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This edition features a spectacular journey along the Andes, the world's longest mountain range, stretching from the equator almost to Antarctica. In this harsh and unforgiving landscape, wildlife such as bears, pumas, condors and flamingos fight for survival in the numbing cold, ferocious winds and thin air.

The fourth episode starts off with the two riding through Santa Cruz, Argentina. The plan is to cross over into Chile and then going up into the Andes. Ewan and Charley head through Argentina’s red rock landscape while a member of their team copes with altitude sickness. The duo are well and truly underway and the first signs of all are well is how well the Harleys hold up in challenging conditions. The roads alternate between unforgiving and pleasant and these e-bikes push through effortlessly. As they ride through Chilean Andes, the audience is shown a picturesque view of the beauty of the countryside, an experience which Boorman calls 'magical.'

Ewan and Charley make their way to Peru from Bolivia, and the scenery is just beautiful. Ewan wanted to visit Machu Picchu since he was a kid and decides to show the world the Incan citadel set high in the Andes Mountains. Next up, they make their way to the Cutivireni, a community of Ashaninka people in the Amazon rainforest, with its carbon program to limit the magnitude or rate of global warming and its related effects.

In episodes 7 and 8 of the series, the journey moves from the towering Andes to the tropical Caribbean, revealing two worlds where wildlife survives through astonishing specialization. In the Andes, spectacled bears guide their cubs down perilous cliffs, rare marvelous spatuletail hummingbirds fight and dance for mates, frogs endure freezing nights high beside retreating glaciers, torrent ducks master near-boiling mountain rivers, and thousands of flamingos gather at toxic high-altitude lakes in spectacular courtship displays.
The Caribbean offers an entirely different struggle for survival. Sailfish coordinate high-speed attacks on sardine shoals, sperm whales dive into the deep around Dominica, millions of red crabs cross Cuba’s forests on their migration to the sea, and animals on isolated islands develop remarkable ways to exploit scarce resources. On Isla Jicarón, white-faced capuchins even learn to use stones as tools to crack nuts, showing how intelligence and adaptation can make the difference between survival and failure in paradise.