Steve Backshall's Extreme Mountain Challenge
Nature documentary. Adventurer Steve Backshall embarks on a dramatic expedition to explore Venezuela's tepuis - ancient, sheer-sided mountains cut off from the jungle below.
- 2016-2016
- 1 season
- Documentary
Nature documentary. Adventurer Steve Backshall embarks on a dramatic expedition to explore Venezuela's tepuis - ancient, sheer-sided mountains cut off from the jungle below.
Season 1 Episode Guide
2 Episodes 2016
Episode 1
Episode #1.1
49 mins
Former Royal marines commando and experienced nature documentary maker Steve Backshall is excited to take his film crew on a real expedition, the first ever to follow, in modern kayaks lead by a New Zealand expert, the uncharted Baliem Valley in the dense forests of western (Indonesian) New Guinea. The waters prove wilder and the rocks sharper then feared, so on the second day already a helicopter intervention is deemed inevitable. However it allows Steve to stop for a visit with a team of speleologists to the equally unexplored collapsed giant caves, the first being inaccessible due to opposition from some of the region's Dani tribes, the second even more spectacular then Steve hoped. Then the kayak journey is resumed further downstream.
Episode 2
Episode #1.2
51 mins
The naturalist reaches the summit of one of the tepuis and then joins a team of Italian cavers exploring the network of unexplored caverns inside another. Finally, the team abseil down the world's highest waterfall.