There was now real concern in the BBC camp regarding the wolves. They’d been gone for seven whole days and the majority of the crew felt that they were not necessarily coming back. Even if they did come back they ...

Just as we were giving up on the wolves, they turned up again. It was 0300 and Mark and “H” were off filming the snowy owls feeding their young with freshly hunted lemming – or at least trying to. Despite ...

Entering our final 10 days, we took stock of what material we had filmed and what we needed to capture, which we would concentrate on in the last few days. Our hide, dubbed the “sweat box”, was moved from ...

I was trying to imagine a job description that went something like this: We would like you to erect a dark cloth tent approximately 1.5m in length, breadth and height in an exposed, windy and cold position; crawl into ...

Having lost the wolves again and there still not being any sign of pups or mother at the den, it was mooted that the “shape” of the programme might have to alter slightly. Perhaps not concentrating quite ...

Just as easily as they had vanished some seven-and-a-half days earlier, the wolves suddenly reappeared, apparently without a care in the world. It was about nine in the morning and both Mark and Jonny had been up all ...

It was my turn to explore the outlying areas, and this time I thought I’d go north to try to get a view over the low-lying plains to the other side where another fiord comes in. The day was beautiful; there was ...

It was Jonny’s day to do a bit of exploring and increase our knowledge of the locality, so he followed our tracks east and was able to get over the river that was too strong for “H” and me previously. ...