Frozen Planet II returns with live footage of avalanche

High- speed drones whizz along an avalanche's deadly wall of tumbling snow, rare Siberian barracuda quest hibernating prey, and microscopes capture ice breaking. 

Further than a decade on from the first series, Frozen Planet II returns, using new technology to give BBC observers an unknown sapience into life in the coldest corridor of our earth, numerous of which are under huge trouble from climate change. 

It took the BBC Natural History Unit( NHU) four and a half times of rephotographing across 18 different countries to produce the six- part series. 

The result, Sir David Attenborough reveals in the opening sequence, captures" natural marvels noway ahead seen by humans". 

The success of the series in revealing new beast geste has formerly led to one scientific publication on the Lapland bumble freak- with further anticipated to follow. 

From occasion one, observers will see an exposed Siberian barracuda( also known as the Amur barracuda) prowling for implicit sources of food sleeping out the downtime in grottoes - the first time this exertion has been mugged. 

Siberian barracuda, 95 of which live in Russia, are one of the most delicate species to retake 

The benefit of staying 11 times for a new series is that camera technology has moved on vastly. 

Microscopes were used to retake ice cracking below baby emperor penguins' bases as they made the unfaithful trip to the ocean. stir- touched off time lapse cameras were set to catch a barracuda on the move. The NHU indeed partnered with space- imaging experts to document the great ice melt on a global scale. 

Maybe most emotional is the first ever use by the NHU of a new generation of light- weight presto- response drones. 

This enabled the platoon to capture the intimidating first- hand experience of flying down the mountainside alongside an avalanche. 

The talkie captures a real avalanche from Mountain Shkhara in the Caucasus region of Russia 

These drones were also used to validate a mammoth ice calving in Greenland- a fast and delicate to prognosticate event. 

For further than four weeks the platoon watched on gyration for 24 hours a day, ready to shoot the drones nearly a afar across the ocean to reach the vast Store Glacier. The performing clips immerse the bystander in towering blocks of ice, some 100ft( 30m) high, as they break down from the glacier. 

Mark Brownlow, administrative patron of the series, points out that Frozen Planet II isn't just about landing nice footage but also" draws attention to changes going on now". 

Greenland and Antarctica are presently losing ice six times faster than 30 times agone, and Greenland's ice distance has been shrinking continuously for the last 25 times due to climate change, according to the UN. 

 There's humour and heartache- and sweats to make a connection with the" characters" as the series patron Elizabeth White likes to relate to the creatures. 

In one sequence you are desperately willing invigorated musk oxen to make it through the first days of their brutal lives in the barren world of the frozen champaign. 

Amid the beast drama it's easy to forget that someone was enduring the same axes behind the camera to capture similar moments. 

Alex Lanchester, Frozen Planet II patron, said that" the camera driver who mugged the musk ox story had to chamber out in the Arctic in blizzard conditions". 

" He hauled behind him a theater exfoliate on his Skidoo and he lived in that." 

Besides the difficulties that always come with filming in the most unfaithful places on Earth, this was each done during a global epidemic. 

One film crew had to counterblockade for 42 days in South Africa before indeed beginning their trip to Antarctica. 

 Although the stars of Frozen Planet II are no doubt the creatures, the series brings someA-list quality in the soundtrack. 

Hans Zimmer scored the music for the series, and worked with Camila Cabello to produce a new song for the caravan.