George experiences the most extreme climates in North America. First he visits the hottest place on the continent – Death Valley, then the coldest – Snag, Yukon.
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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.
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.
Ground Zero for host/adventurer George Kourounis‚ stormchasing is Oklahoma City, capital of North America's ´Tornado Alley´. George tracks a building storm that threatens that tough mid-western city, chases a hail storm, fights to get in the middle of a vicious dust-devil and the funky roadside Americana of the American Midwest.
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.
The Aquatic life holds a lot of surprises, here are a few for you to enjoy
Tag along with these good samaritans on some of the most heart-pounding animal rescues.
George experiences the most extreme climates in North America. First he visits the hottest place on the continent – Death Valley, then the coldest – Snag, Yukon.
George Kourounis returns to “Tornado Alley” with three of his fellow stormchasers to see what the 2007 Storm Season will bring. He gets a birthday gift of a large Kansas tornado, then travels to Missouri to witness a string of violent thunderstorms. Heading west to Crazy Horse Mountain, the team is in place for a huge storm sweeping through the Badlands of South Dakota.
Some of the fiercest weather on the planet can be experienced at the southern tip of Argentina and Chile– the area the South Americans call the “Fin del Mundo” – the end of the world. Host George Kourounis travels to Ushuaia, Argentina, sails south on the expedition sailboat “Northanger” to round infamous Cape Horn, then climbs the spectacular but rapidly melting glaciers along the Beagle Channel.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ground Zero for host/adventurer George Kourounis‚ stormchasing is Oklahoma City, capital of North America's ´Tornado Alley´. George tracks a building storm that threatens that tough mid-western city, chases a hail storm, fights to get in the middle of a vicious dust-devil and the funky roadside Americana of the American Midwest.
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.
The Aquatic life holds a lot of surprises, here are a few for you to enjoy
Tag along with these good samaritans on some of the most heart-pounding animal rescues.
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