This edition looks at the incredible forces that created Everest, meets some of the humans and animals that live in its shadow and at the 1953 expedition to conquer it.
Explores Britain's most iconic mountain, created 350 million years ago by the collapse of a volcano. First climbed in 1771, it now receives over 100,000 visitors a year but poses deadly danger to climbers.
Life on and around Mont Blanc, including the work of a team who trigger thousands of avalanches a year. The story of the 7.5 mile tunnel through the mountain, a miracle of 1960s engineering which suffered a catastrophic fire in 1999.