Mount St. Helens: ecological miracle

On May 18, 1980 the volcano Mount St. Helens, located in the U.S. west coast, erupted, causing dramatic damage and loss. The avalanche of lava and debris that caused the violent activity of the volcano buried hundreds of houses and destroyed everything in its path. What was once a rich forest area, after the eruption became a desert, arid and lifeless. But when everything seemed to think that nature would never resurface, timid buds of certain plants and the presence of certain animal species such as squirrels or mice led to believe that Mount St. Helens could be reborn from the ashes.
Odyssey presents this magnificent documentary follows the incredible work valuable and award-winning biologist Charlie Crisafulli has done in the area. Thanks to his personal experience to the large graphic file obtained both in the months after the eruption as it is today and made ​​computer recreations will witness the incredible struggle of Mother Nature to survive, an ecological miracle ..


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Gaston Rebuffat - Entre terre et ciel

"The Mont Blanc is nice, of course. I climbed many times by now, the sky color, the shape of ridges and cornices - because of time and as the feeling of altitude - the Mont Blanc gives great pleasure.

For the guide, Mont Blanc is his garden but the garden is most beautiful when seen from a friend and that friend is taken to the point he wants not only admire but know the secrets . Personally I love the bivouacs, there is only a bit penetrates the mystery of the altitude.


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AL FILO DE LO IMPOSIBLE: SCAPA FLOW

Scapa Flow, travel to the shadows, where the program team coordinated by Carmen Portilla recalled the days of old diver with lead boots and plunges into the icy waters of the bay of Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands , Scotland, to film the remains of German and British ships that sank in these waters in 1919, plunging nearly 100 feet deep with temperatures between 6 and 10 degrees Celsius and a high risk for streams, and mixtures decompression gas


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AL FILO DE LO IMPOSIBLE: LA ARISTA DE PEUTEREY

The episode "The biggest edge of Europe, " pick up the female climbing Peuterey the integral of a series of needles of rock, ice runners, decreased rapid abseiling, mountain glaciers ice and promotions that give consideration to this route "the longest edge of Europe. " It starts to climb to 1500 meters and ends at the highest peak in the Alps at 4,807 meters above sea level


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AL FILO DE LO IMPOSIBLE: LA DANZA DEL AGUA

On this occasion Al Filo team moves to the Caribbean island of Cuba, and in particular its Viñales National Park. In this place of remarkable beauty is the Sierra of the organs, and in it a karst hillocks, where some of the largest underground caverns of the island. It sees the river Palmarito after arise in the head outside of Viñales Valley, disappears in a variety of sinks are found along the riverbed. This has allowed a great footage, the underwater images are mixed with the incredible scenery of the Viñales Valley.

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AL FILO DE LO IMPOSIBLE - LA RUTA DE ALEJANDRO MAGNO

This new collection of Edge of the Impossible offers the viewer the opportunity of entering into the adventure of the expeditions conducted around the world, Al Filo team, described as: hazardous, dangerous, hard, daring, so how brave. Al Filo stepped into the path of Alexander with two chapters "The route of Alexander: Towards last horizon" and "The route of Alexander (II): The Final Frontier" episodes in which Felix and Alberto Iñurrategui, José Carlos Tamayo and Jon Lazcano, climbing and climbing big walls, emulating the path taken by this indefatigable discoverer. In this issue of fiction mixed with harsh reality of climbing, and Al Filo team is involved in an impromptu rescue that nearly cost him his life at Colombian Stallbohm Volker.


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AL FILO DE LO IMPOSIBLE: La Antártida

The great journey began on November 3, 2005, when the team returned from THE EDGE Cape Town, South Africa, to the Russian Antarctic research station Novolazaresvskaja. In 63 days, a record time, the team managed to cover about 5000 kilometers of icy soil of East Antarctica on a catamaran mounted on four runners, who took advantage of wind power to move, surpassing the record set by legendary polar explorer Borge Ousland, who advanced with skis and kites 2,800 kilometers in 64 days.


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AL FILO DE LO IMPOSIBLE - EL TERRITORIO DEL LEOPARDO

The aim of the expedition is the mount Broad Peak, 8,047 meters. The new challenge becomes to be in winter season, which brings a new attraction with the addition of the proposed filming a beautiful specimen that is elusive to the human eye: the snow leopard. Broad Peak is one of the peaks of the Karakorum (Pakistan), mountain range in which the mountains are also K2, Gasherbrum I and II and Nanga Parbat.


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AL FILO DE LO IMPOSIBLE: EL SUEÑO DE JUAN LADRILLERO

The southern tip of Chile and Argentina has been the target of many expeditions in the program because that area a long symbolized the limits of the earth. But the interest and mystery that generates the territory due also to the stories of navigation in the sixteenth century, dominated the Spanish sailors who dared to traverse the maze of fjords and channels of southern Chile in search of a step toward the Pacific Ocean. These sailors did much more than prudence dictates. So John Ladrillero and Ojea Courts conducted an adventure that, for very different reasons, almost 300 years remained anonymous. But, like all great feats, it was useless as their journey brought to the geography and history key observations.


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AL FILO DE LO IMPOSIBLE: EL CENTINELA ROJO

"The Red Sentinel ', on the border of Kyrgyzstan and China, instead of countless wars, powerful and challenging emerging Celestial Mountains. Among them stands the Kizil Asker, better known as' The Red Sentinel', a mountain known and visited apenaa in excess of 5000 meters of altitude with countless pristine walls and venue for a new challenge of the program. A female climber, composed of two Aragon Cecilia Buil and Elena de Castro, accompanied by Ferran Latorre and Iñaki Cabo, decided to undertake the opening of a committed path by a slender spur of rock that will take them to the top of Punta Aragon.

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AL FILO DEL IMPOSIBLE : LA AVENTURA DEL SIGLO XX

± as mountains or seas, skies and deserts, the stage of Physical Fitness Adventure is not s more than a mirage. Because the real trip The only adventure is the head of the adventurer. Is this program a tour of some of the most splendid © ndidos s natural scenery on the planet. It is a stop on the way to look atra s reflection. In the words of Unamuno, "If you do not carry a mountain of thought ± a head or a river of feelings in the heart, there will soon be to serve. " For twenty year I ± team at the Edge of the Impossible 's has more than one hundred expeditions with curiosity as the root of the adventurous impulse, which has launched human beings to go there s more, more s far more s high, making their home in the universe in a land of adventure


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AL FILO DEL IMPOSIBLE : LA OLA PERFECTA

For a hundred years the Naranjo de Bulnes has become the ultimate symbol of rock climbing in Spain. At this time the best generations of climbers have been measured in their vertical walls and elegant. Each challenge represented a step forward, a struggle, an attempt to go further. Since the first ascent, made in 1904 by the Marquis de Villaviciosa, Don Pedro de Pidal, and Gregory Smith "The Cainejo" El Naranjo has been one of those "peaks copies, one of these tops perfect. One hundred years later, two young Spanish climbers, at the same time are two of the world's best climbers, and Josue Bereziartu Iker Pou, wanted to take another step in that direction, driven by the same spirit that surfers looking for the wave perfect. Have thus undertaken a vertical dance in a vacuum, with the help of the team of The Edge of the impossible, looking for the smartest of moves in a line that represents the purity of perfection: the Pillar of Biscay.


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AL FILO DEL IMPOSIBLE : ISLA REUNION

The team of Edge of the Impossible comes to meeting looking for a new adventure, a different way of knowing nature that requires great skill. This French island east of Madagascar, in the middle of the Indian Ocean, is what volcanologists call "a hot spot. " Erupting eruption, the seamount which caused the island was growing until three million years ago emerged from the water meeting between the lava and great clouds of steam. The "Piton de las Nieves was the generator, the volcano mother. The team undertook the ascent of the volcano, which is the highest point of the Indian Ocean and then travels famous primeval forests. But what actually led them to face meeting is to determine the most savage of the island, where the constant rain and erosion have been carving gullies that appear to go down to the confines of hell. The ultimate goal is the "Trou de Fer", one of the world's most prestigious ravines.


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AL FILO DEL IMPOSIBLE : K2 Y MAKALU

In the early seventies, it was practiced mountaineering in the Himalayas, suffered a concussion. The concept of a normal path gave way to the big walls. Those gigantic scale needed large artificial logistical and technical means, such as the use of oxygen and many end supports, as sherpas. From that time were major routes: the southwest wall of Everest, the south face of Annapurna, the southern Pochoco haha, or the south side of Nanga Parbat. Perhaps the most aesthetically pleasing of them all, which rises like an arrow of rock into the sky, is the pillar west of Makalu. The team of climbers from the Edge of the Impossible try to attack it by giving up large groups and efficient team of oxygen in an attempt to unite the old idea of the big walls with the ethics of the Additionally, this disc includes another documentary on the ascent of K2. A summit after several failed expeditions over eleven years, was crowned by the team of Al Filo in 1994, albeit at a heavy price, the death of mountaineer Atxo Apel.


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AL FILO DEL IMPOSIBLE : BAJO LA ESTRELA POLAR

The team of Edge of the Impossible has reached the three poles of the Earth over its two decades of challenges turned into documentaries. These poles are the Everest, the geographic South Pole and the geographic North Pole. In this episode we review the various expeditions organized by the program to conquer these goals, with particular attention to the North Pole, in collaboration with the Ecole Militaire de Haute Montagne de Jaca. One of its components, Gan Francisco, became the fourth person in history to have achieved the three poles. Within the program of preparation for the project of the Three Poles was the first Spanish voyage to the magnetic North Pole in the Canadian Arctic coast, and other trips in Lapland and Norway. This documentary won the award for Best Cinematography at the Academy of Television in 1999.


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AL FILO DEL IMPOSIBLE : EL DESCENZO DEL RIO ZAMBZE

The Zambezi is one of the great rivers of the Earth to the decrease in rough waters. In this adventure, the team at the Edge of the Impossible "begins the descent of the legendary African river where Dr. Livingstone left the exploration of its course: at the foot of the falls that gave the name of the Empress Victoria. His native name is "Mosi-oatunya", "Smoke that thunders", and between the Tonga tribe of mysterious legends circulate about the extraordinary creatures that inhabit it. Both cataracts as throat that opens at your feet are the result of a tongue of lava created by a volcanic eruption in the Jurassic period. Edu Etxeberria, Igor Mendoza, José María Miró and Jesus Ruiz de Erenchu ​​form the expedition, which took place in the most propitious time, with a volume of water was about 900 or 100 cubic meters per second when its maximum can be up to 6000.



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AL FILO DEL IMPOSIBLE : ANNAPURNA

In 1950 a French group was for the first time in history the top of the mountain over 8,000 m: Annapurna, of 8,091 meters. That issue was one of the greatest deeds and at the same time experienced the most dramatic in the Himalayas. Maurice Herzog, the only one of those great climbers and expedition leader, becomes forty-nine years later to find a Spanish expedition led by Juanito Oiarzabal, which aims to become the sixth person in the world to scale the fourteen peaks 8,000 meters.


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AL FILO DEL IMPOSIBLE : ESPELEOBUCEO

In the Yucatan Peninsula there are thousands of cenotes and hundreds of miles of caves, mostly unexplored. Claustrophobic in those waters, and assisted by the U.S. cave divers Mike Madden, the team enters at the Edge of the Impossible "to end a long journey through the network of submerged caves on Earth longer. And in full central plateau is an upwelling of water that for centuries has been the result of legend and mystery. The Fuentona Muriel, in the province of Soria, is a siphon of more than fifty meters, the limit of conventional diving. But that pipe flooded water is just one of the many wonders that await explorers able to have cold blood in situations that many people seem to genuine danger.


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AL FILO DEL IMPOSIBLE : LA TIERRA DE LA NUBE BLANCA

Rivers, mountains, glaciers, forests, volcanoes, lakes and fjords shape a landscape like few in the world. A diverse team of Edge of the Impossible will take an unusual route through the seabed of the Barrier Reef of Australia, the world's most amazing rivers of white water and the highest peak in New Zealand: the dreaded Mount Cook. From the hand of Donald Coulda, one of the best kayakers New Zealand, a group of four Spanish paddlers will discover the largest rivers, the strong and daring steps, the highest waterfalls and daring. The tour begins in Rotorua in central North Island, known for its hot springs, then go for the South Island, which its inhabitants call "the continent", the more lonely and wild places. However, the greatest danger lurks among the great blocks of ice of the east face of Mount Cook. For a moment the tragedy makes an appearance and the team of five climbers is hit by an avalanche in the collapse of a tower overhead colossal ice.

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AL FILO DEL IMPOSIBLE : DEL YARLUNG TSANGPO

At the edge of eastern Tibet is one of the few remaining havens for exploring on the planet: the Yarlung Tsangpo Canyon. This great river, which is called the Brahmaputra to enter India, boasts one of the more curious geographical mysteries raised in the early twentieth century. The Yarlung born at the foot of sacred Mount Kailas, north of the Himalayas, then flows parallel to the great mountain chain that feeds it. But to reach this area on track turns sharply, from a huge pit two great mountains of the Himalayas, Namche Barwa and Peri Gyala and rushes on the plains of India to fertilize the fields of tea before he died in Assam the Bay of Bengal. While one group of the best climbers of the Edge of the Impossible attempts to ascend to Gyala Peri, a rotund mountain of 7,300 meters and 5,000 meters of walls slope, another team of explorers travels the unknown and deep canyon on the planet. If some have to contend with snowstorms and falling rocks, the others must deal with a jungle of bamboo, which will have their way with machetes.

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AL FILO DEL IMPOSIBLE : LA TREVESIA DEL TAKLAMAKAN

Located within Central Asia, the Taklamakan Desert occupies about 300,000 square kilometers and is one of the driest places on Earth. Called the Desert of Death by the Chinese, its name comes from the Turki language, meaning "if you go, you will continue. " Until the late nineteenth century, no passenger had decided to voluntarily enter into this hell. It was the Swede Sven Hedin, one of the most notable explorers of Central Asia and Tibet, who decided to wage a relentless pursuit of mysterious buried cities whose echo had not disappeared from collective memory. A century later, an expedition from the Edge of the Impossible, is proposed to cross the desert at its center (little known except for the satellite photos) linking the south branch of the Silk Road to the mythical river of the Tarim River. The adventurers will travel over 450 miles on foot, accompanied by Bactrian camels and their drivers, the Uighurs in this area. The adventure discover one of the most beautiful landscapes on Earth, a hard and not moving after all this is Asia's most feared desert.


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