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BBC - On Thin Ice (2009)



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On Thin Ice
Double Olympic gold medallist James Cracknell, TV presenter Ben Fogle and Doctor Ed Coats compete in
one of the world’s greatest challenges – the 2009 race to the South Pole - the first organised race
since Scott and Amundsen almost 100 years ago.
The challenge they face is immense: a 500 mile cross country skiing race to the South Pole, on the
windiest, coldest, highest and driest continent in the world; winds of almost 100mph, constant
daylight, temperatures as low as minus 50?c and a steadily increasing altitude up to the equivalent
of 4,000m. If that wasn’t enough, they must survive each other’s company, day in and day out, for up
to 45 days. And on top of that, they have to train their bodies to face the harshest conditions
known to man, pull a sled behind them weighing almost 170lbs, escape deadly crevasses, stuff their
bodies with over 6,000 calories a day, and ski for up to 18 hours a day.
Have they got what it takes to win the race?

Episode 1
James Cracknell and Ben Fogle attempt to race to the South Pole. The duo start their training. They
learn to cope with extreme cold and wind in a climatic chamber, expose themselves to hypothermia
and, most importantly, find their third team member - actor Jonny Lee Miller. Together, the three
polar novices attend the first race training session in Norway. Here, they start to learn basic cold
weather survival skills needed to cope with the constant cold of Antarctica. And crucially, they
begin to bond as a team. But will they be able to marry three busy careers with all the training and
preparation required to face the world’s coldest, windiest and highest continent?

Technical Specs
Video Codec: XviD ISO MPEG-4
Video Bitrate: 1715 kbps
Video Resolution: 720 x 416
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.731 (16:9)
Frames Per Second: 25
Audio Codec: 0x2000 (Dolby AC3)
Audio Bitrate: 192 kb/s AC3 48000 Hz
Audio Streams: 2ch
Audio Languages: English
RunTime per Part 58.mins
Number Of Parts: 5
Part Size: 702 MB
Source: DVD
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