[00:00.97]100 years ago, there were one and a half billion people on Earth. 100
[00:09.31]Now, over 6 billion crowd our fragile planet.
[00:15.55]But even so, there are still places barely touched by humanity.
[00:26.64]This series will take you to the last wildernesses and show you the planet and its wildlife as you have never seen them before.
[00:36.97]Imagine our world without sun.
[00:42.38]Male emperor penguins are facing the nearest that exists on planet Earth, winter in Antarctica.
[00:52.45]It's continuously dark and temperatures drop to minus 70 degrees centigrade.
[00:59.13]The penguins stay when all other creatures have fled because each guards a treasure.
[01:05.70]A single egg rested on the top of its feet and kept warm beneath the downy bulge of its stomach. ——
[01:12.46]There is no food and no water for them, and they will not see the sun again for four months.
[01:18.71]Surely no greater ordeal is faced by any animal. As the sun departs from the Antarctic it lightens the skies in the far north.