Excerpt from "Schneeaffen in Japan" (Tiere vor der Kamera | Episode 08/54)
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When we think of monkeys, we automatically think of tropically warm areas. But monkeys in thick snowy landscapes or on the ski slope?

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Ernst Arendt and Hans Schweiger saw photos of snow monkeys in Japan in LIFE magazine back in the early 1970s, and it never let them go. In times without the internet, it was hard to get reliable information. So all they could do was go to Japan! The two of them started in the middle of Tokyo with a camper van and managed an incredible 60 km on the first day in traffic jams and left-hand traffic.

Finding their way was a picture puzzle, as all the signposts were in Japanese characters. Eventually, Arendt/Schweiger made it to the deep snow-covered mountains and they managed to get unique and, at the time, new footage of the monkeys in Hell Valley bathing in the hot springs.

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