Lost Land of the Tiger

Latest Episodes

• Season 1 Episode 3: Discovery of a Lifetime

  The expedition shifts to high altitude in the mountains of Bhutan as Gordon Buchanan captures footage of a snow leopard cub at more than 5,000m, while his heat-sensing camera picks up a big cat stalking through the camp in darkness. Steve Backshall treks to Tiger Mountain along the Tibetan border, where a remote tribe helps provide a close encounter with an elusive predator. As the expedition concludes, the team presents its findings to the Bhutanese prime minister

• Season 1 Episode 2: Big Cat Corridor

  From the base camp in the Himalayas, the team moves out to track down tigers throughout Bhutan. Steve Backshall is pushed to the limits of his physical endurance when he takes on a white water river in the eastern jungles, and Gordon Buchanan deploys remote cameras, and uses a fingerprinting technique to identify individual members of the species. Meanwhile, biologist Dr George McGavin meets the predator during a trip to India

• Season 1 Episode 1: The Mountain Kingdom

  Alan Rabinowitz, Gordon Buchanan, George McGavin, Steve Backshall and Justine Evans travel to the far-flung corners of the Himalayas in search of tigers, snow leopards and clouded leopards, on an expedition aimed at helping the survival of these creatures. The team gets to work by tracking elusive tigers and setting up remote-controlled cameras to film the animals in action