Episodes

  • Episode 1: The “Machine”

    Episode 1: The “Machine”
    Jul 20 2023
    As a race between the world’s two biggest superpowers to develop the most powerful atomic bomb intensifies, so does their mutual desire to spy on each other. Strangely, that mind-boggling history is linked to rumours about a recent avalanche in the valley overlooking the Nanda Devi.
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    36 mins
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  • Episode 2: The Dragon Enters the Room

    Episode 2: The Dragon Enters the Room
    Jul 20 2023
    Even as the US continues to obsess over the Soviet Union, the so-called “Far East” gives birth to two formidable communist empires. The Americans would quickly realise that they had underestimated Mao’s China and Kim Il-Sung’s North Korea.
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    30 mins
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  • Episode 3: The Dragon Breathes Fire

    Episode 3: The Dragon Breathes Fire
    Jul 20 2023

    Mao makes it clear that he wants the atomic bomb. Zhou Enlai says China wants “peaceful existence”. The doublespeak confounds both America and the Soviet Union. But, a third major power sits up and takes notice - India. The stage is set for one of the strangest and most intense Himalayan adventures.
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    28 mins
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  • Episode 4: The Dragon Goes to War

    Episode 4: The Dragon Goes to War
    Jul 20 2023
    Eight years after India and China sign the “Panchsheel Agreement” to maintain mutual peace, they go to war. Asia will never be the same again. But, one country muddies it all further from behind the scene – the United States of America.
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    30 mins
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  • Episode 5: Sniffing Around

    Episode 5: Sniffing Around
    Jul 20 2023
    As Nehru’s India confronts an assertive China, the CIA gets to work. A new game of cloak-and-dagger begins in the frigid Himalayan heights straddling India and China.
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    31 mins
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  • Episode 6: An American Diplomat, an Oriya Aviator, and a Top-Secret Airfield

    Episode 6: An American Diplomat, an Oriya Aviator, and a Top-Secret Airfield
    Jul 20 2023

    One of America's finest mountaineers makes an out-of-protocol visit to New Delhi to meet his Indian equivalent. Little does Mohan Singh Kohli know that Barry Bishop, dispatched by India’s top spy boss, was about to change his life - and the history of India’s top-secret operations - forever. Meanwhile, China tests its first nuke.
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    31 mins
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  • Episode 7: A Keyhole into China

    Episode 7: A Keyhole into China
    Jul 20 2023
    The shock waves of China’s first atomic bomb are felt hard in New Delhi. But, they are also felt thousands of miles away in Washington DC. Both realise that they need to watch the Chinese more closely than ever before. And neither spy planes, nor satellites were proving to be enough.
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    29 mins
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  • Episode 8: Mission Impossible

    Episode 8: Mission Impossible
    Jul 20 2023
    The Indians and the Americans begin to seriously toy with the wild idea of placing a snooping device atop the Himalayas to spy on the Chinese. And they needed the perfect mountain perch for it. They zero down on one of the roughest and toughest Himalayan peaks.
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    27 mins
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