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It s one of
the most perilous roads in the world, a strip of ice built on frozen
lakes that connects remote billion-dollar mining outposts in
northern Canada with civilization 350 miles away. In the brief two
months a year that the road is passable, ten thousand loads, some
weighing as much as twenty-two tons, will travel over the highway in
an urgent race to provide critical supplies to the camps before the
ice melts. Ice Road Truckers follows the competition and camaraderie
of six truckers over a season on the ice road, as they brave
white-outs, thin ice, and the deadly cold to perform one of the most
dangerous jobs in the world. From the construction of this massive
frozen highway and the preparation of the truck fleet, to the risky
final days when the melting highway grows dangerously unreliable,
The History Channel takes viewers on a thrilling, adrenaline-pumping
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