[music playing]
CROFTON DIACK: Cameras aren't working,
and it's getting super frustrating.
MAN: This is what it's like on "Life Below Zero."
JOHN GRIBER: The camera's already down, tough conditions
all around to film it.
CROFTON DIACK: No heat.
No power.
No anything.
Ugh.
It won't even turn on.
CROFTON DIACK: I've fallen too many times.
We have bad winds.
This is a typical day in the Arctic.
JOHN GRIBER: Making the best with what we got.
[music playing]
CROFTON DIACK: It's super windy.
And our cameras aren't working.
And it's getting super frustrating.
SUE: It is an impressive storm, and I'm only supposed
to get a little bit of a lull.
So like it or hate it, even though I've still got wind,
even though it's still a blizzard,
I have to start moving the snow.
CROFTON DIACK: So it's going get down to 20 below.
We have bad winds.
It's just blowing, blowing, blowing.
And it's messing with our cameras.
It's getting frustrating.
We have visibility of 100 yards maybe.
It's just a typical day in the Arctic.
They're filming at Kavik.
[bleep] winds.
[bleep]
JOHN GRIBER: What I'm doing is setting up suit, clearing snow.
Ugh.
[bleep] you.
Conditions are a little blustery.
[bleep] battery thing keeps coming up.
And we're unable to do our job.
That's what I'm doing.
This sucks.
You can't really always rely on gear operating properly.
Here's a top of a building right here.
So we've gotten a lot of snow.
And a lot of wind has moved a lot of snow.
So setting up these shots, I really don't know if they're
going to work a lot of times.
But we want to maximize our time out here.
So we've got GoPros set up on Sue's bobcat.
You never know if those are going to last very long,
or if those are going to fail.
And then we'll be running two other cameras
watching her clear snow.
It's probably around 15 degrees ambient temperature.
But with the wind chill, it's probably more like negative 15,
negative 20, I guess.
I don't know.
It's cold enough, you don't want to touch anything
with bare fingers for very long.
Electronics don't seem to last very long in the cold either.
CROFTON DIACK: This is Sue right now,
trying to clear the path so that our plane can land
at some point to pick is up.
But it's intense.
So to get this shot of her doing it, we need two C300s up.
We need GoPros up.
And I need Sue to be a bad ass and plow
a road through everything.
JOHN GRIBER: [bleep] Mark II won't even turn on.
MAN: Seriously?
JOHN GRIBER: Yeah.
Making TV.
We'll see what happens.
The drone's a valuable tool.
I mean, GPS is just messed up.
And I don't know.
I'd hate to lose this drone.
SUE: Not a bad way to spend a day,
digging a little snow cave.
I feel like it's important for me to brush up on my skills.
And I'm not going to wait until I have
to have one to figure out, at 55,
do I still remember how to make one?
JOHN GRIBER: It's been kind of trying
with flying the drone lately.
Between super high winds, incredibly cold temperatures,
I haven't really been able to have
much success in keeping the drone kind of where I want it.
I think we're so far north that we
can't determine where the GPS is, where the GPS signal is.
And so it honestly just leaves.
No matter which way I push the controller--
left, right, up, down--
the thing, the drone just takes off.
I mean, look at where we are.
There's a chance that I'd probably find this thing.
Where it ends up, I have no idea.
You never know what the weather is going to do.
Zero wind, we've been up here for two weeks,
and this is by far the nicest day we've had.
See, right now, it says my GPS is good.
Let's see what happens here.
Sue's walking out to the Argo.
And I'm really hoping this works.
[drone whirs]
MAN: There it is.
JOHN GRIBER: I see it.
[music playing]
Just doing one more move, and then we'll call it good.
That was a good flight.
That was the best one of the whole trip.
That was the best one for two weeks of flying.
This is what makes me happy right
there-- the drone is down.
So that's great, and we got a good shot.