Slowly and surely its shape shifted from cosy cushion to robust predator, it rose gently without alarm and confidently padded to the top of the jagged crest that hung above our ships bow.
An Operation Icerberg Gallery of 20 images showing the flora and fauna of Greenland – includes a deceptively tranquil view of the dangerous path the team took sailing back through a maze of icebergs.
I didn’t hear him once in the two weeks that we spent together. Not a rustle, a sneeze, a whine, or even a breath. Trotting on velvet claws across the ancient landscape, he lives in a world that listens.
Where maelstroms churn in anticipation of millions of tonnes of merciless ice cracking free of its mother lode and smashing all before it. Not ideal in a fragile craft whose top speed is eight knots.
Perched on our promontory camp we are drawn to gaze down upon Greenland’s Store Glacier. Our backsides have worn the crispy black lichen from the boulders, the best seats in the house.
Chris is about to set off to the Arctic with a team of scientists and filmakers as part of Operation Iceberg. They are documenting the life-cycle of icebergs for a BBC/Discovery co-production.
Secrets of our Living Planet: Waterworlds. BBC Two, 7pm Sunday 22 July. Chris makes an epic journey from the mountain streams of Iceland to the Indian Ocean. Repeated from Tuesday.
‘Secrets of our Living Planet’ Episode 3, Sunday 1 July, 7pm BBC Two. The grizzly bear and the salmon – how the great forests of British Columbia depend upon them.
BBC researcher, Jasper Montana: “Water buffalo stood sodden and dripping with rain in the centre of the road, staring with a blank aggression as though they might charge”
It was solely a passion for wildlife that led Chris to a life on the small screen. From an early age he had been bent on hiding himself in an ivory tower at the behest of some remote academic institution to study peculiar nuances of bird behaviour. After graduating, when he realised that funding for [...]
