Ushuaia: The Ultimate Adventure
Topic 23 · 10 responses · archived october 2000
~terry
Wed, Jul 29, 1998 (09:14)
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Hosted by Perri Peltz, "Ushuaia: The Ultimate Adventure" offers a
fascinating look at the real-life adventures of French dare-devil Nicolas
Hulot and his Ushuaia team. The one-hour adventure series, which takes
its name from a small town in Tierra Del Fuego at the tip of South
America, features incredible expeditions, extreme sports and fierce
competitions captured on film from breathtaking vantage points. For Hulot
and his team, "Ushuaia" symbolizes the place where reality ends and
dreams begin--and the outermost bounds of the human spirit. "Ushuaia" is
co-produced for CNBC by Protecrea, the production division of French
Network TF1, and Unapix Entertainment in New York.
~terry
Wed, Jul 29, 1998 (09:17)
#1
Great show! I loved the episode on the Amazon ethnobotanist who built an
awesome network of tree passageways with ropes. Worth taping!
~stacey
Wed, Jul 29, 1998 (13:08)
#2
sounds really neat...
not worth getting a set over though!
~terry
Wed, Jul 29, 1998 (17:22)
#3
Maybe worth a trip to a public tv somewhere. Esp. the show I mentioned.
This guy lived at treetop level in the Amazon and traversed on hundreds
of miles of "rope highways"; he made some major contirbutions to medicine
with his discoveries.
My friend Leslie Taylor, who has the company Rain-Tree, is in the Amazon
now moving a tribe to a new location. She's highly regarded in Brazil,
and known as the white witch or cuandero ( http://www.rain-tree.com ).
~riette
Wed, Aug 5, 1998 (11:28)
#4
I hope this one comes to us too - sounds like great fun.
~terry
Wed, Aug 5, 1998 (16:43)
#5
I hope they replay it cause I'd like to tape it.
~riette
Thu, Aug 6, 1998 (00:42)
#6
You must have ALOT of video tapes, Terry. Seems to me you tape everything in your path! Do you tape your computer as you type your responses in too?
�BIG BIG KISS�
~terry
Thu, Aug 6, 1998 (11:21)
#7
I tape of lot of events around Austin, and parties, I've got one going
right now the SXSW Multimedia show with a lot of excerpts from Austin's
own Bruce Sterling. Good listening. I'll publish a list sometime so
folks can make requests.
~riette
Thu, Aug 6, 1998 (16:02)
#8
Sounds good! You should become a movie producer, earn lots of money, and sleep with Pamela Anderson. Then you can come back and brag in front of all us little people.
I'm talking nonsense, right?
~terry
Thu, Aug 6, 1998 (17:11)
#9
No, that sounds realistic to me.
~riette
Fri, Aug 7, 1998 (00:49)
#10
ha-ha! I knew you'd understand!