Marc's challenge - swimming 1km in a lake in winter, with water not exceeding 5 Celsius. He will meet different specialists and athletes who will train him and give him the keys to progress. Before his challenge, Marc will alternate between frozen swimming pools, ice baths and swimming in the winter sea...

Episode 1, Cold

Survival instructor Marc Mouret wants to discover the unknown abilities of the human body, to show that man is more adaptable and resistant than he believes. He has 100 days to sharpen his body and mind to take on extraordinary challenges such as swimming under ice, running as long as possible, walking on a tightrope, climbing high, and flying at the speed of a fighter jet.

On the Edge

Series 1

Marc Mouret has 100 days to sharpen his body and mind to take on extraordinary challenges.

Marc will collect 8G in aerobatics, with the French Air Force team. His coach - Captain Orlowski, champion of France and world champion of aerobatics. Marc will follow different aerobatic flights in a fighter jet. He will compete with the bobsleigh, but also with a dragster, where he will participate in the 21st Drag Power Show in France, the biggest display of European dragsters.

Episode 2, Acceleration

Marc will undertake a 150km trek in autonomy, under the extreme heat of the Tunisian desert. He will be accompanied by Regis Belleville, a famous desert explorer who has crossed 1200km in Sahara on foot. He will lend his body to the greatest specialists in physiology of INSEP, who will acclimatise him in the climate chamber at 45 Celsius.

Episode 3, Heat

Marc will have to become the best possible handball goalkeeper. During a match, goalkeepers receive about 60 shots, more than one shot per minute of play, with balls reaching up to 100km/h. With each warm up, it's the same exercise for the goalkeeper - receive shots taken by all the players of the team.

Episode 4, Reflex

Marc's challenge will be to dive, in apnea, into the depths of the Mediterranean sea. His goal will be to reach 30m without breathing, a depth that only athletes can succeed in reaching. To train him, Marc will meet several of the most talented French apneists such as Claude Chapuis, the founder of AIDA, the International Association of Apnea.

Episode 5, Freediving

Marc will have to cope with the lack of oxygen in high altitudes. His challenge will be to climb the Ojos del Salado, the highest volcano of the world, with a height of 6800m. Not only will he need a strong spirit, but also optimal physical preparation that Luc Jourjon, one of the first alpinists to have climbed Everest, will help him reach.

On the Edge

Episode 1, Cold

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