Comedian, actor and musician Billy Connolly braves the elements in this adventurous journey from the Atlantic Ocean to t | dHNfVmItTmgzSjJGZzQ
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00:00 It's an absolute sensation.
00:07 Oh wow!
00:10 How about that?
00:13 It's an old Indian trail.
00:16 It's an incredible road.
00:20 How unbelievable is this?
00:25 It's like being on another planet.
00:32 Whoa!
00:35 That is extraordinary.
00:42 The key to it all is to remain elegant and cool.
00:49 The key to it all is to remain elegant and cool.
00:57 Like the man said.
01:09 There's an outstanding thing about Canada.
01:13 The first impression you get is, my God, there's nobody here.
01:18 There's a breadth and a height to the Arctic that just has to be seen and felt and heard to be believed.
01:28 It is the most extraordinary corner of the world.
01:31 It's every bit as dramatic as going deep into water.
01:35 It's every bit as foreign as that when you find yourself confronted with enormous space and a silence that you think you can hear.
01:44 You just have to listen, listen to it.
01:50 And it isn't nothing. Nothing doesn't sound like that.
01:55 I know roughly where we're going-ish.
01:58 And I'm kind of scared to look because the length of time just frightens the life out of me, you know.
02:05 The world's a wonderful place. We've got to look at it lovingly and hopefully.
02:09 I'm looking at it as a pal, an old friend.
02:14 I never thought I would do anything like this in my life.
02:17 There's a great deal of hope out there. It's not all bleak.
02:23 The scenery's fine, but if there's no people involved, I get bored quickly.
02:28 I like people.
02:30 Yeah, we're doing a northwest passage. We're going right over the top of Canada.
02:35 Yes, perfect! Perfect!
02:40 Now you probably saw the movie where Leonardo DiCaprio played Jack Dawson, the great lover who drowned towards the end of the movie.
02:50 Well, they think that he's in there. The grave just says, "J. Dawson."
02:56 But it's a guy called Joseph Dawson.
02:58 [Music]
03:06 I like people who laugh easily and readily.
03:09 And I've been blessed with an ability to communicate with strangers.
03:13 [Mumbling]
03:17 That joke is really interesting.
03:21 Can I move in with you?
03:23 Anytime.
03:25 [Laughter]
03:29 I seem to have a talent for finding that funny angle on things.
03:33 [Laughter]
03:34 That's my favourite!
03:36 For me, it's a perfectly normal angle, and I love doing it.
03:39 Something just jumped on your back!
03:41 [Laughter]
03:42 There's something living inside your jacket!
03:45 [Waves crashing]
03:54 Bad weather, as it's popularly known, can be spectacularly beautiful.
03:59 Holy moly!
04:04 You can do great things to your head and your hair and your clothes.
04:08 Your voice, you know, you have to shout a certain way to be heard.
04:12 It changes the whole texture of the thing.
04:15 It's always nice, isn't it, to see a whale? It's always such a privilege.
04:22 It's staggering up there, you know. It really is extraordinary and kind of bleak and weird.
04:28 And it's going to get a lot weirder.
04:30 And the weirder it gets, the happier I become.
04:36 You ain't seen nothing yet.
04:39 [Waves crashing]
04:41 [Silence]