"A twenty year old woman, but acting like a baby."

That's how Tatiana Maslany describes her reaction the first time she saw the ocean. "The majesty of it was so overwhelming," she goes on to explain.

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It's nothing short of awe-inspiring to the award-winning actress that early Canadians tackled and thrived on quite punishing landscapes.

"I can't even imagine you know, tackling a mountain with no sense of how high it is or what creatures will be waiting for me in bushes, you know?"

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Nowadays, we have tools that help make the unknown, known. "We've become so not brave," she laughs.