The epic expedition sets sail from Trinidad and Tobago to South America in the wake of the great Elizabethan adventurer. But the ocean swell takes its toll, and almost everyone suffers from terrible seasickness.
The twelve-to-fourteen-year-old adventurers take on Mount Roraima, one of the natural wonders of the world. Rising more than nine thousand feet vertically out of the rainforest, Roraima is a unique triangular table top mountain.
Seven children relive the legend of Sir Walter Raleigh. Half the team go in search of the lost city of El Dorado, while the other half attempt to become the first children to stand on the summit of Mount Roraima.
Four of the Serious Explorers are having the ultimate cowboy experience on the plains of Guyana, helping herd a hundred cattle, before lassoing and branding calves.
The explorers head into Guyana's virgin rain forest for a week of paddling dug-out canoes to using bows and arrows. The adventurers have their first major bust-up.
The explorers are shocked to learn that they will be putting their new-found skills into practice with a survival night on their own in the rain forest.
The children are tested to the limit physically and psychologically, on the longest night of their lives. Two of the young explorers get a unique treat, helping with a survey of black caimans, a huge type of South American crocodile.
The explorers undertake a marathon five-day journey by dug-out canoe, attempting to be the first children to paddle 75 miles down a remote jungle river.
The record-breaking expedition builds to an astonishing climax, as the Serious Explorers attempt to become the first team to trek up a treacherous gorge to reach the bottom of the spectacular Kaieteur Falls.
Tips for surviving the world's most remote and challenging environments. Presented by Ben Major and Polly Murray, covering survival situations including extreme heat and cold.
