
Nature documentary. Joining up with a team of elite Italian cavers, Steve ventures deep within a tepui, inside a newly discovered cave.
Adventurer and naturalist Steve Backshall embarks on one of the most dramatic and dangerous expeditions ever filmed by a BBC crew. His mission: to explore Venezuela's tepuis - ancient, sheer-sided mountains, lost worlds cut off from the jungle below.
The second episode picks up where episode one left off with Steve and the climbing team halfway up the unclimbed, sheer-sided face of a remote tepui, about to make one last desperate attempt to reach the summit. It is then on to a new tepui and the second stage of the expedition.
Joining up with a team of elite Italian cavers, Steve ventures deep within a tepui - inside a newly discovered cave. Within this dark underworld, the team encounter strange creatures, ancient mysteries and the raw geological forces that give the tepuis their unique shape. But nothing can prepare them for an attempt to forge a path into unexplored areas of the cave - a dangerous mission of intense claustrophobia and nerve-shredding tension. And then to end the adventure, Steve reunites with the climbing team for a spectacular finale: an epic abseil alongside the Angel Falls - the highest waterfall on earth.
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Abseiling
Duration: 02:20
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Caving
Duration: 02:46
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Music Played
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DJ Kappa
Intro: Hra Sa Zacina
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Executive Producer | Jonathan Renouf |
| Executive Producer | Cameron Balbirnie |
| Director | Ben Lawrie |
| Presenter | Steve Backshall |
| Camera Operator | Keith Partridge |
| Assistant Producer | Max Goldzweig |
| Camera Assistant | Hugh Campbell |
Broadcasts
- Sun 13 Mar 201620:00
- Mon 14 Mar 201623:15BBC Two except Northern Ireland & Scotland
- Mon 14 Mar 201623:45BBC Two Scotland
- Mon 28 Mar 201600:50BBC Two Northern Ireland
- Mon 5 Sep 201608:00
- Sun 13 Aug 201717:30BBC Two except Scotland
- Sat 20 Jan 201810:00
- Thu 25 Oct 201815:45
- Sat 11 Jul 202009:00BBC Two except Scotland
- Sat 18 Nov 202319:00
- Sun 19 Nov 202301:55
- Sat 9 Nov 202411:45BBC Two except Scotland




