The Alaska Peninsula is one of the densest populations of bears in the world.

I've spent a lot of time there, you know, thousands of days out there over the years and many,

many nights as well. On one particular shoot we did for the BBC. We were sleeping out there

for probably four months, over four months in total, intense in the middle of bear country,

£1000 carnivores and it was a 10th in the morning and there could be two or three or four bears in view.

There's a lot of precautions you can take like practical considerations and then you just got to

remember the bears really aren't looking for trouble. Chris Morgan travels to remote corners of

the planet to film animals in the wild. He gave us a glimpse into what it's like to sleep during

these expeditions and the hyper vigilance that it takes to capture a one-of-a-kind shot of an

animal with its own unique sleep schedule. I was camping alone on this one particular little beach

but I was having a lie-in one day and at 5.15 in the morning I hear this sleeping. Yeah, yeah,

I put a hear this outside the tent and it was a wolf so my alarm clock was a wolf at 5.15 in the

morning. Usually I'd be getting up about 4.30 for some reason and this wolf woke me up on my

arm. It was mind-blowing but I packed up my tent that day. I had to move sights and as I turned

back to look at the sight, this sort of bid farewell to this beautiful spot in the trees on this

little beach, this cove, the wolf came out. It was amazing because I didn't expect to see one of

these elusive creatures but yeah, there he was keeping me on the on the wolf sleep pattern, you know.

It's time to get on. You might think that an ecologist and filmmaker with a passion for

sharing nature's hidden splendors would be immune to the effects of long-term, uncomfortable sleeping

arrangements as a condition of his job but as he'll tell us, that hasn't necessarily been Chris'

experience. It's funny because I am a big fan of sleep. So it didn't necessarily make the most

sense, you know, to go into this line of work. So how exactly and when do wildlife

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