Several close friends of mine recently completed work on Expedition Africa for the History Channel. If you're not familiar, please enjoy a trailer...
It's quite cool. "The series follows four modern-day expeditionists tracing the footsteps of journalist Henry M. Stanley who was sent some 950 miles into deepest, darkest Africa of 1871 to find the missing British explorer and humanitarian, Dr. David Livingstone who disappeared into the jungle. Along the way, our 4 modern day explorers, each experts in their own right (navigator, survivalist, primatologist and CNN journalist) trek across vast unforgiving landscapes of dense swamps, rugged mountains and barren deserts, armed only with a simple magnetic compass and a few vintage maps of the period. The dangers they faced were real: Dehydration, exhaustion, wild animals, disease..."
