Marmot Mountain
Narrated by David Attenborough
Snowy peaks, carpets of flowers, the echo of distant cowbells - the Austrian Tyrol is real Sound of Music country. But the marmots who live there have a problem
Julie Andrews never had to face - for more than half the year the mountainsides are deep in snow.
The marmots, cuddly sociable animals like overweight squirrels, have found a way to cope with this problem - in a normal year. But when the snow lies thick until the end of May, then falls again in September, how can the marmot family survive? Written and produced by DILYS BREESE
Photography OWEN NEWMAN Film editor TOM POORE
Series producer RICHARD BROCK BBC Bristol
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