For this fascinating glimpse into the world of snakes, Cliff traveled to Venezuela to accompany Jesus Rivas - the barefoot biologist and world expert on the world's largest snake - the Anaconda. Cliff followed Jesus across the the high plateau of the Anoss to deep into the jungles of the Orinoco River Basin, in search of a giant supersnake that would prove true his theory that there maybe "supersnakes in the form of giant Anaconda's living in the deep water of Orinoco Delta.

While researching for a story about forest fires in the interior of British Columbia, Canada, Cliff discovered a team of Canadian forest fire-fighters that had been called into the U.S. to help fight the #1 priority fire burning in one of the worst years of wild fires the American mid west had ever seen. The Canadians were sent in to protect the town of Hamilton, Montana which stood in the path of an out of control wild fire called the "Bear". This story brings you up close and personal to the ravaging power of fires gone wild and illustrates an overall problem that government and Forest Fire Agencies face called the "Fire Suppression Paradox"

Mark Thiessen, a studio photographer with National Geographic has been drawn to the world of wild land fire fighter for years. We follow him as he works his way across the American mid-west in one of the worst fire seasons on record. Mark finds many forests being ravaged by fire and the men who courageously and tirelessly fight back the flames - and to boot, gets a plane full of fire retardant dropped on him for his efforts.

Phil Borges - a world famous photographer specializing in portraiture of indigenous peoples treks into the jungles of Ecuador in the hopes of meeting with various tribal Shamans in order to take portraits for his book called "Spirit of Place". He runs into all kinds of obstacles from riots, erupting volcano's, long detours on foot into the Amazon basin - but is able to reach his final destination deep in the heart of the jungle with the ancient Hurani Tribe and their Shaman - Mungatoui.

Nancy Baron (Author and naturalist) traveled to Nepal to meet up with her old university friend Colonial Pun who is the Ex-pilot of the king of Nepal. He is now the Deputy Minister of Tourism and is able to take her to see the "unseen" Nepal.

To become a certified Canadian mountain guide you must receive a credit for the "remote crevasse mountain rescue" part of the program. We follow a group of students via helicopter into the glacier mountains behind Squamish, B.C. where they are dropped down to spend the next 24 hours learning the skills needed to rescue someone who has fallen into a deep crevasse.

For an adventure into Canada's north and an exciting look into the Klondike Gold Rush in this beautiful wild land, this episode includes river rafting down the Tatinshini, grizzly bears, tracing part of the route of the Gold Rush, meeting a modern day medicine women, and mining with a true hard rock miner.