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 […]