Mountain country

High Country: A forbidding Arctic-like environment exists on the Rockies' summits. An amazing variety of plants and animals are able to grow and survive there despite the winter cold, the incessant winds and the harsh sunlight. Lichens grow on bare rockfaces, and tenacious alpine flowers find a precarious roothold. We can also find the caribou which seeks out the lichen as food, the timid "rock-rabbit" called the pika and the monarch of the rocki...