Operation Gold Rush with Dan Snow

BBC Two Wales HD

2:15 AM to 3:15 AM

Tuesday 12 November

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The historian follows in the footsteps of 19th-century gold prospectors, attempting to find riches in a remote region on the edge of the Canadian arctic. He is joined on his expedition by polar explorer Felicity Aston and physiologist Dr Kevin Fong. The first challenge of the trek is to cross Alaska's Coast Mountains, where they retrace two routes set by 19th-century miners and brave icy rivers, avalanche-prone slopes and near vertical ascents