Earth is often dangerous but what is it like to live in one of the riskiest places in the world? Combining footage with first-hand accounts of those affected this series explores what it is like to be faced with the brunt of nature's fury.
EPISODE 1
Time and Tide
Explore how locals have grown to adapt to different challenging environments. Adapting to live in the shadow of deadly avalanches in the Canadian Rockies, oppressive smog in Beijing and lethal mountain-quakes in Nepal.
EPISODE 2
That Sinking Feeling
Life is downright dangerous near an old asbestos mine in Australia, in a toxic village in Peru and along the world's most polluted river in Indonesia.
EPISODE 3
Fire and Ice
Discover what it's like to live in the United States' Tornado Alley, Australia's bushfire-prone wilderness and Antarctica's brutal cold.
EPISODE 4
Winds of Change
Resolute adventurers brave bizarrely frequent lightning strikes in Venezuela, the mountainous Death Road in Bolivia and the perils of Mt. Everest.
EPISODE 5
Wet and Wild
Despite the risks, intrepid souls live in a radiation zone in Japan and work on the sloes of a sulphur-spewing volcano in Java.
EPISODE 6
Hell or Highwater
Learn how locals survive earthquakes and tsunamis in Japan, a furnace-hot desert in Ethiopia and a cataclysmic rise in sea level in Bangladesh.
Mitch Ryan
David Karsten
Ray Pedretti
Trish Robinson
