High Life at Low Temperatures

2017 9.0 (2 votes) 0h 52m

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

ORF
ORF Universum
DreiD.at
BR

High Life at Low Temperatures (Lungau - Wildnis im Herzen der Tauern)

Overview

The summits and sheer mountain ridges of Austria’s "Little Siberia" funnel the freezing air from snow-covered peaks into a gigantic hollow – a high-level plateau at 1,000 metres from which it cannot escape: Lungau is Austria’s coldest region. Creeks and streams start higher here, and create bogs, moors and countless alpine lakes. Summer is short but lively, as eagles rear their precious young and ermines eat their fill before the sparse winter returns, while black alpine salamanders give birth to live miniature versions of themselves beneath the tree-line.