{"id":19968,"date":"2022-09-21T13:40:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T11:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/?post_type=purple_issue&p=19968"},"modified":"2022-11-07T15:49:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T14:49:01","slug":"life-in-the-extremes-isnt-for-the-clumsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/2022\/09\/21\/life-in-the-extremes-isnt-for-the-clumsy\/","title":{"rendered":"Life in the extremes isn\u2019t for the clumsy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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To coldly go: Sir David Attenborough presents Frozen Planet II <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Life in the extremes isn\u2019t for the clumsy<\/h2>\n\n

PAUL McGUINNESS, EDITOR <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n

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At the risk of over-sharing, I once found myself in -37\u00baC wearing nothing but a pair of wet shorts. I was in Finnish Lapland and there was a hot tub close to my cabin. Getting in was easy enough, but when I hopped out, my towel snagged on the tree it was hanging from, and I spent a frantic few seconds trying desperately to free it. The situation went very quickly from the comical to the downright scary. It\u2019s hard to believe quite how unpleasant \u201337\u00baC is until you\u2019ve been in it. I dashed for the warmth of the cabin, in doing so narrowly avoiding a late entry for the Darwin Award for most idiotic death of the year. <\/p>\n\n

As well as providing an amusing anecdote, the experience gave me a fresh appreciation of living in the extreme cold. That animals can not just survive but thrive in such conditions is one of the many miracles of life \u2013 as the jaw-dropping Frozen Plant II <\/em>reveals. <\/p>\n\n

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Beyond the ice<\/span><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Have you been enjoying the epic survival struggles in BBC One\u2019s Frozen Planet II<\/em>? Once you\u2019ve read our interview with executive producer Mark Brownlow<\/a>, head to www.discoverwildlife.com<\/a> for episode guides and fascinating facts about the animals featured in the series, from narwhals to musk oxen.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discover everything you need to know about the stars of Frozen Planet II on our website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Keep in touch<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

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Photos: COVER: DANNY GREEN\/NATUREPL.COM; THIS PAGE: NARWHAL & MUSK OX: BBC STUDIOS; ATTENBOROUGH: ALEX BOARD\/BBC STUDIOS <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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