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Tales From The Explorers Club

Season 1
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 the limits of human possibility.
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Episodes

  1. S1 E1 - Highest Highs, Lowest Lows
    August 31, 2022
    42min
    TV-PG
    Josh Gates recounts club members' death-defying exploits to the top and bottom of the world. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay summit Mount Everest, two submariners plunge seven miles under the Pacific and a pilot skydives from the edge of space.
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  2. S1 E2 - Polar Extremes
    September 7, 2022
    42min
    TV-PG
    Josh Gates tackles history's most chilling polar adventures including Robert Peary and Matthew Henson's brave push to the North Pole and Ernest Shackleton's epic survival in Antarctic ice. The Club's archives provide historic items from the expeditions.
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  3. S1 E3 - The Race to Space
    September 14, 2022
    42min
    TV-PG
    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 the rest of us a chance to travel to space.
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  4. S1 E4 - Wild Rides
    September 21, 2022
    42min
    TV-PG
    Buckle up as Josh Gates blazes the trails of club members' most 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 using a drop of fuel.
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  5. S1 E5 - Monsters and Myths
    September 28, 2022
    42min
    TV-PG
    Investigating the unexplained, Josh recounts a legendary Himalayan mission to find the Yeti and a filmmaker's pursuit of the ferocious elephant king. The starving crew of a tragic Antarctic expedition makes unimaginable choices to survive.
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  6. S1 E6 - Explorer's Club at the Movies
    October 5, 2022
    42min
    TV-PG
    Josh Gates explores how club members' swashbuckling exploits inspired Hollywood. A bullwhip-cracking archaeologist may be the real-life Indiana Jones and a Nazi mountaineer's life-changing Seven Years in Tibet became a Brad Pitt star turn.
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