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- Bruce Parry visits native and modern people who live under Arctic conditions in Siberia, Greenland, Alaska, Canada, Nordic Russia, Norwegian Lapland and Spitzbergen. He shares for one summer and considers the locals' natural hardship, economic and conservation prospects, including the effects of modernization and global warming.
- In 2001, two British ex army officers set out to climb the unscaled face of Mandela--a remote mountain rising 15,400 ft. above the jungles of New Guinea. This is the extraordinary story of their trek through some of the world's most unexplored terrain.
- Former Royal Marine Bruce Parry starts his journey along the Amazon at its Peruvian source in the Andes, the other domineering feature in South America. There live the Quechua, the ethnic Inca descendants, who still mix pagan and other traditions with the conquistadors' Spanish Catholic culture. Bruce's host family chew coca-leaves and herd alpacas, llamas producing the best wool. In the valley down-stream, past world-class daunting rapids, lives the Ashaninka tribe, who cultivate coca, which legal and has legitimate uses to chew against the altitude. Coca is also processed chemically, involving grave river pollution, into a paste which is the basis for cocaine, illegal but without realistic alternative in market terms, although their share of the drug trade profit is minute. Bruce joins a US-supported army raid on the cocaine production, which has no net effect. Their jungle is invaded by loggers and guerrillas. Bruce's brain-infected producer Matt's life depends on an urgent far helicopter flight to Lima.
- Bruce visits the Peruvian Achuar tribe, which lives in a pristine Amazon forest region. His host village is reluctant and mistrusting, which makes sense as neighboring communities, which accepted deals with oil companies, suffered wide-spreading pollution and cultural ruin. Bruce finds helping with logging and fishing particularly hard because of the daily purification with wayous, a beverage from a bitter vine, which induces violent vomiting. Much more is supposed to allow visions, but Bruce's rational ego resist. That occurs again in a city downstream, where it's mixed with hallucinogenic leaves such as dattura. He passes the Brazilian border and arrives in a town just before carnival, Rio style with a weird twist: everybody cross-dresses.
- Bruce visits by river Itui the Valle de Javari, a relatively pristine Brazilian nature and tribal reserve. It's home to various tribes, including the Matis, where Bruce spend a month for his Tribe series, so they welcome him as an old friend and implore help as even more terrible diseases such as STD hepatitis B spread, beyond shaman therapy. Next Bruce meets the Marubo, the reserve's largest tribe, made up a century ago by remnants of deep forest tries fleeing rubber slavery. He partakes in the macho excruciating trucadeiro ant bites ritual and ritual drum logging. Finally he joins a band of non-industrial loggers, who try to harvest hardwood selectively, claiming the track grows back even more diverse.
- Join Bruce Parry on a breathtaking journey from the Amazon's source deep in the Peruvian Andes to its vast mouth on Brazil's Atlantic coast.
- Join Bruce Parry on a breathtaking journey from the Amazon's source deep in the Peruvian Andes to its vast mouth on Brazil's Atlantic coast.
- Bruce visits two 'brigades' of the 540 native tribes in Russia's vast Arctic Siberian wilderness. Since the Soviet collapse, much has changed, much remained. The Sakha breed a very tough local horse breed. The Eveni keep reindeer. Bruce is fascinated by shamanism, which originated here, but can't be revived after the Soviet persecution.
- In Greenland, Bruce joins a dog sled hunt with one of the last traditional Inuit hunting parties. He learns about their views on the effects on global warming, conservation measures, modern life and technology. Next he visits a town, where everything is imported at crushing prices, and a metal mine run by an Australian firm in layers made accessible by a retreating glacier.
- Bruce starts his visit to Alaska with the cabana family, which makes a fortune by fishing salmon three months a year in a smart, allegedly ecologically sustainable way. Next the hazardous adventurers who 'mine' gold by diving for it in coastal water near Nome. Finally he joins an Inuit village's annual semi-traditional, controversial whale hunt and ponders its crucial cultural and pragmatic value.
- Bruce joins Canadian Gwich'in Indian-Mountie Stephen Frost's family on the annual caribou hunt during the herd's spring migration over the Crow river, to calve in Alaska. Their tribal ways are in respectful harmony with nature. In total contrast, southern-more Alberta is world champion in tar sands, an extremely energy-consuming way to win oil from soiled soil, yet also of great economic value, also to local tribes.
- Bruce visits a Russian Artic Circle village. In Norway, Bruce visits Lapland, where the Samen people still practice ancient reindeer herding. Finally he board a ship to Spitsbergen, the northernmost 'inhabited' European territory, extremely inhospitable but rich in natural resources.