long and cold winter is to embrace the elements and enjoy some seasonal and to time and a great example is holiday on ice one of the world s most famous ice shows twenty eighteen marks an important milestone for the touring company they ve now been going to seventy five years of course a lot has changed since the show s humble beginnings in the u.s. state of ohio in the one nine hundred forty s. my colleague meghan lee took a look at the latest installment cold atlantis. this is one of the world s longest running shows holiday on ice now entering its seventy fifth year it s an acrobatic adventure of sorts some thirty five skaters take to the ice in a program that changes every year one of the principle stars of the show is twenty five year old mighty long graf he s already had a long and successful skating career and this is yet another feather in his cap to
chinese helicopter from snow dragon can reach us when the weather improves. reporter: the weather conditions are not expected to get better until at least one more day. in the meantime, the crew has marked the spot in the ice where the chopper can land. once it does, it will transport 12 people at a time to a chinese ice breaker, then a barge will ferry them from the ice breaker to another strip, the ship set out to retrace the steps of douglas morsen. he studied life on the frozen continent a century ago. they got stuck in thick ice. this was big chunks of ice. really thick, lots of years. lots of years worth of growth. this is not going to be easy. reporter: since christmas, three separate ice breaker ships have tried and failed to cut a
air lift passengers. problem is that may not happen anytime soon. now after spending christmas on board that ship, they will ring in the new year as well. matthew chance live in london with the latest. good morning, matthew. reporter: good morning, john. that s right. they ll be bringing in the new year. they ve posted video messages of themselves preparing for the new years celebrations. there is a new plan, you re absolutely right. it s the only plan that s going to work according to the rescue officials. they ve abandoned all the attempts to reach that stranded research vessel by sea with ice breakers. instead they ll stand back, send in a helicopter. they can only do that once weather conditions allow. this morning, new video, dozens of passengers walking arm in arm doing what they can to speed their rescue. we ve just learned the aurora can t reach us. we re preparing the helipad by getting the team to stomp down in the snow and ice so the
instead, they re going to air lift the passengers and some of the crew to safety once weather conditions permit. this morning, new video, dozens of passengers walking arm in arm, doing what they can to speed their rescue. we ve just landlord at aurora can t reach us. they are preparing the helipad by getting the team to stomp down the snow and ice so the snow dragon can reach us when the weather improves. reporter: it s not expected to get better until at least one more day. in the meantime, the crew has marked the spot in the ice where the chopper can land. once it does, it will transport 12 people at a time to a chinese ice breaker, then a barge will ferry them from the ice breaker to another strip, the 14ship se
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