Tougher in Alaska

Season 1, Episode 12
Take a look at how different aspects of travel in Alaska are affected by climate and terrain. Join host Geo Beach as he travels to the open tundra of western Alaska to see how life moves along the Kuskokwim River, a 724-mile lifeline for many Native Alaskan communities. Then Geo plays mailman on a giant hovercraft for a day, plows out an emergency ice road so that a needy village can get heating oil before it runs out, and goes on a search and rescue mission for any stragglers on the icy, fierce frozen river.

Season 1, Episode 11
Historically, keeping the peace in Alaska has been a unique challenge. After all, how do Alaska State Troopers keep the peace in a state two and half times the size of Texas? Geo will find out when he joins a team of recruits for an intense survival course at Alaska's Trooper Academy in Sitka, investigates caribou "crime" scenes with Wildlife Troopers in the Brooks Mountain Range, and helps the sergeant at the northernmost Trooper post in America to hunt for alcohol smugglers and arrest criminals in the remote arctic bush villages outside Kotzebue.

Season 1, Episode 10
Getting rid of waste is a problem in Alaska. In cities such as Fairbanks, only 20% of residents are connected to a main sewage system and native villages have long relied on the "honey bucket" to dispose of sewage. Join host Geo Beach as he goes to Ketchikan, the black bear capital of the world, where he races to collect trash before the bears can get to it. Then, he teams up with a remote maintenance worker who is the sole plumber, electrician and carpenter to nearly a dozen villages in the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta, an area the size of Washington State. Finally he'll head to Fairbanks and make house calls to help thaw frozen septic pipes and tanks so that it can be a free-flowing city once again.

Season 1, Episode 9
Thousands of oceangoing vessels brave the perilous Alaskan waters each year. Host Geo Beach will join Alaska's premiere salvager, Dan Magone, as he attempts to salvage a wrecked 197-foot barge in the deadly Shelikof Strait in the middle of a severe winter storm. Geo will also explore Alaska's dramatic history of shipwrecks and ride along with elite Coast Guard helicopters on a trip to service and maintain remote navigational aid stations out at sea.