Explorers: Adventures of the Century

- Season 1

(2013)

This episode (directed by award winning Jens Hoffmann) centers around the Norwegian B.A.S.E. jumper and free skiing star Karina Hollekim and her riveting Hand of Fatima B.A.S.E. jumping venture at Mount Hombori - Mali's highest peak (1,155 m) on the edge of the world's most imposing desert. The legendary top athlete has always thrived on pushing herself to the limit, but this unique journey proved to be extreme in more ways than expected. In an unforgiving environment Karina Hollekim has to face ferocious heat, a vicious sand storm, thorny undergrowth and wind turning...

In one amazing journey, kayaking legend Steve Fisher (South Africa) returns to the Zambezi, one of the world's most treacherous waterways, raging at the highest levels in a decade, to take on a thrilling challenge that most would consider a death wish.

Stephen Redmond has already achieved to swim six channels and straits in six oceans. But only the seventh channel, the Tsugaru Strait between the Japanese main island and Hokkaido, will make him the first man to swim the iconic Seven Oceans. A death defying swim of 14 hours in 12°C cold open sea.

The infamous north faces of "Eiger", "Grandes Jorasses" and "Matterhorn" are awesome challenges just for the best climbers. Swiss speed climbing legend Ueli Steck doesn't let things scorch. He conquers in free solo style this trio of threat in only hours - no rope, no bolt was needed.

The climbing brothers Thomas and Alexander Huber attempt to conquer free the infamous "Bavarian Direttissima" (upper tenth degree of difficulty) on the iconic Mt. Asgard on the Arctic Baffin Island (Canada). A 40 days expedition with polar bears, frostbite and climbing at the peril of their lifes.

Pororoca means "great destructive noise " in the indigenous language and is a tidal bore with waves up to four meters high, travelling as much as 13 km inland upstream on the Amazon River. Surfing the Pororoca is especially dangerous, as the water contains a significant amount of debris, often entire trees, in addition to dangerous fauna. Australian big wave surf legend Ross Clarke-Jones is taking the challenge to surf one of the highest bores ever recorded.