Dog sled.

What? No husky dogs? No sled?

Sleigh bells twinkling across the snow

My sleigh is white.

Get a ride, dammit!

Ben Saunders skis to the North Pole

When we reach the border, there will be snow and we shall change to sleds.

Just when the wolves were tearing me out of my sledge...

I was, you can see there, pulling two sledges.

I'm telling you, crossing these things with 170 pound sled, that sled may as well have weighed 1,700 pounds, because that's what it felt like.

I took a photo of that. Sat down on my sledge. Did a sort of video diary piece.

And there's a race to get to the Pole between Amundsen, the Norwegian Amundsen had dog sleds and huskies and Scott, the British guy, Captain Scott.

When the ice was flat or flattish, I could just about pull both.

Arctic explorer Ben Saunders recounts his harrowing solo ski trek to the North Pole, complete with engaging anecdotes, gorgeous photos and never before seen video.

We'd catch cat naps at 40 below on our sled, incidentally.

Every South Pole expedition you may have heard about is either flown out from the Pole or has used vehicles or dogs or kites to do some kind of crossing no one has ever made a return journey. So that's the plan.

Young people in northern Canada, kids in an elementary school, dragging sleds across the school yard, pretending they were Richard, Ray and Kevin. Amazing.

It also meant, if the worst came to the worst, I could actually jump in and swim across and drag the sledge over after me.

And in the process, I became the first person in history to make the entire 650 mile journey, from Hercules Inlet to South Pole, solely on feet, without skis.

They get there and they realize it's fashionable now to have dogs a third as tall as your ceiling heights.

We don't have any sledders here.

Some of them have a very precarious thin footbridge underneath them that could give way at a moment's notice, taking your sled, you, into the abyss, never to be seen again.

Imagine, if you will, dragging a sled, as you just saw in that video clip, with 170 pounds of gear, in it everything you need to survive on your Antarctic trek.

So, I created this compilation of the two I took my skis and I took a board and I put a mast foot in there, and some foot straps, and some metal fins, and here I was, going really fast on frozen lakes.

Snow and blizzard and blowing snow

Doggie.

Light snow and blizzard and blowing snow

Good old Monty...good dog!

The puppies!

Here, puppies. Puppies, come on out.

Go away, nice doggie.

The doggy went into doggy day care.

Periods of snow and blizzard and blowing snow

I'll be fine.

Careful, doggy.

dog!

Good dog. Good dog.

Periods of light snow and blizzard and blowing snow

Snow and blowing snow

What cigars?

You're a wicked naughty dog.

Of course, puppies.

Here, puppies.

You know, skiers pray for snow?

Light snow and blowing snow