The Purest Water From The Glacier by The Legendary Icebreaker

Dmytro Komarov will climb the legendary Chimborazo volcano to uncover the secrets of the ancient and nearly extinct profession of ice miners. All that for a try to change the life of the last ice miner in history. During the 9th episode, Dmytro Komarov got acquainted with the national hero of Ecuador, 77-year-old Baltaraz Ushca, who was an ice miner in the Andes for decades. As recently as 30 years ago, the ice mining profession was common in these places. They climbed the Chimborazo volcano, manually chipped off chunks of thousands-year-old ice, brought the blocks down on donkeys, and sold them to locals. For the nearby cities this ice was indispensable for storing food. But with the advent of refrigerators ice mining became unnecessary.
Today, Balthazar Ushca is the only one left of an entire generation of ice miners. All his life he climbed daily to a great height for crystal clear ice, and now he tells about his profession to the younger generation. Age takes its toll, and Balthasar can't climb mountains often. His family helps him, and they still produce some ice for sale. Today it is only bought in small quantities by cocktail makers, and the Ushca family are struggling.

Timestamps:
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00:01 Episode announcement
02:30 We get acquainted with Balthazar and his family and going to climb the Chimberaza glacier at the height of 4800m
09:57 Dmytro tries himself how its difficult to be an ice miner
15:20 Okay, we brought some ice. but how to make profit from it? How much is one block of ice worth?
19:46 Visitors guess which cocktail has ice from the glacier
24:00 Dmytro decided to compare what kind of ice is better: from a Chimborazo glacier or from ordinary store. A lab test will show
27:35 Helping Balthazar launch a business selling unique glacial water. How he will react?
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What is World Inside Out?
Dmytro Komarov is famous Ukrainian TV host and author of "The World Inside Out" alongside with Ukraininan filmmaker Oleksandr Dmytriev travel to countries that are not usually visited by tourist tours.
They manage to go to places where a man has never set a foot. Dmytro himself creates the route, learns the features of the new place in advance and tries to survive on his own in the practical primitive conditions. But the real thing is that he is actually trying to get used to the role of the natives, not just like a stranger but as part of the team, actively trying new crafts and ways of getting food, learning the local traditions and laws.
Dmytro and Oleksandr have visited more than 20 countries, and without a doubt these were not passing journeys but thorough cultural studies.

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