In the first part of the thousand-mile race, we saw how the start and each stage are organized. Here we will see how Félix follows the arrival of the first finishers. Man and the Earth will cover the stages with images of spectacular beauty captured by two cameras.

This time, Man and the Earth travels to a remote corner of the planet. Alaska awaits us, but it is not its legendary bears or its bald eagles that our cameras are after. It is a sled dog race covering half the peninsula in the middle of winter.

The adventure through Nahanni National Park begins with a descent down this river aboard two powerful steel boats with jet engines, the only safe means of reaching the famous Virginia Falls.

The trappers of Canada have become famous worldwide through the stories of novelist Jack London: their primitive life in the wild territories, their knowledge of the wildlife and climate, their independence, and their hospitality.

In the month of November, a large part of Canada is covered in snow. The Man and the Earth crew, flying through a snowstorm, travels to the Arctic tundra to film the winter migration of the caribou and the bison heading toward more sheltered prairies.

In the last days of autumn, nearly all the lakes, rivers, and lagoons of northern Canada are already frozen over. As a result, some American white-tailed eagles, or bald eagles, are unable to fish to feed themselves.

One of the most important animals of northern Canada is the caribou. This large cervid, which feeds mainly on lichens, was the foundation of survival for the Inuit and the Indians of the great north.

The Man and the Earth crew travels to the Canadian national park of Pacific Rim, on Vancouver Island, to film the gray whales, which today attract great attention from scientists and wildlife and nature conservationists alike.

In Canada, extremely favorable circumstances have come together for the survival of wildlife. First, colonization came late. The harsh winter climate limited the activities of hunters and trappers. The government enacted legal measures to protect wildlife.

After traveling more than 50,000 kilometers across Canada, the Man and the Earth crew goes in search of beavers to observe their habits. A rodent that appears on the national flag's coat of arms alongside a maple leaf. Beavers are known for their ability to fell and cut trees with their teeth.

The peregrine falcon is one of Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente's favorite animals, and he dedicated an episode of the Canadian shoot to filming this center where more than 300 birds have been bred.

On July 4, 1979, the first Canadian expedition begins to produce the first report from the interior of Kluane Park. After spending the night at a lake, the crew sets out to reach the high glaciers, the main attraction of the area.

In 1971, a deep frozen cavern was discovered on a cliff face in Nahanni National Park, which was named the Valeria Grotto. At a depth of eight hundred meters, perfectly preserved skeletons were found.

The first unit of the Man and the Earth crew explores the Canadian wilderness all the way to Virginia Falls. 250 kilometers across Nahanni National Park. Over three stages they travel to the falls, accompanied by an invasion of mosquitoes, for which they are equipped with special masks and gloves to ensure the expedition does not fail.

These birds, belonging to the order Piciformes, build their nests by drilling into wood. Among woodpeckers, some are practically omnivorous, such as the great spotted woodpecker. Others, like the green woodpecker, feed on wood-boring larvae and ants, using their extremely long protractile tongue.

During the spring of 1973, a TVE crew, in close collaboration with several Venezuelan government agencies, produced a series of 18 ecological documentaries under the general title of Man and the Earth.

In the animal community of the Mediterranean forest, small herbivores, plant-eating animals such as mice, garden dormice, rats, squirrels, and rabbits, are abundant. Their populations are kept in check by small and medium-sized predators, extremely useful ones, such as weasels, polecats, genets, and foxes: the little killers.

The life of the red deer, from birth to maturity.

The show's crew undertakes a rescue operation for the animals most affected by the heat and drought.

During a rescue operation, the crew captures gigantic anacondas, caimans, and tortoises to prevent them from dying of dehydration.

The animals most affected by the tremendous drought plaguing the plains of Venezuela are the chigüires, or capybaras, rodents weighing up to 50 kilograms. Capybaras are part of a relict population that must have been extremely prosperous in South America before the uplift of the Isthmus of Panama allowed modern mammals to enter the isolated sanctuary of South American wildlife. The Man and the Earth crew conducts a study on the zoogeographical history, as well as the ecology and behavior of these fascinating rodents.

The largest forest mass on our planet spans the immense Orinoco–Amazon basin. Under a perpetually humid climate, the giants of the jungle grow to heights exceeding 60 meters.

In the deciduous jungles lining the banks of the Upper Orinoco and its tributaries lives a Paleo-Indian tribe that has only very recently come into contact with civilization: the Yanomami, one of the few truly free peoples remaining in the world today.

Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente and his crew navigate the Orinoco, where they encounter the Yanomami. A people of the Venezuelan jungle who, despite having no knowledge of mathematical laws, build perfect bridges based on their thorough understanding of every type of wood in the jungle. A people of the forest who avoided the great rivers because, according to their traditions, that was where the great dangers lay. An adventure on the banks of the Orinoco River.

The largest and most powerful of South American carnivores is the jaguar. Once abundant, the Man and the Earth crew had to travel thousands of kilometers deep into the jungle to discover the last strongholds of this great predator.

One of the most distinctive traits of the Yanomami is their warlike behavior.

After spending a season with the Yanomami, the Man and the Earth crew is guided by some of these indigenous people deeper into the jungle, where the native hunters make camp during their summer nomadic wanderings.

The giant otter, or water dog as it is known in South America, is one of the most beautiful, fascinating, and little-known animals in the world.

South of Puerto Ayacucho, the vertical and inviolate mass of Cerro Autana rises, the sacred mountain of the Piaroa people.

The Man and the Earth crew shows us the Llanos of Venezuela, one of the largest and least known regions on the planet.