In 1982, a massive avalanche descended on Alpine Meadows Ski Resort in Lake Tahoe, California that triggered a desperate five day search for eight missing people. Buried chronicles the third deadliest avalanche in US history, the miraculous rescue efforts and the traumas that still haunt the survivors today.

Teaches viewer how to get around in the wild, using a compass and map. Includes getting accurate bearings with a compass; reading contours on topographic maps and translating them into physical geographic features; measuring map distances and plotting courses; adjusting bearings for magnetic declination; and overcoming obstacles.

The National Geographic Alaskan adventure competition series returns for a second season with some of the toughest men and women on earth competing for one prize, survival. To be named Alaska's Ultimate Survivors the teams must test their skills in the depths of some of the world's most unforgiving land, the Alaskan wilderness.