This is a clip from the Sir David Attenborough series Frozen Planet II highlighting the life of the world’s most northern-living turtle, the painted turtle. The turtles actually freeze in the winter and their hearts stop beating (leaving only their brains operating at bare minimum), but defrost and comes back
This is a video of some racing enthusiasts taking a warm-up lap (perhaps TOO warm) on a frozen lake when the lake lets them know it’s not that frozen after all and swallows a couple of the cars. That sucks. I mean for them, I’ve always wanted to see footage
Five years in the making, this is ‘Winter’, a timelapse video beautifully shot by filmmaker Jamie Scott over the course of five winter seasons in New York and Montreal, Canada; with up to six cameras and four sliders at a time. It features a lot of snow and natural water
This is a clip from Planet Earth III narrated by personal hero David Attenborough featuring a number of male common frogs waking up from hibernation in the French Alps, and immediately racing down the mountain to the breeding pools where females await. Damn, waking up from sleeping all winter and
Because what else is there to do in the Antarctic besides trying to avoid being eaten by orcas, this is a video of a leopard seal singing its beautiful song on an iceberg. Wow, I can see now why pirates must have mistook them for mermaids. Ahooga! “What is wrong
This is a clip of scientist Matty Jordan after having attempted to pour himself a colder than ice-cold Coke in the -57°C (-71°F) weather at Scott Base in Antarctica. Matty was inspired by a similar video (also posted below) of photographer Jeff Capps, who previously did the same thing with
Captured in portrait mode by Dan Brown while hiking with his father near the head of Loch Fyne (home of the finest Loch Monster) in the Scottish Highlands, this is a video of a naturally occurring spinning ice disc. Per Wikipedia while I make a bowl of cereal with hot
This is a video from Insider of pro ice climber and Red Bull athlete (why climb when you can have all the wings you want for free?) Will Gadd rating ice climbing scenes from 9 different TV shows and movies for realism. Selections include climbs from Game Of Thrones, The