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A unique glimpse into the lives of mountain-dwelling animals.

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Aerial view from around 3,000 - 3,500 metres in the high Alps.

Mont Blanc range close to Aiguille du Midi near Chamonix

  • Viscacha bask in the warming rays of the early morning sun.
  • At an altitude of around 5,000 metres this is one of the Planet Earth II mountains team’s filming locations.
  • There may be as few as 3,500 snow leopards left in the wild.
  • Grizzly newborn cubs emerge in spring and the mothers lead them down to the valleys in search of food.
  • A chain of salt lakes at over 4,000 metres altitude provide a safe refuge for flamingo colonies.
  • The local team set up and check a camera-trap positioned on a route used by snow leopards crossing these mountains.
  • Female Nubian ibex give birth to their young at the end of the dry season high up on steep mountainous ledges.
  • Aerial view from around 3,000 - 3,500 metres in the high Alps.
  • A snow leopard mother (left) and her daughter.
  • Nubian ibex are some of the most sure-footed of nature's mountaineers.
  • Nubian ibex live in some of the most inaccesible mountain habitat.
  • A grizzly bear checks out a potential rub tree.

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