60 minSeason 1 • Episode 3
LatestIain Stewart travels across mountain ranges and glaciers to reveal ten remarkable stories about avalanches. Over a million avalanches happen throughout the world each year, and yet we know more about the surface of the moon than we do about the chaotic turbulence inside an avalanche. Scientists have had to put themselves right inside a raging avalanche to find out more.
Iain Stewart reveals some surprising facts about the world's most destructive and spectacular natural phenomena, from earthquakes and tsunamis to avalanches and volcanoes.
Acting
Stewart's unhinged enthusiasm for apocalyptic scenarios.
Direction
CGI destruction sequences that aged surprisingly well.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Iain Stewart later became president of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, because apparently surviving his own show qualified him.
This series aired during the late-2000s boom of 'disaster porn' documentaries, when audiences couldn't get enough of CGI cities being obliterated.
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