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High above Ethiopia’s rugged highlands, life clings to the edge of towering cliffs. In the remote Simien Mountains National Park, rare animals survive at over 15,000 feet above sea level. Subscribe to Our World: bit.ly/3xnPuGL

Looks at the Simien Mountains of Ethiopia, home to creatures that exist nowhere else on Earth but which are now endangered, including the Walia Ibex, Simien Fox and Galada Baboons.

This film was first broadcast: 10 Dec 1974

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