Extremes
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Going to Extremes and Surviving Extremes are television programmes made for Channel 4 by Nick Middleton. In each episode of the two series, Middleton visits an extreme area of the world to find out how people have adapted to life there.
Both Going to Extremes and Surviving Extremes are accompanied by books of the same name , except in the USA where the latter is titled Extremes: Surviving the World's Harshest Environments .
Going to Extremes
In this series, Middleton visited the coldest, hottest, driest and wettest permanent settlements in the world.- Cold
- Dry
- Wet
- Hot
Surviving Extremes
In his second series, Middleton visited places without permanent towns, locations where "survival requires a lifestyle completely in tune with Nature's rhythms."
- Sand - Niger
- Middleton travels with a group of women across the fiendishly hot Sahara to trade date palms.
- Ice - Greenland
- Middleton travels with the indigineous people of northern Greenland, where four fifths of the land is permanently ice-covered.
- Jungle - Congo
- Middleton visits the dangerous jungle in Congo.
- Swamp - Papua
- Middleton discovers how people live with very little solid land.
Further reading
- Middleton, Nick Going to Extremes: Mud, Sweat and Frozen Tears.
- * Channel 4 books, 2001, hardcover, ISBN 0752220160
- * Pan Books - Macmillan UK, 2003, paperback, ISBN 0330493841.
- Middleton, Nick Extremes : Surviving the World's Harshest Environments .
- * Thomas Dunne Books, 2005, hardcover, ISBN 0312342667.
- Middleton, Nick Surviving Extremes.
- * Macmillan, paperback, 2004, ISBN 033043182X.
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