A Wildlife Exploration of the Andes A three-part special presentation by The World About Us
2: Ocean, Desert and Thin Air
For 2,000 miles, between the Pacific and the Andes mountains, stretches the Atacama Desert. It seems as barren as the moon, yet it holds many surprises. The sea alongside is incredibly rich in life: vast colonies of birds nest in the burning desert, sea-lions have strange bed-fellows, forests drink fog, and when it rains the stones turn to flowers.
Inland, two-and-a-half miles higher, volcanoes smoke above an icy land of salt-flats and llamas, where animals as homely as the guinea-pig and as queer as the horned coot struggle to survive the cold and lack of oxygen.
Narrator GARY WATSON
Film cameramen
JIM SAUNDERS , MARTIN SAUNDERS Film editor PETER HEELEY
SoundROGER LONG ,DONALDO MACIVER
Written and produced by MICHAEL ANDREWS BBC Bristol
(Part 3 next Sunday)
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