Page 91 - BBC Focus - August 2017

01 Put on your walking boots and a daredevil wingsuit
and crack out the Kendal
flier who leaps from mile-
Mint Cake! A new three-part high cliffs, while the
series from the BBC’s
Himalayas includes India’s
Natural History Unit takes spectacular footage of the
CLIMB us into the heart of three of arid Nubra Valley (pictured
here) and Everest itself,
the most iconic mountain
ABOVE ranges on our planet: the where a hardy few take on
Rockies in North America,
the world’s highest-altitude
the Himalayas in Asia and marathon. Finally, in the
THE the Andes in South America. Andes, look out for some
Mountain: Life At The hardy salt-flat lizards that
CLOUDS Extreme shines a light on somehow manage to survive
in the world’s driest desert,
the people and animals that
thrive at great heights. In the the incredible shape-
Rockies, we meet the elusive shifting rainfrog, and a
MOUNTAIN: LIFE AT
THE EXTREMES wolverine, migrating rufous Peruvian bus journey that
BBC TWO, AUGUST hummingbirds, tiny ought to come with a change
(SEE RADIOTIMES.COM FOR DETAILS). cannibalistic salamanders of underwear.

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