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One of the classic "new wave" ice, rock and alpine climbing films, narrated by renowned mountaineer and author Greg Child. Eighteen of North America's leading young climbers take on routes such as the stunning Emporer Face of Mt. Robson, towering icy fiords in Greenland and the magnifcent Cardinal Pinnacle in the Sierras. With Lynn Hill, Abby Watkins, Rich Prohaska and Peter Croft.

Kitty Cahoun, the first woman to summit 27,800 ft.

(8,473 meters) Makalu in the Himalayas and one

of America's top climbers travels to Norway to take

on "The Mother of All Ice." A harrowing climb in 70 mph winds. Kitty Calhoun also looks back over her amazing mountaineering career.

An adventure with a Russian twist, two expedition kayakers, Becky Bristow and Dunbar Hardy, go in search of new whitewater in the far northeastern reaches of the Russian continent - at the invitation of the Russian Government. They have no idea what they are really in for. A humorous, spirited and touching film that takes you on a wild journey into the remotest corner of Russia and into Russian culture.

A rare documentary about Sir Wilfred Thesiger, the legendary explorer and writer of the mid-20th century who was the first westerner to travel into the most remote and often hostile quarters of the Middle East and Northern Africa. The film features his renowned photographs and writings from such books as "Arabian Sands."

Will Gadd leads the first paragliding expedition to attempt to cross the United States from coast to coast, California to North Carolina. An epic six- week thrill ride at altitudes as high as 17,000 ft., never fully knowing where they would land and what they would find on the ground, and always captive to the winds and the thermals.

Will Gadd, ("Grand Canyon" and "Paragliding Across America") is also one the world's top ice climbers, and now may be the first person to climb icebergs...extremely unstable pillars of 10,000-year-old ice floating in the North Atlantic off of Greenland. The danger factor is extreme, as one fall into the icy waters, or the sudden breakup of a fragile iceberg, would be a dicey life-and-death moment for Gadd.

The best-known ultra marathon in the world, 150 miles in six grueling races over seven days across the burning sands of the Sahara Desert in Morocco, including "Dune Day" through the Sahara's highest sand dunes. More than 700 competitors from around the world in the mens and womens divisions.

The stirring and dramatic story of the 30-year fight to save the Hudson River from pollution by major corporations and major cities, against the backdrop of an apathetic state and federal government. Featuring Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Stunning journey up the Meking River by boat through Vietnam and Cambodia to Angkor - the ancient Khmer ruins deep in the Cambodian jungle.

Tells the heroic story of river, bay and soundkeepers around the U.S. - part environmental investigators, scientists, and litigators who take pollutors to court under the federal Clean Water Act. Featuring Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Enchanting, wild journey by two extreme unicyclers through the mountains and valleys of the remote Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan.

A celebration of the paragliding lifestyle around the world, as two top acro-pilots travel to spectacular aerial locations across the globe - in search of the perfect thermal.

Reinhold Messner, the world's greatest mountain climber, looks back over his career with surprising candor and self- revelation, with rare film footage of his astonishing climbs of the world's highest mountains.

Two-time Emmy nominated film of blind climber Eric Weihenmayer's renowed summit of Mt. Everest - a climb that earned him the cover of TIME magazine.

The epic first whitewater descent of the "Everest" of rivers - the Tsangpo Gorge in Tibet - the last great adventure prize left on Earth.

World paragliding record holder Will Gadd attempts the ultimate challenge: to paraglide across the Grand Canyon.

Narrated by Edward Norton, this stunningly beautiful film documents an important environmental whitewater expedition down three epic rivers in the Chinese Himalaya, the upper Yangtze, Mekong and Salween.

National Geographic photographer Chris Rainier and filmmaker Ethan Boehm team up to bring Rainier's photographs and Boehm's cinematography of the sacred temples and Buddhist monks of Angkor Wat poetically to film. With music by Anushka Shankar.

National Geographic photographer Chris Rainier and filmmaker Ethan Boehm team up to bring Rainier's photographs of tatoos and scarring rituals around the world poetically to film. With music by Anushka Shankar.

Filmmaker Michael Brown and Chilean conservationist Pablo Sandor lead a magnificent, wild adventure through a "vertical forest" into an unknown spectacular Yosemite-like granite canyon -- an expedition recognized by the United Nations for its role in protecting the pristine Corcovado National Park in Southern Chile.

John Armstrong's beautiful elegy to white water

kayaking. One kayaker, a lush cascading

tropical waterfall in Mexico and a multiple Emmy

Award-winning cameraman.