Episode list

Dr. V.E. Fuchs, leader of the expedition, discusses plans and preparations with David Attenborough, and members of the expedition demonstrate some of their special equipment.

Dr. V.E. Fuchs and other members of the expedition describe their experiences to David Attenborough and show film taken on the journey.

In the studio Dr. V.E. Fuchs and members of the expedition tell David Attenborough of their final preparations. At Butler's Wharf the Captain of the Magga Dan talks about the ship.

Dr. Rainer Goldsmith and R. H. A. Stewart, back from Shackleton Base, tell of their experiences during the year they were isolated in the Antarctic. Donald Milner, the BBC Correspondent who accompanied the expedition, describes the voyage.

Dr. Fuchs and the Trans-Antarctic Expedition are welcomed back to London by The Earl of Home and representatives of Commonwealth Governments.

Sir Vivian Fuchs Leader of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition describes The Crossing of the Antarctic and shows film taken during the epic and historic journey from Shackleton to Scott Base, a distance of over 2,000 miles.