y una expedición invernal en el corazón del himalaya.resento mi ascensión a la cumbre más alta de américa del norte, el mckinley, está en alaska un estado norte americano inmenso y muy despoblado. me acompaña mi hermano quique, sin él no podría ascender con seguridad, las paredes de hielo y nieve repletas de grietas y peligros. esto es alpinismo puro al estilo yanqui una novedad para los que estamos habituados a las montañas del himalaya. ♪ esto es el mckinley, la montaña más alta de estados unidos. situada en alaska, y a tan solo 120 kilométros del círculo polar ártico. mira que no lo habías dicho ¡eh! cómo cambia el tiempo aquí... el mckinley, es una montaña complicada, agotadora siempre bajo condiciones climáticas extremas. ha sido terrible, además con una ventísca y un frío y una visibilidad absolu... vamos cero. comparable a escalar una montaña de más de 8.000 metros de altura. menos mal que estamos en estados unidos y aquí todo es diferente. [hablando en inglés] eres pedazo de zoquete. así es el mckinley, y el círculo polar... árti

está muy cerca del everest, en nepal, en el corazón de la cordillera del himalaya, es una escalada quelo con un único serpha, porque no tengo más medios. esto que váis a ver es una expedición grabada por mí y por mi serpha. en condiciones realmente muy riesgosa, ♪ espero que disfrutéis. la avioneta me deja en lukla, [hablando inglés] a partir de aquí me esperan diez días caminando hasta alcanzar la base de la cuarta montaña más alta del mundo, el lhotse. está junto al everest, y es una montaña tan complicada de escalar, que solo uno de cada cinco alpinistas consigue su cima. que ha debido ocurrir una desgracia y pues bueno... ¡qué frío! ¡qué viento! ¡qué agotamiento! yo estaré dos meses aproximadamente, intentándolo, y hasta el último momento, no sabré si alcanzaré su cima. ♪ ♪ [roca volcánica] afío extremo de hoy, me lleva al nepal, donde se encuentra el lhotse, la cuarta montaña más alta del mundo para intentar esta escalada contaré con la ayuda de un solo sherpa y por supuesto de mi cámara, que la llevo a todas partes, para contaros esta increíble aventura. ♪ a lukla, se llega en un

en algún ocho mil más en un rally de motos y en una mágica travesía en el corazón del himalaya empezaremosmontaña mas alta de África. el kilimanjaro que es además la más asequible si estais en buena forma fisica podeis subirla acompañadme y os mostraré como se extiende. ♪ ¡kilimanjaro, manifiéstate! esta es la historia de mi ascención al kilimanjaro el monte más alto de África. ♪ además de tener unos paisajes magníficos este desafio extremo es especial porque me permite conocer a los simpatiquísimos, tanzanos. ¡mira que peine tiene! me hace... ¡ja,ja! y subirme a un jeep para ver elefantes y otros bichos fascinates ¿dos que? caribu dos cebras que buena idea que una de las montañas más alta de todos los continentes este aquí en tanzania. conoceremos la ruta de la coca cola llena de turistas parece fácil, pero es engañosa. aquí también suceden cosas terribles. me parece tristísimo que una ruta a priori sencilla pueda ver ocho personas en graves aprietos. ♪ me encuentro en tanzania en el corazón de África, aquí se encuentra la montaña más alta de este continente, el kilimanjaro. no es ni much

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. ♪ vivir en las cordilleras del himalaya sería casi imposible para los habitantes del tíbet. vaca común. ♪ la leche del yak se convierte en mantequilla la que luego se mezcla con casi todo, incluso con sus tragos, aunque la mantequilla hervida del yak no es tan apetitosa para todos. ♪ lo único que el yak no puede hacer es vivir y trabajar en el calor de los campos de arroz de las tierras bajas de asia. por esto la gente necesitó de las habilidades de otro animal. (joe henson) la gente de la lejana india occidental e indonesia, domesticaron al búfalo de agua, era el animal perfecto para arar los campos de arroz porque le gusta estar en el agua o en el lodo, mezclaba el rastrojo de arroz con el campo cuando estaba arando. (narrador) al igual que el yak, el búfalo fue una parte importante de la vida de la gente, de acuerdo a la profesora de estudios asiáticos manying ip. existen libros antiguos en china que recomiendan formas cuidadosas de cómo cuidar a los bueyes o búfalos. estos eran amados como miembros de la familia. ♪ (narrador) incluso el buey es parte del zodiaco chino. l

doug allan went to the himalayas to attempt to do what so many cameramen before him had tried but failed. i guess this is where you could say it really starts. we're up here in snow leopard country. you look around, and anywhere, anytime, you might just see it. these are big, big mountains and there are not many snow leopards. attenborough: nevertheless, doug took to his hide and waited. [ exhales ] this is tedious stuff. not a sign. if you got just, just a little bit of hint, a wee bit of a sighting now and again, your spirits would be lifted but right now i'd swap a little bit of this animal's charisma for a little bit more visibility. attenborough: and things didn't improve, even after two weeks. yeah, of course it's boring. it's boring as hell. [ chuckles ] attenborough: after seven weeks of patiently sitting and watching these distant shots are all doug managed to film so he had to return home empty handed. the following winter cameraman mark smith took up the challenge, and tried a different location this time in pakistan. smith: we just got a lot of snow, and we'll be able to trac

noticed that my students are walking around with student loans on their heads, like, the size of the himalayasi mean, look, we got to do something about this. we can't have an entire generation, two generations mortgaged to the eyeballs, man. we've got to figure out a way to deal with student loans and the proliferation of these loans. that wouldn't be a bad place to start, you know? i mean, there are whole areas that i wouldn't mind seeing obama put his stamp on. >> let's talk about your own story. you came to new jersey from santo domingo when you were six. your parents come with you? >> yes. my father was already here. my father had left in '69, a year after i was born, working in new york city. and then in '74, five years later, the rest of the family, me and my siblings and my mother joined him. we all moved to new jersey. >> and how did they support you? what were they doing? >> my father was a forklift operator. my mom had five kids, so you can imagine that was her full-time job and her hobby. and that was how it all began. my dad driving forklift up in elizabeth, new jersey. and us goi

desert to the mountains in this next photo, look at these -- they're called glacier tongues into the himalayasf what we just saw. >> wow. so the photos show off so much of the natural beauty on the planet. in this next photo the lens captures a striking difference between natural and manmade landscape. look at that. >> we're all just squinting at the screen trying to figure out what's going on. >> tweet -- >> humans need straight lines, natural doesn't. indecisive river and orderly farmers. central asia. he has a real sense of humor. i'm kidding. that's the river in northeast china. the straight line at the right is a railway line back there. >> and speaking of straight lines, hood had-- hadfield tweeted "our atmosphere has the distinct layers. the toposphere andistrate fe -- stratosphere as seen from orbit. >> you can't abbreviate. nobody knows what it is when the word's whole. >> right. >> i sounded smart, if i said it with more conviction -- >> we totally bought it. >> yeah. i think the third time you say it everyone will buy it. >> i'm going to go with sky. >> up there. >> we'll think abou

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