The awe-inspiring and breathtaking pictures of life and survival on our melting polar worlds

Daily Mail ^ | October 15th 2011 | Craig Mackenzie

[Cardhu]

These stunning images reveal a remarkable glimpse of life at the ends of the earth. Our melting polar worlds have been captured in breathtaking pictures by the BBC for this autumn's landmark natural history series Frozen Planet. It is the last chance to see the world's greatest wildernesses before they change forever, according to narrator Sir David Attenborough.

'The pictures captured behaviour and phenomena that had never before been recorded,' said Sir David, 85. 'Those pictures will become increasingly valuable as time passes.

'For this may well prove to be our last chance to record, in their full splendour, these astonishing wonderlands that have existed for hundreds of thousands of years before humans reached them and which now, within a century, may change beyond

[Steve Van Doorn]

"I will say this, God help us all if the planet starts a significant downturn in temperature. Many will starve, many will die, and that is not opinion, but fact."

Agreed