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Expedition with Steve Backshall Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 2019 - 2020
Episode 1
Oman: Lost Canyon
49 mins
Oman: Desert Canyon -- Naturalist Steve Backshall visits Oman, where he plans to drop nearly 400 metres into the deepest canyon in Southern Arabia. In the scorching desert heat, Steve and his team will explore an area where no human has ever set foot.
Episode 2
Bhutan: White Water
50 mins
Steve Backshall plans to kayak the last unrun river in Bhutan but there's a reason it has never been attempted before: it runs through the steepest gorge in Bhutan. Before his attempt, Steve seeks blessing from a local Buddhist monastery.
Episode 3
Suriname: Lost World
Wed, Jan 29, 202048 mins
Suriname: Lost World -- Steve Backshall travels to the Guiana Shield to discover its abundance of wildlife and natural wonders. He travels deep into the untouched jungle, finding animals that have never encountered humans.
Episode 4
Suriname: Ghost River
Wed, May 20, 202050 mins
Steve Backshall and his team travel deep into a region of Suriname that's so remote, it could conceal undiscovered natural wonders. The journey results in a surprise beyond their wildest dreams.
Episode 5
Borneo: Dark Shadow
Wed, Feb 12, 202048 mins
Steve takes part in an expedition penetrating into Kalimantan's lime stone karst region Sangkuliran's Gergaji mountain range, covered with dense jungle. On trails only known to bird nest hunters, passing the scarily huge salt water crocodiles, they progress painstakingly slowly, with effort and a bad fall for a cameraman. About to give up as supplies barely suffice for the return, the reach the system of caves with bat-predatory snakes and cave art pre)dating Europe's oldest. The island foremost expert takes them along in his systematic research of unexplored caves. Most contain nothing, but one is a spectacular hot, with features never found from that early age.
Episode 6
Oman: Desert Fortress
Wed, May 27, 202050 mins
Steve Backshall and a team of rock climbers head to the desert of southern Oman to attempt the first ascent of a towering escarpment. Along the way, he encounters one of the rarest animals on Earth.
Episode 7
Arctic: Frozen Frontier
Wed, Jan 22, 202051 mins
Explorers head to Greenland in the Arctic, where they kayak through the world's largest fjord during the spring melt, the most dangerous time of the year. They kayak for 5 days up the fjord on the east coast of Greenland, facing numerous dangers including a polar bear.
Episode 8
Mexico: Maya Underworlds
50 mins
Steve joins a team of expert divers in Yucatan (Mexico) who are still exploring most of the vastly extended system of 'cenotes', generally water-flooded natural underground cases, under the Maya jungle, which largely enabled that Precolumbian culture's rich growth. The Mayas knew about it and had religious practices concerning this 'divine portal', leaving a cultic legacy. It's dangerous work, especially as one can't just dive up, ever problem must be dealt with on the spot, under water and without maps.
Episode 9
Arctic: Ice Mountain
Sun, Sep 15, 201948 mins
Steve Backshall leads a team on a mission to make the worlds first ascent of a remote mountain in Greenland.
Episode 10
Mexico: Flooded Cave
Wed, Feb 5, 202051 mins
Steve leads a cave-diving team into the largest unexplored cave network on Earth. Below the jungles of Mexico, they push further and deeper than anyone has gone before.
