[Music]
hi everyone these days
sweet often hear about movements to get
people outside ironically when I was
much younger the television set
influenced me to have a certain interest
in travel outdoors and nature so I fell
in love with travelling at a young age
because of the TV set at the age of
eight I started my own ghost hunting
club in school right across the street
so I would recruit my friends and I’d
lead them towards secret passageways
eluding teachers in hopes of discovering
a ghost and maybe an insect a new
species of insect so measuring bichon
exotic manner gross and insect but
anyway fast-forward years later I didn’t
take the science track but my love for
travelling tiller made the same so I was
exposed to Moors on nature spots and
scenic spots through traveling locally
with friends and family and also by
attending international conferences
abroad so through these conferences I
met one guy who posted a picture on
Facebook about his expedition to
Antarctica and I was like hey how did
you get there I mean can you even
possibly go to Antarctica
those were the things that were on my
mind I mean for me I’ve always just
imagined Antarctic as a white landscape
like it’s just so big and you know
there’s just penguins and scientists
there so it was really amazing for me to
meet someone online or meet a friend who
has been there so I was so interested in
Antarctica that he led me to the
foundation’s website the 2041 foundation
and there I got to know about the
foundation and who Robert Swan is so
Robert Swan is the founder of the 2041
foundation he’s the first man to walk to
both the North and South Pole so his ice
axe
changed color because of the hole in the
ozone layer and since then it has become
as advocacy to fight for climate change
and to help people realize that they
should be taking action right now so so
coming from the Philippines and having
one of the highest biodiversity rates in
the world and you know also being the
most vulnerable to environmental
destruction the advocacy appealed to me
so much that I applied and after a while
I got the acceptance letter that yes I’m
part I’m going to be part of the
International Antarctic expedition which
happened last year around March so I
went straight to Argentina
and through there I met my my group
mates and from OSHA whya
the southernmost city in Argentina we
headed towards the towards Antarctica
through the Drake Passage so this is the
Drake Passage guys it’s you know just
it’s in this picture it’s very cold it’s
very silent but then it can also be very
very scary so while in the Drake Passage
once in a while with weed semen omaha
wild animals they’re so Parham Wow how
can these creatures live in such a
hostile environment so but this was us
we felt like this was us um passing
through the atmosphere to get to space
so when we arrived in Antarctica it felt
like arriving in a different planet it
was just so beautiful and I don’t know
how to let you guys know um to describe
the beauty that I’ve seen with my own
eyes so I am usually an extrovert but
arriving in Antarctica I was really
quiet so I was always torn between
staying inside or going outdoors or
listening to the speaker’s talk about
Antarctic facts Antarctic history or you
know just taking in all the beauty so I
parked the car by the way is the fifth
largest continent in the world it’s
twice as large as Australia it contains
90% of the
rose ice and 70% of the world’s fresh
water so this is also where we study
climate right so through the ice cores
we get to know about climate change and
what happened to be millions of years
ago and you know on some of the the
questions I usually get was that how
cold it how cold is it in Antarctica and
I would say you know how cold is it it’s
as cool as your excess heart no just
kidding yeah so any when he was when he
was there ah it was negative 5 to
negative 10 degrees windchill factor so
it wasn’t just a cool that’s you know um
dangerous it’s also the windchill factor
it was extremely windy all the time so
also other questions I got was that are
we gonna live in an igloo the answer is
no okay I’m not a polar adventurer like
I wouldn’t walk to the South Pole me you
know it’s a crazy dream but I’m sure
it’s not going to happen any time so
what I did was just that you know it was
just enough for me to meet a polar
explorer and polar adventures in
Antarctica so and no and sometimes kids
would ask me so how did you eat so I you
know um we’re looking into your question
yes so I think I’m doing a delegate and
again like hunting Boggess Antarctica
did you eat polar Polar Bears and you
know penguins the thing is sort of polar
bears in Antarctica hey and I found out
about it when I went there or before
going there it’s it’s the usual
questions that people would ask whom you
know bring me a polar bear or bring
bring me a penguin so bowel video in DL
smuggler guy so anyway um here are some
more pictures so far I’m looking at the
landscape it’s not just white land mass
and I’m here just because I want to give
you guys a face I want to give you guys
you know to give you a picture of what
Antarctica is so it’s not just some
mysterious elusive continent in the
world map it’s something else
entirely and see it’s not just all white
mare and in manga about species Amano
don’t grass and you know it’s just a
really huge continent so other people
would say um so my poor Oh sunrise well
actually I was in the Antarctic
Peninsula so um sunrise and sunset was
similar to the ones in the Philippines
so it was really impressive and you know
it is just so mesmerizing like different
types of landscapes and especially the
icebergs they were so amazing but I
don’t know all the icebergs were very
different all shaped differently by
Nature and to think that these are
formed through you know millions of
years by Aldo by snow by snow falling on
ice so pilum yen more fruit so anyway
and these are ice shelves under the
different types of ice so give me a
paper Padang types of ice slope I don’t
a tiny typical iceberg slim silhouette
or something but apparently there are
different types and different types of
ice for animals to survive on so ice
floes are highly dangerous also for like
animals because predators can attack
them predators like orcas so there are
they’re very unique so far all the time
I felt that I was in outer space when
the chance to set on foot set foot on
soil came but it was extremely memorable
for all of us but it’s like we felt like
we were walking on the moon or something
just because of the vast landscape and
we did a lot of hiking also so that’s us
hiking you can see oops and one
memorable hike came into place Nibbana
this was very unforgettable so from a
very very beautiful morning a beautiful
afternoon suddenly big la la coruna
sobre la la hanging so these are called
katabatic
winds when the wind comes from the
mountains and goes down the slope you
know 40 knots you wind metal and we
rerun this on these little zodiac boats
so what happened was that you couldn’t
go back to ship right away
and some of my friends didn’t have
waterproof gear with them so paramedic
in pass away Scylla and the thing is I
could really feel now young yellow to
Mitama said I could go and he were kind
of scared what if the saw doctor and you
know upside down and stuff but then of
course the the guy Rory is reassuring us
so that’s where I felt the beauty and
the power of nature so far amber Glen
one click from something very beautiful
so something I know suddenly we were
fearing for our lives feeling for
frostbite hearing for fingers or toes
panel super lemak Glen talega also after
that I’m getting down let’s go get my
own and then during the evening like
you’re in a man and blizzard so far this
was the summer in us in Antarctica
so it’s it’s considered the Austral
summer around March November to March so
it’s like you know in Australia that’s
right
they consider what they consider summer
so so this was my first blizzard by the
way and it was just so amazing for me
like I was always outside I know I’m not
supposed to be inside when there’s a
blizzard but then I couldn’t help it I
was just really enjoying myself but
still we had to go we had to push
through we had to push our boundaries we
had to go outside even though the
blizzard was really strong and lasted
for maybe two days so look um one of my
friends hiding behind the girls oh
that’s wrong one of the older guys
hiding behind the girls and some of my
favorite experiences in Antarctica also
have to do with wildlife so it was
really life-changing for me the wildlife
and here are some of the pictures we’ve
seen leopard seals which are one of the
top predators in Antarctica and highly
misunderstood features select the Sharks
we’ve also seen crab either see
this one was this one swam away from its
group and also fur seals Antarctic fur
seals so there were a lot of wildlife
there and they could just spend hours
looking at it looking at them penguins
penguin colonies it was the molting
season so I really enjoy just looking at
them so far on Titan dynamic now might
not be gonna hire I was just there
sitting in front of them and I was
trying to intercept a penguin by the way
because you can’t go near the Penguins
you’re just guests in Antarctica so you
can’t go near them you can’t pet them
you can’t you know approach them but
they can’t approach you and the thing is
the animals there are very are very
friendly or something to humans the
parent they don’t see us as predators
and some of them would come near us out
of curiosity so I was really
disappointed the last week I say the
penguin didn’t approach me but then the
thing is merriment seal from behind me
who ran third season at aperture but at
the same time it was really exciting but
I had a seal came behind me I came from
behind but on people who are like Nene
let em come in get Scylla or but I’m
scared for you yes because they were
really fast the Antarctic seals are
really fast and they bark like dogs by
the way and also one of the best things
that I’ve seen were the whales there
were really such majestic features and
we are lucky enough in this country to
have them and if you can see one lime
it’s much better than you know going
through those who are young so and so on
so these whales these gentle creatures
they were once hunted by by the by the
world ok so I we’ve seen orcas and you
know it made me think now the animals
here are free they’re you know they can
do what they want
there they are they’re free here
humans but then they’re also susceptible
to what we call the circle of life so it
was also you know a bit sad seeing some
penguins being bitten or injured
penguins but actually had a morbid
morbid moment I said I want to eat I
want to see a penguin being eaten by you
and sorry nervosa or the nor it’s all
traumatize you for life
so despite all the beauty and the power
of Antarctica we also saw the fragility
of the continent and it made me think
about you know how unsustainable my
lifestyle is how much I’m doing for the
Antarctic or for the world environment
and a lot of the people I was with in
the ship they were very inspiring people
they were from different backgrounds and
different industries but they were all
doing something positive so it felt like
you know I had to do something also so
this one is also one of my favourite
islands or favorite experiences it’s in
what we call the deception island
through deception in Ireland was a site
for reeling and sealing activities back
in the eighteen hundreds to the 1900s so
this was the time that almost real
species and especially the Antarctic fur
seal species one thickness allama
extinct but the thing is you nanokarrin
a sign and technological shift and the
we shifted to fossil fuel but before
that you know millions of Antarctic
seals or whales were killed and they
were put in these big barrels for oil so
we use them for our everyday needs like
lights we use them for coats use them
for makeup for candles so if you’re
familiar with Moby Dick it’s you know
it’s in the same timeline so Makita man
there’s a small bag that’s how small we
are compared to those vials but this is
just one of the many and um facilities
that contains whale oil so you can
imagine how many animals we’ve killed
just you know for us to progress a
society but the thing is because of the
entire international Antarctic Treaty
which prohibits exploit
raishin of the environment and Antarctic
continent these wildlife are thriving
right now so they’ve come back and
they’ve you know regained land regain
the land again so how you know it’s what
happened I guess it’s what happened 100
years that we’ve managed to come back
and to that nature has managed to come
back and fix itself
so we drink the last day we sort of had
a destiny moments you know when we were
coming back to Argentina
my mama dolphins me my type the orcas
you know it’s the psyche Orca is a rare
type of Orca and it’s my 19 documented
sightings land in the world so these
type the orcas are very rare and you
know albino dolphins surrounded us as we
were going back home and we also had a
really amazing last sunrise so okay so
so we had an amazing last sunrise and it
made me question like it made me really
feel at the end of the day that I
strongly felt that we don’t own the
earth but we don’t own this world alone
we are just guests on earth and I’ve
been so humbled by nature I’ve been so
humbled by the experience that I
continuously ask myself why is the
continent that we left alone as humans
the one who the one that’s driving the
most in terms of wildlife and in terms
of preparing itself so thank you
everyone that’s all I want to leave you
with that question as well
[Music]
hi everyone these days
sweet often hear about movements to get
people outside ironically when I was
much younger the television set
influenced me to have a certain interest
in travel outdoors and nature so I fell
in love with travelling at a young age
because of the TV set at the age of
eight I started my own ghost hunting
club in school right across the street
so I would recruit my friends and I’d
lead them towards secret passageways
eluding teachers in hopes of discovering
a ghost and maybe an insect a new
species of insect so measuring bichon
exotic manner gross and insect but
anyway fast-forward years later I didn’t
take the science track but my love for
travelling tiller made the same so I was
exposed to Moors on nature spots and
scenic spots through traveling locally
with friends and family and also by
attending international conferences
abroad so through these conferences I
met one guy who posted a picture on
Facebook about his expedition to
Antarctica and I was like hey how did
you get there I mean can you even
possibly go to Antarctica
those were the things that were on my
mind I mean for me I’ve always just
imagined Antarctic as a white landscape
like it’s just so big and you know
there’s just penguins and scientists
there so it was really amazing for me to
meet someone online or meet a friend who
has been there so I was so interested in
Antarctica that he led me to the
foundation’s website the 2041 foundation
and there I got to know about the
foundation and who Robert Swan is so
Robert Swan is the founder of the 2041
foundation he’s the first man to walk to
both the North and South Pole so his ice
axe
changed color because of the hole in the
ozone layer and since then it has become
as advocacy to fight for climate change
and to help people realize that they
should be taking action right now so so
coming from the Philippines and having
one of the highest biodiversity rates in
the world and you know also being the
most vulnerable to environmental
destruction the advocacy appealed to me
so much that I applied and after a while
I got the acceptance letter that yes I’m
part I’m going to be part of the
International Antarctic expedition which
happened last year around March so I
went straight to Argentina
and through there I met my my group
mates and from OSHA whya
the southernmost city in Argentina we
headed towards the towards Antarctica
through the Drake Passage so this is the
Drake Passage guys it’s you know just
it’s in this picture it’s very cold it’s
very silent but then it can also be very
very scary so while in the Drake Passage
once in a while with weed semen omaha
wild animals they’re so Parham Wow how
can these creatures live in such a
hostile environment so but this was us
we felt like this was us um passing
through the atmosphere to get to space
so when we arrived in Antarctica it felt
like arriving in a different planet it
was just so beautiful and I don’t know
how to let you guys know um to describe
the beauty that I’ve seen with my own
eyes so I am usually an extrovert but
arriving in Antarctica I was really
quiet so I was always torn between
staying inside or going outdoors or
listening to the speaker’s talk about
Antarctic facts Antarctic history or you
know just taking in all the beauty so I
parked the car by the way is the fifth
largest continent in the world it’s
twice as large as Australia it contains
90% of the
rose ice and 70% of the world’s fresh
water so this is also where we study
climate right so through the ice cores
we get to know about climate change and
what happened to be millions of years
ago and you know on some of the the
questions I usually get was that how
cold it how cold is it in Antarctica and
I would say you know how cold is it it’s
as cool as your excess heart no just
kidding yeah so any when he was when he
was there ah it was negative 5 to
negative 10 degrees windchill factor so
it wasn’t just a cool that’s you know um
dangerous it’s also the windchill factor
it was extremely windy all the time so
also other questions I got was that are
we gonna live in an igloo the answer is
no okay I’m not a polar adventurer like
I wouldn’t walk to the South Pole me you
know it’s a crazy dream but I’m sure
it’s not going to happen any time so
what I did was just that you know it was
just enough for me to meet a polar
explorer and polar adventures in
Antarctica so and no and sometimes kids
would ask me so how did you eat so I you
know um we’re looking into your question
yes so I think I’m doing a delegate and
again like hunting Boggess Antarctica
did you eat polar Polar Bears and you
know penguins the thing is sort of polar
bears in Antarctica hey and I found out
about it when I went there or before
going there it’s it’s the usual
questions that people would ask whom you
know bring me a polar bear or bring
bring me a penguin so bowel video in DL
smuggler guy so anyway um here are some
more pictures so far I’m looking at the
landscape it’s not just white land mass
and I’m here just because I want to give
you guys a face I want to give you guys
you know to give you a picture of what
Antarctica is so it’s not just some
mysterious elusive continent in the
world map it’s something else
entirely and see it’s not just all white
mare and in manga about species Amano
don’t grass and you know it’s just a
really huge continent so other people
would say um so my poor Oh sunrise well
actually I was in the Antarctic
Peninsula so um sunrise and sunset was
similar to the ones in the Philippines
so it was really impressive and you know
it is just so mesmerizing like different
types of landscapes and especially the
icebergs they were so amazing but I
don’t know all the icebergs were very
different all shaped differently by
Nature and to think that these are
formed through you know millions of
years by Aldo by snow by snow falling on
ice so pilum yen more fruit so anyway
and these are ice shelves under the
different types of ice so give me a
paper Padang types of ice slope I don’t
a tiny typical iceberg slim silhouette
or something but apparently there are
different types and different types of
ice for animals to survive on so ice
floes are highly dangerous also for like
animals because predators can attack
them predators like orcas so there are
they’re very unique so far all the time
I felt that I was in outer space when
the chance to set on foot set foot on
soil came but it was extremely memorable
for all of us but it’s like we felt like
we were walking on the moon or something
just because of the vast landscape and
we did a lot of hiking also so that’s us
hiking you can see oops and one
memorable hike came into place Nibbana
this was very unforgettable so from a
very very beautiful morning a beautiful
afternoon suddenly big la la coruna
sobre la la hanging so these are called
katabatic
winds when the wind comes from the
mountains and goes down the slope you
know 40 knots you wind metal and we
rerun this on these little zodiac boats
so what happened was that you couldn’t
go back to ship right away
and some of my friends didn’t have
waterproof gear with them so paramedic
in pass away Scylla and the thing is I
could really feel now young yellow to
Mitama said I could go and he were kind
of scared what if the saw doctor and you
know upside down and stuff but then of
course the the guy Rory is reassuring us
so that’s where I felt the beauty and
the power of nature so far amber Glen
one click from something very beautiful
so something I know suddenly we were
fearing for our lives feeling for
frostbite hearing for fingers or toes
panel super lemak Glen talega also after
that I’m getting down let’s go get my
own and then during the evening like
you’re in a man and blizzard so far this
was the summer in us in Antarctica
so it’s it’s considered the Austral
summer around March November to March so
it’s like you know in Australia that’s
right
they consider what they consider summer
so so this was my first blizzard by the
way and it was just so amazing for me
like I was always outside I know I’m not
supposed to be inside when there’s a
blizzard but then I couldn’t help it I
was just really enjoying myself but
still we had to go we had to push
through we had to push our boundaries we
had to go outside even though the
blizzard was really strong and lasted
for maybe two days so look um one of my
friends hiding behind the girls oh
that’s wrong one of the older guys
hiding behind the girls and some of my
favorite experiences in Antarctica also
have to do with wildlife so it was
really life-changing for me the wildlife
and here are some of the pictures we’ve
seen leopard seals which are one of the
top predators in Antarctica and highly
misunderstood features select the Sharks
we’ve also seen crab either see
this one was this one swam away from its
group and also fur seals Antarctic fur
seals so there were a lot of wildlife
there and they could just spend hours
looking at it looking at them penguins
penguin colonies it was the molting
season so I really enjoy just looking at
them so far on Titan dynamic now might
not be gonna hire I was just there
sitting in front of them and I was
trying to intercept a penguin by the way
because you can’t go near the Penguins
you’re just guests in Antarctica so you
can’t go near them you can’t pet them
you can’t you know approach them but
they can’t approach you and the thing is
the animals there are very are very
friendly or something to humans the
parent they don’t see us as predators
and some of them would come near us out
of curiosity so I was really
disappointed the last week I say the
penguin didn’t approach me but then the
thing is merriment seal from behind me
who ran third season at aperture but at
the same time it was really exciting but
I had a seal came behind me I came from
behind but on people who are like Nene
let em come in get Scylla or but I’m
scared for you yes because they were
really fast the Antarctic seals are
really fast and they bark like dogs by
the way and also one of the best things
that I’ve seen were the whales there
were really such majestic features and
we are lucky enough in this country to
have them and if you can see one lime
it’s much better than you know going
through those who are young so and so on
so these whales these gentle creatures
they were once hunted by by the by the
world ok so I we’ve seen orcas and you
know it made me think now the animals
here are free they’re you know they can
do what they want
there they are they’re free here
humans but then they’re also susceptible
to what we call the circle of life so it
was also you know a bit sad seeing some
penguins being bitten or injured
penguins but actually had a morbid
morbid moment I said I want to eat I
want to see a penguin being eaten by you
and sorry nervosa or the nor it’s all
traumatize you for life
so despite all the beauty and the power
of Antarctica we also saw the fragility
of the continent and it made me think
about you know how unsustainable my
lifestyle is how much I’m doing for the
Antarctic or for the world environment
and a lot of the people I was with in
the ship they were very inspiring people
they were from different backgrounds and
different industries but they were all
doing something positive so it felt like
you know I had to do something also so
this one is also one of my favourite
islands or favorite experiences it’s in
what we call the deception island
through deception in Ireland was a site
for reeling and sealing activities back
in the eighteen hundreds to the 1900s so
this was the time that almost real
species and especially the Antarctic fur
seal species one thickness allama
extinct but the thing is you nanokarrin
a sign and technological shift and the
we shifted to fossil fuel but before
that you know millions of Antarctic
seals or whales were killed and they
were put in these big barrels for oil so
we use them for our everyday needs like
lights we use them for coats use them
for makeup for candles so if you’re
familiar with Moby Dick it’s you know
it’s in the same timeline so Makita man
there’s a small bag that’s how small we
are compared to those vials but this is
just one of the many and um facilities
that contains whale oil so you can
imagine how many animals we’ve killed
just you know for us to progress a
society but the thing is because of the
entire international Antarctic Treaty
which prohibits exploit
raishin of the environment and Antarctic
continent these wildlife are thriving
right now so they’ve come back and
they’ve you know regained land regain
the land again so how you know it’s what
happened I guess it’s what happened 100
years that we’ve managed to come back
and to that nature has managed to come
back and fix itself
so we drink the last day we sort of had
a destiny moments you know when we were
coming back to Argentina
my mama dolphins me my type the orcas
you know it’s the psyche Orca is a rare
type of Orca and it’s my 19 documented
sightings land in the world so these
type the orcas are very rare and you
know albino dolphins surrounded us as we
were going back home and we also had a
really amazing last sunrise so okay so
so we had an amazing last sunrise and it
made me question like it made me really
feel at the end of the day that I
strongly felt that we don’t own the
earth but we don’t own this world alone
we are just guests on earth and I’ve
been so humbled by nature I’ve been so
humbled by the experience that I
continuously ask myself why is the
continent that we left alone as humans
the one who the one that’s driving the
most in terms of wildlife and in terms
of preparing itself so thank you
everyone that’s all I want to leave you
with that question as well
[Music]
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