“Buying Alaska” proves that forgoing basic amenities is a reasonable tradeoff when it comes to breathtaking views and stunning wild surroundings that you can't find anywhere in the lower 48 states. Offering much more than living quarters, these properties are so in tune with the extraordinary landscape that it's often what's beyond the house that proves to be the main attraction - from the ability to hunt and fish from a back deck, to extreme seclusion on your own private island, to self-sustaining features such as smokehouses and greenhouses. However, there are also dangers that come with all the beauty, and living in this rugged and remote terrain can lead to animal attacks and brutal winters that cut you off from society.
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Bear Grylls takes a celebrity on a mission to test their survival skills.
Survivalist Hazen Audel fights his way through 500 miles of unexplored Amazon using only traditional survival methods; he faces extreme environments, and he must reach the Atlantic coast before he's trapped by floods during the rainy season.
Donny Dust and Ray Livingston head to some of Earth's most remote locations to build a primitive paradise with their unrivaled survival skills and wilderness ingenuity.
Forty-foot waves, 700 pound crab pots, freezing temperatures and your mortality staring you in the face…it's all in a day's work for these modern day prospectors. During each episode we will watch crews race to meet their quota and make it home safely.
Bear Grylls takes celebrities on exhilarating adventures well outside their comfort zones.
Backcountry guide and explorer Greg Aiello brings attention and analysis to viral videos documenting some of mother nature's unbelievable occurrences, from natural disasters to animal attacks.
In the frontier town of Nome, Alaska, there’s a gold rush on. But you've never seen gold mining like this before — here, the precious metal isn't found in the ground. It’s sitting in the most unlikely of places: the bottom of the frigid, unpredictable Bering Sea. And there are a handful of people willing to risk it all to bring it to the surface.
Profiles of some of the men who choose to live off the grid in the unspoiled wilderness, where dangers like mudslides, falling trees and bears are all part of everyday life.
25 years ago, Mick Dodge walked away from the modern world, leaving civilization behind to live alongside nature's wonders in the Olympic Peninsula. Following a primal instinct present throughout generations of his family, Mick ventured deep into the Hoh Rainforest, making his home in the trees and hidden in the moss. Experience the wild life of Mick Dodge, a quirky character whose unique brand of Zen comes from living by his own code – off the land and off the grid.
Viewers go deep into an Alaskan winter to meet six tough and resilient residents as they try to stay one step ahead of storms and man-eating beasts to make it through to spring. The closest neighbor to Sue Aikens is more than 300 miles away. Eric Salitan subsists solely on what he hunts and forages. Chip and Agnes Hailstone catch fish for currency in bartering for supplies, and Andy and Kate Bassich use their pack of sled dogs for transportation.
Hidden deep in the wilderness of Alaska is the toughest town in America: McCarthy. Only 42 residents brave the extreme conditions. They are mavericks, trailblazers, risk takers and rabble rousers, all trying to escape their past by surviving at the end of America.
Hardcore survivalists are put by themselves in the Vancouver Island wilderness, without camera crews, teams, or producers – on a single mission to stay alive for as long as possible.
Married couples on the verge of divorce take part in an extreme form of therapy in hopes of saving their relationships. Akin to being locked in a room and told to work it out -- sort of -- one couple on each episode spend five days together on a secluded South Pacific island. Without modern conveniences and with limited access to food and water, the husband and wife have to rely on each other to survive the challenging conditions, including when they take part in physical and emotional exercises designed by marriage counselors. Guiding viewers are clinical psychologist Dr. Colleen Long and family therapist Tom Kersting, who explain how the participants are faring during the often-volatile journey. On the final day, the couple decide if they want to remain married or call it quits.
In Alaska is a region known as the Triangle - 200,000 unforgiving miles where more people go missing per capita than anywhere else on earth. ALASKA MONSTERS follows a team of native outdoorsmen as they take on the challenge of exploring the Triangle's treacherous terrain to prove native monsters are linked to these disappearances.
In 1980, the U.S. government banned new human occupation in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, a protected area, home to thousands of native animals and pristine terrain spanning roughly the size of South Carolina. Currently, only a handful of families spread across seven permitted cabins are allowed to remain in the refuge. Within less than 100 years, all remaining permits will reach expiration, and there will be no human presence left.
Flying Wild Alaska is a documentary television series that aired on Discovery Channel in 2011 and 2012. The show features the Tweto family from Unalakleet, Alaska who run the Alaska airline Era Alaska. They operate the hub operations from Unalakleet. The show also features other segments from their bases in Barrow, Deadhorse, and other places.
In the desolate outreaches of Bristol Bay, Alaska, the most competitive fishing season on Earth takes place throughout four short weeks. 1,800 captains and their crews draw the battle lines to help save Alaska's ecosystem by reeling in a massive sockeye salmon payday. With potential fortune swimming just below the surface, five captains prepare to battle the unforgiving bay, the battering ram of boats jockeying for position and the law, which strictly monitors the season with recon choppers and police squads. On the bay, fishing for the nearly 44 million salmon is necessary for the environment, and arm of the law is long, tempers are short and every single decision is the difference between drawing a huge income and settling for pennies.
Mykel and Ruth Hawke, the reigning king and queen of survival, put their skills and relationship to the ultimate test as they are dumped blindly into the wilderness, with minimal supplies and precious few clues as to where they actually are.
Power & Ice introduces viewers to the brave men who maintain and build the remote and rugged Alaskan power grid. The series follows three fiercely competitive line companies as they battle freezing temperatures, devastating storms and zero visibility to bring power to people whose lives depend on a constant flow of electricity. The highly skilled employees of Alaska Line Builders, Electric Power Constructors and City Electric will compete for the life-threatening big-money jobs found only in the 49th State. These men work in a dog-eat-dog world, but they get a charge from putting their lives on the line.
Port Protection is home to the few who have left behind normal society and chosen a different life in a remote Alaskan community, where survival of the individuals and community cannot sustain without the other. The stakes are high. The land is rugged and unforgiving and the seas which surround Port Protection are cold and merciless. With risk comes a reward more profound than mere survival: a world of beauty and freedom with the security of community and without the constraints of bureaucracy. In Port Protection there are no clear roads to survival, inhabitants must carve one themselves.
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10 episodes • 2012
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alaska's Salmon Capitol | Oct 21, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Seldovia Fishing Paradise | Oct 21, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 3 | A Dog Mushers' Dream | Oct 28, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Hunting Headquarters | Oct 28, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Off the Grid | Nov 4, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Bear Necessities | Nov 11, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 7 | The Ultimate Alaskan Island | Nov 18, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Flying Home | Nov 25, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Moose Mount Cabins | Dec 2, 2012 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Alaska Man Caves | Dec 2, 2012 | 0.0 |
20 episodes • 2013
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Snow Machines & Bear Attacks | Aug 3, 2013 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Baby on Board | Aug 3, 2013 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Isolated Village | Aug 10, 2013 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Ruff-ing It | Aug 10, 2013 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Winter Wanderland | Aug 17, 2013 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Hooked on a Lake | Aug 24, 2013 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Mrs. Alaska & Military Man | Aug 31, 2013 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Fish Out of Water | Sep 7, 2013 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Outhouse Life | Sep 14, 2013 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Hangar Homes | Sep 21, 2013 | 0.0 |
| 11 | Remote Coves | Sep 28, 2013 | 0.0 |
| 12 | Homer Bound | Oct 5, 2013 | 0.0 |
| 13 | Life on a Mountain | Oct 12, 2013 | 0.0 |
| 14 | Guys Getaway | Oct 19, 2013 | 0.0 |
| 15 | Juneau Waterfront | Oct 26, 2013 | 0.0 |
| 16 | Tiny Homes, Big Mountain | Nov 2, 2013 | 0.0 |
| 17 | Dollars or Drains | Nov 9, 2013 | 0.0 |
| 18 | Dangerous Trails | Nov 16, 2013 | 0.0 |
| 19 | Jaws, Claws, and Beaver Fever | Nov 16, 2013 | 0.0 |
| 20 | No Roads In | Nov 23, 2013 | 0.0 |
30 episodes • 2014
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cabin Upgrade | Sep 6, 2014 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Flip Flops to Snowshoes | Sep 6, 2014 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Log Homes and Saloons | Sep 13, 2014 | 0.0 |
| 4 | ATV Required | Sep 13, 2014 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Growing Up Alaska | Sep 20, 2014 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Rocks to Riches | Sep 27, 2014 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Timber Homes | Oct 4, 2014 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Frontier Comfort | Oct 11, 2014 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Mountain Homes and Domes | Oct 18, 2014 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Tundra Town | Oct 25, 2014 | 0.0 |
| 11 | Waterfront Wilderness | Nov 1, 2014 | 0.0 |
| 12 | Alaskan Beach Town | Nov 8, 2014 | 0.0 |
| 13 | Kenai Islands | Nov 15, 2014 | 0.0 |
| 14 | Lakes of the Last Frontier | Nov 22, 2014 | 0.0 |
| 15 | Glacier River Homes | Nov 29, 2014 | 0.0 |
| 16 | Homer Improvement | Dec 6, 2014 | 0.0 |
| 17 | Kenai Kabins | Dec 29, 2014 | 0.0 |
| 18 | Pilot's Paradise | Dec 29, 2014 | 0.0 |
| 19 | Frontier City | Jan 5, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 20 | Million Air | Jan 12, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 21 | Big Wheels and Big Deals | Jan 19, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 22 | Trailblazers | Jan 26, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 23 | Glacier City | Feb 2, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 24 | Dog Mushing Millionaires | Feb 9, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 25 | Secret City | Feb 16, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 26 | Treehouse Tour | Feb 23, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 27 | Escape From Juneau | Mar 2, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 28 | Gold Town | Mar 9, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 29 | Fishy Business | Mar 16, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 30 | Rainforest Cabins | Mar 23, 2015 | 0.0 |