Endurance: How A Stranded Crew Survived 2 Years In Antarctica | Great Adventurers

When Captain Robert Falcon Scott embarked on his second and last expedition in 1910 he was already a famous Antarctic explorer. The Terra Nova expedition is best known for the courageous but ultimately ill fated attempt to race to the South Pole. Scott's party became the second expedition to reach the South Pole in 1912, but tragically all five members perished on the journey home.

Join us on a captivating journey to the coldest and most inhospitable environment on Earth - Antarctica. We delve into the early 20th-century expeditions that set out to unravel the mysteries of this uncharted southern land, where temperatures can plummet to 100° below zero and winds can reach a staggering 200 mph. We will learn about the legendary explorer Ernest Shackleton and his adventurous spirit, drive for fame, and rivalry with fellow explorer Robert Scott. We will then head further back in time to a much earlier maritime explorer who changed the course of human history, Christopher Columbus. While he set the blueprint for future sea-borne exploration, he left untold suffering and centuries of colonization in his wake.

Known as the "Giant Deer", the Irish Elk was last seen nearly 11,000 years ago. This extinct series episode chronicles the habits and traits of the extinct deer species. It settled in Ireland where human hunters had not reached and antlers that reach 12ft from tip to tip. Why did this giant deer endure catastrophic extinction?

This fascinating documentary takes us back to the early days of the Thames barge matches when they started in 1863 - the second oldest sailing competition in the world. This documentary includes the fifth and sixth episode.

Located in Democratic Republic of Congo, at the border of Rwanda, the volcano Nyiragongo is considered to be the most active in Africa. Its permanent lake of lava is the biggest of the planet. This volcanic phenomenon, rare and unknown, has been revealed to the public by Haroun Tazieff in 1958 in its movie “Devils’ Rendez-Vous”. Its devastating eruptions threaten the 1 million inhabitants of the city of Goma, which is located at its bottom. The most important was in 1977. The most recent, in 2002, bothered the scientist community because of its violence. For the Volcanologist Observatory of Goma, it’s a big challenge: increase the knowledge to anticipate the future eruptions and avoid catastrophes. It’s a very complex objective in a very instable region, geologically but also politically. Moreover, to go down inside the crater is very difficult and needs very special competences and experiments. A team of French and Swiss volunteers, specialists of volcanologic expeditions has taken up the challenge: they go the closest to the boiling lake of lava, in the very heart of the volcano, in

Spinner Dolphins - Dancers of the Ocean | Ocean Documentary This is the story of the most charismatic inhabitant of the most beautiful island of Brazil: the spinner dolphins from Fernando de Noronha. Famous for their amazing acrobatics, in which spinners may raise more than 3 metres above the water and spin up to 7 times around their bodies, the dolphins are true ocean wanderers. They live in tropical open waters around the world, and some may spend years without ever seeing land. But a population of these dolphins, the Noronha Spinners, behave very differently. Almost every day they visit Noronha and gather in an area considered as the most visited bay by dolphins in the world. But why do these oceanic specialists seem to need the sheltered waters of Noronha so much? This film reveals, in intimate details, the behaviour of the Noronha spinners, showing what these dolphins do in the sheltered island waters and the spectacular acrobatics they perform. The relationship between the dolphins and the island of Noronha, however, is now threatened by anthropogenic changes and by