The Midgard Viking Expedition: the search for intelligent life in earth - Bjørn Heyardahl

[Online] Explore the exquisite balance of nature in the Yukon Territory, including the waxing and waning of the iconic lynx, snowshoe hare, and abalone fishers. Dr Regan Early will show how nature is adapting, or not, to the latest onslaught of environmental change. 

[Online] Andy Dickson tackles two iconic ultra-endurance journeys through the English Lake District, becoming the first person ever to complete both.

[Online] India is home to 60% of the extant Asian elephant population and also has one of the highest human populations in the world. This has meant that pressure on available elephant habitat is ever increasing and has led to a high degree of human-elephant conflict.

Why did people in the 18th and 19th centuries become fascinated by high mountains which had previously been regarded as desolate wastelands? What drove them, and especially the English, to risk their lives on perilous first ascents of unclimbed summits?