Explorer: Lost in the Arctic

Matt Roush says...

If you were among those chilled by AMC’s The Terror (and/or the Dan Simmons novel that inspired the first season), you won’t want to miss this adventurous installment of National Geographic’s Explorer series. Mark Synnott lives up to his billing as an official Explorer when he recruits a team, including Nat Geo photographer/filmmaker Renan Ozturk, to retrace the ill-fated 1845 expedition of Sir John Franklin (fictionalized in The Terror). With a crew of 129 in two ships (the HMS Terror and Erebus), they became trapped in the Arctic ice while attempting to circumnavigate the Northwest Passage. None survived or, until recently, were ever found.) Synnott’s mission, aboard the 47-foot Polar Sun sailboat, is to sail the same route with the goal of finding answers in the Franklin group’s long-lost tomb.

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