Driving Around the World with Andrew Comrie-Picard | TransGlobal Car Expedition
Description
MotorTrend's Ed Loh & Jonny Lieberman sit down with stuntman, Rally Champion, X Games athlete, & world explorer - Andrew Comrie-Picard! Andrew talks all about the TransGlobal Car Expedition - the world's FIRST around-the-world expedition through BOTH geographic poles!
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0:36 - Question of the Day.
5:12 - What is the TransGlobal Car Expedition!? The route.
6:37 - Never been done before!
9:00 - From Canada over the North Pole.
11:44 - Driving over the Arctic Ocean!
15:02 - Driving over ice plates with aluminum ladders.
18:31 - The team.
21:00 - Jonny's advice text.
24:37 - Scientific purpose for the journey. Ice thickness survey.
29:53 - Starlink.
33:43 - Light pollution survey.
36:04 - Melting ice!
37:54 - Logistic support: Air drops, political conflicts, & broken ice runways.
43:14 - Vehicles.
46:00 - Yemelya Special Mobile Unit.
50:00 - Yemelya designer, Vasily Elagin.
51:00 - Politicization of the North Pole.
53:12 - What's Greenland like?
54:07 - Only minus 40 degrees!
56:28 - Polar days and shifting ice
57:10 - From North Pole to Greenland... over moving ice caps!
59:40 - Who paid for all this!?
01:01:41 - Lightning Round!