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Tales From the Explorers Club
Tales From the Explorers Club

Tales From the Explorers Club

—At the world-famous Explorers Club, a gathering place for trailblazers, club member Josh Gates recounts the greatest adventures of all time; probing the club's vast archive, he sheds new light on expeditions that test the limits of human possibility.
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Season 16 of 6 Episodes

  • Josh Gates recounts the death-defying exploits of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, who summit Mount Everest; two submariners plunge seven miles under the Pacific; a pilot skydives from the edge of space.

  • 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.

  • 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 others a chance to travel to space.

  • Josh Gates explores 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 the use of fuel.

  • Josh recounts a Himalayan mission to find the yeti and a filmmaker's pursuit of the dangerous elephant king; the starving crew of an Antarctic expedition makes difficult choices to survive.

  • Josh Gates explores how club members' swashbuckling exploits inspired Hollywood; a bullwhip-cracking archaeologist may be the real-life Indiana Jones; a Nazi mountaineer's life-changing "Seven Years in Tibet" became a Brad Pitt star turn.

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6 episodes will be broadcast over the next two weeks

    The Race to Space
    Wild Rides
    Monsters and Myths
    Explorer's Club at the Movies
    Polar Extremes
    Highest Highs, Lowest Lows
  • 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 others a chance to travel to space.
    Upcoming
  • Wild Rides

    Josh Gates explores 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 the use of fuel.
    Upcoming
  • Monsters and Myths

    Josh recounts a Himalayan mission to find the yeti and a filmmaker's pursuit of the dangerous elephant king; the starving crew of an Antarctic expedition makes difficult choices to survive.
    Upcoming
  • 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; a Nazi mountaineer's life-changing "Seven Years in Tibet" became a Brad Pitt star turn.
    Upcoming
  • 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.
    Upcoming
  • Highest Highs, Lowest Lows

    Josh Gates recounts the death-defying exploits of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, who summit Mount Everest; two submariners plunge seven miles under the Pacific; a pilot skydives from the edge of space.
    Upcoming
Tales From the Explorers Club

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At the world-famous Explorers Club, a gathering place for trailblazers, club member Josh Gates recounts the greatest adventures of all time; probing the club's vast archive, he sheds new light on expeditions that test the limits of human possibility.

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