episode description
The Arctic circle is a challenging place to exist, but at the arctic’s heart… over and above 70 degrees North, the pressures of existence are even more unimaginable. At these latitudes a desolate and unforgiving world wraps the northernmost limits of the hemisphere, all the way to the North pole: The Tundra biome. Here, winter has lasted thousands of years, locking the ground beneath a barrier of ice and snow. This far north, we’ll discover heart-stopping freezing waters, ice as sharp as glass and the hardiest animals known to Earth. This is a frozen universe, where arctic-specialists come face to face with the jaws of death on a daily basis... But global warming means their world is melting, and the odds of survival are slowly tipping the scale....
