The Crums moved to the mountains of Montana to escape a life-threatening condition triggered by city life; but their lack of homesteading experience puts them at risk.

Jay Crum needs an easy exit from his remote homestead due to his life-threatening condition. Marty risks his own life to ensure the quickest commute from the mountains down to medical facilities.

The Millers have more than 70 animals on their rugged British Columbia homestead. They look to the Raneys to help keep their growing family warm through the winter.

Marty must give the Millers a heat source. His hard work means nothing if the family ends up frozen.

A new housing development is most literally a stone's throw from the Raney family's Alaska home. Our trio is determined to set up a new homestead far from the grasp of civilization.

Even an experienced logger like Marty finds himself sweating in the shadow of a widow maker.

A southern sea lion tires of chasing gentoo penguins in the surf and attempts to run one down on the beach. Both champion swimmers, these two are anything but graceful on land.

A pack of northern gray wolves harass and then attack a herd of wood bison. This is the first time wolves have been filmed hunting bison, both from the ground and from the air.

The Frozen Planet film crew went to incredible lengths to film penguins in Antarctica. Two went a bit stir crazy filming an Adelie penguin colony, while others braved freezing temperatures to capture emperor penguins.

An Adelie penguin turns to a life of crime to build the perfect nest on Antarctica's Cape Crozier.

Frozen Planet represents the most extensive filming of the Antarctic interior ever attempted. Series Producer Vanessa Berlowitz explains how this was done from a twin engine airplane.

A mother polar bear escorts her cubs across the ice, but the youngsters are too interested in playing, in this scene from Frozen Planet.

The Arctic's woolly bear caterpillar freezes solid every winter, the natural antifreeze in its body keeping it from dying. It takes 14 years before it has eaten enough to become a moth.

An Antarctic fur seal pup's life hangs in the balance as two males battle for mating rights in the middle of the colony. Will the pup survive or be crushed by the combatants?

Tracking killer whales in Antarctica would be impossible without satellite tags. These tags allowed the Frozen Planet film crew to pinpoint the location of the orcas, and film their behavior for the series.

Arctic wolves attack a musk ox calf on Canada's Ellesmere Island, but the herd rushes to its defense. When threatened, musk oxen will form a defensive circle around the calves, the sick and the elderly.