Mickey Grosman, a former special forces demolitions expert took a group of amateur adventurers on a nearly impossible journey across South America. Positioned as a charity trek for cancer awareness, participants were to be part of a 5,000-mile expedition across the continent through the deepest parts of the Amazon jungle. Only one claims to have made it to the end… Mickey Grosman.
Seasons & Episode
The Amazon 5000 expedition begins -- can Mickey's team make it out alive?
The team is pushed to the brink when it gets lost in a treacherous desert.
Mickey fires one of the team's only experienced members before enlisting a local guide to lead them through a treacherous desert; when the team gets lost and runs out of water, things spiral, leaving one team member on the brink of death.
A perilous bridge crossing exposes Mickey's crusade for good film footage before the team heads deep into the Eastern Andes; Mickey claims to have sent a team member who broke down back to civilization, but team members are unable to find him.
Mickey loses his grip on the expedition when a spear-wielding indigenous tribe kidnaps them. He replaces his lead guide with an untrained woman who accuses him of having a God complex. The team stumbles into a strange community willing to prove her right.
A near-deadly case of dengue fever almost stops Mickey before he's arrested at gunpoint and imprisoned in Brazil. Three months of missing footage leads to questions about his escape and the expedition's end. Did covert operatives help Mickey to finish it?
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