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Truckers

Season 1

• A main theme of Season 1 was "the dash for the cash", which was rarely mentioned in Season 2, but is a main theme in Season 3. ^[undefined]

• In Season 1, companies' insignia on trucks and men's safety helmets were routinely blurred out.

• In Season 2, they were left visible.

Episodes

At the top of the world, there's an outpost like no other... and a job only a few would dare.

The mission: To haul critical supplies across 350 miles of frozen lakes to Canada's remote billion-dollar diamond mines.

The challenge: to transport 10,000 loads in 60 days—before the road disappears.

The rewards are great; the risks even greater.

These are the men who make their living on thin ice.

— Thom Beers, opening of the show, season 1

Specials

Drivers

• Hugh 'The Polar Bear' Rowland (born 1957): A very rough-around-the-edges, 20-year veteran of ice-road trucking, based in Kelowna in southern British Columbia. He is of French descent and claims to be known by the ice road trucking community as "The Polar Bear", which he says refers to his overbearing, annoying personality, bearish attitude, stamina, and consistently high number of loads delivered per season. Rowland owns four trucks and drives one; the other three are manned by ice road rookies Drew Sherwood, Todd White, and Rowland's associate and year-round employee Rick Yemm. Rowland's trucks all have the emblem R&R Hoe Service on the doors - the company Rowland owns in Kelowna (actually Winfield, BC ^[undefined]).

• Rick Yemm : One of Rowland's employees. This brash, tattooed trucker, also from Kelowna, was in his second year as an ice road trucker during Season 1. In 2006, Yemm was one of the first truckers onto the ice road after it opened when, according to him, the sound of cracking ice was loudest. This stressful experience almost caused him to quit driving the ice road right then and there. He decided to continue, however, remarking, "I was too stupid and too stubborn to quit."

• Alex Debogorski : A legend in the ice road trucking community, and 2007 marked Debogorski's 26th year as an ice road trucker. Debogorski has 11 children and nine grandchildren, and is a year-round resident of Yellowknife. As stated in Season 1, since he has been a staple driving the ice roads, it is something of a good-luck charm for Debogorski to pull the first load over the ice roads at the beginning of every season. He is such a devout Catholic that by season 9, when he joined long-time rival Hugh Rowland's company in Canada, Debogorski had "The Preacher Man" emblazoned on the side of his truck. (Polish Dębogórski means "coming from or living at Oak Mountain".)

• Jay Westgard : Westgard is also a year-round resident of Yellowknife. Despite his relative youth (he is 25 years old), Westgard is considered by the ice road community as the most talented driver of his generation (as mentioned in the premiere). He began driving trucks at age 16 and owned his first truck by age 18; at the time of his introduction on IRT, Westgard had acquired a reputation as a driver who excels in hauling oversized loads. Because of his experience, he is entrusted with delivering some of the more demanding loads, such as a 48-ton ore scrubber. He also agrees to drive in a convoy (led by Mike Kimball) hauling vital jet fuel to remote Deline —a job most veterans would turn down because the trip is very risky.

• T.J. Tilcox : A 21-year-old ice road rookie, Tilcox is vocal about how he hates the cold and ice, and explains that he is driving on the ice road for the experience, not the money. Tilcox has been trucking since age 16 and decided to try ice road trucking after seeing an advertisement in the newspaper. Early on he struggles with an older truck that lacks heat, but another driver grants Tilcox the use of his brand new Volvo truck leased to Trinity Transport. On his first run in the new truck, Tilcox gets in an accident before ever hitting the ice road, due to the brake service line's disconnecting from his trailer. Tilcox is ultimately cleared of responsibility and, after a delay, allowed back on the road.

• Drew Sherwood : Sherwood is a veteran trucker but an ice road rookie. He joined Rowland’s team after answering an advertisement in the local newspaper. Early on, Sherwood expresses a high degree of confidence that he will have no problems adjusting from highway to ice driving. Rowland considers Sherwood an arrogant rookie and a "one year driver". In the series premiere, Sherwood states: "I have no intention of going into a ditch, bro", after which he soon gets stuck in a ditch later in that episode, a humbling lesson in how much respect the ice road demands.

Support personnel

• Tom Tweed : Tweed is a dispatcher for Tli Cho Landtran in Yellowknife.

• Rick Fitch : Fitch is a projects manager for Tli Cho Landtran, responsible for scheduling client loads. He is seen responding to several accidents in the series. Fitch has been working on the ice road for over 20 years.

• Ken Murray : Murray is an officer for Secure Check, the organization responsible for security and rules enforcement on the ice road. A first-time speeding ticket can result in a five-day suspension, while severe infractions (including excessive speed) can lead to a driver's being banned for the rest of the season. Truck weights are also checked to ensure they will not over-stress the ice; a driver with an overweight truck can be fined several hundred dollars.

• Lee Parkinson : Parkinson operates a garage in Yellowknife. He is the busiest mechanic in the north (as mentioned in the premiere) and works with his journeyman Mark Chang.

• Todd White : White (aka "Chains") worked for Hugh Rowland. He comes from Canada's eastern coast, and is a self-proclaimed trucker and singer. He responded to an ad that Rowland placed and was hired as part of his crew after a seven-year absence from ice road trucking. One of the main reasons White returned to ice road trucking was the need to earn $20,000 to repair his own truck. White was banned from ice road trucking after a speeding violation where he was clocked at 63 km/h (39 mph) in a 40 km/h (25 mph) zone. White appealed, claiming that he missed a speed limit sign, but his appeal was denied. After White left, Sherwood drove his truck.

• Danny Reese : Shortly after Sherwood's departure, Rowland hired Reese to take over the truck vacated by Sherwood after it had finally received a new ECM (as seen in episode 8). Reese quickly noticed that the truck "had its quirks", which included problems with the truck's turbo similar to those Sherwood had experienced with this truck.

• Neil McDougall : Safety and Compliance Supervisor with Tli Cho Landtran. His job is to set up and hire all the drivers and trucks for the winter road, and to monitor and police the drivers on the road so that rules are not violated and the truckers are not kicked off the road.

Route and destinations

• Dome Lake Camp : A maintenance camp, located 22 mi (35 km) past the start of the ice portion of the winter road. Tilcox is forced to stop here when his injury flares up; he is then airlifted back to Yellowknife for treatment (episode 7).

• Lockhart Lake Rest Stop : Lockhart provides catering and other services for truckers.

• De Beers Snap Lake Diamond Mine : About 220 km (140 mi) northeast of Yellowknife. ^[undefined]

• Diavik Diamond Mine : About 300 mi (480 km) north of Yellowknife. ^[undefined]

• Ekati Diamond Mine : About 310 km (190 mi) northeast of Yellowknife, ^[undefined] the northernmost stop seen on camera during this season.

• The road continues roughly 125 mi (201 km) past here, serving two defunct mines and stopping at the north end of Contwoyto Lake in Nunavut.

• Colomac Mine

• Tundra Mine

• Deline, Northwest Territories : A small village, on the shore of Great Bear Lake, that depends on jet fuel shipments over the ice road to keep its airport operating.

Season 2

Episodes

At the top of the world, there's an outpost like no other…and a job only a few would dare.

The ice men return: two titans of the southern ice roads, and two contenders.

Last season they drove loaded semis on frozen lakes…this year, the Arctic Ocean.

Deeper into the deep freeze.

Further out on thinner ice.

The new mission: to haul the heavy metal of natural gas drilling rigs up a frozen river and across ice-choked seas.

Ice road truckers have come to the edge of the earth.

These are the men who make their living on thin ice.

— Thom Beers, opening of the show, season 2

Off the ice

• Development of Canada's ice roads in general, and of commerce along the Tuktoyaktuk Winter Road in particular

• Building the road and outfitting trucks to drive along it

• The truckers' personal motivations for working in the Arctic and comparisons between there and Yellowknife

• Each group's opinions about the other (northern and southern drivers)

• Truckers' comments about key events of the season: Sherwood quitting after one day, Debogorski leaving due to health problems, Yemm's personnel disagreements and firing, Rowland hauling sewage for most of his runs

Drivers

• Eric Dufresne : A 46-year-old native of Montreal, now a resident of Faro, Yukon, with 26 years of experience on this ice road. As a result, he is often entrusted with loads that are heavy or hard to handle, such as a derrick in the season premiere. He also does much of his own maintenance and repair work, and is used to the cold weather, stating that he can be comfortable in a denim jacket even at −30 °F (−34 °C).

• Bear Swensen : Born in Saskatchewan, Swensen is a 59-year-old resident of British Columbia and a six-year ice road veteran. He has worked most of his life as a truck driver in the logging industry, with some actual logging experience as well. When not working on the ice roads, he works as a professional bear hunting guide. Like Dufresne, he frequently pulls heavier-than-average loads.

Support personnel

• Jordan Fedosoff : The manager of Matco's Inuvik branch office, Fedosoff was born in Saskatchewan and raised between the fields of Saskatchewan and the city of Montreal. He began working in the trucking industry in 1981. He has driven and worked in Inuvik since 1995. He has vast experience in the Mackenzie Valley and the Dempster Highway. Sherwood worked for him in season 2.

• Doug Saunders : Saunders is the operations manager for E. Gruben's Transport, the company that hires Debogorski and Yemm. He considers Yemm to be one of his more "high-maintenance" drivers, in terms of Yemm's rough handling of the trucks and frequent complaints about the work environment.

• Shaun Lundrigan : The chief mechanic at the Gruben's freight yard in Tuktoyaktuk, he finds himself repairing Yemm's trucks several times during the season. As a result, his opinion of Yemm as a trucker steadily deteriorates from week to week.

• Jerry Dusdal : The "truck push" for Mullen Transportation, he takes responsibility for the truckers' safety and delivery of their loads. He states in the season premiere that he will never send someone else to do a job that he is not willing to do himself. When an entire drilling operation must be moved from one site to another, he deals with the logistics and equipment dismantling, as well as the delay caused by a winter storm that strikes the area.

• Davey Lennie : A foreman on the Northwind ice road construction crew, he looks after the trucks when the road is closed, and also stands ready to respond to any distress calls that come in. In the season premiere, he describes an incident from the previous year in which his truck broke through the ice. Oversized loads, such as a survival shack hauled by Dufresne, sometimes require his help to get from the edge of town to the freight yard. His cousin Isaac drives with Rowland to get some road experience before taking the written exam for his truck driver's license.

• Kelly Brown : A veteran driver in Inuvik, Kelly works for Matco Transportation, the second company that hires Sherwood shortly after the season begins. He rides with Sherwood on a training run to help him get used to driving the Arctic ice roads. Brown grew up in Montreal and began driving trucks in 1983; he has worked the ice roads since 1993.

• Devon Neff : A rookie driver on the ice roads who works for Mullen, Neff is called in to help move equipment off the Langley site late in the season. Due to the poor condition of the road at this time, he must contend with hazards such as breaks in the surface and water overflows from beneath the ice.

Route and destinations

• Inuvik, Northwest Territories : Loads are assigned here to be transported north.

• Mallik : An exploration site that encompasses fields of natural gas hydrates. By the end of the season, the crews working here succeed in extracting gas from these formations.

• Aput : A natural gas exploration site set up by MGM Energy; later found to contain no significant deposits, whereupon the entire camp is moved 50 miles to Langley (see below).

• Langley : MGM's second and last exploration site of the year; proves to hold sizable deposits.

• Aklavik, Northwest Territories

• Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories : Loads (e.g. backhauls) are assigned here to be transported south.

• Wurmlinger and Arctic Star : Two ice-locked barges that serve as headquarters for crews in the field. In the summer the Wurmlinger carries goods around.

Final load counts

• Sherwood — 9; spent most of the season driving on pavement in Inuvik

• Debogorski — 22 as stated in "A Trucker's Farewell"; left early for medical reasons

• Yemm — 51; fired on the last day of the season

• Swensen — 63; hauled a total of 4 million pounds, probably the most of any driver this season

• Dufresne — 67

• Rowland — 68

Season 3

Synopsis

Episodes

At the top of the world, there's a job only a few would dare.

Last season, the dash for the cash was fought on the smooth playing field of Canada's Arctic ice.

This season, two old pros join four of America's bravest truckers to tackle the tundra's deadliest ice passage.

Just when you thought extreme trucking couldn't get more dangerous, ice road truckers take on Alaska.

These are the men who make their living on thin ice.

— Thom Beers, opening of the show, season 3

Drivers

• Jack Jessee : A 38-year-old veteran driver and Virginia native, Jessee has 15 years of ice road trucking experience to his credit. He has earned a reputation as a "heavy hauler" who specializes in moving massive and/or oversized loads. In his introduction on the show's website, he offers this opinion about driving the Alaska roads: "You learn the road really fast… or you end up dead."

• George Spears : Spears, 59, is a respected veteran driver in Alaska. He has been driving the ice roads for 29 years and helping rookies get used to the hazards. In the season premiere, he remarks about an incident in which he flipped his own truck over a cliff one year. He intends to retire at the end of this season, his 30th.

• Lisa Kelly : A former school bus driver and state Freestyle Motocross champion, Kelly is starting her second year on the ice roads. At 28, she is the youngest female driver this year, and hopes to earn the veteran truckers’ respect and become Carlile's first female heavy hauler. In Season 4, the Wasilla resident stated that she had to sell the first horse she ever kept as a pet and was trying to earn enough money to buy it back, a goal she eventually accomplished.

• Tim Freeman, Jr. : A 23-year-old ice road rookie from Blackduck, Minnesota, Freeman is a fourth-generation trucker with several years of over-the-road driving experience. Family friend George Spears has been helping him prepare for the challenge of driving Alaska's roads.

• Carey Hall : The son and grandson of truckers in his native Louisiana, Hall, a 45-year-old African American, is known on the Alaskan ice as "Big Daddy" and is universally respected for his professionalism. He appears in one episode, driving with Jessee to deliver a pair of enormous storage tanks.

• Phil Kromm: A 15-year veteran fuel-hauler from Alaska, ^[undefined] Phil is also in charge of safety, recruitment, and driver training to get rookie drivers accustomed to the Dalton Highway (most notably Debogorski in Season 3, and Redmon and Sieber in Season 5). He is also Lane Keator’s advisor on rookie progression. Despite his never being a main character in any of the future seasons, he plays a vital role in rookie training and has a hand in determining some of the rookies' being fired. (Fellow veteran driver Tony Molesky rides with Rowland on his first trip up the Dalton, and will join the cast in Season 5.)

• Jack McCahan : Veteran Carlile driver who serves as one of Debogorski's escorts until he gets fed up with Alex's "rookie s***" in that he takes so long to chain up his tires.

Support personnel

• Lane Keator : Fairbanks Terminal Manager for Carlile. Among his responsibilities are making the final decisions on hiring, firing, promoting and demoting drivers.

• Tim Rickards : Fairbanks Dispatcher for Carlile. He assigns loads for the drivers.

• Jerid Lane : Mechanic at Carlile’s Fairbanks repair shop. He keeps the trucks running.

• Roberta Klema : Driving instructor for Carlile Fairbanks. She puts new drivers through a driving simulator to familiarize them with the Kenworth tractors Carlile uses, as well as a preview of conditions they’ll face when driving the Dalton.

• John McCoy : Driving instructor for Carlile Fairbanks. He gives physical road tests to new drivers behind the wheel of a typical Kenworth cab and trailer.

• Harry McDonald : Carlile CEO. In episode 1, he describes the challenge they face this season moving 2,000 loads to Prudhoe Bay in 60 days, and gives a very brief history of the company he co-founded with his brother in 1980 in episode 4.

• Greg Thompson : Carlile Heavy Haul Manager. In episode 2, he says that they need “the best of the best” drivers for hauling special loads like Jessee does, ”because a lot of guys won’t do it, they’re afraid of it”.

• Reid Bahnson : Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities avalanche technician. He leads a crew that triggers avalanches so natural ones are less likely to impact truckers and freight on the Dalton. His weapon of choice is a Korean War-era recoilless rifle that shoots 8-lb TNT mortars into avalanche chutes.

• Donald Adkins : Grader operator for Alaska DoT&PF. He helps prepare and maintain the Dalton for the truckers, and helps pull out those who get stuck in snowdrifts.

• Ken Bear : Plow driver for Alaska DoT&PF. He is one of many who plow the Dalton after snowstorms and avalanches.

• Dan Schok : Project engineer for Flowline, supplier of 34-inch diameter 130-foot long pipe being transported by Jessee in episode 2.

• Ben Kryzkowski : Owner of Ben’s Towing. He has 25 years experience removing wrecked trucks from the Dalton.

• Terrence Cole : Professor and Historian from the University of Alaska. He appears to describe the impact of oil discoveries and the construction of the Dalton and the pipeline.

Route and destinations

• Fairbanks, Alaska

• Coldfoot, Alaska

• Deadhorse, Alaska

Final load counts

• Jessee — 20

• Spears — 15

• Kelly — 15

• Rowland — 13

• Debogorski — 12

• Freeman — 11

Season 4

Returning drivers

New drivers

• Greg Boadwine : At 27, Boadwine is starting his second season with Carlile, after his first one ended early due to his overturning his truck. He is grateful that his employers have given him another chance; at the same time, he feels he has a long way to go in order to regain their full trust.

• Ray Veilleux : Veilleux, 44, ran his own construction business in Kalispell, Montana until it failed as a result of the U.S. housing industry crash. He signed on with Carlile and has worked his way up from freight yard duty to making ice road runs.

• Merv Gilbertson : Gilbertson is a second-generation haul road trucker, running Big State Logistics based out of Fairbanks. Except for one Carlile delivery by Jessee late in the season, Gilbertson and his convoys make all the supply runs to Bettles shown this season.

Route and destinations

• Bettles, Alaska

• Nuiqsut, Alaska

Final load counts

• Veilleux - 19

• Rowland - 18

• Jessee - 17

• Kelly - 17

• Debogorski - 16

• Boadwine - 11

Season 5

Episodes

Returning drivers

New drivers

• Dave Redmon : Redmon, 45, is an Alabama native with 25 years of over-the-road trucking experience. In 2010, he, Yemm, and Kelly spent two months hauling loads on the dangerous roads in India (see IRT: Deadliest Roads, below). This season marks his first year of ice road trucking, but he is ultimately fired due to concerns about his driving performance and attitude toward other truckers (especially Tony Molesky, who abandoned Redmon at Coldfoot halfway through his first training run on the Dalton).

• Tony Molesky : Molesky is a 19-year veteran of the ice roads, and like Kromm, serves as a safety and driver instructor for Carlile. In the season premiere, he describes a recent accident in which he had to swerve into a ditch to avoid a head-on collision with an oncoming rookie driver. His truck took a glancing blow, scattering debris which he later returns to pick up; by season's end, the truck is repaired and put back in service. (He was also seen briefly in Season 3 episode 3 as Rowland's co-driver.)

• Maya Sieber : Sieber is a 27-year-old resident of New York City, with three years' trucking experience on its roads. Like Redmon, this is her first year on the ice.

• Vlad Pleskot : Pleskot is one of Polar’s drivers. In Season 7, he and Rowland will form their own company.

• Mark Kohaykewych : Mark owns Polar Industries, and drives a pilot car for an oversized load convoy Pleskot, Rowland and Yemm make to St. Theresa Point (episodes 4 and 5). Even though Mark is rarely seen at the wheel of a big rig, he will be in the opening credits as one of the series’ stars by Season 7.

Route and destinations

• Dalton Highway : Truckers make stops at Fairbanks, Coldfoot, and Deadhorse as before. Kelly and Molesky begin a heavy haul from Anchorage via the Glenn and George Parks Highways before reaching the Dalton (episodes 6 and 7).

• Manitoba/Ontario ice roads : Truckers haul freight on the ice roads to re-supply isolated communities that have no other economical way to bring in materials. Communities serviced by the truckers during Season 5 include Oxford House , Red Sucker Lake , Bloodvein , Little Grand Rapids , St. Theresa Point , Garden Hill , Tadoule Lake and Lac Brochet and Victoria Beach in Manitoba, and Muskrat Dam in northwestern Ontario.

Final load counts

• Debogorski - 22

• Rowland - 21

• Yemm - 20

• Kelly - 28

• Redmon - 27

• Molesky - 25

• Sieber - 22

Season 6

Returning drivers

New drivers

• Darrell Ward (1964−2016): Coming to Alaska from Montana, Ward has 31 years of highway trucking experience, including driving logging trucks in the Rocky Mountains, and drove the Dalton for Alaska West Express in 2009. ^[undefined] This is his first (and only) year at Carlile, and he ends up coming second to Jack Jessee by one load. Darrell, easily one of IRT's most popular drivers ever, was killed in a plane crash at the age of 52 on August 28, 2016. Ward at the time was a business partner with Lisa Kelly. The plane was piloted by Mark Melotz and it crashed near Rock Creek, Montana.

• Austin Wheeler : Wheeler, 23, has been a Carlile employee for almost two years, transporting heavy loads in southern Alaska before transferring to the Fairbanks depot. While his season ended early towards the end due to engine power issues, he earned credit in saving Darrell when the latter was stranded in the middle of the season.

• Ronald "Porkchop" Mangum : Mangum, 35, is a South Carolina trucker with 14 years of experience. Like Ward, he is starting his first season on the Dalton; he is fired near the end of the season due to concerns over his driving performance.

Route and destinations

• Dalton Highway : This is the final season for the Dalton on the show.

• Dempster Highway : Connects the Northwest Territories to the rest of Canada’s road network through the Yukon.

• Manitoba ice roads

Final load counts

• Jessee - 29

• Ward - 28

• Wheeler - 23

• Veilleux - 5 (not full season)

• Debogorski - 25

• Rowland - 14

• Yemm - 6

Season 7

Returning drivers

New drivers

• Art Burke : Burke, a Yellowknife resident, has driven the diamond mine ice roads for 15 years. He originally signs on with VP Express to drive for Rowland but switches over to Polar, after being fired. He also brings the winning load for Polar by the end of the season.

• Todd Dewey : Dewey, a logging trucker from Washington state, is starting his first year on the ice road to work for Rowland. He is also featured in Ax Men season 8, especially driving logs for Rygaard Logging into the saw mill during the warmer months. Dewey is the nephew of Craig Rygaard and cousin of Gabe, Jason, and Burt. Craig is the original owner of Rygaard Logging, and when he retired, Gabe took over. ^[undefined]

• Joey Barnes : Barnes, known as the "King of Obsolete", and his daughter Xena live in northern Manitoba, well past the end of the winter roads. He uses vintage trucks and modified tractors to travel over the rough terrain for equipment delivery/pickup runs. ^{[undefined] [undefined]}

Final load counts

• Polar - 181

• VP - 180

Season 8

Returning drivers

New driver

• Reno Ward : Darrell Ward’s son, he was hired to help his father in episode 9.

Route and destinations

• Manitoba/Ontario ice roads : Two new destinations in northwestern Ontario: Fort Severn and Peawanuck.

Final load counts

• Polar: 171

• VP: 170

• Total: 341

Season 9

Episodes

Returning drivers

New driver

• Mike Simmons: Mike is the owner of Bad Apple Escorts, Inc., a pilot truck service based in Edmonton, Alberta. Although he is an experienced heavy hauler on the Alberta oil fields, this season marks his first exposure to ice road trucking. He is hired by Polar to help keep loads moving, in response to the threat of competition posed by Ward and Kelly.

Route and destinations

• Manitoba/Ontario ice roads

• Seal River , via cat train convoy from Churchill : Darrell and Mark teamed up to send their best drivers (Dewey and Kelly) to make this haul over the southwest part of Hudson Bay.

Season X (10)

Returning drivers

New driver

• Stephanie "Steph" Custance: Steph, 22, is a first-year ice road trucker with less than one year of commercial driving experience. Mark hires her to work for Polar, deciding that his need for drivers outweighs the problems he sees during her road test. She has a five-year-old son.

Route and destinations

• Manitoba/Ontario/Alberta ice roads : In addition to previously seen destinations in Manitoba and Ontario, two new destinations were added in Season 10: Fort Chipewyan, Alberta and Summer Beaver, Ontario

Season 11

Returning drivers

Route and destinations

• Manitoba/Ontario ice roads : One new destination added in Season 11: Kasabonika, Ontario

IRT: Deadliest Roads

Season 1: Himalayas

• In Episode 5: "Crumbling Roads", Kelly and Yemm delivered two images (one each, well packed with sandbags and sand and straw) of the goddess Kali (shown as treading on her husband Shiva) along a frightful mountain road hacked out of cliffsides to a temple at a town called Kalpa, Himachal Pradesh.

• In Episode 6: "Thin Air", they struggled with a worse road and altitude hypoxia on the Rohtang Pass, and one of them delivered an image of Buddha and some Buddhist scriptures to a Tibetan-type Buddhist monastery in the mountains.

Season 2: South America

Feature film

See also

• Highway Thru Hell

• Ice Pilots NWT