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TS: Welcome to the finale in "71 Degrees North"!
The three participants left are: Gustav Nilsen, Didrik Solli-Tangen and Ole Edvard Antonsen.
Today they will go to the North at Magerøya and end up here at North Cape.
And we will get the answer to "Who is Norway’s toughest celebrity?"
TS: Good morning, and welcome to Finnmark! D,G, OE: Thanks a lot!
TS: Just over here lies the North Cape plateau. How do you feel to be this near, Ole Edvard?
OE: It feels incredibly good! It has been the dream all the way, to be allowed to go all the way up to North Cape – and now we are there! So I think it is top!
TS: Good! Gustav, today you will compete against two mates, how will that be?
G: It will be very exciting, actually, because… yes, I have been together so much with Didrik, for example, and suddenly I will have to manage on my own, so…
Yes, it will be a challenge.
TS: Didrik, you’re the youngest of the pack here, how will this make an impact on the result?
D: No, I don’t know how it will end… I will just have to work hard and try to do my best.
TS: What you will be battling for today, is one secure place in the last part of the finale.
None of you will go home, but numbers two and three will have to do a duel.
In this competition it will be important to have good navigation skills, but knowledge will also be necessary.
You will answer questions on the way, and your answers will decide how long your route to the goal will be.
But before you start walking, you have to solve 3 tasks.
Now you can go to your starting points. Have a nice journey, and good luck!
All: Thanks!
TS: The participants have to carry with them 3 cylinder shaped lead weights to get the finale ticket when they arrive the goal.
In addition, they could have to carry another 3 weights, depending on how they solve their tasks.
The first task is: "What will the difference between the geographic and the magnetic North be at Nordkapp in 2013?"
The answer to this is in the map that the participants have been given.
In the second task they have to guess if a weight weighs more than 3.8 kg.
If they want, they can use the scales that lie 200m North-East of where they are standing.
The third task is the choice between waiting for 15 minutes and carry one of the weights, or go at once and carry both weights.
TS: Are you ready, guys? Ready, steady, go!
D:" … if your answer is wrong on any of the tasks, you have to carry the weights that the wrong answer represent."
I think the map contains a sort of… yes, here… eh…
Magnetic North… eleven, it says here... That’s ok, then.
That’s the answer to A.
Right answer – yes!
"What does this weight weigh? More than 3,8kg?"
If it weighs more than 3,8kg… It does.
Yes, that’s A. A... yes!
D: Right answer you will send to…[Note from translator: This is a referring to a popular program on Norwegian TV, with a weekly question for the viewers…]
D: "You are now lacking one.. (mumbling…) you can choose either here or 15 minutes"… Huh?
"You can choose…" OK!
"...you can choose either to wait here for 15 minutes and bring one weight, or you can bring…" OK..
Dammit, I’ll go…
Oh ***!
TS: Didrik has got four weights with him, and carries a backpack of 33,5 kg.
TS: In this leg, the participants will navigate by four posts before they can get to the finish in Gjesvær.
After post 1 there are two of each post, where one always is more difficult to reach than the other.
Which of the posts the participants have to go by, depends on whether they answer right or wrong on the questions.
Each question has two alternative answers, and the participants will not know if their answer is right or wrong.
If they answer correctly on every question, will they have the shortest way to the goal, marked by the green line.
If they answer incorrectly on everything, they will get a longer route in a more difficult terrain, marked by red.
OA: Hammerfest municipality lies in North Cape municipality…
D: I answered that North Cape is in North Cape municipality - I’m quite sure of that. Let’s see….
I have memorized some, I hope I don’t say anything wrong now, but… I have at least read a little – so I hope I will get paid back for that now.
TS: Gustav chose the wrong alternative at the first post, and must walk in the same direction as Ole Edvard.
At the same time Didrik is getting near to Post 2.
D: Ah – now I see the flag up there, so we’re on the track… that’s nice!
Nice! OK – a little chocolate, and question.
"How many percent of the areal of Finnmark is Finnmarksvidda?"
D: I think that Finnmarksvidda is really big, so it has to be 36% - so I think I will answer the opposite, and answer 24%...
That’s what I think. But if it is right, that’s another thing…
D: I’ll take 24… OK… Stoccovarri… I don’t know if my route is the right one, so…
The fact that I can’t see the others can point in both directions. I just have to pursue this as the right and hope for the best…
TS: Didrik has to walk a detour – and Gustav gets an extra big detour, because he is on a completely wrong direction.
D: I can see Gustav now – I don’t know how much that means.
It looks like I possibly have answered incorrectly on the first question…
G: Hello!
D: Did you come directly here? Then you probably answered correctly on the first question.
Are you going to Stoccovarre or whatever it is called, now? Are you going there?
G: I’m going to 270 – there…
D: I’m going there… I’m going where we are standing now, but there’s no post here…
G: Standing now? You mean that we are standing here?
D: Yes, now we are here…. G: No! D: … some place…
G: Have I missed that much? You’re joking!
D: No… This is that cottage over there – I mean it’s that one – anyway that’s how I have understood it…
I thought you had gone straight to this one… Good luck, buddy – talk later!
G: ***….
D: Actually it’s good on my part… I thought that he was on his way to this post, and that I had answered wrong on the first post,
but it shows that he had answered the same as Ole Edvard, and then possibly…or hopefully… that was wrong…
D: Yes, now I can see Ole Edvard, and it looks like he is going to the same post as me – it’s good in a way…
D: You’re out on a hike, too, I see! Yes it’s great, I love walking up here! Best there is!
OE: And just for safety’s sake I bring along some weight… D: Nice to get a little exercise…
OE: I took it all. It sucks that we don’t get a tent, we need something to carry!
D: Yeah, right! OE: Heavy?
D: Did you meet Gustav?
OE: No, he is out walking, too?
D: Yes he is up here, too.
OE: Geeze, what’s he doing here? I thought he stayed at Gjøvik…
D: Well, well. You’re going to the top, I suppose?
OE: No. I’m going to a completely different place.
D: A completely different place? OK – have a good walk!
OE: Yes have a good walk – see you in the evening! D: Bye!
D: "In which town is Finnmark’s administrative centre?"
OK, Alta or Vadsø? ***…
Dear God, let it be Alta! Aaah!
I don’t even know if it’s right…
Should have taken Vadsø… F…..
TS: Didrik chooses the wrong alternative once again, and elongates the route to the goal even more.
That opens up a possibility for Ole Edvard, who now has reached his third post.
D: If I should follow the map and compass now, it looks like it is that top.
It’s almost a little short…
D: Aah always a pleasure to take off the backpack.
D: "How many municipalities are there in Finnmark?" F….
"You are in the wrong place!" it says…
Where have I been walking then?
Yes it’s there – I’m at 245 now… I thought I had walked too short, you see…
I suppose I should have walked here if I had answered right on the first question…
You can’t cry over spilled milk… just hoping that Ole Edvard will go to the same post as me… hopefully…
D: Now Ole Edvard is at the post, and in a way I hope that he gets the same sucking message as me…
TS: It’s 19 municipalities in Finnmark, so Ole Edvard has chosen the wrong alternative. So he has got a hint that goal lies somewhere in Gjesvær.
If he had answered correctly, he would have got the accurate position of the goal point.
Didrik is back on the right track, while Gustav still has far to go to the fourth post.
D: It’s not what you want most to bring along to a mountain top.
I hope the next post is the last.
D: OK. "How many municipalities are there in Finnmark?".
Are there 19 municipalities, or are there 15 municipalities?
I tip there’s 15…
Gjesvær?
That must be the goal then.
I think the next post is goal, because it’s difficult to get anywhere from that island…
It looks like an ending point, you could say.
D: There is Gjesvær – finally!
I hope that’s the last song for today anyway, so it must be allowed to hope that the others have lost their way, even if it’s not likely ... but it’s allowed to hope.
D: What the f…. it’s the end of the song!
It’s the end of the song! God I’m happy for that!
Likely I’m not the first to the goal, but it is nice to be at the goal!
Unbelievably nice! I was so relieved when I saw that!
TS: Hi, Didrik, welcome!
D: Congratulations, Ole Edvard! OE: Thank you!
TS: Great work, but it didn’t work all the way…
D: No, I messed up with the questions... I knew it from the start, so I…
That’s what went wrong – I had to go far away on another top,
and then I saw you went down the other way, so I thought: Well well, it will go as it has to go, I thought.
TS: Are you exhausted? D: Yes I am exhausted..
TS: You must rest now – for the duel tomorrow… and we will wait for Gustav.
G: Oh, look here! Congratulations! This suits you, actually!
OE: That’s really nice of you to say!
G: Didrik!
D: You found your way? G: I found my way…
D: We started to get a little worried, we have been standing here for a while.
G: Yes – I had a couple of hours – like, I walked in circles…
TS: Are you hungry, folks? Let’s go inside and have something to eat! Come in!
D: It’s f..ing great to sleep in the toilet tent! Damn!
D: Nothing like sleeping in the toilet tent! Best night! Nice!
All on my own... and it’s, like, a short way... if you have to… like, feel something pressing on in the night, it’s just to jump onto the toilet.
D: Is this the farting tent?
G: Yes here’s the farting department… OE: Here’s the cat department.
D: Hey, it’s the cat department, yes…
G: Ironically it smells more of fart in this tent than at the toilet tent!
OE: We know very little about that!
D: But there hasn’t been any poop over there….
G: But soon it will be! I really have too… D: But soon it will be!
G: I am loading – tummy full of poop – hallelujah!
D: If I don’t win today, still I think that I can go home with a feeling of having been very tough on myself
Anyway I have proved to myself that I have managed things that I perhaps never believed I would do!
So for myself, I feel it is a victory to have come this far,
so who will get the title and who will be "Norway’s toughest celebrity" – then we will just have to congratulate, and I think in some way we will share it, the three of us who are left here.
G: It’s strange to go out in a competition with Didrik – he’s probably the one I have got closest to here.
So it’s like competing with a friend.
There are few things that I consider: "In this I can beat Didrik"… I will need a good old fashioned luck in addition…
TS: Good morning, boys! Boys: Good morning!
TS: Welcome to North Cape! Real finale weather today! G: Yes!
TS: Didrik, how does it feel to finally be here?
D: It’s very nice to have come here, now is the goal achieved in a way - it’s great just to be here!
TS: Do you feel it’s a long time since you started at Lindesnes?
D: In a way it feels like it’s very long ago, but on the other hand that it is very short time, because I have experienced so much, and the time has passed very quickly.
TS: Gustav, you have experienced a lot on this tour, how does it feel to be at the end of the road here on North Cape?
G: It’s fantastic to be here, I’m almost proud of myself that I have managed to carry on all the way here…
D: Almost? It’s no almost – you should be proud of yourself!
TS: Sounds good! Ole Edvard – I suppose you are proud, too?
OE: Yes, I am very proud and happy!
TS: You are already ready for the last part of the finale and who you will meet there, will be decided now.
Gustav and Didrik, in this duel we will see which of you can persist for the longest time.
It’s about static strength.
You can get ready!
G: … and today….
TS: Gustav and Didrik will stand facing each other, holding two bags of 25 kg each, pulled up from the ground.
Here it is about getting a good grip and be strong handed.
The competition is finished as soon as one of the bag touches the ground.
D: This duel is in a way good for me, I like the more physical things.
I don’t know how strong Gustav is in his arms or how much strength he has got – it’s difficult to say anything of how this will go.
But for my part, I think it will be a good task.
TS: Ready, boys? G & D: Yes!
TS: Good luck! Ready, steady, go!
D: Hell!
G: Weak in the knees? D: Yes!
G: Great work, boys!
D: Thank you Gustav!
G: You have to give Ole Edvard a real fight now!
OE: Now it’s a fight!
OE: You were persistent…
TS: Didrik – great work!
D: It was so cold on my fingers – and it felt like stitches, just f..ing…
TS: Let’s see whom of you will win, then…
OE: It will be exciting… D: It will be fun…
OE: I feel like a winner already!
D: Well it’s the same for me, like – the guys!
G: Great... what a tour!
TS: Well boys, it’s a little windy…
D: Quite fresh…
TS: What we now are standing by, is the last and the most important competition you will have to go through.
This is where we will find out which one of you is Norway’s toughest celebrity.
The task is to answer questions that are related to the journey you have made from Lindesnes and up here.
But you can’t escape the gorge…
Are you ready?
TS: Good luck! D & OE: Thank you!
TS: Our two finalists are going to cross the gorge by a climbing net.
From the net it is more than 300m down to the sea, and as it is blowing 15-20 metres per second, it is vital to hold on.
Underneath the net are hanging the correct answers to the questions they will get on the other side.
These are attached to weights that are between 12 and 16 kg.
They can choose to use time and force to pull up the amount of answers that they want, or go straight across and hope that they know the answers.
The six questions that wait at the other side are related to the journey they have been on.
Each question has five alternative answers.
If they give the correct answer, they can continue to the next question. But for each wrong answer, they will get a penalty round – by going back to the open stretch of the net.
At the penalty round they will also have the opportunity to pull up more correct answers.
The one who is first to give the correct answers to six questions, and pulls the flag into the top of the globe, will win "71 Degrees North".
D: Of course it had to be questions at the last duel, that’s what I feared…
I’ll manage to cross that gorge, but I’ll just hope that we will get questions that I eventually will manage…
OE: I’m really anxious about this duel, because it is blowing almost gales in the gusts,
and we are going out above this gorge with a net and try to crawl our way across – and it may happen that we have to go penalty rounds back again…
So this is not my favourite occupation at all!
TS: Ready, steady, go!
TS: The winner’s prize is a voyage for four persons, worth 200 000 NOK.
TS: Didrik chooses to take the first answer...
...so does Ole Edvard.
TS: There Ole Edvard has got his second answer ...
...and he got his third in the sling.
Looks like Didrik has only got one answer sheet in his belt, and goes for the one out on the sling, too.
TS: Now Ole Edvard has got three, while Didrik is working on his second.
TS: There Ole Edvard goes for his fouth answer…
Didrik goes for his third.
TS: Ole Edvard goes for his fifth correct answer.
No, that was too heavy!
TS: Looks like Didrik is on his way across- and since he has only three correct answers, he has to hope that he knows the answers to the other three.
TS: Ole Edvard gets another correct answer – and has now all except one.
Question 1: What’s the name of the fjord that leads in to Nordbotn by the foot of Møysalen?
Е: Lunkanfjorden
TS: Didrik gives the correct answer to the first question.
Question 2: How high is Kalven in Smørstabbtindane?
TS: Wrong answer on question 2, and Didrik has to go out into the net again!
While Ole Edvard is on his way into the safe ground.
TS: Now Didrik must hope that Ole Edvard will give the wrong answer to the question he doesn’t have the answer for.
TS: Ole Edvard gives the wrong answer to question 1, and have to go out into the net again.
While Didrik is at the turning point.
TS: Didrik chooses to take with him another answer, so that he now has four correct answers.
TS: Ole Edvard tries again on the one he didn’t get up before,
but it is still too heavy.
TS: Didrik has four out of six correct answers, so he still has to know two of the answers by himself.
D: F…n... what did I answer earlier?
TS: Ole Edvard is on his way in again…
Question 3: In which year was the farm Matvik in Geiranger abandoned?
D: Where were musks imported from?
Greenland! Yes…
D: What was the name of the top by the goal in Sirdalsheiene?
Eeeh… Gruvletinden? Kvislevassnuten?
Kvislevassnuten? Let’s see – C?
Yes!
D: How high is Hettpiggen at Snøhetta?
2261 – C…
TS: Congrats!
TS: Norway’s toughest!
Very good!
OE: Great work!
D: Yes, dammit!
TS: Congratulations with the second place, Ole Edvard! Very good work!
D: Oh my God, I’m completely shaky!
TS: Take this one first, then, and I’ll give one to Ole Edvard!
D: I’m waiting for you! Oh, ***….
OE: Great work! D: Same to you!
OE: I almost can’t hold my glass, I’m so exhausted…
D: Cheers Ole Edvard!
OE: Cheers! Honestly deserved! Norway’s toughest!!
D: Thank you! Oh my….
D: Gustav! G: Congratulations!
TS: Get a glass for Gustav too!
TS: How was it out on the net, Didrik?
D: It was blowing sooo f…ing much, so it was…
TS: I told you! It’s blowing today!
D: We just stood there – and it just whipped in with water – so I just OOOOoww – when we should pull up those weights… I thought I was going to fall over…
OE: … and they were so heavy that I had one and lost it several times– I thought I should take with me the last weight, but I didn’t have a chance…
TS: It was ok with the height then, Ole Edvard?
OE: I didn’t concentrate on that at all…
D: I didn’t see … I didn’t manage to look down at all – you only watched the net and where to put your feet…
TS: It’s 308 m down to the sea…
D: Yes – I didn’t notice at all…. TS: How does it feel to win, then?
D: I don’t quite know – I don’t think I have realized yet! F….
TS: Didrik, you have become "Norway’s Toughest Celebrity", but you have also got a prize – a voyage for four persons, to a worth of 200.000NOK. What do you think of that?
D: It’s completely crazy!
OE: So, who will we bring, boys? Yesss!
D: Come on, guys – let’s go! Let’s make a toast. Cheers!
TS: Cheers for Didrik!
D: It was as wild as when I won the Norwegian Grand Prix (ESC) – maybe even more crazy, because it was so challenging...
I was so cold, and exhausted, and everything was just…and this I have been through now! Completely wild! And so lovely!
TS: That was all we have this year. But we will be back next year with new and vigorous celebrities!