Explorers: Adventures of the Century

- Season 2

(2016)

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This documentary tells along a one year timeline one of the greatest adventures of mankind: Will man (i.e. Valery Rozov) be able to do a wingsuit flight from the top of the world?

Adventurer and survivalist Joe Vogel dares the single-handed crossing of the most unforgiving desert on earth - 240 km across the Salar de Uyuni in the Bolivian highlands.

In 2010, Sebastian Copeland and partner Eric McNair-Landry crossed 2300 kilometers of the Greenland ice sheet, braved a blizzard lasting one week in a small tent and set a world record for the longest distance traveled in a twenty-four hour period on skis and kites, with 595 kilometers.

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Deep underground in the wilderness of New Zealand gigantic and widely unexplored cave systems entice adventurers and cavers of the entire globe. Kieran McKay, one of the most accomplished cavers in the southern hemisphere and his team of like-minded adventurers set out for the almost impossible: they try to find the "cave connection". If they happened to track through the approximately 80 missing meters between the systems "Nettlebed" and "Stormy Pot" they could claim credit for having found the largest cave in the southern hemisphere and one of the Top Five caves on ...