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Subjects: Climate Change, Nature, Ocean, Science

Grade Level: JrH-Adult
Producer: BBC
Closed Captioned: No		 Running Time: 50 mins
Country of Origin: Great Britain
Study Guide: No
Copyright Date: 2002
Available in French: No

From ice storms to avalanches, and frostbite to heart attacks, cold is a killer. Our first stop is Greenland, the home of the Inuit people, to see how they survive temperatures of minus 40º. The people of the Sirius sledge patrol live for three months in this harsh environment – what is the effect of extreme cold on the body? We also meet two men who survived wild weather conditions in New York, when winds reached up to 145 mph in a freak storm. At Mount Washington, Donal MacIntyre experiences the extremes of winter weather while exploring the hidden danger locked into ice and snow, and talks to the survivors of Canada's worst weather crisis, the ice storm of 1998.

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