Glaciated Landscapes

Iceberg colour and shape | Dangerous Earth

Dr Helen Czerski explains why icebergs are white.

Iceberg sediment | Dangerous Earth

Dr Helen Czerski discusses the important properties of the sediment contained in icebergs.

The threat of icebergs | Dangerous Earth

Dr Helen Czerski explains how icebergs float and what makes them so dangerous.

Glacier colour | The Secret Life of Ice

Dr Gabrielle Walker explores the Jostedalsbreen glacier in Norway and explains the different colours of glacier ice.

Glacier moving | The Secret Life of Ice

Dr Gabrielle Walker explores the Jostedalsbreen glacier in Norway and explains how glaciers move.

Glacier moulin | Operation Iceberg

Footage from inside a glacier moulin, reveals a new system of tunnels.

Calving of a mega-berg | Operation Iceberg

Footage of the calving of a mega-berg from the Store glacier.

S2E3: Ice | Fierce Earth

Clare, Dougal, Leo and Mike discover the secrets of ice. On a bobsleigh track in the Swiss Alps, Leo learns about the slippery properties of this fr...

Gorge created by glacial erosion | The Great British Countryside

A Yorkshire railway runs through a gorge that was created by glacial erosion.

Glacier submarine melting | Dangerous Earth

How glacier submarine melting is causing more icebergs to separate.

Iceberg B-31 | Dangerous Earth

Dr Helen Czerski explores how Iceberg B-31 separated from the Pine Island Glacier.

Rocks in a glacier | The Secret Life of Ice

Dr Gabrielle Walker investigates how glaciers grinds down rock.

Landscapes created by glaciation in Japan | Journeys into the Ring of Fire

Iain Stewart explains how Japan's mountainous landscape was carved by glaciers.

How glaciers form | Earth: The Power of the Planet

Dr Iain Stewart explains how snow is transformed into glacier ice.

Melt water and glacier movement | Operation Iceberg

The melt water data from a glacier lake provides an explanation for the movement of the Store glacier.

Store glacier speed | Operation Iceberg

The calving of an iceberg at the Store glacier provides data about how fast the glacier is moving.

Glacier blue lake | Operation Iceberg

Diving in the blue lake of a glacier.

Ice | World Physical

Vivid examples of how our land and atmosphere behave, with a look at earthquakes, glaciation, rivers, coasts and deserts.

S2E6 | The Mountain

As the summer comes to a close with a big splash, the mountain gets its new ski tow installed in the nick of time, and Polly and Ross count the cost of a...

S2E5 | The Mountain

Perhaps the UK's weirdest music festival gets under way, the sailing school calls up new management to survive, and the ski patrol team takes on the adve...

S2E3 | The Mountain

The summer months bring new opportunities for the hardy folk who live in the shadow of Cairngorm. This time, the steam railway gets a little overheated, ...

S2E4 | The Mountain

The mountain team has to call in the helicopter to reach their remotest ski tow. Ruari gets married.

S2E2 | The Mountain

Spud the piper returns and gets a riding lesson, and Ruari goes diving for his wedding menu.

Series 2 | The Mountain

The summer months bring no rest for the mountain team. The funicular train comes off its tracks. Ruari the ski patroller turns gamekeeper.

S1E6 | The Mountain

A tough winter season comes to a close for both the ski resort and Aviemore. Brian and Carol make a decision about the future of their ski hire business,...

S1E5 | The Mountain

A hard season is starting to take its toll on the ski lifts and P-man struggles to keep it all working. Spud the piper decides to learn to ski and, at th...

S1E3 | The Mountain

The new year starts with some of the biggest snowstorms for years and the team on the mountain face a major struggle to keep it open.

S1E4 | The Mountain

The villagers have to lend a hand to dig the mountain out of trouble, Simon decides that what Aviemore really needs in the depths of winter is a beach pa...

S1E2 | The Mountain

As Christmas approaches, the reindeer are made ready for the busiest day of the year. The RAF assist the ski patrol with avalanche training.

3: Avalanches | 10 Things You Didn't Know About...

Iain Stewart reveals ten remarkable stories about avalanches, including how the deadliest one killed 18,000 people in thre...

S3E5: Layap | Tribe

Documentary series with explorer Bruce Parry, who this week treks into the high mountains in the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan to live with the isolat...

S1E1: Adi | Tribe

Fly-on-the-wall documentary following Bruce Parry experience life among the world's disappearing tribes. Bruce joins the Adi people of Arunchal Pradesh in ...

S2E2: Eagle People of Mongolia | Tribes, Predators & Me

A family of nomads teaches Gordon Buchanan how they hunt with golden eagles in a spectacular mountain wilderness. Can...

Series 1 | The Mountain

Cairngorm is at the heart of Scotland's greatest winter wilderness. As the first storms of the winter blow in, the ski patrol is working hard to get ...

4: Islands Apart | British Isles: A Natural History

Alan Titchmarsh travels Britain to discover why our islands are so diverse and extreme. When the Ice Age ended and the se...

3: Ice Age | British Isles: A Natural History

Alan Titchmarsh travels Britain to discover why our islands are so diverse, beautiful and extreme. He looks back to the last Ic...

3: Ice | Earth: The Power of the Planet

Documentary series in which Dr Iain Stewart tells the story of the earth's development. Ice isn't just something to put in a gin and ...

Aluminium and hydroelectric power | The Great British Countryside

The valleys of the Scottish Highlands, created by an ice age 2.5 million years ago, are crucial in the prod...

Ice | How Earth Made Us

12,000 years ago, much of the northern hemisphere was covered in ice.

How glaciers move | Europe: A Natural History

An exploration of how glaciers move, erode landscapes and move debris.

Unexpected bones in London from Inter-glacial periods | Europe: A Natural History

Unexpected bones in London from Inter-glacial periods

Just how big were the ice sheets that covered Europe? | Europe: A Natural History

A demonstration of how big the European ice sheets were.

What caused the Ice Age in Europe? | Europe: A Natural History

An explanation of what causes an ice age and how ice has shaped landscapes.

S1E6: The Big Freeze | Earth Story

Aubrey Manning traces the history of the Ice Age. The tranquillity of Switzerland conceals a violent past - 12,000 years ago the Alps were...

S1E6: Latton Mammoths | The Big Monster Dig

Lucy and the team try to unlock the mysteries of an ice age mammoth graveyard in the Cotswolds in this episode.