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America's Wild Spaces | Jewels of the Canyonlands
2018 | Επ. 02.05 | HD
Συναρπαστικές ιστορίες για τις ανεξέλεγκτες φυσικές δυνάμεις, τους κινδύνους και τα ασυνήθιστα θαύματα που κυριαρχούν στην άγρια φύση της Αμερικής.
Περιοχές γεμάτες μυστήριο και αντιθέσεις, όπου κυριαρχεί η φύση και ο άνθρωπος είναι απλός επισκέπτης.
Το εθνικό πάρκο Canyonlands είναι το σχετικά άγνωστο ‘κόσμημα’ των εθνικών πάρκων της Αμερικής. Αλλά αυτά τα άγρια εδάφη είναι κάτι παραπάνω από μια όμορφη εικόνα: αποτελούν μία απεικόνιση της ιστορίας.
2018 | Επ. 02.05 | HD
Συναρπαστικές ιστορίες για τις ανεξέλεγκτες φυσικές δυνάμεις, τους κινδύνους και τα ασυνήθιστα θαύματα που κυριαρχούν στην άγρια φύση της Αμερικής.
Περιοχές γεμάτες μυστήριο και αντιθέσεις, όπου κυριαρχεί η φύση και ο άνθρωπος είναι απλός επισκέπτης.
Το εθνικό πάρκο Canyonlands είναι το σχετικά άγνωστο ‘κόσμημα’ των εθνικών πάρκων της Αμερικής. Αλλά αυτά τα άγρια εδάφη είναι κάτι παραπάνω από μια όμορφη εικόνα: αποτελούν μία απεικόνιση της ιστορίας.
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02:29These canyons conceal life.
02:38But you must know where to look.
02:42Photographer Elizabeth Pratt prepares for a journey through the park.
02:46She's here to document the hidden life forms that depend on canyonland's unique features.
02:53The desert supports so much life that you can't see.
02:56When you stop and look and you open your eyes, there's just so much life.
03:05The Colorado River will carry Elizabeth and her team through Utah's southeast high desert.
03:13Canyonlands is nearly 350,000 acres, the largest park in the state.
03:21The Colorado and the Green Rivers divide this wilderness into three distinct land sections.
03:29The first is called Island in the Sky.
03:38Here, Elizabeth and her crew enter the wilderness.
03:48The life and movement she finds here isn't so much biological as geological.
03:57The vast walls of rocks and bright colors.
04:03It's constantly changing shape and form from the wind and the water.
04:18The relentless current pushes them on.
04:24A one-way trip of rivers and rapids.
04:29Nearly 100 miles long.
04:31Nearly 100 miles long.
04:37The sheer walls to the west form the underpinnings of a 6,000 foot high plateau.
04:46The island in the sky.
05:09Canyonlands is built largely of sandstone deposits.
05:16Layer upon layer over millions of years.
05:20Layer upon layer over millions of years.
05:24How those deposits got here.
05:28And how they are shaped is an incredible story of a masterpiece in motion.
05:40Geologist Carl Mueller can read the layers of Canyonlands like a history book.
05:47I come out here and I see events.
05:49I see structures and I see pieces of Earth's history that are recorded over hundreds of millions of years.
06:01This region was once the bottom of a vast inland sea.
06:06After that, a massive desert of sand dunes.
06:20As a geologist, I'm always paying attention to the sediments.
06:23What's the order of the sediments?
06:25And how does that tell us something about the history of what's happened in this area?
06:36Water erodes these sediments like a knife through a layer cake.
06:46Dramatically sculpting the masterpiece of Canyonlands.
06:57That explains many of the formations in the park.
07:04But not the most mysterious of them all.
07:09One of the most peculiar geological features in the world.
07:14A giant depression called Upheaval Dome.
07:18Nearly three miles wide.
07:21And over a thousand feet deep.
07:25Surrounded by twisted and fractured rock.
07:30A feature so prominent it can be seen from space.
07:33Yet no one knows for sure how it got here.
07:39Scientists have two hotly debated theories about Upheaval Dome's creation.
07:46One, that it was pounded out by something like this.
07:58Upheaval Dome may be an impact crater.
08:04Geologist Wendy Key finds evidence to support this hidden in faults along the dome's edge.
08:11This is one of the faults that I've been looking for.
08:16And what makes it really special is this white pulverized material here.
08:24According to Wendy, the grains of sand here were shattered as the faults were created.
08:30To generate this pulverized rock, it has to be something that's rapid and violent.
08:37But Carl Mueller finds evidence to support the second theory.
08:42I bet if I taste it.
08:45Ugh.
08:46Good.
08:47That's salty.
08:49There's halite, there's real rock salt.
08:51The second theory describes a hidden layer of salt hundreds of feet beneath the surface.
09:00Over time, pressure squeezes the salt upward like toothpaste.
09:06It pushes through the surface and forms a dome.
09:12Water then dissolves the salt, leaving deformed rock in a giant hole.
09:24The evidence that could solve this debate may already be lost in the ever-changing landscape of Canyonlands.
09:35What makes upheaval dome such a mystery?
09:38Over one mile of sediment has been eroded off the top of it.
09:43So much of the primary evidence supporting either argument has been eroded away and washed out to the ocean with
09:50time.
09:51And we can't get it back.
09:54Whether created from a meteorite or the remains of a natural salt dome, Canyonlands conceals its secrets well.
10:17Photographer Elizabeth Pratt's search for desert life brings her to the second region of the park.
10:25This is the area known as the Needles.
10:31A region densely packed with bizarre shapes.
10:39Multicolored spires.
10:47And hidden canyons.
10:54Here, the river switches back on its path.
10:57Twice.
11:06Sections of the Colorado, separated only by a few hundred feet of sheer rock.
11:17Elizabeth and the boat crew now approach the place where the two rivers meet.
11:25The green and the Colorado rivers.
11:33Downstream lies Cataract Canyon, the most dangerous part of their journey.
11:41Tomorrow, they'll face 14 miles of swirling white water.
11:45Some of the toughest stretches of river in the country.
12:03Park archaeologist Chris Goertze hikes deep into the Needles.
12:08And takes a step back in time to the Wild West.
12:12And takes a step back in time to the Wild West.
12:22This is an abandoned cowboy camp.
12:30The guys would have lived out here in the middle of nowhere for one to two months and tended the
12:37cattle.
12:38The overhang here is a natural shelter.
12:44This is a perfect place.
12:46It's dry.
12:47It's protected by brush.
12:49There's a spring out front.
12:52This camp was used by generations of cowboys.
12:55Their supplies kept safe by the rock formation from season to season.
13:04Baking powder was a staple.
13:06This is, I'm sure, sweetened condensed milk.
13:08These are, that was a classic.
13:11Here's coffee.
13:12Very important.
13:13Tobacco.
13:16Oh, there's something left inside.
13:19Hmm.
13:20I hesitate to smell it.
13:22Anybody who has horses has to feed them.
13:24So this is how they stored the grain.
13:27Which is still here.
13:29Which is quite remarkable.
13:37We're hoping that we're going to be able to somehow tie the material here to the dates that we see
13:44on the historic inscriptions.
13:45Chris estimates the cowboys first used the camp nearly a century ago.
13:51We have a photo in our archives that actually shows a bunch of cowboys standing in front of this, this
13:56cupboard behind me.
14:01You can actually see what this cowboy camp must have looked like when it was actually in use.
14:14By Chris's estimate, archaeologists have only documented about 2% of Canyonlands.
14:23Legends abound that famous outlaws like Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, and their hole-in-the-wall gang used parts
14:31of Canyonlands as a hideout.
14:35Box canyons are natural corrals.
14:43This park is incredibly rugged with deep canyons, places that are practically inaccessible.
14:53It's highly likely that hidden somewhere up some little side canyon that we've never been, there are other cowboy camps
15:01that we don't know anything about.
15:05The cowboys and outlaws were visitors, taking seasonal advantage of the formations here to survive, or perhaps hide.
15:21Before them, other residents left their mark.
15:24A spectacular mark.
15:26Some of the largest and oldest art galleries in America.
15:37Nowhere in Canyonlands is it easier to hide than the area Elizabeth Pratt now enters.
15:45The third and final district of the park.
15:48The maze.
15:55Considered among the most remote and rugged terrain in the lower 48 states.
16:04Some of the maze is virtually inaccessible.
16:13An ideal site for holding treasures.
16:19Not even four-wheel-drive vehicles can penetrate the most remote areas of this backcountry.
16:26The only way in is on foot.
16:30The only way in is on foot.
16:36Bud Turner, Pete Poston, and Greg Swayze searched this backcountry for ancient paintings.
16:48Some of America's oldest and largest art galleries.
16:54Wow.
16:56That's fantastic.
16:57They've brought high-tech tools that will reveal aspects of the art not seen in ages.
17:05Some of these canyons have never been walked by a professional archaeologist.
17:10We're just working on the ones that have been known and identified.
17:14And we're finding more every time we go out.
17:19Bud is creating the first photographic inventory of the park's priceless rock art.
17:26And with infrared imaging, he's looking beyond what can be seen with the naked eye.
17:38So you can see through it, it has kind of a blue cast to it.
17:42Special filters capture only certain frequencies of light, which indicate the presence of specific compounds.
17:51I'm going to put it over the lens and we'll do a couple of exposures through there to make sure
17:56we get all the information this has to offer.
18:02The images reveal details in the paintings never before seen.
18:07In infrared, these figures actually jump out at you.
18:11This technology has been used in art restorations, in laboratory work on artworks, to find out what the original paintings
18:19were like.
18:21Look at this guy. Look at the feet on this guy.
18:25Yeah.
18:25Look at it, he's got clawed feet.
18:28Oh, is that the figures that nobody could see before?
18:30Right.
18:31Some paintings sit over others.
18:34Perhaps a new culture trying to give themselves greater prominence.
18:38Look at this gossamer guy that's painted over these guys.
18:41We're just blown away by what you can see.
18:44Well, you can see what that panel looked like a thousand years ago.
18:50To uncover the secrets of Canyonlands, you have to venture deep into the wilderness and look beyond the obvious.
19:00To really understand and see Canyonlands, you have to get out into it and walk it.
19:05You have to feel it, you have to taste it, you have to get some grit in your teeth.
19:09To be seeing it has to be lived.
19:19And then clip it up and then I'll tighten it on you.
19:21Oh yeah, that's better. Now I can clip it.
19:27Living Canyonlands is what Elizabeth's journey is all about.
19:37The Colorado will take her out of the park.
19:40But first, she's got to run 26 rapids.
19:5014 miles of whitewater, ranging from a mild Class 1 to a risky Class 5.
20:03I'm starting to see how the river itself is alive.
20:17And I had a feeling like the river itself wanted to just consume us.
20:23Elizabeth came here to find where and how life hides in this wilderness.
20:32Her pictures not only show the abundance of life, but how it's all connected.
20:39The whole park is alive. I mean, the rock formations are part of it.
20:43The plants and what they hold for other creatures.
20:47The whole park is a living, breathing organism.
20:54Cataract Canyon and its Class 5 rapids, the last obstacle before leaving the park.
21:16Whether on the river or not, to find life in Canyonlands, you have to search for it.
21:28Travel off the beaten path.
21:34Brave raging rapids.
21:37Summit steep canyons.
21:40And hike through baking desert.
21:44Then you will find signs of life all around you, in the most unlikely of places.
21:56Hidden treasures, tucked away within the spectacular geology that makes Canyonlands a masterpiece of nature.
22:04is a very prominent area.
22:07The End
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