Summary Moving upstream into Mongolia, the itinerary of the series leaves behind the boreal woodland wilderness of China's extreme North and Siberia's South to follow the Amur's two westernmost tributaries across the planet's vastest wild grasslands. These twin rivers are the Amur's headwaters. Although they spring from the same mountain - the birthplace and burial ground of Genghis Khan - and then join to form the Amur River, they are an unequal pair, reacting differently to long-term climatic cycles - the rhythmic expansion and contraction of the Gobi desert. Episode 3 follows the massive herds of Mongolian gazelles on their seasonal migrations and the trails of nomadic herdsmen through wilderness regions that are home to steppe eagles, wolves, black vultures, Asian marmots and black-billed capercaillies. This episode shows how the rhythm of all life inhabiting one of the planet's greatest networks of waterways, lakes and wetlands is driven by climatic cycles. It shows the timeless flow of a mighty river in the sky flowing thousands of kilometres from the Pacific to the harsh, cold desert heart of the continent and of a thousand rivers uniting into a single giant one which drains this immense volume of water back to its true source, the ocean.
Directed : Unknown
Written : Unknown
Stars : Franz Robert Wagner
Genres : Documentary
Release date : Dec 31, 2014
Countries of origin : Germany
Official sites : interspot.at terramater.at
Language : English German
Production companies : ARTE NDR Naturfilm Interspot Film
Summary Moving upstream into Mongolia, the itinerary of the series leaves behind the boreal woodland wilderness of China's extreme North and Siberia's South to follow the Amur's two westernmost tributaries across the planet's vastest wild grasslands. These twin rivers are the Amur's headwaters. Although they spring from the same mountain - the birthplace and burial ground of Genghis Khan - and then join to form the Amur River, they are an unequal pair, reacting differently to long-term climatic cycles - the rhythmic expansion and contraction of the Gobi desert. Episode 3 follows the massive herds of Mongolian gazelles on their seasonal migrations and the trails of nomadic herdsmen through wilderness regions that are home to steppe eagles, wolves, black vultures, Asian marmots and black-billed capercaillies. This episode shows how the rhythm of all life inhabiting one of the planet's greatest networks of waterways, lakes and wetlands is driven by climatic cycles. It shows the timeless flow of a mighty river in the sky flowing thousands of kilometres from the Pacific to the harsh, cold desert heart of the continent and of a thousand rivers uniting into a single giant one which drains this immense volume of water back to its true source, the ocean.
Genres : Documentary
Release date : Dec 31, 2014
Countries of origin : Germany
Official sites : interspot.at terramater.at
Language : English German
Production companies : ARTE NDR Naturfilm Interspot Film
