Plot Synopsis

EARTH'S NATURAL WONDERS explores the most extraordinary places on the planet, visiting six continents to learn how these natural wonders evolved and hear rarely told stories about the challenges their inhabitants face. The series opens with extreme locations, as the program visits Mount Everest's Khumbu Icefall and its dangers to sherpas, the Grand Canyon, where conservationists try to ensure a condor chick's survival, and the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, where farmers battle with elephants. The second episode explores the wonders of water, revealing wonders created by the grand and unpredictable power of water, including Victoria Falls, where men risk death to reach fishing pools; the Camargue, where man vs. bull; and ocean reefs, where a guardian seeks a manta ray to help save the species. The series ends with living wonders that make Earth unique, including the Amazon where boys face fierce animals in a rite of passage and a Bangladeshi father and son who brave killer bees and man-eating tigers to find honey. PBS aired the U.S. premiere of this series on Wednesday, November 4, 2015 at 8pm (check local listings), showing one episode each Wednesday for three weeks. Season 2 of this series, now titled EARTH'S NATURAL WONDERS: LIFE AT THE EXTREMES, had its U.S. premiere on Wednesday, July 11, 2018 at 8pm on PBS (check local listings). Earth's natural wonders are parts of the natural world that nature has carved on such a scale that they defy belief. For humans, survival within these extraordinary places can pose great challenges, yet human ingenuity makes this possible.
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On Wednesday, July 25, 2018 at 8pm (check local listings), PBS premiered the season finale of EARTH'S NATURAL WONDERS: LIFE AT THE EXTREMES. In the season ender, "Surviving Against the Odds," people must push themselves to the absolute limit in order to survive in some natural wonders. For the people who call these extraordinary places home, survival requires great skill, ingenuity and bravery.