Documentary Description
Rivers provide the essentials of life: fresh food and water. They
often provide natural highways and enable us to live in just about every
environment on Earth. But rivers can also flood, freeze or disappear
altogether!
Human Planet joins Sam Niang, a Laotian fisherman, as he walks a high
wire strung above the raging Mekong River rapids on an extraordinary
commute to work.
There's also a look at the remarkable partnership between Samburu
tribesmen and wild elephants in their search for water in the dried-out
river beds of Northern Kenya.
Plus, a father who must take his two children on a six-day trek down a
frozen river - the most dangerous school run on Earth, and the ice dam
busters of Ottowa with their dynamite solution to a city centre hold-up.
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