Travel
176 videos • 111 views • by Britclip We have been fortunate enough to film all over the world, sometimes in places so exotic and extreme that you have to stop and ask yourself, usually while clutching a damp sandwich in your frozen fingers, “Why on earth am I here?” The North Pole, for example, is every bit as inhospitable as you might imagine – an endless white expanse where compasses spin like roulette wheels and the only sound is the crunch of your boots and the unnerving groan of shifting ice beneath you. It is the sort of place where you develop a profound appreciation for thermal underwear and start to think warmly of radiators back home. The South Pole, astonishingly, manages to make the North Pole look positively hospitable. It is colder, windier, and so utterly desolate that even penguins, with their admirable tolerance for discomfort, give it a miss. Nothing quite prepares you for the sight of a horizon that never ends and a sky so clear it looks as though someone has polished it with Windex. Standing there, you can’t help but feel simultaneously very important (“I’m at the bottom of the world!”) and very, very small (“And also about to freeze to death”). And then there is Nepal – glorious, baffling, vertiginous Nepal. A land where mountains don’t just scrape the sky, they puncture it, and where altitude sickness lurks around every corner like an unwanted travelling companion. Kathmandu is a riot of colour, chaos, and incense, a place where cows wander down busy streets with the serene entitlement of royalty. Trekking in the Himalayas is both exhausting and exhilarating: one minute you’re gasping for air and questioning all your life choices, and the next you’re staring at Mount Everest, which is so improbably enormous it looks as though it’s been badly Photoshopped onto the landscape. From polar wastes to Himalayan peaks, these are just a few of the adventures, locations, and stories we’ve gathered along the way. Each one has left us shivering, sweating, speechless, or slightly sunburned – but always marvelling at the sheer strangeness and splendour of the world.