Season 1

(2022)
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Episodes 8

1 The Ridge of Fire Part 1

June 5, 2022

43m

An inconspicuous hill on the Spanish Island of La Palma bursts open, releasing an avalanche of lava. One man watches on helplessly as his home, along with all of his possessions, burns to the ground.

2 The Smoker

June 12, 2022

1h

Mount Nyiragongo in the Democratic Republic of Congo erupts and smothers the nearby city of Goma with lava, taking 33 lives and destroying 4,000 homes.

3 Mamma Etna

June 26, 2022

1h

Mount Etna, Europe's largest and most active volcano, is in the throes of her most violent eruption in recent years and hitting towns and cities below it.

4 The Mountain in the Beautiful Valley

July 3, 2022

43m

A hill above the village of Grindavik in Iceland bursts open and the Fagradasfjall volcano is born - Chris Horsley helps predict its path.

5 The Commander

July 3, 2022

43m

Chris Horsley returns to the Congo to investigate a huge 10-mile-long fracture that runs directly from the slopes of Nyiragongo volcano down to lake Kivu and visits a nearby farming village where a deadly phenomenon called Mazuku or "Evil Wind" is killing livestock?

6 The Ice Cauldron

July 10, 2022

43m

Chris journeys to Iceland to install vital early-warning systems on one of the country's most dangerous volcanoes - the glacier covered monster, Katla. Katla's twin volcano, Eyjafjallajökull, infamously erupted in 2010, shutting down European airspace. But experts believe Katla is ten-times more explosive.

7 The World's First Volcano

July 17, 2022

1h

In the South of Italy, Chris Horsley joins a mass-scientific effort to inspect Stromboli and install monitoring-systems as close to explosive craters as possible. Chris also travels to Vulcano where the entire island is emitting toxic gas, could this be a sign of an imminent eruption.

8 The Ridge of Fire Part 2

July 24, 2022

1h

The volcanic eruption on the Spanish Canary Island of La Palma has destroyed over three-thousand homes. Chris Horsley joins the fire brigade on a dangerous mission to scramble through destroyed towns and villages battling toxic gas and extreme temperatures to collect a fresh lava sample from the red-hot flow.

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