The music that makes camels cry

BBC Earth Podcast

Jenkins Laura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Tv & Film

4.6 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This week we are telling stories from the wilderness. Stories of scale, vast expanses, extreme conditions, little known corners of the planet and the sparsest environments. We begin in Alaska, with the tale of an unbreakable bond between a dogsled racer and her pack, who travel huge distances across rugged terrain. Diving deep to the ocean floor, we join Deep Sea Biologist, Diva Amon, to discover new species and understand the threats that lie beneath. Meet the camera operators who filmed flightless birds that resemble dinosaurs for Seven Worlds, One Planet and hear the magical music that helps camels through birth and makes them shed a tear or two.

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0:00.0	This is a podcast from BBC Studios.
0:03.9	BBC Studios. A commercial subsidiary of the BBC.
0:14.6	When the dogs are first starting to run, when they're harnessed and they're ready to go, it's chaos.
0:22.8	You have all these dogs and they're just leaping and they're like screaming with excitement.
0:28.1	And it's so much power and so much noise.
0:34.0	Welcome to the BBC Earth podcast.
0:36.8	The podcast that's going to extremes.
0:39.4	I'm Emily Knight.
0:41.2	And then as soon as you pull the quick release and the sled starts moving, they go silent.
0:47.4	And all you can hear are the wish of snow under the runners and like sometimes a little jingling from their collar tags
0:55.7	and their breath, their breath in the cold air.
0:59.5	And you're just going through this silent world.
1:06.6	In this episode, we're paying a visit to some of the most remote places on Earth.
1:12.1	The places where, in a world dominated by humans, nature still reigns supreme.
1:18.4	We're heading out into the wilderness.
1:21.7	And our first journey takes us northwards, to Alaska on the edge of the Arctic.
1:27.1	We'll need a sled, lots of warm clothing,
1:30.2	and a team of dogs. We're going to run the Iditarod. The Iditarod, for anyone who doesn't know,
1:38.2	is a thousand-mile dog sled race across Alaska, and it's completely unassisted. Nobody can help you. You do it entirely alone.
1:47.3	My name's Blair Braiderman, and I am a writer in a long-distance dog slutter. The race takes usually
1:53.4	between 10 to 14 days for beginners going, the speed I was planning to go. And you're crossing the state of Alaska.
2:01.8	It's enormous. It's an enormous state. The Iditarod follows a route from Anchorage in South Alaska
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