Ray Mears's Real Heroes of Telemark

200350m

A three-part insight into an amazing wartime mission in Norway, undertaken in the early 1940s, which was immortalised by the Hollywood movie The Heroes of Telemark.

Seasons

3 Episodes • Premiered 2003

Still image for Ray Mears's Real Heroes of Telemark season 1 episode 1: Epic Journey

1. Epic Journey

Mears and a team of modern-day winter warfare specialists begin to retrace the epic journey made by the original commandos, who survived appalling hardship to sabotage Hitler's atomic bomb project.

Still image for Ray Mears's Real Heroes of Telemark season 1 episode 2: Survival in the Wilds

2. Survival in the Wilds

The survival expert continues a three-part insight into a wartime mission in Norway, undertaken during the early 1940s. Ray visits Scotland and Norway to find out how elite commandos were trained to survive in the wilds so that they could destroy a key part of Hitler's atomic bomb project.

Still image for Ray Mears's Real Heroes of Telemark season 1 episode 3: Heavy Water

3. Heavy Water

The survival expert concludes his three-part insight into a remarkable wartime mission in Norway, undertaken during the early 1940s, in which survival skills helped the Allies to stop Hitler's atomic bomb programme in its tracks. Ray hears how the heroes of this daring Second World War raid would like to be remembered.

Cast

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Ray Mears

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