Great Human Race

Archaeologist Bill Schindler and survivalist Cat Bigney work together to survive in the savanna without weapons or fire and find that living like our ancestors is harder than they expected.

Schindler and Bigney journey into the jungles of Uganda to follow in the footsteps of Homo erectus. An unfortunate mistake leaves them stranded with no protection against predators.

Schindler and Bigney journey to where Homo sapiens first walked the Earth, the mountains of Ethiopia. This is where humans became the dominant species, by going from hunted to hunter.

Cat and Bill follow in the footsteps of early Homo sapiens as they make their way through the Arabian Desert.

Bill and Cat build a reed boat to cross the Mediterranean Sea as our ancestors did 45,000 years ago.

Bill and Cat attempt to find shelter along the Caucasus Mountains, a journey some of our ancestors made to escape the bone-chilling temperatures of the Ice Age 40,000 years ago.

Bill and Cat attempt to survive as mobile hunters living in Siberia during the peak of the Ice Age.

Bill and Cat are nomadic pastoralists in Mongolia, with animals that need to be moved to the mountains before temperatures reach freezing.

Bill and Cat follow in the footsteps of the first Americans to cross the Bering Land Bridge 15,000 years ago. Their trek begins in the Alaskan tundra, where a winter storm beats down on them. In this barren wasteland, resources are few and far between, an

Bill and Cat must survive a land of ice and snow. With nighttime looming, they will have to find a way to withstand below-freezing temperatures.