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The Most Dangerous Ways to School Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
5 Episodes 2016 - 2016
Episode 1
Kenya
Sat, Dec 31, 201648 mins
For centuries now, the Dorn Savanna has been the lifeline for the Massai people. Until today, they refuse to get involved in the constant upheavals in Tanzania and instead continue to cultivate their traditions. And that in a country where barely more 50% of the population is over 15 years old and over one hundred different languages are spoken.
Episode 2
Nepal
Sat, Dec 31, 201648 mins
Twice a year the forbidding journey to the boarding school is necessary. Father Stanzin, looks to the sky and attempts to predict how the weather will develop. Only when he is sure that no storm is brewing, he starts to prepare the children for the trip over the river. It is a route that is so notorious, that it even has a name: Chadar - the path over the cloak of ice.
Episode 3
Oymyakon
Sat, Dec 31, 201648 mins
In Oymyakon (Syberia), the cold controls everything. The town is located in eastern part of Sakha Republic (Yakutia) which belongs to Russia and is known as the world's Pole of Cold. Nevertheless every morning the children march to school, the youngest just 6 years old, making their way by temperatures of -50 degrees Celsius.
Episode 4
Peru
Sat, Dec 31, 201648 mins
It is early in the morning as Ronald gets himself ready. He eats his Uro bread and drinks a Mate tea. Both things, like almost everything else here are made form the totora reeds. The Uros are a people that are very rooting in their tradition. They have even managed to preserve the Pukina, their mother language dating back to the colonial time.
Episode 5
Himalaya
Fri, Dec 30, 201648 mins
Gulu - a small Chinese village with only a few dozen farms- spread out over one of the most impressive plateaus of the Hengduan Mountains in the Province of Sichuan. Here live the Yi, a people closely related to the Tibetans. To reach the village, which is located 1400 meters above sea level, an additional hike through the mountains is necessary.
