The Iceman Cometh

S1, E6: In 1991 a pair of vacationing German hikers stumbled onto one of the most remarkable finds in the history of archaeology: the perfectly preserved body of a 5,000-year-old man. What made the discovery so important was more than just his state of physical preservation, but also the period of time from which he came—the very cusp between the ages of stone and steel. Host and adventurer Josh Bernstein heads for the high Alps on the Austrian-Italian border to discover the latest secrets revealed by the clothes, weaponry, and body of Ötzi the Iceman. Josh faces down a deadly blizzard, helicopters out of near disaster, and comes face-to-face with a stone-cold, Stone Age killer. Along the way, he discovers that the Iceman is rewriting our ideas about the life of our ancestors from the dawn of civilization—and he learns much about the character of Ötzi!