8.9/1013 votesLoading...#1 - Into Twin Galaxies
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 1/1/2017
Three National Geographic Adventurers of the Year embark on an unreal ski and kayak mission across Greenland. Using kite skis, they tow their whitewater kayaks over 1,000km of the Greenland ice sheet to reach the most northern river ever paddled.
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#2 - The North Face Trilogy
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 2/23/2013
In search of a new challenge, Swiss mountain climber Ueli Steck gets into peak condition to break the speed-climbing record for the three most notorious northward faces in the Alps: the Eiger, the Grandes Jorasses and the Matterhorn.
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#3 - Deep Everest
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/2014
Annelie Pompe embarks on a mission to both scale the heights of Mount Everest and freedive to the lowest recorded depth of the ocean, an achievement that would make her the record-holder for a woman who has reached the greatest height and depth.
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#4 - Fatima's Hand
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/22/2013
BASE jumper Karina Hollekim risks an extreme 600m jump from Hand of Fatima in the Malian desert.
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#5 - Zambezi Deluge
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2/22/2013
South African kayaker and adventurer Steve Fisher plans one of the riskiest projects of his career: navigating the narrow canyons of the Zambezi river below the Victoria Falls during one of the most extreme high-water periods in history.
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#6 - Oceans Seven
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2/23/2013
The Oceans Seven are the seven most treacherous ocean channels in the world to swim across. No human has ever done it, but Irish marathon swimmer Stephen Redmond has conquered six. Now he hopes Tsugaru Channel in Japan will be his grand finale.
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#7 - The Huber Brothers at Mt. Asgard
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/24/2013
In 2011, Thomas and Alexander Huber with Mario Walder were the first climbers to attempt a redpoint team free ascent of Mount Asgard on Baffin Island, Canada. After 28 pitches, the three climbers stood atop its South Tower.
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#8 - Big Wave Surfers at Pororoca
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/24/2013
On every new and full moon, an enormous tidal wave occurs along the lower Amazon. It's a tempting target for surfers despite the wave power, water hazards and isolation that make it dangerous, but a team of pro big-wave surfers accept the challenge.
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#9 - Flying High
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 1/1/2014
Nearly 60 years to the day after the first ascent up Mount Everest, Russian mountaineer Valery Rozov attempts to fly off the north face of Mount Everest and achieve the world's highest BASE jump ever at 7,220m above sea level.
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#10 - Crossing the White Void
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 1/1/2014
Survivalist Joe Vogel dares the crossing of the most unforgiving desert on earth: 240km across Bolivia's vast salt lake known as the Salar de Uyuni. After an aborted attempt with a partner a year ago, Vogel makes the perilous journey solo.
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#11 - Across the Ice
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 1/1/2014
Sebastian Copeland and partner Eric McNair-Landry cross 2,300km of the Greenland ice sheet. Braving a week-long blizzard in a small tent, the duo set a world record for the longest distance travelled on skis and kites in 24 hours.
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#12 - The Mysterious Cloud
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 1/1/2014
Australian hang-glider Jonny Durand sets out to perform loop-the-loop aerobatics on the leading edge of the so-called sky tsunami, Morning Glory, a rare, 2km-high tube-cloud phenomenon that clings precariously low to the ground.
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#13 - Expedition to the Bottom of the World
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 1/1/2014
Eighty metres of mystery lies between two giant cave systems deep beneath the New Zealand wilderness. If Troy Watson and Kieran McKay can connect the Nettlebed and Stormy Pot systems, the find will be the biggest cave in the southern hemisphere.
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#14 - Skiing Antarctica
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 1/1/2014
Ten skiers, filmmakers, writers, photographers, and sailors set off on a journey to ski the Antarctic Peninsula. Chris Davenport, Stian Hagen and Andrea Binning hike and ski new peaks in one of the world’s last, largely unexplored regions.
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#15 - Frozen Titans
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/2015
Ice climber, Will Gadd, pushes the boundaries of the sport by climbing the frozen 140m-high cave behind Helmcken Falls, BC, Canada. He faces freezing temperatures, exhaustion, and an ever-changing landscape.
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#16 - Braving the Inga Rapids
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 1/1/2015
The Inga Rapids of the Congo River are the holy grail of kayaking, with bigger and more dangerous waters than anywhere else on earth. Steve Fisher and his team set out be the first to run this 50-mile, churning behemoth of white water.
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#17 - Roraima Mysteries
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 1/1/2015
Attempting the first ascent on the face of Mount Roraima, located deep in the jungles of Guyana, is an insatiable draw for climbing legend Stefan Glowacz and his team. But a tragic accident changes the drive to conquer this massive, majestic, mesa.
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#18 - Into the Light
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 1/1/2015
Majlis al Jinn, a huge subterranean chamber in Oman, is big enough to house the Great Pyramid of Giza. Climbers Chris Sharma and Stefan Glowacz attempt an ascent from the bottom of the cave, up the massive arch, back to the light of the surface.
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#19 - The Angel Wings Experience
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 1/1/2015
Rafa Ortiz and a group of kayakers who specialise in big waterfall drops attempt to run a section of the Mexican Rio Santo Domingo that is the steepest navigable whitewater on Earth. It's a feat that nearly killed Rafa just four years prior.
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#20 - A Date With the Strait
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 1/1/2015
Zeb Walsh has dreamed of paddleboarding the channel between Australia and Tasmania since he was 15 years old. In his death-defying attempt, he enlists two friends to brave the choppy, shark-infested waters of the Bass Strait and make history.
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#21 - Alaskan Unrideables
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 1/1/2015
Combining the fastest elements of both skiing and paragliding, speed riding is one of the most exciting winter sports in the world. Jon Devore and some of the most accomplished athletes in the sport want to tackle the 'unrideable' giants of Alaska.
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#22 - The Crystal Labyrinth
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 1/1/2015
The Bahamas are home to some of the world‘s most stunning and extensive underwater cave systems. Diving legend Brian Kakuk believes that two of the biggest systems there are actually one massive one and he is determined to prove it.
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#23 - Rocky Mountain Traverse
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 1/1/2015
Two veteran paragliders, Will Gadd and Gavin McClurg, attempt to complete the first paragliding traverse of the Rocky Mountains, North America‘s most iconic and wildest region. The 1200km trek will be a world record flight if they make it.
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#24 - The Erebus Enigma
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 1/1/2015
Antarctica's Mount Erebus, the most southern active volcano, has one of only five permanent lava lakes in the world. British geologist Clive Oppenheimer sets out to measure the temperature of the volcano’s lava, but faces random eruptions as he does.
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#25 - Spitting Distance
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/2016
An adventure that's also part scientific exploration, a group of climbers attempt to descend into an active volcano to get as close as possible to the spitting lava lake. They brave poisonous gasses and 1,093°C (2,000°F) heat climbing into the earth.
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The Best Episodes of Explorers: Adventures of the Century
Every episode of Explorers: Adventures of the Century ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Explorers: Adventures of the Century!
Follow the world's most accomplished athletes across perilous deserts, through racing rapids, to the highest peaks and deepest oceans to capture eye-popping footage of human...
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Best Episodes Summary
"Into Twin Galaxies" is the best rated episode of "Explorers: Adventures of the Century". It scored 8.9/10 based on 13 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/1/2017. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "The North Face Trilogy".