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For the last 15 years we have been travelling around the world to regions that have existed beyond the reach of humans, discouraging the advance of the modern world. Today, technology provides a bridge into these worlds, opening new territory for exploration – but also putting at risk the pristine conditions of these regions. All our “work” has been produced under the title “Last Frontiers”. 
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Narrated by Ben Kingsley They are the hottest, the driest, the harshest places on earth. Deserts on all five continents pose the same grim challenge: how to survive? Here, where unrelenting heat and sun, drought and disaster conspire against it, life stages its most valiant stand. Deserts set the grand backdrops for the most dramatic stories of endurance on the planet. A journey of mystery and majestic beauty awaits. In its deserts, Creation has secreted away its most crowning visions and here they remain untouched across time. We will celebrate a different kind of paradise, one that never fails to dazzle, even as it threatens to destroy. |
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Narrated by Christopher Plummer Combining all the mysteries of Africa and the glory of the Himalayas, the Andes stretch 4,700 miles across South America, rising to more than 23,000 feet. Half of the world’s earthquakes strike here, in a region that also boasts more volcanoes than any continent. Harboring the richest and most diverse cross-section of creatures and eco-systems on earth, the Andes are also home to some of man’s greatest challenges. We will bring this remote mystical region to life, travelling to places seldom visited by humans: descending into the mouths of active volcanoes; diving to the depths of the Andes Trench, and climbing more than two miles above sea level to algae-rich salt plains populated by rare and beautiful flamingos. |
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Music by Phillip Glass The celestial Himalayas seem to belong more to the sky than to the earth. Relatively young mountains, they were formed 60 million years ago when the Indian sub-continent collided with Asia. The tallest peak reaches a staggering 29,000 feet…and still they continue to rise… two to five inches a year. Nowhere do humans feel more insignificant. These fabled mountains are as forbidding as they are remote. Yet at the foot at their frigid peaks lie lush valleys bursting with life. We take a first time look at the entire span of the Himalayan mountain chain. Each episode, offers a view of the region’s breathtaking beauty and its peoples, who live on the “rooftop of the world”. |
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Music by Phillip Glass For years the Arctic – mysterious, teeming with extraordinary life, half covered in darkness – has existed beyond the reach of humans. We will explore this northern land in its many facets. The night time streams of the aurora borealis, the sacred narwhal, the age-old Eskimo hunt, all form an intricate web of life that balances land and sea, animals and people in a delicate mixture. As human contact with the region grows, this balance becomes increasingly precarious. How these paradoxes and questions about the Arctic are understood and resolved will determine the fate of an entire ecosystem, dependent on long established but delicate links between species for survival. |
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