Voyage to the North Pole | Crushed | 3

Voyage to the North Pole | Crushed | 3

Trapped in polar pack ice, the crew of USS Jeannette settle in for a long, dark winter. As the temperature drops and the ice floes press against her sides, the ship risks suffering grave damage. Morale drops, as the sailors begin to wonder if they’ll ever return safely from the endless expanse of ice.

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Plane Crash in the Andes | The Crash | 1

Plane Crash in the Andes | The Crash | 1

In October 1972, an Uruguayan rugby team traveling to their next match in Santiago, Chile, crashes into the Andes Mountains after their plane strikes a glacier. Stranded on the snow-covered side of a ...

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Endurance: Surviving Antarctica | Interview with Chris Turney | 6

Endurance: Surviving Antarctica | Interview with Chris Turney | 6

Chris Turney is an Earth scientist studying the causes and impacts of environmental and climate change with a focus on the Antarctic. Turney shares tales from his own ambitious expeditions to Antarcti...

14 Sep 202142min

Endurance: Surviving Antarctica | Hope | 5

Endurance: Surviving Antarctica | Hope | 5

In a final attempt to get his men home, Ernest Shackleton and his crew have to get through the Drake Passage, the most dangerous stretch of ocean in the world. And that’s just the beginning. When they...

7 Sep 202146min

Endurance: Surviving Antarctica | Perseverance | 4

Endurance: Surviving Antarctica | Perseverance | 4

Ernest Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men were finally able to set sail for Elephant Island, but now the boats have been separated. They’ll have to endure the sea’s wrath. Shackleton’s crew m...

31 Aug 202146min

Endurance: Surviving Antarctica | Determination | 3

Endurance: Surviving Antarctica | Determination | 3

Ernest Shackleton and his men are trapped on an ice floe off the coast of Antarctica. Tensions are running high, and rations are dwindling quickly. Shackleton is unsure how they are going to survive. ...

24 Aug 202144min

Endurance: Surviving Antarctica | Patience | 2

Endurance: Surviving Antarctica | Patience | 2

Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men witness their ship, the Endurance, take a devastating blow against the unforgiving ice off the coast of Antarctica. The men will have to build ca...

17 Aug 202144min

Endurance: Surviving Antarctica | Obsession | 1

Endurance: Surviving Antarctica | Obsession | 1

In March 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton works to put together a crew of twenty-eight men to sail from England to Antarctica. It was a new continent untouched by humanity that only the most adventurous me...

10 Aug 202146min

Shipwreck on the Sahara | Interview with Dean King | 5

Shipwreck on the Sahara | Interview with Dean King | 5

Author Dean King traveled across the world to retrace Captain Riley’s footsteps through the Sahara Desert. His book, Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival, recounts Riley’s story and King’...

3 Aug 202139min

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