Arctic Ascent with Alex Honnold: Mega Episode

National Geographic's three-part Greenland series, cut together as one ninety-four minute run. Alex Honnold leads a six-week expedition in Eastern Greenland toward a first ascent of one of the highest unclimbed rock faces in the world, and glaciologist Heidi Sevestre travels with the team to study what climate change is doing to the glaciers, ice caps and fjords around them. The arc is built in three stages: a 1,500-foot free climb early on, a first traverse of the Renland Ice Cap after the team is hit by ice fall, and finally the 4,000-foot sea wall. Watched in one sitting, the science and the climbing stop feeling like separate errands. This is expedition television made for people who want the whole approach, not just the summit.