He is a tough little thing. And he is quite brave. Plus this was after his recovery. Hammond is one tough, brave man. He may be shorter than the other two, but he really is a strong one.
@@PJOZeus It wasn't. In a recent IGV vid Hammond mentioned it was after and his doctors didn't want him to go. He also said it was his favourite road trip and he wants to go back
@@sweeperboy Do you think Hammond and Matty (the woman) were alone? they had a crew too with support.. had the sledge broken or something probably would get support from them too.. what i only ignore is if their crew went in another sledge or on a car
To be blunt, going into the arctic without a support team is suicidal. The only thing May and Clarkson had that another polar team doing the same wouldn’t take are the cameras. And they may bring those because you gotta pay for the expedition somehow.
To everyone saying they'd rather do it with the dogs; I really wouldn't. I'd rather sit in my heated car chompin' on a snickers. The wonders of civilization.
I heard in the Top Gear rules that the cars will always be scripted to win over the race against something that's not a car. They're advertising the brand, after all, which kinda sucks.
i loved this special, but i wish they had done this as a team, because this was a literal record-setting challenge, as well as one for the history books.
Though, it would have been boring. Competition is more fun, and given Richard’s credentials, he would have done it with dogs instead given the opportunity
as seen in the footage, the terrain isn't really car friendly so i would say it is quite an achievement to get one through there. More than getting one into space.
Dilan Gilluly False - have you even watched the video? They reached the 1996 magnetic pole (78° 35.7′ N). This is actually quite far away from the Geographic North Pole (for which many expeditions start from Ward Hunt Island which is 83°N).
From Wikipedia "A 2007 episode of the BBC motoring show Top Gear, in which the presenters were described as journeying to the "North Pole," was in fact an expedition to the 1996 position of the North Magnetic Pole."
The Canadian government has made several measurements since, which show that the North Magnetic Pole is moving continually northwestward. In 1996 an expedition certified its location by magnetometer and theodolite at 78°35.7′N 104°11.9′W. Its estimated 2005 position was 82.7°N 114.4°W, to the west of Ellesmere Island in Canada. During the 20th century it moved 1100 km, and since 1970 its rate of motion has accelerated from 9 km/year to approximately 41 km/year, or 1.3 mm/s (2001-2003 average;
I'd rather be Hammond. He gets to experience something much more different than just being in a car. What Jeremy and May did was just advanced camping s:
They entirely skipped the part where the truck breaks some thin ice and the front end begins to sink into the water. The crew had to save them and tow it out.
For me Hammond is the winner. I wonder if he also reached the Pole when he was so close. It would have been pity if not, because it must be one of the biggest life experiences.
i gotta say. Sure hammond lost, but he's got a lot more balls than the other two old guys. May and Clarkson probably would've died of a heart attack if they'd done it the way hammond did.
What I half expected when I first saw this years ago was.. Clarkson and May phoning Hammond saying they were there. And Hammond saying, ' took ya time, were halfway back'
@ThisIsRandal You're welcome. The Earth's magnetic pole is moving toward Russia at about 37 miles per year now, mostly along a latitude line, and the coordinates Jeremy and James drove to were fixed in 1996. So they were a long way from the magnetic pole (they needed to be roughly 200 miles farther north and a lot further east), and even farther from the geographic pole. In other words, they just made it to some place in the arctic, no pole involved. Good job, though.
Glad to know there's someone else out there who is witty enough to have common sense. North on a compass will take you to "Magnetic North"- an area currently on the Queen Elizabeth Islands in Nunavut, Canada which is nearly 1500 nautical kilometers from the North Pole. I say "currently" because magnetic north is not a static location and moves with the Earth's core. There is only one true north and magnetic north is not it. North (and South) is where the Earth spins on it's gravitational Axis.
They were 11 degrees, 24 minutes, 53 seconds south of the geographic north pole. Since one minute of arc is 6076 feet, or one nautical mile, they were 684.1167 minutes of arc, or that many nautical miles south. That's 787.25 statute miles. Still, the magnetic north pole is quite an achievement, but I'm not sure they were there either, since it constantly moves.
ruclips.net/video/02wGC7DKXhs/видео.html 15:00 -> North pole¿ South pole or Antarctic RING! Put their co-ordinates in on maps on the net/your phone. Icelandic support crew, in Canada or Iceland¿
If you watched the ground tour specials where they haul all their crew cars, it's a massive fleet. 2 motorhome trucks, 2 pickups carrying portable toilets and many Land Rover Discovery for camera cars, Toyota Land Cruisers. When they got attacked in Argentina, Clarkson narrated that the whole film crew is 31+ cars strong fleet. It's massive.
Where do you suppose a gps compass gets it's magnetic north coordinates from? Practical compasses back on Earth triangulate the current magnetic north. They're using a gps compass to find magnetic north because a normal compass will spin when you're within 200-450 kilometer range(depending on what interference you'll be receiving from the core). So their gps is basically being used a classic compass minus the interference.
actually... The biennial Polar Race takes place between Resolute Bay in northern Canada and the 1996-certified location of the North Magnetic Pole at 78°35.7′N 104°11.9′W. On 25 July 2007, the Top Gear Polar Challenge Special was broadcast on BBC Two in the United Kingdom, in which Jeremy Clarkson and James May became the first people in history to reach this location in a car.
+DixxieDuck ....Thank you. I did not realize there was that big of a difference between the two breeds. Now I feel bad for calling them Huskies all this time. lol
The guys from Top Gear forgot to mention (or perhaps they mentioned it but it is not seen on these RUclips videos) that they are on North Magnetic Pole, not on Geographic North Pole. On that coordinates, they were 1270 km from Geographic North Pole. The coordinates that appear are location where the Pole was in 1996. Since it's position is shifting all the time now it is some 400 km away.
Naja...Ich glaube dir jetzt mal nicht, weil bei -18 gehen nicht mal die härtesten Kerle in T-shirt und kurzer Hose raus die in Sibirien und Kanada wohnen, weil innerhalb kürzester Zeit kannst du Frostbeulen und Erfrierungen bekommen und die will keiner Freiwillig.
you can only find this in the northern regions of the territories, im from 12 hrs north of T.O in Ontario and we get lots of snow, but our winters are just as short :) its funny how some people watch 1 movie and imagine the world is like this :P
He is a tough little thing. And he is quite brave. Plus this was after his recovery. Hammond is one tough, brave man. He may be shorter than the other two, but he really is a strong one.
Hes definitely the biggest adrenaline junkie out of the 3.
Which recovery
Theres like 10
So like a minion then?
Reminder this was shot pre-crash, and only aired post
@@PJOZeus It wasn't. In a recent IGV vid Hammond mentioned it was after and his doctors didn't want him to go. He also said it was his favourite road trip and he wants to go back
1:29. Saddest moment ever. Hammond sounded so disappointed.
Truly.
I felt bad for him
He spent dozens of hours on an exposed dog sled and he got beaten by two people driving inside a warm truck. That must have really hurt.
Respect to Hammond,didn't seem easy.
Yeahh..full respect for his afford..
+Kerol CCK EFFORT
wasn't this the special that was not long after the crash, and so he didn't really remember much of what happened on this special?
Ealaiontoir and the huskies that wasnt easy either I bet lol
Ealaiontoir yes
What's colder? The air temp at the North Pole, or May's conversation with Hammond?
May's conversation
This is the worst joke I ever heard................
air temperature at the North Pole obviously
@@War_Gaming_RUS Considering how short term many people's memories are, that doesn't amount to much.
finland
I really wished Hammond would win. He was literally with the underdogs.
arent they supposed to be called the overdogs? coz theyre up north.. :3
@Draggy654 You totally missed the joke... Granted, it was a shitty one.
the truck had jesus what would you expect.
And on that bombshell, have a like.
@@GreyStormPlays checkmate atheist
Hammond, May, Bad luck.
*mate
I believe.
No it is Hammond, May, Bad luck
BirchBehav its Hammond, mate, Bad luck
I'm not hearing the (T) in mate. James speaks with a southern accent and pronounces words without mumbling.
Martian Maniac M.M no he said May to announce his name
If Clarkson and May didn't have the team of Icelandic mechanics (in their backup superjeep), they'd have been screwed!
If hammond didn't have the sledge, dogs or the woman. He' have been screwed...
True, but that's like saying Clarkson and May would have been screwed without the Hilux. Anyway, great show :)
SuperPrado*
@@sweeperboy Do you think Hammond and Matty (the woman) were alone? they had a crew too with support.. had the sledge broken or something probably would get support from them too.. what i only ignore is if their crew went in another sledge or on a car
To be blunt, going into the arctic without a support team is suicidal. The only thing May and Clarkson had that another polar team doing the same wouldn’t take are the cameras. And they may bring those because you gotta pay for the expedition somehow.
Hammond is the warrior of dreams. definitely the toughest of the bunch. respect to the hamster, RESPECT!!!
To everyone saying they'd rather do it with the dogs; I really wouldn't. I'd rather sit in my heated car chompin' on a snickers. The wonders of civilization.
Krûk Blood-Axe some people like a challenge. That's why people climb mt everest.
I’m going to assume that you’re a lazy stupid American by you saying this
No
And drinking since there's no laws...
@@NN-cj6qv if Americans were lazy they wouldn't have the largest military or the best GPD
Plot twist : The camera crew accidentally reached the North Pole while filming them
You're the dumbass who said “I feel sad and pitiful for the guiding dogs” in part 2.
Shut up clown.
“Greaaaaat sucsessss!”
@@mattm7788 and?? You can shut up too
@@mattm7788 Well, instead of abusing dogs to get there. Use a car :)
It’s not abuse, it’s actually more morally right to discipline the dogs.
Too bad Hammond didn't win,he deserved it.
You should have gone
He always puts in so much effort, it's really admirable..
He won the race across London on a bike, can’t win them all.
I heard in the Top Gear rules that the cars will always be scripted to win over the race against something that's not a car. They're advertising the brand, after all, which kinda sucks.
@@annhentaiuser6658 that's not true
Hammond, you are a badass
He earned it. They merely saw it
I really felt bad for Hammond
I feel so sad for hammond :(
Hammond is the true winner. He took brilliant effort along with Matty McNair and her sled dogs.
But he isn't the true winner, He looost!
L
"May. Bad luck" - always has me crying of laughter
James: Hammond?
Richard: yes May
James: May, bad luck
Jeremy: lol that, that was it really
Hammond looked sad, and i felt it too. Its not really describable really.
i loved this special, but i wish they had done this as a team, because this was a literal record-setting challenge, as well as one for the history books.
Though, it would have been boring. Competition is more fun, and given Richard’s credentials, he would have done it with dogs instead given the opportunity
Yeah, imagine the Trio being written on the internet, rather than just Clarkson and May.
That James May laugh 0:35 epic
Senator Palpatine...
Watch it in 2X
May sounds like some kind of bird
I really respect Hammond for what he did. He's the man! Brave and all.
Hammond gets so much credit for going with the sled dogs...... he endured so much more of the Arctic elements than Clarkson and May had to.....
Does Hammond ever win anything on this show? It's like a running gag.
He wins at least more than James. Like the van challenge, and the race to the airport. He was on a bike.
Definitely wins the most accidents in a straight line and outside of races.
he won the race to be out of gas to chernobyl too
I think he won on the van challenge and other stuff
And he won on the airport and Hollywood challenge too
He won in the Porsche against laferrari and McLaren
I’ll never get over the way James laughs right before getting out of the truck and the way his face looks lol
"I was expecting a sort of beam of light coming out of the earth" - Clarkson thinks he lives in the Avatar/Korra universe
As a Canadian, I loved this challenge especially the complaints about the cold. 🤣🤣🤣
the Dogs should've WON!!!
mad props to the Dogs... no tents, no hilux, no luxuries...
just the Dogs and the elements!!
And.. You know... The camera crew...
+Arvin S Anolin uhmm.. they absolutely had a tent. what you think they just stayed awake for days at a time?
as seen in the footage, the terrain isn't really car friendly so i would say it is quite an achievement to get one through there. More than getting one into space.
@@gundarudolw5415 "more than getting one into space" mmh, no, actually not. sorry
No the dogs shouldn't of won, otherwise they would of won get your head out of the clouds
"Hammond?"
"Yes, mate?"
"May... bad luck"
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
When Jeremy doesn't shave, he starts to look like Dr Greg House.
WAIT THAT WAS MAGNETIC POLE NOT THE GEOGRAPHIC ONE :D
That is geographic. Satnav or GPS uses satellites with maps, not magnetism like compasses use.
Dilan Gilluly False - have you even watched the video? They reached the 1996 magnetic pole (78° 35.7′ N). This is actually quite far away from the Geographic North Pole (for which many expeditions start from Ward Hunt Island which is 83°N).
Of course it's not the geographic pole because that would be 90° northern latitude, wouldn't it? :)
Lether52
Yes, indeed! Sorry if I sounded a bit dense. Dilan for some reason thought they showed the 90° latitude in the video.
*They should've made that left turn at Albuquerque.*
0:43 HAMOOOOOOOOOOOOOND
best line ever...."Hammond?..Mae....Bad luck"....had me in tears
From Wikipedia
"A 2007 episode of the BBC motoring show Top Gear, in which the presenters were described as journeying to the "North Pole," was in fact an expedition to the 1996 position of the North Magnetic Pole."
The iconic James May monologue:
"Hammond... May... Bad luck"
The Canadian government has made several measurements since, which show that the North Magnetic Pole is moving continually northwestward. In 1996 an expedition certified its location by magnetometer and theodolite at 78°35.7′N 104°11.9′W. Its estimated 2005 position was 82.7°N 114.4°W, to the west of Ellesmere Island in Canada. During the 20th century it moved 1100 km, and since 1970 its rate of motion has accelerated from 9 km/year to approximately 41 km/year, or 1.3 mm/s (2001-2003 average;
So...no one won?
"Hammond. May, bad luck."
May sounds like a spectator from a console sports game or something
Like golf, hahah
For me the winner is Hammond. Hell of a ride he did there.
Hammond use the traditional way.. Massive respect for him!
I really like their car, it's just perfect.
Truly a wonderful machine
"Hammond? May. Bad luck."
Coldest sentence ever uttered in one of the coldest places on earth
They should upload them fully, this channel is a partner so they could upload like as long as they want!
These guys have the best job on the planet. Period.
"Hammond?" "Yes, May?" "May, bad luck"
Hammond? May, bad luck - Brilliant
Hammond was the one who truly won that race, no doubt.
1:15 That’s why James is the funniest of the 3! 😂😂
I'd rather be Hammond. He gets to experience something much more different than just being in a car. What Jeremy and May did was just advanced camping s:
Pretty sure they were the first ever to drive to the North Pole, that has to be pretty special.
pretty sure drinking gin and driving to the north pole is pretty special.. well i mean Sailing to the north pole.
Hammond is my favorite.
Captain Zork Nonsense.
The others DID get to find a crashed plane
Hammond, May, Bad luck.
Best quote to give to the losing side
Jeremy: Oh hold on mate, James want a word, hang on a second.
Hammond: Oh okay
James: Hammond?
Hammond: Yes, May
James: Mate, Badluck
Jeremy: Hahahaha
1:21 my god couldn't stop laughing
They entirely skipped the part where the truck breaks some thin ice and the front end begins to sink into the water. The crew had to save them and tow it out.
For me Hammond is the winner. I wonder if he also reached the Pole when he was so close. It would have been pity if not, because it must be one of the biggest life experiences.
i gotta say. Sure hammond lost, but he's got a lot more balls than the other two old guys. May and Clarkson probably would've died of a heart attack if they'd done it the way hammond did.
- Hammond
- Yes mate?
- Mays, bad luck.
Best part!
May's laugh at 0:35 lmao
What I half expected when I first saw this years ago was..
Clarkson and May phoning Hammond saying they were there.
And Hammond saying, ' took ya time, were halfway back'
Where's santa lol
+Dxhangover Welp.
D:
D:
Santa is not there he doesnt even have a sleigh.
@Steven Steel יְהֹוָה Where's Odin and his spider-horse, then?
Top Gear is the most awesome show on tv. Its back in november.
Hammond was so heartbroken, i felt so sorry when I saw it first time, but he is real warrior 🙏🔥.
@ThisIsRandal
You're welcome. The Earth's magnetic pole is moving toward Russia at about 37 miles per year now, mostly along a latitude line, and the coordinates Jeremy and James drove to were fixed in 1996. So they were a long way from the magnetic pole (they needed to be roughly 200 miles farther north and a lot further east), and even farther from the geographic pole. In other words, they just made it to some place in the arctic, no pole involved. Good job, though.
I must confess I was rooting for Hammond the whole way.
He put far more effort into his journey than these two.
Hammond won , no matter what ...all that resilience especially in those dogs🔥🔥
30 seconds of ads at the start which you can't skip. Thank you BBC, I pay a licence fee and this is what we get in return
what is a license fee?
I don't see any ads when I view it from North America... ?
Glad to know there's someone else out there who is witty enough to have common sense. North on a compass will take you to "Magnetic North"- an area currently on the Queen Elizabeth Islands in Nunavut, Canada which is nearly 1500 nautical kilometers from the North Pole. I say "currently" because magnetic north is not a static location and moves with the Earth's core. There is only one true north and magnetic north is not it. North (and South) is where the Earth spins on it's gravitational Axis.
They were 11 degrees, 24 minutes, 53 seconds south of the geographic north pole.
Since one minute of arc is 6076 feet, or one nautical mile, they were 684.1167 minutes of arc, or that many nautical miles south. That's 787.25 statute miles.
Still, the magnetic north pole is quite an achievement, but I'm not sure they were there either, since it constantly moves.
ruclips.net/video/02wGC7DKXhs/видео.html
15:00 ->
North pole¿
South pole or Antarctic RING!
Put their co-ordinates in on maps on the net/your phone.
Icelandic support crew, in Canada or Iceland¿
I love how James tried to take the phone like a kid :DD
"Mate.... badluck" XD XD XD
+Adit Owen Its *May not Mate.
Best team of Top Gear
I'd love to see how exactly they filmed this special
Me too. I want to know the logistics of it all!
If you watched the ground tour specials where they haul all their crew cars, it's a massive fleet. 2 motorhome trucks, 2 pickups carrying portable toilets and many Land Rover Discovery for camera cars, Toyota Land Cruisers. When they got attacked in Argentina, Clarkson narrated that the whole film crew is 31+ cars strong fleet. It's massive.
Credit must be given to the camera man who made it first in order to allow Jeremy, James and Richard to make history themselves safely.
Never underestimate the power of a hilux
Jeremy's laugh is epic!
This is obviously fake, if they were actually at the North Pole they would seen santa....
Yeah smh >:(
You're right though...it probably is fake.
Santa does not live at North Pole. He lives in Finland.
Santa has camouflage bro
They weren't even close to the north pole. Actually they were about 2000km away
Top Gear is such a great show.
Man they left out 75 % of it :-(
There is part 1 and 2 ,i told 3 people by now IDIOTIC WESTER MAN.
@@user-kn4ce8mw4k There's still a huge chunk missing. These are only snippets of the whole show.....the whole show was over an hour.
the thin ice part was missing, which shouldve been part 3
Where do you suppose a gps compass gets it's magnetic north coordinates from? Practical compasses back on Earth triangulate the current magnetic north. They're using a gps compass to find magnetic north because a normal compass will spin when you're within 200-450 kilometer range(depending on what interference you'll be receiving from the core). So their gps is basically being used a classic compass minus the interference.
awesome the toyota never let u down
actually...
The biennial Polar Race takes place between Resolute Bay in northern Canada and the 1996-certified location of the North Magnetic Pole at 78°35.7′N 104°11.9′W. On 25 July 2007, the Top Gear Polar Challenge Special was broadcast on BBC Two in the United Kingdom, in which Jeremy Clarkson and James May became the first people in history to reach this location in a car.
You lose, Hammond !
look at james's face at 0:36 priceless! and also keep clicking at 0:36 as well rofl!
i would rather do it with the huskies tough then a car...
Really? I wouldn't.
***** then i would do it with the Alaskan Malamutes....
+DixxieDuck ....Thank you. I did not realize there was that big of a difference between the two breeds. Now I feel bad for calling them Huskies all this time. lol
I don't think anyone agrees with you.
"Hammond?"
"Yes?"
"May. Bad luck."
Everyone here respecting Hammond but what about Mati
It's here, it's here! Hammooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood!
I felt really bad for Hammond when they wished him bad luck:(
Momchil Yankov yeah exactly i did too.
I think May just said bad luck as in you just had bad luck not as in I wish you bad luck.
Still the best cast of top gear in my opinion I hate that they changed it.
+Matt Jones The one and only cast of Top Gear. The new cast isn't worthy of calling themselves "the cast of Top Gear".
is there anywhere i can find this full episode?
THERES FREE BITS OF IT
Netflix
The guys from Top Gear forgot to mention (or perhaps they mentioned it but it is not seen on these RUclips videos) that they are on North Magnetic Pole, not on Geographic North Pole. On that coordinates, they were 1270 km from Geographic North Pole. The coordinates that appear are location where the Pole was in 1996. Since it's position is shifting all the time now it is some 400 km away.
i freeze at 10 and its -50 there ... yet again i life in the desert and im not use to it.
well... for me it hot at 15 somethimes and i go out in Shorts and Shirt at -15. live in Germany.
TheMentor455 Wo in Deutschland lebst du bitte, dass du bei -15 in kurzer Hose und T-shirt rausgehst? :D
bei Stuttgart. ich weis nich wir hatten dieses jahr einmal -18. das war schön. vorher auf fehmarn da gabs das öfter mal im winter.
Naja...Ich glaube dir jetzt mal nicht, weil bei -18 gehen nicht mal die härtesten Kerle in T-shirt und kurzer Hose raus die in Sibirien und Kanada wohnen, weil innerhalb kürzester Zeit kannst du Frostbeulen und Erfrierungen bekommen und die will keiner Freiwillig.
CarlBruno94 tja dann bin ich wohl noch härter. ka is halt so ich hab aber auch ne Krankheit bei der ich extreme Probleme mit Hitze hab.
"Matty, I'm off! Where are you?"
*hehehe*
who is the woman with hammond? she is so cool.
Mati
hammond you are a badass man
go to the actual north pole and every direction you look in is south.
you can only find this in the northern regions of the territories, im from 12 hrs north of T.O in Ontario and we get lots of snow, but our winters are just as short :) its funny how some people watch 1 movie and imagine the world is like this :P
Shouldn't the north pole be Latitude: 90° 00' 0.00" N Longitude: 0° 00' 0.00" W ?
This is the magnetic north pole. What you are referring to is the geographical north pole. They are not the same.
Which explains why they didn't see Santa!
If you're talking to me, it was a joke. If you're talking to the original poster, it's an easy mistake to make. I didn't know.
+Mia Ray Santa lives in Lapland, Korvatunturi specifically
aww poor Richard - he sounded so disappointed when they reached the pole!
#thegreatestdogsever
BEST - EPISODE - EVER.
BAR - NONE.
0:34 could be the next joker lol
After all, dogs have fought bravely. Even among themselves hehe