The greatest challenge for the team-making frozen planet was the extremely remote of their locations. Many of the shoots lasted almost the time and needed a number of clues to join forces. One location that world classic of see the Antarctic was Moun...
These ice blocks are the size of skyscrapers. And this is the Beardmore Glacier which Scott and his men somehow traversed on foot. It's over 100 miles long and one of the largest glaciers on earth. But nothing could prepare those earlier explorers fo...
They were travelling on foot and their first sight of this mountains must have been daunting indeed. In front of them stretched one of the world's longest ranges, spanning two thousand miles from one side of the continent to the other. The winds uphi...
The relative of the woodlouse is the size of a dinner plate. And this so-called sea spider has legs that span half a meter. Now explorers are revealing other worlds that lie hidden beneath the ice on land. These smoking towers are the gateway to a ne...
Exhausted, it no longer has the energy to pull itself to safety. And the killers are moving in. Game over. Although such team hunts are rarely seen, scientists believe they may be the most complex ever documented in the natural world. They were first...
The seal is now what the killers wanted, but the hunt is far from over. They need to wrap their prey by the tail while avoiding its snapping jaws, only then will they be able to put it down and drown it. Side swipes create farther underwater turbulen...
The remnants of the sea ice are occupied by sun-bathing seals that have been here all winter. But new arrivals are following the retreating ice edge and they have come here to hunt. Killer whales, the ocean's top predator, killers are like wolves for...
Every summer, over 40 million penguins take to the southern ocean to feed. They are joined by thousands of whales. Minkes are the most numerous. They all come here to harvest the richest ocean on earth. Carrying on south, we have our first our glimps...
And fishing can be dangerous. A southern sea lion. It uses the speed of a breaking wave to catch up the gentoos. Sea lions normally eat fish. So he is used to catching stream-line swimmers. But the gentoos seem more than his match-up at sea. He must...
The tiger forest marks the end of our journey through the Arctic, from the frozen ocean down across the lands that surround it. The other end of our planet, the Antarctic is starkly different, a frozen continent completely surrounded by ocean. Iceber...
As the warm humid air from the south meet the cold Arctic, the moisture is crystalized and snowflakes form from the sky. Each crystal froms around a particle of dust. All have a six-fold symmetry, but no two have ever been found with exactly the same...
The bisons form a defense circle around their young, horns pointing outwards. The wolves needs the bisons to break rank, but the table is turning, now the wolves have to retreat, the pack focuse their attention on the rear of the herd, and the bisons...
A colossal iceberg is born. This single block of ice, many hundreds of meters across, would toss the biggest mankind buildings. Every year, tens of thousands of icebergs are spooned by Greenland's glaciers and the number is steady increasing as the c...
This, Jakobshavn Isbrae, is the fastest flowing glacier on our planet, moving as much as 14 meters a day. As it advances, it destroys everything in its pass, even cutting its way through Greenland's great mountain ranges on its drive downwards toward...
For those who can get here in summer, this waters provide a feast of epic proportions. 对于那些夏天能到这来的动物来说,这水提供了一个空前绝后的盛宴。 But the good times will be very short, a problem that traces all life i...
