The End of the Road

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At the end of the road across Alaska's North slope, 250 miles beyond the Arctic Circle, is Prudhoe Bay. Here, where for all but 6 weeks of the year the sea is frozen solid, where winter is 8 months long, 4000 people developed America's biggest oilfield. To carry the oil south to an ice-free port, 20,000 men built a pipeline across 800 miles of Alaskan mountain, tundra, forest and river - the costliest commercial enterprise in history. This program is not a technical engineering record, it is the dramatic and exciting story of how men worked in one of the world's most hostile climates to bring oil to an energy-hungry world.