Just when you thought trucking couldnt get more dangerousthe new season of ICE ROAD TRUCKERS brings you to the most treacherous landscape on earth: northern Alaska. In Prudhoe Bay (250 miles north of the Arctic Circle), a network of iceroads in the tundra crisscross river systems and open ocean to connect Americas booming North Slope oil fields to dry land. Every winter truckers have less than three months to shuttle critical supplies over the ice. The only problem is that theres justone way to get to this remote location: 400 miles of ice-covered, mountainous terrain known as the Dalton Highway. The Dalton is the lifeline to Alaskas oil industry. Its also the most dangerous road in North America and has claimed the lives of more than 400 people since it was built just 30 years ago. The next chapter in the hit HISTORY series returns this season with veteran drivers Hugh Rowland and Alex Debogorski, new drivers including the shows first female trucker and more heart-stopping adrenaline than ever before. Volume 1 (4 episodes, approx 188 min): Deadliest Ice Road / Rookie Run / Canadian Invasion / Blinding Whiteout): DEADLIEST ICE ROAD: See how returning titans Hugh The Polar Bear Rowland and Alex Debogorski prepare for the unfamiliar and infamous Dalton, an epic 414-mile road of solid ice that leads from the truck yards of Fairbanks to the fabulously rich oil fields of Prudhoe Bay. ROOKIE RUN: Ice road truckers Lisa Kellythe youngest of just three women on the Dalton veteran Jack Jesse, and novice Tim Freeman test the tight corners and steep hills of the ice road as a recovery crew navigates a massive operation to recover a load of desperately needed lead-acid batteries
Just when you thought trucking couldnt get more dangerousthe new season of ICE ROAD TRUCKERS brings you to the most treacherous landscape on earth: northern Alaska. In Prudhoe Bay (250 miles north of the Arctic Circle), a network of iceroads in the tundra crisscross river systems and open ocean to connect Americas booming North Slope oil fields to dry land. Every winter truckers have less than three months to shuttle critical supplies over the ice. The only problem is that theres justone way to get to this remote location: 400 miles of ice-covered, mountainous terrain known as the Dalton Highway. The Dalton is the lifeline to Alaskas oil industry. Its also the most dangerous road in North America and has claimed the lives of more than 400 people since it was built just 30 years ago. The next chapter in the hit HISTORY series returns this season with veteran drivers Hugh Rowland and Alex Debogorski, new drivers including the shows first female trucker and more heart-stopping adrenaline than ever before. Volume 1 (4 episodes, approx 188 min): Deadliest Ice Road / Rookie Run / Canadian Invasion / Blinding Whiteout): DEADLIEST ICE ROAD: See how returning titans Hugh The Polar Bear Rowland and Alex Debogorski prepare for the unfamiliar and infamous Dalton, an epic 414-mile road of solid ice that leads from the truck yards of Fairbanks to the fabulously rich oil fields of Prudhoe Bay. ROOKIE RUN: Ice road truckers Lisa Kellythe youngest of just three women on the Dalton veteran Jack Jesse, and novice Tim Freeman test the tight corners and steep hills of the ice road as a recovery crew navigates a massive operation to recover a load of desperately needed lead-acid batteries