I am NOT on this trip alone joining me for the Finland travel series
is Jared is a good friend of mine he's also my business partner I don't think
you've actually been introducing the YouTube channel it's been a while and
then you guys know who this is Mike's never gonna run inside get warmed up and
then go give this talk that's good let's get warm going dude I know it's
cinematic out here
they travel there so it was something that I began we wanted to share really
research food it is that you want to align your company with so I think it's
just doing your homework and really knowing and what you looking for the
panel was amazing a great talk about social media and the future of it all
and we have now made it to Helsinki Helsinki first time for all of us in
Helsinki kind just walking around getting a feel for the city
very European vibe I mean we are in Europe they say it's like a little st.
Petersburg II also like a little Russian yeah I like it a lot it's definitely
cold now if I call it all so in these travel films I like to
recommend places to go in places to eat when in the new cities for dinner in
Helsinki we went to this spot called the cock it had a good centre city
atmosphere the food was amazing and it was right next to our hotel for the
night we were staying at the f6 hotel which is a very very fancy swanky hotel
check this out I'm in the bathroom I shower is lit up with sex lights
tomorrow morning we wake up and we continue the finland adventure and we're
gonna head north
welcome to get tiller as well as to holiday results lady activist
so the bag would be here at 6:00 p.m. following here okay okay all right three
so the bag was found it was put on a wrong belt but the thing is that could
have been very bad because yeah I mean all the camera gear was in that bag so
that could have been very very bad crisis averted
we have made it to Laughlin we have a light magical snow falling Lapland is
honestly the closest thing to a snow globe
IRL if I were to step into this powder snow I would probably go up to my high
shin maybe waist this is a snow test
come on closer come on I thought it was maybe up to the
kneecaps there's a I'm not even at the bottom are you serious two idiots as you
can see it's a very snowy place in oh my gosh well this trip was booked very last
minute and the place that we're staying tonight it's pretty it's pretty cool
you'll see you'll see why that's funny in a few minutes we'll have dinner there
tonight so oh yeah yeah yeah you'll see you'll see dinner let's cut the dinner
tonight we are dining in the world's largest igloo I've traveled around the
world and I've seen some pretty cool places my time but I've never ever
stayed in a place made out of snow tonight we are eating at the ice
restaurant in the snow village hotel in Lapland Finland basically everything in
here is ice table made out of ice chair made out of ice bar made out of ice
silverware not made out of ice I'm not actually
sitting on ice I'm sitting on a nice little but warmer faux-fur we have some
blankets if you are new to our YouTube channel make sure to subscribe because
in the next video we are staying in these snow village overnight and we're
doing a full tour of our experience sleeping sleeping here it's -5 celcius
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like and we'll see you in that's Oh before I end that look at this we have
some hot hot tea to warm the soul like that I will see you in the next video