Name: Mountains
Released: 2017-03-10
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, David Attenborough

1) tragopan

tragopan
2) guanaco

and guanaco and their newborn young must suddenly endure a blizzard.
3) precariousness

is a touching symbol of the precariousness of life in the mountains.
4) demoiselle

But each year over 50,000 demoiselle cranes
5) grazer

You might expect that grazer would avoid each other's patch
6) precipice

Two miles up the crumbling precipice seem devoid of life.
7) snout

This is the boulder strewn snout
8) inhabitant

one inhabitant endures the bitter winters out in the open.
9) ibex

The Gelados graze alongside Walia ibex,
10) seabed

These spires are the eroded remains of an ancient seabed
11) subcontinent

that divide the Indian subcontinent from Tibet.
12) millennia

Over millennia, rain and ice carved the rock
13) raccoon

It was once considered a kind of raccoon,
14) mountaineer

are home to some very remarkable mountaineer -
15) lowland

Millions have flown up here to escape the heat of the lowland
16) spire

into a landscape of spire and canyons.
17) springtime

These forests are a host to a rich variety of springtime migrants.
18) midsummer

By midsummer its larger, more famous relative, has retreated into a cave.

1) strew

This is the boulder strew snout
2) devastate

a 100,000 avalanches devastate the slopes every winter.
3) plummet

Temperatures plummet
4) dampen

The worsening weather dampen the sound of her approach
5) graze

The Gelados graze alongside Walia ibex,
6) injure

Golden eagles patrol these cliffs in search of the weak or injure.
7) erode

These spires are the erode remains of an ancient seabed
8) carve

Over millennia, rain and ice carve the rock
9) collide

as Africa, drifting northwards, collide with the southern edge of Europe.
10) descend

but having descend so far to make the kill
11) plunge

as it plunge into the depths of the glacier.
12) batter

Battered by hurricane force winds,
13) greet

She greet her one year old cub.
14) endure

one inhabitant endure the bitter winters out in the open.
15) conquer

they have somehow conquer it,
16) glimpse

an animal few humans have ever glimpse
17) dwarf

but they're dwarf by those in the great ranges
18) melt

a lake of lava that has been molten for over a hundred years.

1) wretchedly

for milk produced on a diet of bamboo is wretchedly poor.
2) precipitously

The peaks here rise so precipitously,
3) northwards

as Africa, drifting northwards, collided with the southern edge of Europe.
4) boldly

To see a group walking boldly in the open is extremely rare.
5) silently

Silently she positions herself above her prey.
6) upwards

are forced upwards by the Himalayas.
7) utterly

and an utterly fearless disposition.
8) seldom

for its world is one we seldom visit.
9) permanently

nothing can live permanently.
10) continually

is today the longest continually erupting volcano on the planet,
11) rarely

The red panda, rarely glimpsed in the wild.
12) somehow

they have somehow conquered it,
13) constantly

Gelados chatter constantly while they do it.
14) everywhere

All mountains everywhere are being worn down by frost, snow and ice.
15) suddenly

and guanacos and their newborn young must suddenly endure a blizzard.
16) largely

With the grazing largely over
17) slowly

but slowly disintegrating.
18) elsewhere

but elsewhere others still rage.

1) erosive

They're the most powerful erosive force on our planet.
2) sulphuric

Pools of sulphuric acid are indications
3) grueling

she has a grueling climb to get back to her lair.
4) shee

but on these shee cliffs any slip by either animal could be fatal.
5) unstoppable

flowing down the valley with unstoppable force.
6) ferocious

By late morning ferocious winds are roaring past the peaks.
7) exhausting

In the ascent every wing beat becomes an exhausting struggle.
8) treacherous

On these treacherous slopes
9) nosed

The golden snap-nosed monkey, like the giant panda, lives only in China.
10) sculpted

the peaks bear their sculpted forms.
11) jagged

The distinctive jagged shapes of the Alps
12) nepalese

The Nepalese call it 'a mountain so high no bird can fly above it.'
13) himalayan

the rarest of Himalayan animals.
14) molten

Molten lava rising from the earth's core
15) colossal

lying within a colossal rent of the earth's surface
16) devoid

Two miles up the crumbling precipices seem devoid of life.
17) dormant

The Ethiopian volcanoes are dormant,
18) bleak

The slopes of the Rockies, bleak though they are,

Planet Earth » Season 1 » Mountains