Angry Planet

George travels to the northern wilds of Vancouver Island to find out where the rain goes, by exploring the deep, wet caves that pepper the area. Accompanied by a group of hardcore cavers from Alberta and British Columbia, he descends into four different caves that lead deep into the earth. One requires a 40 meter rappel to enter.

Linking up with legendary stormchaser Jim Leonard, George tracks Hurricane Dean as it makes it's way across the Caribbean - eventually building to Category 5 strength. The pair fly to Jamaica to intercept the storm, and get right into the action as witness its power as it pounds the shoreline of the island.

Waterspouts are the nautical cousins of tornadoes - spinning whirlwinds of water vapour that menace mariners and exposed shorelines. George uses a motorboat, a van and small plane to try to get up close to these freak winds in the Florida Keys - home to more waterspouts than anywhere else in the world.

George explores the wild side of Hawaii - diving with Galapagos sharks, ascending to the snow covered blizzard conditions at the top of Mauna Kea, descending to 85 feet under the water to have his teeth cleaned by Peppermint Cleaner Shrimp, witnessing Banzai Pipeline - the biggest, toughest surfing beach in the world - and getting his boots lit on fire by Kilauea.

When summer starts to heat up, the thunderstorms and winds start to blow across the Great Plains of North America. In early December, the same thing happens across the dry dusty Outback of Australia. George heads down under to link up with Aussie stormchaser Jimmy Deguara, and the pair head out "back a buggary" as the Aussies say, to witness the storms.

North America's hottest temperature ever? 134 degrees F - Death Valley, California. The coldest - Snag, Yukon - -81 degrees F. "Angry Planet" visits both - Death Valley in the hottest week of the summer, Yukon during a long cold snap in mid-February.

Italy is the only country in Europe that is threatened by four kinds of natural disasters: volcanoes, avalanches, earthquakes, and floods. George tours through the Dolomite mountains, seeing the avalanches that crash down into alpine villages, and meeting Italians with new ways of dealing with these winter dangers.

Changing weather patterns mean that the weather is getting wilder on Canada's rugged west coast. George tries his hand at ice-climbing up a 70 meter frozen waterfall. He then straps on ski-skins to climb high up Mt.Garibaldi to experience the real Canadian winter high on an alpine lake.

Iceland's extraordinary geothermal features and massive glaciers make it not only a playground for extreme adventurers, but also a nation that has harnessed its geothermal energy like no other has.

Timbuktu, one of the most exotic destinations in the world for adventure travel, is deep in the heart of the southern Sahara Desert. George travels overland to explore the hot dry area that spawns the dust storms that can spin off from Africa into the Atlantic and morph into the tropical hurricanes that can cross the ocean to threaten the Caribbean and USA.

Nowhere on earth gets such an long period of intense rainfall as India in the summer monsoon season. George crisscrosses the massive country to experience the massive deluge and flooding.

Lying right on the Pacific Ring of Fire, the Indonesian island of Java is home to many of the world's most active volcanoes. George takes a small boat to see the impressive new ash eruptions from Anak Krakatau, home of the massive 1883 eruption that reverberated around the world.

The islands of Indonesia have some of the most extraordinary extreme natural phenomena on earth. George first visits the island of Komodo to see the massive and dinosaur-like Komodo Dragons - the largest lizards on earth.