Steve is an expedition leader who has been exploring the High Arctic for decades. Chris is a young oceanographer who studies the world’s oldest ice floes from a Harvard lab. They know the data, the models, the science. It’s all dire. None of it has prepared them for the truth on the ground as they set course on a rare expedition inside the “Last Ice Area”. The old ice is gone. Against brutal conditions the science is scuttled, their expedition team bearing witness to Earth’s most pressing existential threat even as they struggle for their own survival.

Director Stephen Smith has been exploring the Far North since the late 1970s. A wildlife biologist, Smith has three decades of experience in polar wildlife research. He has led more than 60 expeditions in the High Arctic. As a director, Smith’s films have been informed and shaped by the intensity of his experiences on polar ice.