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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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Mon 14 Sep 2026 02:50

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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 2016 20:00
  • Mon 14 Mar 2016 23:15
  • Mon 14 Mar 2016 23:45
  • Mon 28 Mar 2016 00:50
  • Mon 5 Sep 2016 08:00
  • Sun 13 Aug 2017 17:30
  • Sat 20 Jan 2018 10:00
  • Thu 25 Oct 2018 15:45
  • Sat 11 Jul 2020 09:00
  • Sat 18 Nov 2023 19:00
  • Sun 19 Nov 2023 01:55
  • Sat 9 Nov 2024 11:45
  • Sun 13 Sep 2026 00:25
  • Mon 14 Sep 2026 02:50