“Veteran wildlife broadcaster Sir David Attenborough has reached the North Pole for the first time at the age of 83, the BBC said Saturday.
The naturalist and presenter made it to the top of the world while filming in the Arctic Circle for a new BBC nature series highlighting the impact of global warming on the Earth’s extreme regions.
Attenborough, who also recently visited the South Pole, said: ‘The Poles – North and South – look superficially very similar.
‘But when you visit them within a few weeks of one another, as I have just done, you realise how profoundly different they are and how what is happening to them is going to affect the entire planet,’ he added.
‘A century ago, the poles were just about the most inaccessible place on Earth. Today that has changed. Nonetheless, to have visited them both within a few weeks of one another is a huge privilege.’
The BBC presenter, the brother of acclaimed actor Richard Attenborough, is famous for acclaimed nature programmes including ‘Life on Earth,’ ‘The Living Planet’ and ‘The Trials of Life.’”
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Sir David is a british institution and his programmes have educated me for years. If Sir David is involved with a programme you are pretty much guaranteed that it will be Brilliant, informative well made and in most cases it will also be trail blazing in terms of it’s methods.
Long live Sir David!!”
Brilliant!
LC x
Congrats Sir David!
Sir David for World President.
All hail the Lord Attenborough! May he liveth forever more!
This man is a living legend. He has done more for education and informing the public than anyone I can think of.
An inspiration in achievements and knowledge and a man most of us will never forget when the time comes.
Jingoman I echo your words completely.
Attenborough has got an amazing voice…and seems like has awesome career with Nature. Indeed, his career is definitely of interest. Even though I was in the usa at the times I got the Attenborough (not the Weaver) narration version of Blue Planet…what a perfect vocal accompaniment to such awesome visual footage of Nature spots.
Thanks Scott, i admire Sir David very much and they were easy words to say my friend