Tales from the Explorers Club - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Highest Highs, Lowest Lows
Josh Gates recounts club members' death-defying exploits to the top and bottom of the world. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay summit Mount Everest, two submariners plunge seven miles under the Pacific and a pilot skydives from the edge of space.
Polar Extremes
Josh Gates tackles history's most chilling polar adventures, including Robert Peary and Matthew Henson's brave push to the North Pole as well as Ernest Shackleton's epic survival in Antarctic ice.
The Race to Space
Josh Gates boldly explores members' most heart-pounding journeys into space. Apollo 13 astronauts fight to bring their crippled spacecraft 238,000 miles back to Earth and futuristic SpaceShipOne could give the rest of us a chance to travel to space.
Wild Rides
Buckle up as Josh Gates blazes the trails of club members' most daring journeys including the Kon-Tiki balsa raft crossing the Pacific, NASA's lunar rover making tracks on the moon and an airplane flying around the world without using a drop of fuel.
Monsters & Myths
Investigating the unexplained, Josh recounts a legendary Himalayan mission to find the Yeti and a filmmaker's pursuit of the ferocious elephant king. The starving crew of a tragic Antarctic expedition makes unimaginable choices to survive.
Explorer's Club at the Movies
Josh Gates explores how club members' swashbuckling exploits inspired Hollywood. A bullwhip-cracking archaeologist may be the real-life Indiana Jones and a Nazi mountaineer's life-changing Seven Years in Tibet became a Brad Pitt star turn.
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