Brace yourself for the ride of a lifetime as adventurer and bear biologist Chris Morgan takes us on a motorcycle odyssey deep into the wilds of Alaska in Bears of the Last Frontier, coming to NATURE in 2011. For more ...
READ MORE ›Arctic Diary: Tracking Wolves | August 23 | Signing Off
Although this Arctic adventure has been fairly static in mileage terms compared to my normal expeditions, it has been a really tremendous journey for me and has been both extensive and wide reaching in personal terms. ...
READ MORE ›Arctic Diary – July 21 : Concern for the Wolves
There was now real concern in the BBC camp regarding the wolves. They’d been gone for seven whole days and the majority of the crew felt that they were not necessarily coming back. Even if they did come back they ...
READ MORE ›Arctic Diary: Tracking Wolves | July 26 | Another Wolf Encounter
Just as we were giving up on the wolves, they turned up again. It was 0300 and Mark and “H” were off filming the snowy owls feeding their young with freshly hunted lemming – or at least trying to. Despite ...
READ MORE ›Arctic Diary: Tracking Wolves | July 25 | True Identity
Entering our final 10 days, we took stock of what material we had filmed and what we needed to capture, which we would concentrate on in the last few days. Our hide, dubbed the “sweat box”, was moved from ...
READ MORE ›Arctic Diary: Tracking Wolves | July 24 | A Day in the Life
I was trying to imagine a job description that went something like this: We would like you to erect a dark cloth tent approximately 1.5m in length, breadth and height in an exposed, windy and cold position; crawl into ...
READ MORE ›Arctic Diary: Tracking Wolves | July 23 | Supplies and Surprise
Having lost the wolves again and there still not being any sign of pups or mother at the den, it was mooted that the “shape” of the programme might have to alter slightly. Perhaps not concentrating quite ...
READ MORE ›Arctic Diary: Tracking Wolves | July 22 | Return of the Wolves
Just as easily as they had vanished some seven-and-a-half days earlier, the wolves suddenly reappeared, apparently without a care in the world. It was about nine in the morning and both Mark and Jonny had been up all ...
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