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.
Deep in the wilderness of your yard, an entire ecosystem flourishes.
When it comes to interacting with our world, nature has nothing to hide.
Host/adventurer George Kourounis explores the American Southwest during the Desert Monsoon. He ups the danger factor by traveling with wild atheist shock-jock R.J. Evans to track massive lightning storms which can produce bolts of up to one hundred million volts. The pair come close - too close - to dangerous electrical clouds swirling over Tucson, Sedona and Monument Valley.
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 worlds 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 worlds hottest place), and then witnesses Hurricane Katrina destroying the town of Gulfport, Mississippi, from a steel-reinforced bunker facing the debris-strewn beachfront.
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?
Stormhunters Mark and Jaclyn visit Canada's Arctic to see how the inhabitants live. Jaclyn also hopes to achieve one of her lifelong goals to come face to face with a polar bear. Will she be able to cross this off her bucket list?
Those that thrive beneath the waves teach us to go with the flow.
Some of Earth's smallest critters can make the biggest impact.