The Most Dangerous Ways to School Episode Rating Graph

Sep 2013 - present

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They climb up mountainous paths, swim across rivers or fight their way through icy wastelands with -50 degrees Celsius. Their path takes them through amazing natural landscapes, producing spectacular scenery for a very ordinary task. The participants, at times without shoes and for days at end, are mere students on their way to school.

Best Episodes of The Most Dangerous Ways to School

Colombia
S3 Ep3
8.0
2nd Mar 2019
In northern Colombia, more than 180 miles north of Medellín, the landscape is marked by water and seemingly endless expanses. Every day, the children who live there face this rough, unpredictable wilderness - with just one goal in mind: making it to school. Because this is their chance to break out of poverty and create a better life. Like the ten year old Kendys and the other schoolchildren.
Bolivia
S3 Ep2
8.0
23rd Feb 2019
The Yungas Valley in Bolivia: a unique landscape, where the Andes Mountains meet the Amazon Rain Forest. In this remote section of one of the poorest countries in South America, children have a very long and incredible dangerous walk to school ahead of them. All for one goal: education - for a better life.

Worst Episodes of The Most Dangerous Ways to School

Nepal
S1 Ep1
1.0
2nd Sep 2013
In Nepal, little Ajit gets up every day at 6 a.m. for what is probably the most adventurous walk to school in the world. The village of Kumpur is 4000 meters above sea level. The schoolchildren are not only exposed to wild animals such as jackals, monkeys and tigers without protection, but also have to cross the most dangerous river in the entire country, the Trishuli.
Phillipines
S3 Ep1
6.0
16th Feb 2019
The children from Madibago in the southern Philippines have one of the most spectacular and dangerous ways to school in the world. Some walk alone through the jungle for hours, others risk their lives, in order to make it past a steep face of rock and boulders, overgrown with moss and tree roots.

The Most Dangerous Ways to School Episode Guide

Nepal
S1 Ep1
1.0
2nd Sep 2013
In Nepal, little Ajit gets up every day at 6 a.m. for what is probably the most adventurous walk to school in the world. The village of Kumpur is 4000 meters above sea level. The schoolchildren are not only exposed to wild animals such as jackals, monkeys and tigers without protection, but also have to cross the most dangerous river in the entire country, the Trishuli.
Kenya
S1 Ep2
3rd Sep 2013
For centuries now, the Dorn Savanna has been the lifeline for the Massai people. Until today, they refuse to get involved in the constant upheavals in Tanzania and instead continue to cultivate their traditions. And that in a country where barely more 50% of the population is over 15 years old and over one hundred different languages are spoken.
Himalaya
S1 Ep3
4th Sep 2013
Gulu - a small Chinese village with only a few dozen farms- spread out over one of the most impressive plateaus of the Hengduan Mountains in the Province of Sichuan. Here live the Yi, a people closely related to the Tibetans. To reach the village, which is located 1400 meters above sea level, an additional hike through the mountains is necessary.
Peru
S1 Ep4
5th Sep 2013
It is early in the morning as Ronald gets himself ready. He eats his Uro bread and drinks a Mate tea. Both things, like almost everything else here are made form the totora reeds. The Uros are a people that are very rooting in their tradition. They have even managed to preserve the Pukina, their mother language dating back to the colonial time.
Siberia
S1 Ep5
8.0
6th Sep 2013
In Oymyakon (Syberia), the cold controls everything. The town is located in eastern part of Sakha Republic (Yakutia) which belongs to Russia and is known as the world's Pole of Cold. Nevertheless every morning the children march to school, the youngest just 6 years old, making their way by temperatures of -50 degrees Celsius.