MANILA, Philippines - From lush cloud for- ests to bare summits that take your breath away, the higher you climb, the tougher life gets on a mountain. Tonight at 10 on GMA News TV, BBC’s Human Planet explores the extraordinary ways in which people survive at extreme altitudes, where nature becomes utterly unforgiving.
In the Altai Mountains in Western Mongolia, the vast open spaces make hunting for animals almost impos- sible, so the locals have forged an astonishing partnership with golden eagles, which can do the hunting for them. On the precipitous cliffs of the Simien Moun- tains of Ethiopia, a young boy is locked in a dramatic battle with fearsome gelada monkeys, hell-bent on raiding his family’s meager grain harvest.
In the Himalayan state of Nepal, Human Plan- et witnesses a rarely seen ceremony: A sky burial. In a land where there is little wood to burn for crema- tion, and where burying the dead is virtually im- possible, the dead are fed to vultures in the ultimate
reverence of nature. Kara David narrates tonight’s episode.