role player earn the privilege to move the globe as they play out fake adventure in some of Earth ’s most arresting locations , but how well present do these performers feel with their stage ? In a late release on Disney + from National Geographic , Welcome To Earthdecided to do just this , place national treasure Will Smith to the undertaking of navigating some of the planet ’s most arresting and challenging terrains .

“ I ’ve catch a confession to make , ” says Smith in the new series’trailer . “ I ’ve never rise a mountain , never swum in a lake . I was in a cave … once . I ’m beginning to think that I might be miss something . ”

Perhaps an interesting candidate , then , for a series setting its star to the chore of scaling volcanic peaks , diving to twilight depth , and using wild smart to navigate their way off an Icelandic glacier . You might enquire how even the policy policy of National Geographic could stretch to such an endeavor , but Smith was not alone .

manoeuvre the self - confessed inexperienced adventurer on his travelling was a score of seasoned pro , many of whom are National Geographic Explorers . Without giving too much off , their experience and knowledge do see Smith safely to the death of the series without … you roll in the hay … dying , and on the face of it without getting too overwhelmed .

Then again , “ I ’m an actor   – I pretend for a aliveness , ” Smith confess .

We were golden enough to sit down down with two of the series ’ Explorer to find out more about their unparalleled lives and experience , and how it feel to use your career and passion to guide less expert explorers on the path .

First , we caught up with Erik Weihenmayer who in 2001 became the first unsighted adventurer ever to climb Mount Everest . In his episode , Weihenmayer travels with Smith to the South Pacific Island of Vanuatu to feel a sound you’re able to feel but not discover .

We also spoke with Diva Amon , nautical life scientist and National Geographic Emerging Explorer who has explored mystifying - sea habitats from Antarctica to the Mariana Trench . In her sequence , Amon takes Smith on a ride in a submersible to see what she call “ one of the most spectacular bioluminescent displays ” she ’d seen in her 2,000 60 minutes under the waves .

Welcome To Earthis uncommitted to well out onDisney+ .