Name: The Last Frontier
Released: 2017-07-15

Words to remember

Nouns

1) crevass

feeling for hidden crevass and thin ice.
2) caver

which only a handful of expert caver have ever dared to enter.
3) stamen

on the stamina of their dogs, which will keep on running
4) blubber

The harpoon sticks firmly in the walrus's thick layer of blubber
5) harpoon

The harpoon sticks firmly in the walrus's thick layer of blubber
6) dweller

Today's Arctic city dweller
7) walrus

An angry walrus could easily overturn the boats.
8) cameraman

For cameraman Ted Giffords,
9) anthropologist

the crew relied on anthropologist Niobe Thompson,
10) lasso

First, they round up their strongest animals with lasso,
11) barter

The herders barter reindeer skins for walrus meat.
12) telephoto

permission to shoot with a telephoto lens,
13) sled

This sled team is part of the Danish Special Forces.
14) swarm

but also to avoid the summer swarm of bloodsucking flies.
15) splendor

were the first to reveal the splendor of Antarctica
16) reindeer

They are reindeer people.
17) tundra

Human beings first ventured onto the great plains of Siberia, the tundra,
18) spectacle

how this unearthly spectacle affects our atmosphere.
19) hardship

have we endured the hardship that come from living here?
20) puff

Pasha is looking for the puff of steamy air produced by their quarry,
21) pasture

Reindeer now move not just to find fresh pasture,
22) ancestor

a skill that their ancestor brought with them
23) teamwork

Friendship and teamwork are essential if they are to succeed.

Verbs

1) relent

when the cold relent enough for the toughest icebreakers
2) ferment

that's been ferment in the skin bags for two months.
3) deport

we're going to be deport back to Alaska,
4) deflect

The building's sloping edge deflect the prevailing wind.
5) unveil

was unveil here in 2006.
6) thaw

The frozen ground never thaw to allow them to do so.
7) tame

Nobody has ever totally tame reindeer,
8) devise

have devise ways to deal with the hostile and changing conditions
9) sew

though small children still have to be sew into their clothes
10) creep

when temperatures rarely creep above -30 degrees centigrade.
11) endure

have we endure the hardships that come from living here?
12) cater

but they will have all their needs cater for.
13) dominate

that it dominate the lives of all who live here.
14) haul

His team haul their sleds over 100 miles
15) melt

and has to be melt in a rather alarming way.
16) disappear

The ice around the coast has almost disappear
17) breathe

influence the make-up of the air we breathe.
18) borrow

borrow the techniques of the Arctic peoples.
19) blanket

and 99% of its land is permanently blanket by ice.
20) freeze

Ships are frozen into the rivers for nine months of the year.
21) settle

that no people ever settle here.
22) dare

which only a handful of expert cavers have ever dare to enter.
23) patrol

that patrol the whole of northeast Greenland,

Adverbs

1) remarkably

We still know remarkably little about the interior of the continent.
2) outward

It's also the perfect place to launch more outward-looking missions.
3) utterly

Antarctica is so utterly remote and inhospitable
4) someday

But someday, ways will be found
5) seemingly

Skirting seemingly endless crevasses, with no map to guide them
6) surprisingly

July temperatures on the tundra can be surprisingly high,
7) permanently

and 99% of its land is permanently blanketed by ice.
8) inland

and inland, the difference is just as extreme.
9) nowhere

Here there are ice formations that occur nowhere else on Earth.
10) literally

And then, literally, they move house.
11) beneath

Beneath, there are stilts that can raise the whole building
12) regularly

Temperatures regularly drop to below -50 degrees centigrade.
13) somewhere

Yeah, okay, up on the wall there somewhere now.
14) eventually

will eventually grow to be 300 meters tall.
15) successfully

Nobody else successfully completed the journey
16) absolutely

If he fell on that, that would be absolutely horrendous.
17) truly

This is truly dangerous work.
18) certainly

A fall to the rocks 100 meters below would almost certainly be fatal.
19) nearly

for nearly 50 years after that.
20) exactly

almost exactly as the expedition members left it.
21) sometimes

With no roads, sometimes the only passable route
22) finally

but finally the team is allowed to begin their journey
23) deep

is constantly sculpting this labyrinth that extends deep under the ice.

Adjectives

1) inhospitable

Antarctica is so utterly remote and inhospitable
2) docile

but today's animals are docile enough
3) unforgiving

in the most unforgiving environment on Earth.
4) passable

With no roads, sometimes the only passable route
5) frigid

into the frigid interior of the Antarctic continent.
6) tantalizing

that the cavers are investigating a remote but tantalizing possibility
7) innermost

to study the innermost workings of our planet.
8) treacherous

These cliffs can be treacherous,
9) unbroken

An unbroken sheet of ice larger than Western Europe,
10) brittle

because steel becomes brittle and vulnerable to the thickening ice.
11) molten

This is a rare glimpse of the molten rock
12) untouched

in an untouched wilderness and died in the attempt.
13) intrepid

The lure of adventure still draws intrepid travelers today.
14) alarming

and has to be melted in a rather alarming way.
15) irresistible

Mount Erebus was an irresistible draw
16) formidable

A two-ton seal with formidable tusks.
17) disgusting

I thought it was going to be more disgusting than it actually is.
18) risky

but the crossing could be risky.
19) fierce

The smoke is blown by fierce winds, which are generated by the aurora.
20) antarctic

into the frigid interior of the Antarctic continent.
21) populated

The polar regions are the least populated part of our planet.
22) awful

they eat an awful lot of the internal organs as well,
23) magnificent

The scenery in Antarctica is magnificent and dramatic.

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