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On 18 May 1852, members of the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club (founded in 1851) were taken on their first ever geological excursion. It rained all day. But the Club was not deterred. After an early...
A film record of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s heroic but ill-fated attempt to cross the Antarctic in 1914-1916, photographed by Frank Hurley. Shackleton’s ship ‘Endurance’ became stuck fast in the pack...
Follows a 1999 expedition to the North Face of Mount Everest to search for clues to the disappearance of climbers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine, who apparently died on the mountain in June 1924....
Jonathan Miller retraces the steps of Alfred C Haddon, who set out for the Torres Strait near Australia on the first British anthropolotical expedition 100 years earlier. Miller examines the legacy of...
Follows eight managers from Europe and the USA as they travel to Botswana to undertake a range of projects on behalf of the charity Raleigh International as part of an ‘active learning’ programme for 100...
Ice information, ice cover and the seasonal influence of light on a wide variety of organisms are described and illustrated for both polar regions, with especial reference to krill and migrating animals such...
More than 30 years after Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first men to conquer Mount Everest they returned to celebrate their historic ascent. Includes footage from the 1953 expedition.
A record of the British 1975 caving expedition to New Guinea. Twenty cavers spent six months wholly within the tropics, the central highland region which offers great thicknesses of limestone (over 3000...
A record of the Lack-Venables expedition to the Galapagos Islands in 1938-9, showing the animal life of the islands. Maps show the route taken. A general survey of the fauna is followed by studies of...
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