In the first edition, Steve and a team of climbers and jungle survival experts head into the ancient landscape of South America's Guiana Shield. This vast wilderness of pristine forests and towering table-top mountains is one of the most inaccessible terrains on the planet.
Deep in the dramatic, sheer-sided Jebel Akhdar mountain range of Oman, Steve is leading an expedition into an unexplored desert canyon. With temperatures reaching 50 degrees, dehydration and heat stroke are a constant threat.
Steve and an elite team of kayakers head to the Himalayas to kayak the last great un-explored river in Bhutan. Legend has it that at some point this river drops off the face of the planet… there's only one way to find out.
Steve and his team are venturing into the heart of Suriname, to kayak an unnamed river that will take the them through a forest unchanged for millions of years.
Steve and an elite team of rock climbers head to the desert of southern Oman to attempt the first ascent of a towering escarpment.
The team battle through the jungle into the heart of Indonesian Borneo, to caves holding secrets that could rewrite history.
Steve and his team of explorers head to Greenland in the Arctic. Kayaking the world's largest fjord, they dodge giant icebergs and hungry polar bears.
Steve Backshall leads a team into the Yucatán, Mexico on the trail of the ancient Maya. Uncovering sinister secrets and artefacts, they push further into the underworld of the Maya than anyone has gone before.
Naturalist and explorer Steve Backshall leads a team on a mission to summit a remote and unclimbed mountain in the depths of Greenland.
Steve leads a cave-diving team into the largest unexplored cave network on Earth. Below the jungles of Mexico, they push further and deeper than anyone has gone before.
Steve Backshall ventures into more uncharted territory in pursuit of new discoveries and world firsts. He begins by joining a team of world-class kayakers to head to Kamchatka to take on white-water in a bid to explore a wilderness packed with more brown bears than anywhere else
Steve joins forces with ropes expert Aldo Kane and Saudi Arabian geologists Mahmoud Al-Shanti and Hala Alwagdani to search for the longest lava tube in Arabia
Steve and the team head to remotest Kyrgyzstan in search of snow leopards - if the team can find evidence of the endangered big cat, they could protect the region.
Steve heads to the Moukalaba Doudou National Park in Gabon - he wants to discover whether this unexplored rainforest could be home to an undiscovered population of chimpanzee
Steve teams up with shark scientist Mauricio Hoyos to discover where shark mothers give birth and to protect a new generation of these ocean giants in the Eastern Pacific
The unseen moments from season 2 of Expedition With Steve Backshall.
Moments that very nearly stopped the Expedition teams in their tracks on adventures that made them question whether they should even be there in the first place.
Steve and the crew encounter creatures both awe-inspiring and fear inducing, including the world's largest land predator. Plus, close encounters with nature itself in flooded caves of Mexico and on sheer cliffs of Oman.
From the remote Arctic wilderness and flooded caves of Mexico, to impenetrable jungles, the expertise and thirst for adventure of the Expedition crew are vital, not just in capturing incredible footage, but also in staying alive.
The camerawork and complex logistics that made filming the incredible expeditions possible. Working together meant not only venturing into the unknown, but also bringing the epic journeys to the TV screen.
