Do you ever wish you could see all the wackiest weather from around the world, without moving a muscle or lifting a finger? Your wish is our command here on a brand new episode of Extreme Weather Countdown!
Showing1to20of1004results
With summer wildfires overpowering the Yukon forests, host/adventurer George Kourounis follows the fabled route of the Klondike Gold Rush sourdoughs through the bawdy town of Skagway, Alaska, paddling the white water rivers and the White Horse Rapids into the Yukon. He travels on mountain bike, steam train and Cessna to experience the huge fires and meet the northern fire crews battling the blazes.
Three explorations into the wild water that makes up over 70% of our angry planet. First, George travels to Guadaloupe Island off the coast of Mexico to dive with 16 foot Great White Sharks. He then uses drysuit and kayak to retrace the explorations of Tom Woodward into a flooded Northern Ontario cave in the middle of winter, then jetboats into the world's biggest Class VI whitewater rapids in the Niagara River.
2005 saw some of the wildest weather in the history of the planet. Host/adventurer George Kourounis tracks twisters through the Tornado Alley of Oklahoma and Texas, descends into the Erte Ale Volcano in the Danakil Depression of Ethiopia (the world's hottest place), and then witnesses Hurricane Katrina destroying the town of Gulfport, Mississippi, from a steel-reinforced bunker facing the debris-strewn beachfront.
The Angry Planet team heads to Africa to climb the steep and very active Nyiragongo Volcano in the Congo that erupted in 2002, sending 125,000 people fleeing for their lives. Host/adventurer George Kourounis explores the bubbling lake of molten lava and investigates the risk the dangerous volcano poses to both the people of city of Goma and the Mountain Gorillas who live on the nearby jungle slopes.
The autumn of 2006 brings hurricanes to the North Atlantic and hot dry winds fan forest fires across Northern Ontario. Host/adventurer George Kourounis has traveled to some awesome hurricanes, including Rita and Katrina, with his pal Mark Robinson. This year they stormchase in Newfoundland, site of the hurricane that pulled Mark out of a life-threatening depression.
Host George Kourounis has braved many terrifying phenomena – but none as frightening as the one he takes on in this episode: marriage! To make sure his new bride is on the same adventurous page with him, he proposes to get married on the lip of an exploding volcano, on the South Pacific island of Tanna, in Vanuatu. Before the native preacher, dressed in grass skirt and kustom garb, gets to perform the smoky vows, George descends into the erupting volcano to bring out red hot samples of the lava it is producing.
Avalanche danger is very high in the Rogers Pass area of the Trans Canada Highway in British Columbia. Host of Angry Planet George Kourounis travels with a variety of experts to bring down huge avalanches in the Rocky Mountains. Ski Patrollers throw hand charges to clear the slopes, the British Columbia Department of Highways uses helicopter bombing and mountaintop mortars to keep the roads safe, and the Canadian Armed Forces fire 105mm howitzers at the mountains to bring down the dangerous snow. Still, there are accidents and fatalities in the mountains. We meet Francois Desroisers, an avalanche burial victim who tells a terrible and tragic tale of a mountain disaster.
Adventurer George Kourounis joins Mark and Jaclyn on a journey to Nepal. They witness the devastation caused by the deadly 2015 earthquake, see first-hand the reconstruction efforts, and are awed by the warmth and hospitality of the Nepalese people.
Mark and Jaclyn make their annual trek to Tornado Alley and this time they are looking for more than severe thunderstorms and tornadoes. They also want answers as to whether Climate Change is causing changes to Tornado Alley.
From oceans to rivers to kiddie pools, aquatic life finds a way.
When it comes to interacting with our world, nature has nothing to hide.
In this episode we show some of the most extreme winter weather ever caught on camera, including a first-hand look at being buried by an avalanche.
Humans are inclined to take the natural element of water for granted until they witness its relentless power and destructive capabilities.
Humans are inclined to take the natural element of water for granted until they witness its relentless power and destructive capabilities.
In what is regarded as one of greatest survival stories of the 20th Century, sailor Steven Callahan finds himself alone and adrift in a life raft after his boat, the Napoleon Solo sinks in the mid Atlantic.
Best friends, Ed Cohen and Ken Henderson, set out for two days of Texas gulf fishing. Tragedy strikes and the two men are stranded adrift in hostile waters.
While on a routine sightseeing flight, a massive storm has the pilots fighting to keep their passengers safe.
Tanalian Aviation battles winter weather to ferry ice climbers onto the Knik Glacier.
Firefighters race to rescue a trapped child a truck loaded with flammable welding tanks burns out of control.
Following a powerful supercell thunderstorm has rewarded the Stormhunters with their most epic chase day ever. But will dangerous road conditions put them in the line of danger as the violent storm spins out of control?
Showing1to20of1004results
