I remember watching this when I was much younger and thinking he was a bit of a prat. Being older, I totally sympathize with him, an expert trying to get them ready for this, watching these guys ready to race to their deaths and not even trying to take it seriously.

He was a 100% serious and a 100% right.

"you will have the ignorance problem, because you lot are apparently ignorant" - just sums up just about any challenge these three have done :D

Serious explorers, people who live and work in dangerous places etc generally have this attitude towards silly pricks who decide to do it for a laugh, because it's not just them who might die, it's the production crew who are forced to film them, keep their car going, pick up after them, put up their tents once they're done pretending they're doing it themselves for the camera etc. People deciding to go on jaunts to the top of Everest or to the Pole for a laugh usually get people killed and it isn't always themselves, it's the people with actual experience that have to drag their useless arses along or rescue them when they get themselves stuck

But he actually means it, literally. He doesn't just mean "you guys are dumbasses", he means "you are totally untrained in Arctic travel, the methods of preserving your life is those hostile situations". Literally, they are ignorant on the subject. I don't think he even meant to be rude and negative about it, it was just a statement of the situation. And I am sure it had some relation so something that was already said, like he asked them "what do you know about arctic travel?" and they said "absolutely nothing", and he said "so you are essentially ignorant of the dangers you will be facing?" I don't hink it was just meant to be a funny joke for TV, although the editors knew people would take it that way.

Either that, or "yeah yeah human my fur is great, piss off so I can get some sleep..."

@@EnforcerX71 Haha that's what it looked like to me

They are beautiful dogs.

Weird, I thought sled dogs were usually not accustomed to much affection and warmth, and they tend to be pretty dangerous. They aren't actually abused but they are treated more like pack animals and beasts of burden than pets. They don't get petted or cuddled, their reward is their food, their duty is obedience. I remember being kind of shocked when I read accounts of how the dogs are treated. It seemed a bit on the callous side, but not enough to actually be cruel. And they are half wild aside from the training for the sled.

@@EnforcerX71 I think you're right but I learned something. Wish they could have kept that in

I totally agree, what they achieved was hugely impressive and way beyond anything else they did. Also in other episodes they like to make things look more dangerous than it actually is. I don't think they did that here, I believe that the danger was real.

And it was the first one filmed and released in HD, in those conditions!

@@joshuawhelan9358 LMAO, what's impressive about that?! That they took an HD camera to the North Pole. Wow!

What about when they built a space shuttle

@@Boris_V You have to remember that, at the time, HD cameras were a brand new thing. This was the first time the series had done HD, and they take it off to the North Pole. In the context of the time? Yes. It is impressive. These days, not at all, sure.

The MGB was introduced in the mid 1960s

Or he's just aware of the audience he's talking to - the boys Because very few others would likely understand

They had to sell the truck.

@@thomassmith8140 nah it was sent to a museum or something

@@dbtwenty8 nono, what I mean is, they had to show off the truck more on TV. Basically like an advertisement. "A truck so good it can make it to the north pole"

@@thomassmith8140 oh my bad, i do agree

@@thomassmith8140 I mean, its the BBC so they don't have to advertise anything. But its a car show so I imagine the company they got the car from insisted that a good amount of screen time be dedicated to it in the show so that they could use it.

He never bothered to try and get to the North Pole after the car won because he found it cruel to put in the effort only for Clarkson and May to gloat.

This was also the first thing he filmed after his big jet crash and the resulting brain damage. He wasn't 100% better yet and actually has no memory of filming this at all.

@@YourLoyalDeserter I know he doesn't remember the Top Gear live in South Africa, but are you sure he doesn't remember this?

@@jacobpaulson23 Not sure anymore actually, I definitely did read that, but I saw him talking about some unaired part of the trip recently, so I may have been wrong.

@@jacobpaulson23 he mentioned losing an entire year after he recovered from his injury.

I want mine to look like I just came no matter how grim my death was, let the people know I enjoyed it

I also want that face but I'm pretty sure my face will end up looking like the Juke

@@Naeidea came? Are you referring to?

I imagine James imagined he'd die while saying "CLARKSON, YOU PILLOCK!"

​@@emiratesaviation33Don't let Hammond dig you out.

Literal LOL moment!

Hell, I think without the cameras, James would genuinely have killed him with a machete in Bolivia for that crash on the Death Road

the episodes air reverse of what they are filmed. this was done before the crash but aired after the crash.

@@HuskyGamersUNITE this was literally done after the crash, Hammond states that he has no recollection of this special as it was so soon after his crash.

@@ryankatnoria191 he wrote about it in his autobiography though

Hammond briefly talks about doing this special in a video where he's reunited with his old Ferrari. He said in hindsight, he SHOULDN'T have been allowed to do this, but at the time, he was determined to go on as if life was normal.

UltraMato the human body is funny. when you put it to extreams. cold, heat, hunger, stress and inzomnia and such you will start to hate who ever is near you for the smallest things.

I actually want to read more into this "developing hatred" can you guide me to a science journal, a personal blog or a science paper. Really intrigues me as I've also experienced it myself.

I have nothing but my own anecdotal experiences. I was in a SF unit "light" (rangers) when I was conscripted in the army back in my day. A lot of survival training, interrogation training and spending a lot of time outdoors in arctic conditions.

Yeah, its an Average day in the UK

Yeah same in the heat to . It's crazy

true sled dogs are Malamutes

MrAbletospeak 3,000 ounces

I am a bit puzzled. I own the dvd for this and everything in these deleted scenes is on the dvd.

@@Jimarillion These were cut for when it aired on TV to keep it within the time limit. Makes sense they'd add them back for the DVD version.

@@SolaScientia That makes sense. I never saw the tv version. Not sure it even aired in Australia.

@@Jimarillion Yeah. I remember when it aired on BBC America. I got my eps in a maybe less-than-legal way, lol, so they're all as they aired originally on the BBC in the UK. What's interesting is that in a number of instances the music will be different. The UK version uses the main Requiem for a Dream music pretty often in the Polar Special, but that music isn't used in the version aired in the US. Must be a big difference with licensing and such.

@@SolaScientia :) I would guess there is always someone behind the scenes who makes things harder than they need to be. Regardless :) given the time of year (almost there) to important things.... I hope you have a Merry New years PaulaKiesling. Take care and be safe (I hear it is quite cold over there in the USA right now)

do you mean hammond, with the film crew, support unit, doctors and medics ect? so stunning so brave.

@@josiecarl4671 he did this shortly after the vampire dragster crash

The fact that you were too lazy to type out "for" and typed it as the number 4, but then did type out the number 3 as a word completely baffles me.

same

That's the directors cut

Most who have seen it outside of UK have only seen the director's cut as that was the commonly available torrent.

Aizak I know

lmao where the fuck did that come from? you need psychological help, friend.

deadpan237, I think it was a reference to his namesake, the boxer.

Loch Nesmon Star In the heat of the moment, I said something really nasty to deadpan but I realised what he actually meant, as soon as he replied the second time. so I was embarrassed and deleted my nasty comment. my bad 🤐

I'm intrigued now, What did you say that was so bad to Deadpan lol

Ah, but did you watch the show or choose the sleep?

Not to many. Our cognitive thinking hasn't change much in the past 30.000 years. So the Romans, Egyptians, every civilation since then, had basically the same intelligence as us, but different technology.

shut the fuck up

That is awesome!

He is certainly a homosexual, anyone who disagrees hasn't watched enough tg or enough deleted scenes. He should just come out already it's 2018 nobody cares.

you seem to care.

He's had the same wife or girlfriend for 19 years. He's in touch with his feminine side, that's for sure, but that doesn't necessarily equal homosexual.

The did

deadpan237 Cold weather, skin shrinks slightly so there's less visible wrinkles

It was a joke

Same, I got the TG specials DVD box set and I think they are included

I think you have extended edition only DVD

Frost bite. A polar bear would just eat him

Or on the DVD.

What guy ?

adding the bit about needing to find the fuel did add a bit of drama to their side 'cause in the main episode it just mostly looked quite easy until the boulder fields.

For time, most likely.

I think ships can go there now

@@YoloMonstaaa wow

I think he is (or was) part of the crew

perhaps the sheer magnitude of their balls was no match for the producers of top gear

They're on the dvd.

These are on the DVD. Showing just certain scene's and making compilations and all that is allowed on UKposts, it's basically free advertisment for the show. And it works, after seeing this now I decided to go to the Top Gear chanel tonight and watch the whole episode again.

Gee you'd be fun at parties

you know thats "ranulph fiennes", right?

lmfaoooo that's Ranulph Finess the legendary arctic explorer you dumbass.

Really?...The man is a fucking legend, an Artic explorer, holder of several endurance records, climbed mount Everest when he was 65 years old, the first man to cross Antarctica, alone, on foot, dragging all of his own supplies, sailed and dragged (with a couple of mates) an 18ft open Boston whaler in a trans globe circumnavigation from pole to pole, He has led expeditions along the White Nile in Africa, he ran 7 marathons on 7 continents in 7 days, for charity when he was 60, only.4 months after a double heart bypass operation... and oh yeah....... served with the SAS in Oman in the 1960s, where he saw extensive active service during the Dhofar Rebellion.

I am merely judging it based on what he says and the obvious fact(s) of his missing fingers

chrish12345 while he was exploring the North pole his sleigh fell through the ice. He retrieved it from the frigid water. Even though his hand was in the water for a couple of minutes, it got Frostbitten. Doctor told him to wait for a month to operate it. But as it was painful, he couldn't wait and went into his shed with a scalpel and cut off the fingers himself. he wants to say to these 3 is that the North pole is a very brutal place. Even the best of the best get hurt.

There's a few audio synchronisation issues too.

Let's see your efforts then daft lad

How is he ? he's the world greatest living explorer and for a good reason and there was nothing arrogant in what he said at all he was being deadly serious and he had to be did you not see his hands as he explains in other videos that was a 30 second mistake

funguy farage or they just all going to the same place because the ice is melting faster that we are especting

no polar bear birth rate is huge ......ice is growing elsewhere too...........GW is the UN biggest lie

funguy farage all the ice is from melting salt ice which creates fresh water which freezes at higher temperatures

and?

@@funguyfarage3615 there are not accurate enough records to say what has been happening to the polar population over the last 10 years. For some strange reason biologists prefer to do research in warm climates.

They didn't go to the north pole. They went to the magnetic north pole. Going to the actual north pole would be impossible partly due to climate change.

FRANNINGER Z fuck right off

FRANNINGER Z people as stupid as you shouldn’t be allowed to write comments

Excuse there’s a big thing in the Sky that’s really hot, it’s called THE SUN

@DroidTech That's a stupid conclusion. Based on that logic, we are in an ice age as we're experiencing record cold temperatures here in Iowa, much further south than your location. If you're going to argue a point use some real logic. One bit of anecdotal evidence is worthless.