Environmental Film Festival: Planet Earth - Mountains
In this episode of David Attenborough's Planet Earth, take a look at mountains, from their origins at Earth's lowest places to the summit of Everest.
© British Broadcasting Corporation
2006 | PG | 49m | UK
Directed by Alastair Fothergill
When Planet Earth first aired in 2006, it stopped the world. Groundbreaking aerial photography, five years in the making, and images of our planet that no one had ever seen before. Nearly two decades on, it will still take your breath away.
Tour the mightiest mountain ranges, starting with the birth of a mountain at one of the lowest places on Earth and ending at the summit of Everest.
One of Earth's rarest phenomena is a lava lake that has been erupting for over 100 years. The same forces built the Simian Mountains where troops of gelada baboons live, nearly a thousand strong. In the Rockies, grizzlies build winter dens inside avalanche-prone slopes. The programme also brings us astounding images of a snow leopard hunting on the Pakistan peaks, a world first.
Mountains is part of the 2026 Environmental Film Festival; a series of compelling films that celebrate our planet and the people fighting to protect it. See the full lineup here.
