“Top Gear Polar Race (July 25, 2007)”
In this episode: Jeremy Clarkson (17), James May (7), Richard Hammond (4)
[Cooking in the tent with James producing gourmet food from his hidden stash]
What would those salmon eggs go really well with?
Well, a crisp white, but, um, we can dream on about that.
Like a Chablis really.
Yes. So do we get... [James produces a wine bottle] Nooooo, nooooo, James! [breathes in heavily] Look what he's got! Wine! I haven't had any for days!
I knew you'd like that.
A week in Resolute and three days on the ice just surviving on only gin!
That's very flat over there...
James, we're out.
[the two get out and dance around happily]
[rejoicing] We've made it! [lies down on his front] It's flat! It's so smooth, and no more going up and down...! [groaning] Oh...
[voiceover]
It had taken three days of almost non-stop driving, but this incredible machine had breached what the experts had said would be an impregnable wall. It had taken on the impossible... and it had won.
The fact is, though, that two middle-aged men, deeply unfit and mostly drunk, had made it, thanks entirely to the incredible machine that took us there. They said we'd never get to the Pole because of the damage the car has already done to the ice cap. Perhaps then that's what we've proved most of all, really. The inconvenient truth is, it doesn't appear to have even scratched the surface.
We are now the most northern people in the world... apart from Michael Parkinson obviously.
[James chuckles]
[on seeing a polar bear with its cubs] Oh its got babies. [turns to the camera] Sweeeeeeeeeet! [voiceover] Not being Attenborough, I couldn't think of anything better to say.
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