The crimson red Titan Arum flower stands nearly 3 metres tall. It only flowers once every fifty years and is incredibly rare. And its only found deep in the rainforest on the Indonesian island of Sumatra- until now that is. Some prospectors searching for diamonds in the remote Rambataa valley on the nearby island of […]

Rediscover the Oolacunta desert rat kangaroo, a wallaby reputed to be able to outrun (out hop!) a horse at full gallop. It’s been ‘discovered’ twice but each time has disappeared. … Last time it was seen was in 1931 when naturalist Hedley Herbert Finlayson found a colony living in the ‘gibber’ plains and sand ridges […]

The Mission: Be the first person to climb ‘Dangiroba’. It’s not the highest peak or even the hardest to climb, but like many summits, until now it has just been too out of the way and difficult to get to. There are no roads within easy reach. There’ll be rivers to cross, perilous cliff-edge trails […]

Mount an expedition through the African bush to find what the tribes of the interior know as ‘Mosai-aa-Tunya’ whatever that is!… The name roughly translates as ‘ The Smoke that thunders’. It’s said to be a magical place where the spirits live. No one has travelled that far before though some of the nomadic Mkosi […]

Your mission is to head up an expedition into the Siberian wilderness in search of a giant meteorite crater.… 7.17am June 30th 1908, Tunguska, Eastern Siberia. The biggest meteorite strike on Planet Earth in living memory. A lump of rock from outer space, about the size of a tennis court zoomed into the Earth’s atmosphere […]

Your mission is to find the lost airship ‘Italia’ which set off to fly over the North Pole on May 23rd 1928 commanded by Italian aviator General Umberto Nobile. Radio Contact was lost on May 25th 1928. An international rescue mission was set in motion and eventually Nobile and most of his crew were found. […]

Head up a diving expedition- in search for sunken treasure. You’ll be diving around the reef-fringed South Seas island of Motorua, looking for the wreck of the SS Desdemona that sunk in a storm in 1909. The island lies along a geological fault line and its coral reefs plunge down a steep rift wall to […]

Your mission is to find out what wonderful bird a very special feather belongs to. One metre long, glistening metallic red that reflects as if lit up from inside when the sun’s rays hit it, this turned up at the bottom of an old display case in the Berlin museum. There was a label that […]

Mount an expedition through the rainforest to search for the ruins of a lost city. This is said to lie in the mountainous headwaters of the Rio Venomoso- the ‘poisonous river’. The Namweyo tribe of Indians who live in the region have long told stories of stone buildings deep in the jungle. They call the […]