Encounters at the End of the World

306 00:30:41,259 --> 00:30:44,971 It's about 10 to 12% protein and contains no lactose at all, 307 00:30:45,221 --> 00:30:46,388 which is very unusual. 308 00:30:47,598 --> 00:30:49,933 And there's many things about this place that are very unusual, 309 00:30:50,058 --> 00:30:55,522 and one of the things that I find very fascinating is how quiet it gets. 310 00:30:55,647 --> 00:30:56,857 It's the quietest place. 311 00:30:56,941 --> 00:30:59,818 When the wind is down, when there's no wind, 312 00:30:59,943 --> 00:31:02,446 it wakes you up in the middle of the night because there's no wind, 313 00:31:02,571 --> 00:31:03,906 and there's no sound at all, 314 00:31:03,990 --> 00:31:06,867 and if you walk out on the ice, you can hear your own heartbeat, 315 00:31:06,951 --> 00:31:07,993 that's how still it is. 316 00:31:08,118 --> 00:31:10,579 And you can hear the... You can hear the ice crack, 317 00:31:10,663 --> 00:31:13,750 and it sounds like there's somebody walking behind you, but it's just the ice. 318 00:31:13,875 --> 00:31:17,586 It's sort of, you know, these little stress cracks moving all the time, 319 00:31:17,795 --> 00:31:19,672 because we're actually, right here we're on ocean. 320 00:31:19,797 --> 00:31:23,926 We're not on solid ground, so... And you can hear the seals. 321 00:31:24,051 --> 00:31:26,637 You can hear the seals call, and it's the most amazing sound. 322 00:31:26,804 --> 00:31:29,348 They make these really inorganic sounds. 323 00:31:31,808 --> 00:31:34,269 They sound like, I don't know, Pink Floyd or something. 324 00:31:34,394 --> 00:31:37,440 They don't sound like mammals, and they definitely don't sound like animals. 325 00:31:38,942 --> 00:31:41,903 It's really out of this world, I can say that. 326 00:31:50,327 --> 00:31:52,538 You get used to a surface being solid, 327 00:31:52,663 --> 00:31:56,334 and you sort of think in your mind that you're on land, and then all of a sudden 328 00:31:56,459 --> 00:31:58,419 you'll hear the sound coming up through the floor. 329 00:31:58,545 --> 00:32:02,173 - You'll hear the chucks and the whistles... - And the booms. 330 00:32:02,298 --> 00:32:03,799 And the booms that come which are the... 331 00:32:03,924 --> 00:32:06,469 You realize there's a whole world underneath you, 332 00:32:06,594 --> 00:32:10,390 that seals are moving and competing and fighting beneath you under the ice 333 00:32:10,515 --> 00:32:14,309 while you're here sleeping in a tent or working in a lab hut. 334 00:33:27,967 --> 00:33:32,471 We soon returned to the prosaic world of today's McMurdo. 335 00:33:34,057 --> 00:33:39,311 David Pacheco works in maintenance and construction as a journeyman plumber. 336 00:33:40,188 --> 00:33:42,815 He prides himself on his heritage. 337 00:33:42,941 --> 00:33:47,111 He is part Apache but has claims to yet another lineage. 338 00:33:47,862 --> 00:33:54,410 It's funny, but I'm revealing my hands and they are very distinct, 339 00:33:55,994 --> 00:33:58,832 and I was told by my doctor who operated me that 340 00:33:58,957 --> 00:34:03,252 it is from the Aztec and the Inca's royal family. 341 00:34:03,377 --> 00:34:09,800 An anthropologist told me that, and one of our daughters is very similar, 342 00:34:09,884 --> 00:34:12,177 but everywhere I go, I try to find somebody. See? 343 00:34:12,302 --> 00:34:14,681 And I can turn it around too, if you wanna see it this way. 344 00:34:14,806 --> 00:34:17,934 It's very distinct, the line here, 345 00:34:18,016 --> 00:34:24,231 and I was at awe when they told me it was from the royal family of the Indians. 346 00:34:24,315 --> 00:34:29,362 When you work, with which fingers do you work best or point best? 347 00:34:29,487 --> 00:34:31,155 I don't know if I should say this. It's funny, 348 00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:35,367 but in school I used to not reach the chalkboard with this, 349 00:34:35,492 --> 00:34:38,454 so I used to point with this, and they called my father in 350 00:34:38,538 --> 00:34:39,956 and said that I was being a bad boy, 351 00:34:40,039 --> 00:34:42,666 but I still have the habit of pointing like that. 352 00:34:42,833 --> 00:34:46,003 I have a long ribcage. He could not find the gallbladder. 353 00:34:46,128 --> 00:34:51,842 I have a long ribcage like the Aztecs used to have, I guess, and... 354 00:34:54,052 --> 00:35:00,643 If you can come to Antarctica, please do. Plus, be aware of global warming. It's real. 355 00:35:00,726 --> 00:35:07,483 I'm a green person. I'm as green as I can be. I build adobe homes, solar homes. 356 00:35:07,567 --> 00:35:14,532 I'm a contractor back home, too, but it's so hard for a small minority to make it, but... 357 00:35:56,114 --> 00:35:59,494 Spirit, the fire of my ancestors. 358 00:36:14,259 --> 00:36:18,847 Our next journey took us 85 kilomet