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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: Fransisco Ban, Elizabeth Arnold. Timecode In: 00:00:34. Timecode out: 00:06:20. Notes: North pole expedition discussion. Subject 2: (Interview). Subtitle: Corky ?, Elizabeth Arnold. Timecode In: 00:10:59. Timecode out: 00:12:13. Notes: North pole expedition discussion. Subject 3: (Interview). Subtitle: Claire Parkinson, Elizabeth Arnold. Timecode In: 00:48:21. Timecode out: 00:51:17. Notes: North pole research discussion. Equipment Notes: 2-Channel mono recording. NPR/NGS RADIO EXPEDITIONS Show: North Pole Log of DAT #: 14 "Elizabeth's North Pole Tape #1" Date: 4/28/99 Note: Throughout much of this tape, sound is lost at frequent intervals. ng = not good ok = okay g = good vg = very good :12 sound begins :18 walking in snow EA :34 American radio. Will you talk to me? And your name is? FB :38 Fransisco Ban. EA :40 And what have you just done? What have you just done? You just skied from¿ FB :45 We have performed, we have performed, I think, just (unintelligible), the North Pole was here and we have just finished the crossing of the ice from Russia, for Artichesky Cape to the North Pole. For, this is the first time that a Spanish team performs this kind of thing. EA 1:03 How long have you been out? FB 1:04 60 days. EA 1:05 And how was it? FB 1:06 Yes. Very hard, this year, I think because the first days were very cold. The temperature has been, has been doing for us an extra taking out of the stamina and the ice was very good the first time, but the second part, we were stopped for seven days in different times of the coursing due to wind storm, snow storm, and so on. So we were a bit pressed, psychologically pressed, because we know that the problem here is a run against the weather, huh. You have to be here maybe at the end of April, first of May. So we have to be very, we have to be moving very last the last 15 days of this month. We were in 88, in 88 north on 10 days ago. So the last 10 days we have done 200, well, 2 miles. (interruption) EA 2:25 But there's not much left on the bottom of your ski. Not much left. FB 2:29 Well, hours later, our pokes were weighting nearly 120 kilograms, so you are not able to move it without the skins, but as you have seen, I saw you, the skin is completely worn out, huh. You need to band it with the strips or maybe wire or something like that because it sticks out, it brokes, or something. EA 2:55 What do you think of this place? What do you think about this place? FB 3:00 This place? This is a very strange beauty. I think it's quite different from all the other things. Not only the place, but the feeling that you are, that the sensation that you are getting here. So the solation, the complete isolation, and the special feeling of moving over something that is moving at the same time. If you are seeing, one time we have seen the ice packing on us, just under us, so we were seeing the ice packing and we were moving, go and back at the same time. The skis were, you are stepping, the skis, right, just back, so yes, like an earthquake. EA 3:41 Seasick? Does it make you seasick? And so the Pole is always moving, right. FB 3:46 Yes, of course. In this night, this guy come here. Well, you are on day, we are on night due to a different starting point and the Pole was half a mile in that direction. Now it's a mile and a bit from that direction, so the Pole is the middle of nowhere, huh. EA 4:08 But you got somewhere? FB 4:10 Yeah. Well, I think that this place is in the heart, in the heart, in the heart, but the eye says no. You are, now we are empty, we have finished, that's all. EA 4:22 How do you feel about all these people, you know? The divers and the people from Canada and the people from Italy and all these people up here. FB 4:30 I t... (Notes truncated)
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