Synopsis
The team gets some tips on how to survive if trapped in the cold, including how to build an igloo!
- Programme: Fierce Earth
- Series: 1
- Episode: World's Coldest
- Channel: CBBC
- Broadcast year: 2013
- Geography | Human and physical geography | Climate zones
Licence: ERA Licence required
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