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Charley Boorman's Extreme Frontiers

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S03E04 - "USA Adventure"

Aired on Dec 12, 2013, 8:00 PM

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In 2011, Boorman presented a prime-time adventure series for the UK's Channel 5, Charley Boorman's Extreme Frontiers. This show was another collaboration between Boorman and producer-director Russ Malkin, who made frequent on-screen appearances. Rather than a journey, Extreme Frontiers aimed to 'take in all four extremities of Canada'.In 2012, Boorman continued the series in a South African setting. From 9 June to 22 July 2012, Boorman and his team journeyed around South Africa on two BMW R1200GS motorcycles and a Nissan Pathfinder.Charley and the boys returned on Channel 5 at the end of 2013 for their USA adventure. Starting in Hawaii, Charlie moves to Alaska, then to the Eastern seaboard and down to the Southern states, inland to the Gulf of Mexico, up again to the Rockies and finishing on the Pacific Coast at Los Angeles.

Details

Status
Ended
Language
English
Runtime
60 min
Premiered
November 28, 2011
Ended
December 12, 2013
Schedule
Thursday at 8:00 PM

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Episodes (3 Seasons · 12 Episodes)

USA Adventure

The actor embarks on another epic journey, this time exploring America. He begins by exploring the lava fields of Hawaii Island and then taking to the waters off Waikiki Beach in an outrigger canoe. Charley then heads north to Alaska, where he tries to fulfill a boyhood dream of building an igloo, before sampling life on the high seas when he boards a 100-year-old schooner for a trip off the Atlantic coast.

Nov 21, 2013

60 min

USA Adventure

The actor rides his motorcycle to North Carolina, where he takes 0to the air in a replica of the Wright brothers' historic biplane and dives to the wreck of a First World War U-boat scuttled by the Germans when they realised the war was lost. In Charlotte, he learns about the War of Independence and gets to grips with firing a traditional musket, before heading to the Chattooga River in South Carolina, the location where his father John filmed 1972 thriller Deliverance.

Nov 28, 2013

60 min

USA Adventure

The actor heads to Walker County in Georgia and goes potholing with the local fire department's rescue team, before making the eight-hour ride to Mississippi to find out about the logging industry around the state's great river. Charley then rides down to Louisiana to discover more about the formation of modern America in New Orleans, before being taught the art of catching frogs in the swamps of Lafayette. He then tries rodeo-riding at a ranch in Texas and ends this leg of his journey in New Mexico.

Dec 5, 2013

60 min

USA Adventure

The actor sets off on the final leg of his journey, scaling a cliff in Colorado before visiting a soda ash mine in Wyoming. He then heads to the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah and joins Erin Hunter and Andy Sills in an attempt to set a world speed record for three people on one motorbike, and then rides through a surprisingly wet Death Valley in California. Charley eventually reaches the Pacific coast, where a large convoy of like-minded bikers join him on the ride into his final destination of Los Angeles.

Dec 12, 2013

60 min

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