| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file (49 min., 19 sec.)) : sound, color |
| Series |
Steve Backshall's Extreme Mountain Challenge |
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Steve Backshall's extreme mountain challenge
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| Contents |
Islands in the Sky (2:18) -- Amaurai Tepui Expedition (3:29) -- A Close Call (2:19) -- Journey to Base Camp (3:01) -- Rainforest Insects (4:58) -- Reaching Base Camp (2:46) -- Climbing Plan (3:01) -- First Climbing Day (3:32) -- Securing the First Leg (2:17) -- Preparing a Cliff Face Campsite (2:10) -- Sleeping on a Cliff Face (4:10) -- Unconventional Climbing (4:38) -- Behind Schedule (2:59) -- Doubting the Climb's Success (2:16) -- Approaching Storm (4:33) -- Credits: Steve Backshall's Extreme Mountain Challenge: Episode 1 (0:40) |
| Summary |
Adventurer and naturalist Steve Backshall embarks on one of the most dramatic and dangerous expeditions ever filmed by a BBC crew. His mission is to explore Venezuela's tepuis - ancient, sheer-sided mountains, lost worlds cut off from the jungle below. With an elite team of rock climbers, Steve attempts the first ascent of an unclimbed wall on a remote tepui to search for wildlife on the summit. But nobody could have predicted what would happen, nor the kinds of decisions they'd be forced to make. A white-knuckle ride from the start; the team encounter river rapids and hazardous wildlife, and survive a close shave with a rickety biplane. Yet nothing can prepare them for their climb to the island in the sky |
| Notes |
Originally released by BBC Worldwide Ltd, 2016 |
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Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on January 17, 2017 |
| Performer |
Presenter, Steve Backshall |
| Notes |
9 & up |
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Closed-captioned |
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Title from distributor's description (Films Media Group, March 17, 2017) |
| Subject |
Adventure and adventurers.
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Mountaineering.
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Mountains -- Venezuela.
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Adventure and adventurers.
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Mountaineering.
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Mountains.
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Venezuela.
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Documentary television programs.
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Action and adventure television programs.
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Internet videos.
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Documentary television programs.
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Action and adventure television programs.
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Documentaires télévisés.
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Émissions d'aventures télévisées.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
BBC Worldwide Ltd.
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Films Media Group, film distributor.
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