Fire and Ice explores the contrast of these two elements that have such an impact on this Earth and our experience of it. We visit hot and cold destinations that push the human body to extremes, attesting to the effect of climate in the evolution of our visible and physical surroundings, as well as the many ways that temperature shapes our experience of different places. Travelling back in time, we investigate sites that retain evidence of the Earth’s extreme geological and climatic heritage and look at how animals have adapted to such changes. These responses spur us to consider the ways in which humans may also have to adapt as climate change remodels the surface and fabric of
our world.