Harry’s Arctic Heroes

Prince Harry joins four wounded soldiers who served in Afghanistan on a trek to the North Pole., Prince Harry is with the team for the first leg of the expedition, pulling his own sledge and sharing tent-pitching., Harry’s Arctic Heroes charts the extraordinary attempt by four severely injured Afghan veterans to complete the first unsupported trek by wounded soldiers to the North Pole. Prince Harry joins them for the first leg of their journey. Filmed over a year, their intense training culminates in the expedition, for which the Arctic provides a stunning backdrop to their longer journeys towards physical and psychological recovery., Prince Harry joins four British soldiers in their attempt to make the first unsupported trek to the North Pole by wounded servicemen. Narrated by John Hurt, this documentary follows the team in a year of training and planning that ends deep in the Arctic Circle for an expedition that would challenge an able-bodied explorer, let alone those severely wounded on active service in Afghanistan. In temperatures that can dip below -50 degrees centigrade they must navigate massive pressure ridges, boulder fields and open water leads, pulling everything they need behind them in 100 kilogram ‘pulks’, or sledges. The Arctic tests their complex injuries to the limit, providing a stunning backdrop to the soldiers’ much longer journey of physical and psychological recovery from their life-changing injuries. With unprecedented documentary access to Prince Harry, the programme reveals a prince willing to literally pull his own weight, passionate about the cause of Britain’s wounded soldiers., Prince Harry joins four British soldiers on a charity expedition as they attempt to make the first unsupported trek to the North Pole by wounded servicemen. Narrated by John Hurt., Prince Harry joins his fellow servicemen in their final preparations for their charity trek to the North Pole.