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World's Toughest Expeditions With James Cracknell

Premieres Sundays from 22nd April, 9.00pm

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James Cracknell. Freddie Flintoff. Bear Grylls. These are just some of the great adventurers that will feature in a collection of brand new one-offs and series over the next few months that will take viewers on a nail biting journey to all corners of the Earth. Coming up this month James Cracknell embarks on some of the toughest expeditions ever made throughout history. Four-part series, World's Toughest Expeditions with James Cracknell is a unique insight in to some of the hardest moments of the toughest expeditions ever undertaken, and an investigation in to how those at the heart of the most remarkable real-life adventures in the world survived. James follows directly in these great adventurers' footsteps - Livingstone, Fawcett, the Gold Rush pioneers and the crew of the Dundonald - and lives as they did, to tackle head-on, the most brutal sections of four epic tales of courage and endurance, attempting to survive as his predecessors did using only the equipment that was available to them. Using his own strength and determination, he will come to learn about the mental and physical attributes that helped define them, while analysing the science behind the physiological changes they underwent. Along the way and by walking in these historic experts footsteps, he'll attempt to answer some of the unanswered questions of the expeditions, and tackle several of the world's toughest terrains, encountering dangerous animals and extreme situations along the way, including the moment Dr Livingstone faced the biggest rapids of the Zambezi; the Amazon jungle crossing just before the explorer Colonel Fawcett disappears; the point at which the Wild West Gold hunters perished on the most extreme stage of their pioneering push across America; and being stranded on a desert island like the crew of the 1907 Dundonald shipwreck