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  1. Episode 20

    20/20 The team battle tumbling boulders and fierce winds to climb Volcano Corona.

  2. Episode 19

    19/20 The team prepare for their attempt to reach the summit of Volcano Corona.

  3. Episode 18

    18/20 Ben leads his team across the Atacama salt plains with their razor-sharp salt crystals.

  4. Episode 17

    17/20 In the Atacama Desert, the team trek through icy water and across baking hot plains.

  5. Episode 16

    16/20 Crossing the Atacama Desert, the team negotiate scree slopes and knife-edge ridges.

  6. Episode 15

    15/20 Ben and his team make the final push to their goal, the lost Incan city of Marpa.

  7. Episode 14

    14/20 The team make a punishing ascent to reach their campsite 4000m up on the canyon rim.

  8. Episode 13

    13/20 A test of nerve for relief worker Phillipa as the team crosses a fast-flowing river.

  9. Episode 12

    12/20 Nurse Mandy injures her ankle and faces the agonising prospect of being sent home.

  10. Episode 11

    11/20 The team makes a perilous descent down the Cotahuasi Canyon.

  11. Episode 10

    10/20 The team must construct rafts to sail down the raging river and Dave has 'trench foot'.

  12. Episode 9

    9/20 Ben announces a re-route to make up lost time, but one of the fittest members collapses.

  13. Episode 8

    8/20 Steph is suffering from heat exhaustion and Ben decides that they must evacuate her.

  14. Episode 7

    7/20 The team confronts a mudslide. Gurpreet is struggling and Steph suffers heat exhaustion.

  15. Episode 6

    6/20 Ben Fogle and his team must cross a raging river and trek through the jungle at night.

  16. Episode 5

    5/20 Ben and his team set out in darkness to launch their Mount Chimborazo summit attempt.

  17. Episode 4

    4/20 Ben and his adventurers' goal is base camp, where 'summit fever' sets in.

  18. Episode 3

    3/20 To scale the mountain, the deserving adventurers must learn vital ice training techniques.

  19. Episode 2

    2/20 One of the team is given the heartbreaking news that they must leave the expedition.

  20. Episode 1

    1/20 The trip begins in Ecuador, where Ben Fogle leads his team through the Avenue of Volcanoes