Earth's Natural Wonders Season 1 Episodes

Episode 1

Extreme Wonders

54 mins

Across our planet, there are a handful of places that just take your breath away. We call them Natural Wonders. In this programme, we tell the stories of some extreme Natural Wonders - from Mount Everest to the Grand Canyon - and how they shape the lives of those who call them 'home'. On Everest, a young Sherpa has to rope a route across a deadly glacier. In the Grand Canyon, one of America's last condor chicks struggles for survival. And on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, farmers battle with elephants in the dead of night.

Episode 2

Vast Wonders

From Mount Everest's Khumbu Icefall, to the Amazon and then to the Grand Canyon, this disk visits six continents to learn how these natural wonders evolved and hear the rarely told stories about the challenges their inhabitants face.

Episode 3

Living Wonders

Wed, Nov 18, 201554 mins

Witness wonders created by the force that makes our planet unique - life itself. In the Amazon Rain forest, two 9-year old boys must prepare themselves for a terrifying rite of passage involving the insect with the most painful sting on Earth: the bullet ant. In Borneo, a father must provide for his family by climbing to the roof of a vast cave to collect birds' nests. And, in Bangladesh's Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest in the world, a father and son must brave killer bees and man-eating tigers to find honey.