“It's not quite impenetrable,” Hemmer said. “But it's close.”
Hemmer noted that eight nations have land within the Arctic Circle, seven of them members of NATO. The exception is Russia, and the U.S. military is watching closely — the purpose of his trip.
His special, currently streaming, doubles as a travelogue into an endless expanse of white.
“Everything you see is something that you have never seen before in your life because so few people have been here,” he said. “It's a remarkable site.”
Mindful of loyal Fox fans, Hemmer skirts one issue — climate change. “Why Arctic ice is receding, how fast and what it means,” he said. “All of these things are points of debate.”