Cable television shows we love: Ice Road Truckers
Have you see this show? It is insane! Seriously, nutso. Set in the Canadian Northwest Territories, it is the story of transportation issues for a few diamond mines by way of a 350 mile road, made almost entirely of ice.
Ice? Did you say a road of ice?
Yes! Apparently, location is an issue with these mines and due to access to their area, the only way to get the heavier pieces of machinery, parts and such to the mines for their day to day use is to use this ice road. The road is not one continuous piece of ice covering one large lake that is 350 miles. Instead, it takes the company in charge approximate a month to connect 350 miles of smaller lakes and marsh land under a continuous layer of ice, until the layer is thick enough to support the multiple tons of weight that is put on it. Talk about frightening!
For those of us that deal with an irrational fear of drowning (and we count ourselves firmly within that number, irrational as it is), watching these truckers drive so blithely over 30″, 32″ 41″ of ice as if never even considering the fact that at any moment, they could break through the ice and plunge to their deaths at the bottom of the icy waters is just insane.
The show plays on the History Channel and can be seen online at the History Channel website. Watching the show is a nail biting ride of adrenaline, knowing that these men will be ok…and yet expecting disaster at every turn. It is addictive. Try it with us one night!
This! This is what the road looks like. Under that is the lake - that is what the dark is! Amazing when you think about it. We doubt we would have the courage to drive over ice like this:
August 8th, 2007 at 12:06 am
I had to visit the History Channel to see what you were on about. It looks amazing and vids were frightening. Does anyone know if this plays in the UK yet?