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00:00Only one creature has carved a life for itself in every habitat on Earth.
00:13That creature is us.
00:19All over the world, we still use our ingenuity to survive in the wild places, far from the
00:25city lights, face to face with raw nature.
00:31This is the human planet.
00:48Deserts are the hottest and driest places on Earth.
00:53They cover one third of the land's surface.
00:59Some never see rain.
01:06We can survive two months without food, yet only a few days without water.
01:15As babies, we spend nine months surrounded by fluid in our mother's womb, but birth pushes
01:22us out of this luxurious water world.
01:37From this point on, life for every child of the desert is defined by the quest for water.
01:45Yet somehow, in this brutal land, an incredible 300 million people survive.
01:52These are their remarkable stories.
02:22The Sahara is the biggest desert on the globe.
02:35It is the size of the United States, and its arid interior can unleash the mightiest sandstorms
02:42on the planet.
02:50Ferocious winds whip up billions of tiny sand grains into massive walls, reaching more than
02:585,000 meters into the air, ten times the height of the Empire State Building, covering areas
03:06the size of Britain.
03:20Battling through this sandstorm in Mali is 16-year-old Mamadou.
03:27He's a cattle herder who left home three days ago on a mission to find water for his cows.
03:42It's a huge responsibility on his teenage shoulders.
03:48He must endure the fury of the desert alone, but there's an even bigger challenge ahead.
03:57He's in a race against the biggest land animal on Earth, African elephants.
04:04This desert herd is also desperate for water, because Mali is gripped by drought.
04:13It's 40 degrees Celsius.
04:16Most of the water holes are already dry.
04:20Only one place for 80 kilometers will still have water, Lake Banzena.
04:28And this is where both the elephants and Mamadou are heading.
04:43If Mamadou keeps up a fast pace, he'll reach the lake by morning.
04:54But only 50 kilometers behind him are the greatest nomads of the desert.
05:03Elephant matriarchs guide the herd, following an incredible mental map of all the water
05:07holes to be found in an area of tens of thousands of square kilometers.
05:14Acacia trees give them just enough fuel to keep walking, but they can't rest day or night.
05:24But for Mamadou, nightfall means he has no choice but to stop.
05:29Feeding elephants in the dark could be fatal.
05:39A hurried breakfast is the little precious milk Mamadou can get from his cows.
05:44It keeps him one step away from dehydration, but he's got to get going.
05:53The elephant herd have walked through the night, making up ground.
06:12Finally the end is in sight for Mamadou.
06:18But he walks straight into trouble.
06:20Not only have the massive elephant herd beaten him to the lake, but they're also blocking
06:25his access to the water.
06:37Mamadou knows the elephants could charge, so he is careful not to get too close.
06:47It's an uneasy truce.
06:50While he works out how to break through, suddenly an elephant charges his cows.
07:07Mamadou fights back, but armed only with sticks.
07:10The battle of David and Goliath.
07:30Mamadou's courage has managed to shift over 50 elephants.
07:40Luckily conflicts like this are very rare.
07:54Finally Mamadou drives his cattle towards the life-giving water.
08:10The elephants move off and find their own part of the lake.
08:15At last they too have an opportunity to drink and even play.
08:34It will be two months before there's any chance of rain replenishing the water holes, so Mamadou's
08:39struggles will go on.
08:44But in one part of the desert, a shrinking water supply leads to a surprising opportunity.
08:56Hundreds of kilometers away along the Bandiagara escarpment, the sapping 40 degree heat has
09:03sucked the life out of the rivers of Dogon country, leaving only isolated pools stuffed
09:10with stranded fish.
09:12The Dogon choose this moment for a desert fishing festival.
09:24Thousands of competitors are drawn to Lake Antogo, including Dialo, who's been coming
09:30here for 30 years.
09:33It's a matter of pride for him to catch a fish.
09:50On any other day, fishing is strictly forbidden in this sacred water.
09:57In this way, the elders protect an important food reserve well into the dry season.
10:03But today, the community have a chance to catch a symbolic last supper.
10:11The banks are filling up quickly.
10:20The atmosphere is tense.
10:27Dialo has found a good spot, but now he must wait, since Antogo has its own unwritten rules.
10:44The ceremonial chief chants a prayer to chase away evil spirits.
10:48He wears a fish trap, believed to protect the words as they are spoken.
10:54This is Dialo's once a year chants.
11:18The free-for-all quickly becomes a fishing frenzy.
11:39They thrust their baskets down to trap the fish.
11:44Dialo has caught one, but there's no time for reluctance.
12:14After just 15 minutes, there's nothing left, and the chaos subsides.
12:31Dialo is successful, but exhausted.
12:43Back at home, his proud catch of fish becomes a final feast for his family,
12:48so they can survive the last days of the dry season.
13:12Far to the east of the Bandiagara, it takes immense navigational skill just to find water.
13:22These Tubu women must venture across the vast sand seas of the Sahara,
13:27in search of a miniature well just one meter square.
13:32It will mean the difference between life and death.
13:53They call this place the Tenere, the land of nothing.
13:58It is featureless, scorching, and unreliable.
14:05Foni is a Tubu woman who can find her way to water without a map or a compass.
14:18She's brought her daughter, Shede, only 10 years old.
14:22The well they seek is still three days' walk away.
14:26This is the toughest journey they'll ever face together.
14:40They undertake this perilous journey for food.
14:44They must cross 240 kilometers just to get to market,
14:48to trade camels for supplies that will last them six months.
14:54This caravan is only women and children, since for the Tubu, it's the women who are the great navigators.
15:07To the untrained eye, a dune is just a dune,
15:11but Foni can tell which ones to trust in a place where nothing stands still.
15:19Smaller dunes shape-shift, moving with the wind, making them unreliable.
15:27But larger dunes, towering over 60 meters, are more stable, revealing signs of a much bigger picture.
15:37Over thousands of years, prevailing desert winds have blown dunes into long, parallel ridges,
15:44the only landmarks for the travelers.
15:50The Tubu look to the sun and the ridgeline to work out which direction to go.
15:55Then they count each ridge to know how far they've gone.
16:07They've been walking for ten hours in the blazing sun.
16:11They must rest.
16:21They make their camp out of a single sheet and ration their water.
16:29The camel's share is mixed with oats, while the women drink sweet tea.
16:59They rise early, before the sun gets too hot.
17:14They only carry enough water to get to the well, so the pace they travel is key.
17:24This specialist understanding of the desert is fast disappearing.
17:28Today, only a few hundred Tubu women possess the knowledge.
17:35Foni believes that by teaching Shede, she can keep it alive for another generation.
17:41When darkness falls, Foni also teaches Shede how to read the night sky.
18:07For now, at least, they know they're on the right path.
18:18It's day three.
18:21Today, they must find the well.
18:26While packing up, Foni decides Shede is ready to take charge.
18:33But the well is so hidden that even if she's only a few hundred meters away, she could miss it.
18:46She sets them off in the right direction, aligning herself between the ridges ahead and the sunrise to the east.
18:56For some children Shede's age, just ten years old, finding their way to school is challenge enough.
19:06But Shede has to find her way twenty miles across the bleakest landscape on earth.
19:15But with her mother's guiding words echoing in her head, she strides forward.
19:26After a grueling twelve hours' riding, the tenth ridge is finally in sight.
19:35The lonely bush in the dip of the dune marks the valley of the well.
19:46Shede has found the only well for eighty kilometers around.
19:53She's made her mum proud.
20:01Finally, Shede can water the camels.
20:13With their thirst quenched, she washes off the dirt.
20:21With their thirst quenched, she washes off three days of dust.
20:28Now they've got water, they'll make it to market, but they're still weeks away from finishing their journey.
20:42Not all deserts are swelteringly hot.
20:47The Gobi in Mongolia is a desert of extremes, lying far north of the equator.
20:54Here, scorching summer highs plunge to freezing arctic lows.
21:01It's February, minus twenty degrees Celsius, and the few wells people have are frozen over.
21:11But amazingly, water appears here as snow.
21:17The snow doesn't fall here, it's blown over three thousand kilometers from Siberia,
21:24and these bitter winds means it never settles for long.
21:31So Ganbold and his twin-humped Bactrian camels make their way through the snow.
21:40The winter winds must chase the snow towards the mountains where it lingers.
21:45This rare snow is a lifeline.
21:56It's so important, he and his family have set up their winter camp in the foothills.
22:03But he's taking a risk.
22:07The herd, including pregnant females, are now in the hunting grounds of a voracious desert predator,
22:13and they like nothing better than newborn camel flesh.
22:19We don't have a place to sleep.
22:22We sleep on the ground.
22:27We don't have a place to sleep.
22:34Gobi desert wolves roam over thousands of kilometers.
22:39Their keen sense of smell helps them shadow the herds at a distance.
22:46If Ganbold drops his guard, they'll attack.
22:52He returns to camp to hear that his son has interrupted a wolf attack.
22:57One sheep has been killed.
23:17As evening falls, an icy dust storm builds.
23:35In the warm tent, wolves are the only topic of conversation.
23:47I don't have a place to sleep.
23:53I don't have a place to sleep.
24:06At midnight, Ganbold checks his pregnant camels one last time.
24:17He suddenly realizes his prized female is missing.
24:22But with the storm, they can't look for her until daylight.
24:29Daylight
24:45Come dawn, the search is on to find out what has become of her and her unborn calf.
24:59Ganbold musters his friends.
25:05It's a race between them and the wolves.
25:14They find tracks.
25:20Ganbold heads to the highest ridge,
25:26and the scale of his task becomes clear.
25:46More fresh tracks.
25:56They've seen off the enemy, but is the camel nearby?
26:06Finally, they see a shape.
26:13Ganbold's beloved camel is alive, and she's given birth.
26:23But the calf isn't moving.
26:29The wolf attacks Ganbold.
26:43To his great relief, the calf is breathing.
26:50Only a few hours old, the calf is too weak to walk back to camp,
26:56so Ganbold gives it a lift.
27:02The wolf is relieved.
27:08Ganbold is relieved.
27:14His son rushes out to help,
27:20and his other boys meet the latest addition to the herd.
27:26Ganbold gives thanks for his good fortune.
27:35The wolf is relieved.
27:42Unlike the Gobi, there are some deserts where water never exists.
27:51In the Chilean Atacama Desert, some areas are as desolate as the surface of Mars.
27:57This is the driest place on Earth.
28:03Here, people have been inspired by nature to conjure water from thin air.
28:12Cactus flowers are a source of food for the guanacos,
28:18the wild camels of South America.
28:24But these cacti are also the key to their water supply.
28:30They're covered in furry lichen, which traps any moisture in the air.
28:36Ganbold takes inspiration from the cacti's natural solution.
28:42With his friends, he erects a vast net six meters high.
28:49With more strength, Charlie! With more strength!
29:01The net's mesh is designed to mimic the lichen hairs,
29:07because in this coastal strip of the Atacama Desert,
29:14Here, cold sea currents cool the hot desert air and produce huge fog blankets.
29:29The fog is sucked ashore and sweeps over the cacti,
29:35and also Orlando's nets.
29:44When the fog hits the cacti, it condenses onto the lichen hairs,
29:50which capture the precious water.
29:56In no time, the cacti are dripping with dew.
30:06On the nets, the fog does exactly the same.
30:12Drop by precious drop, this miracle water is channeled to a reservoir.
30:36Look, Charlie, everything's fine. We have a lot of water.
30:43Each day, these magical nets produce nearly 500 liters of water,
30:49which allows Orlando to nurture a few plants in the sand.
30:55But he has bigger ideas.
30:59One day, I want to give the community water from heaven.
31:07This is just the latest innovation in the eternal human quest to find water in the desert.
31:17Around the world, signs are etched in the landscape.
31:23Scars show where water used to flow.
31:27Thousands of years ago, the Sahara was crossed by a network of rivers and lakes,
31:33which disappeared as it turned to desert.
31:37Yet in this now barren land, some of this water remains, deep in rocks underground.
31:47In Ba Amar, central Algeria, their extraordinary skill is to tap into this ancient water.
31:54But you have to know how to harness it.
31:59Mafordi is 70 years old and committed to a life in the desert.
32:10Every morning, after prayer, the men head off to find water.
32:17With stubborn devotion and very simple tools, they have dug a well.
32:25It's taken them six months to carve out a shaft through the desert rock.
32:31Only now are they ready for their most dangerous mission.
32:38As the oldest and the most experienced, Mafordi climbs down alone.
32:44It's a sheer nine meter drop.
33:15At the bottom lies knee-deep water in hand-dug passages.
33:21Mafordi knows they are vital to keep the water supply flowing.
33:26But many men have been buried alive down here when the walls have collapsed.
33:34The water seeps from the rocks themselves.
33:39Mafordi has released it from thousands of years trapped in the rock.
33:45This ancient water is all that's left of the rivers that used to flow across the land above.
34:02But one well isn't enough.
34:05The real trick is to connect several wells and create an underground channel of water.
34:16Mafordi's neighbor, Abdullah, has also been digging a well for the last six months.
34:22Today is the day they're going to join up.
34:36But Abdullah must leave Mafordi. Joining the tunnels is the most dangerous part.
34:45With so much earth removed, 30 foot of rock could collapse at any moment.
34:50It would crush Mafordi with no hope of escape.
34:59Back at the surface, Abdullah prays for Mafordi.
35:05PRAYER
35:31Finally, Mafordi has broken through.
35:34But will the walls hold?
36:05This new channel is just part of a much bigger system.
36:10Every generation for the last 700 years has been digging new wells and connecting them up.
36:19There are over 800 wells here now, channeling water 60 kilometers under the desert floor.
36:28The passages are cut so that the water continually runs slightly downhill.
36:36When it reaches the surface, it's divided up to sustain a village that otherwise wouldn't exist.
36:48With his share of the water, Mafordi has created an oasis to grow date palms.
36:58And this attracts all sorts of surprising visitors.
37:15Once you have a permanent water supply, anything's possible.
37:21In America's state of Nevada, Las Vegas pushes desert living to the extreme.
37:29It breaks all the rules.
37:31It is one of the fastest growing cities in the US, using more water per person than almost anywhere else in the world.
37:39Is this humanity realizing an impossible dream?
37:43Or is it just a neon mirage?
37:47The deserts of the world are littered with ruins of boom and bust civilizations where the water ran out.
37:57Petra in Jordan was an ancient city which once had an aqueduct system
38:02delivering 40 million liters of water a day to 20,000 people.
38:08For most desert dwellers, life revolves around the meager rains.
38:14Only with rain can they hope to survive the next blazing year.
38:20But in Mali, desert rains are anything but.
38:25The rain is the only way to survive.
38:29Only with rain can they hope to survive the next blazing year.
38:34But in Mali, desert rains are anything but reliable.
38:43Some years they don't come at all.
38:48But if they do, the villagers know they come violently.
38:52So they must make their granaries watertight.
38:59The rains are preceded by sandstorms,
39:02so now people watch the skies waiting for a rampaging wall of dust.
39:16At 50 kilometers wide and advancing at a speed of 100 kilometers an hour,
39:21the sandstorm engulfs the village in minutes.
39:28The sandstorm is so strong that it can reach up to 1,000 meters.
39:34The sandstorm is so strong that it can reach up to 1,000 meters.
39:40The sandstorm is so strong that it can reach up to 1,000 meters.
39:46The sandstorm is so strong that it can reach up to 1,000 meters.
39:52The sandstorm is so strong that it can reach up to 1,000 meters.
39:59But people know this darkness is ultimately a good sign.
40:10Finally the rain is unleashed.
40:1215 centimeters falls in 20 minutes,
40:16turning the desert into a network of streams.
40:19Having waited all year, it's suddenly a moment to rejoice.
40:49In deserts across the world, rains transform the landscape.
40:58This is the one moment when life is no longer about the quest for water,
41:03but about the quest for life.
41:06The rain is the only source of life.
41:10The rain is the only source of life.
41:14The rain is the only source of life.
41:19Without water, the pressure is off.
41:28For the Wadabi people of Niger, West Africa,
41:31this is their window of opportunity for love.
41:41When the rains are good enough,
41:43they can abandon their normally isolated lives.
41:46There's enough food and water to support a few hundred Wadabi
41:50coming together for one of the most extraordinary gatherings
41:53of fertility and flirtation in the world.
42:00In this hive of activity is Jah.
42:03He's walked 80 kilometers to be here for a contest called Jerry Walk.
42:10It's a courtship dance for sex.
42:13Winning means he'll get a new lover.
42:33This year is special.
42:35It's the first Jerry Wall after six years of drought,
42:39so expectations are running high.
42:45Jah is already married, and his wife Tembe is here too.
42:50Indeed, this festival is full of married couples.
42:54Wadabi culture allows both men and women
42:57to set aside their marriage vows without stigma for these few days.
43:03Tembe is up for a fling herself.
43:09But she knows her husband is also a great catch.
43:40But for this flirting contest,
43:43it's the women who choose and, surprisingly, the men who dress up.
43:55Jah's beauty, dancing and singing, will be scrutinized.
44:00His big performance is just hours away.
44:10The men decorate themselves with colored clays from the desert,
44:15with the crushed, charred bones of egrets for their black lipstick,
44:22and with perfumes from desert plants to make themselves irresistible.
44:30It's time for Jah to face the music.
44:40SINGING
44:51The men come under close scrutiny from an opinionated crowd.
45:04As one line of dancers leave, Jah steps into the arena.
45:08He's desperate to be chosen by one of the three girl judges
45:11for a night of desert passion.
45:20The girls are looking for specific things.
45:23He must keep great poise like an egret.
45:26He must show his teeth, flutter his lips and sing from his throat.
45:31He must dance in time and use his shoulders to keep his position in the line.
45:38SINGING
46:04The pressure's on for Jah.
46:06Any slip now and he'll lose what he's waited seven years for.
46:18After five hours, it's the moment of truth.
46:28All three judges approach to choose their champions.
46:37The first walks up the line and with a subtle gesture
46:41indicates the man of her dreams.
46:47But she doesn't choose Jah.
46:52Neither does the second.
46:59Nor the third.
47:06Jah has missed his chance.
47:08His best efforts weren't enough to win a lover.
47:13It'll be at least a year before he has the opportunity to dance again.
47:27Tembe is looking for Jah.
47:32Many new couples are hanging out
47:35but at least Jah and Tembe still have each other.
47:47So the men and women disperse.
47:50Some with new lovers, some with old.
47:53But all have been touched by the flush of fertility and community
47:57before they return to the isolation of the desert.
48:06MUSIC
48:17Deserts are landscapes of brutal simplicity.
48:21They provide so little and demand so much.
48:29But with courage,
48:32with endurance and intelligence,
48:37with devotion and ingenuity,
48:41desert people have found ways to conjure life from so little water.
48:57Against the odds, they have turned a life of thirst
49:01into a thirst for life.
49:23The only way to reveal the truly epic nature
49:26of the Tubu Women's Sahara Crossing was to film from the air.
49:35The best tool for this job was a sinebu,
49:38a hot air balloon with a small motor.
49:42But temperamental technology and cantankerous camels
49:46combine to make this the hardest desert shoot of all.
49:57It took three days of hard driving
49:59before cameraman Toby Strong and the crew
50:02could reach the women and start filming.
50:08Driving in the desert, it's so difficult.
50:10You've got all these ridges, crofts.
50:12The guys are going down stuff like this,
50:14and we're getting stuck all the time.
50:16That means everyone's stopping, everyone out.
50:18It's frustrating, but it's the nature of the beast
50:20who are here in the desert.
50:23They reach the launch site and start assembling the sinebu.
50:27Danny Clay-Emerald designed it specifically for filming.
50:31With only a small engine, it flies best in the cool morning air
50:36with no more than a light breeze.
50:44This is my first time up in a sinebu.
50:47I've got two friends, two cameramen, who've been up in this.
50:50The first one, they crashed into a tree,
50:53and on the second occasion, that caught fire, the actual engine.
51:00What I think we're going to do is go up,
51:02and I might have lied a little bit about how heavy I am,
51:05so I think we might just find out that he needs a little more gas.
51:08I'm kind of a bit of a test flight like that.
51:10But the camels haven't read the schedule,
51:12and they've gone to four corners.
51:15Every night, the camels are released into the desert
51:19and the camels are released to search for food.
51:22So each morning, it takes time to round them up again.
51:26OK, we have to go, we have to go.
51:28It will be too late after.
51:31When the camels are finally ready,
51:34Toby and Danny set off to film the women loading up.
51:39But the shoot doesn't go well.
51:42What happened was the balloon took off,
51:45the butane gas has been cold overnight,
51:47and the burner was cutting out.
51:49They almost came down within the women and the camels.
51:53And then the balloon came down,
51:56bounced, took off again,
51:58completely freaking out the camels.
52:01So not a very good start to the morning.
52:05We lost the burner four times,
52:07plummeted down over the camels, the two women and the kids.
52:11Obviously, it freaked them out, it freaked me out a little bit.
52:14So that wasn't great on the first flight.
52:16After a few more flights, Toby becomes acutely aware of the wind.
52:22Working with cernobules, almost exactly like a boat,
52:25you've got the wind going in that direction,
52:27and although the cernobule's got a motor,
52:29you can't really go against the wind.
52:31So you've really only got one pop at each shot.
52:33Difficult with the wind.
52:36We're fighting the wind too much,
52:38the engine's revving and there's vibration and shake.
52:40I've only got a very limited arc to pan around.
52:43So there's a huge amount of skill involved from Danny
52:46and the guys on the ground getting the camels going the right way.
52:49So it's a massive logistical operation.
52:51In the beginning we had a problem with the gas,
52:54and after a problem with the wind.
52:56But tomorrow will be better.
53:02The next day, after an early flight, they face another problem.
53:06The Tubu women don't hang around for the crew to pack up the cernobule.
53:12They only have enough provisions for a normal trek across the desert,
53:16so the team has to play catch-up.
53:18No idea where our camels have gone.
53:20There's 25 camels out there.
53:22You think, we'll find them, but it's not.
53:24You look around and it's just like an ocean with a gentle swell.
53:28So we're just driving around, peak to peak,
53:30seeing if we can spot them.
53:36Good news, we've hit the main caravan route,
53:39which is a bit like the M6.
53:41And even badder news, there's a few groups of camels coming this way.
53:46The boys with better eyes than I say they think this is some of our group.
53:50So it's good news.
53:58With the camels in place,
54:00Toby and Danny at last see the opportunity for getting some really good shots.
54:07Not so bad.
54:09It's nice.
54:15I think we got some nice shots.
54:18And then at the end we went up really high
54:20and to see the whole desert opened up was extraordinary.
54:23That was a good flight.
54:25They've had some success, but the biggest challenge lies ahead,
54:29filming the women's arrival at the well.
54:32But on a dusty night, the stars of the show go missing.
54:36We've just been using our big spotlight as a beacon
54:39because three of the women and six of the camels
54:42didn't make it into camp tonight.
54:44And here in the desert there's a very good chance of people getting lost.
54:47And thankfully it works, so everyone is safely into camp for the night,
54:50which is brilliant news.
54:54It's only when the sun's gone down
54:56that Toby has time to deal with a domestic problem.
54:59We brought out 30-odd cases from England.
55:02One bag didn't turn up, and that bag was my clothes.
55:05So I couldn't wait for it.
55:07I had to come into the desert,
55:09and that is why I'm washing my shirt quite regularly
55:12in my allowance of water.
55:18None of this goes to waste.
55:20This water will be used for tea tomorrow.
55:30The next morning is the most important one.
55:33The women are due to arrive at the well
55:35after days of navigating across the desert.
55:38It's crucial that Toby gets shots of them arriving.
55:41But, as usual, there are difficulties.
55:46The logistics involved of finding where the well is
55:50and then driving the whole way round so as not to get any tyre tracks,
55:53Danny having to guess where the wind's coming from,
55:56a whole logistical operation of getting right here for this point is enormous.
56:00We've just about managed to get it right,
56:03and we're all here, we're ready to go.
56:05The wind is perfect, Danny got it spot on,
56:08and the camels are maybe 45 minutes away.
56:11So it's massively frustrating.
56:13No, it's absolutely perfect.
56:17No camels.
56:19Yet again, the camels have gone off foraging in the night.
56:24Then, at last, as the sun rises, they appear over the horizon.
56:34Everything comes together.
56:36The women and the camels are ready,
56:38and with no wind, Toby is able to move around them in the early light,
56:42capturing a magical scene.
57:24As the women close in on the town of Fasci at the end of the trek,
57:28the crew can finally relax with their problems behind them.
57:32Nice. It was a very, very nice flight.
57:35Nice light, good speed of wind.
57:39We've got a problem. I thought we landed far enough away from town to be out of everyone's way,
57:43but lurking to the horizon, and there are hundreds of specks running this way,
57:48I reckon we've got three minutes before we're completely engulfed.
57:52OK, I think Danny's off to intercept the hordes.
58:02These kids must be so excited.
58:05I think Danny's got a bit of a treat for them.
58:09Three, two, one.
58:20To the delight of all, the crew have triumphed against the odds
58:24and the stubborn camels.