Series 1
Series Summary
Moment-by-moment accounts of situations that spiralled terrifyingly out of control. Each programme recreates a bruising encounter with nature in its rawest state, including the bitter freeze of a Mount Everest storm, the colossal swell of the Southern Ocean, the devastating power of an avalanche, and the breathtaking speed of a transatlantic jet stream.
Episodes (8)
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While Tony Bullimore was competing in the Vendée Globe race, the…
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Richard Branson and Per Lindstrand were confident they could be the…
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In May 1996, two ill-fated tourist expeditions attempted to reach the…
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When Donald Crowhurst, a 36-year-old ex-army electrical engineer…
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On 20 January 1999, a storm in the Atlantic Ocean began a chain of…
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Low's Gully was created over a million years ago when a massive…
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Since it was first climbed in 1913, Mount McKinley has claimed the…
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When, in 1964, Donald Campbell broke the land speed record, reaching…
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