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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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The Tuareg camel caravans of the deep desert have avoided the Ahaggan massif over the years. There was no water or forage for their animals. It was too easy to lose yourself in the treacherous terrain. Until recently that is… Forced to shelter in the rocks by a sudden sandstorm, a group of nomads, separated […]
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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 […]