National Geographic’s Crittercam team hitches a ride with the majestic emperor penguin.

In the windswept, hostile environment of Antarctica, National Geographic’s Crittercam team and doctors Jerry Kooyman and Paul Ponganis of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography embark on a spectacular adventure of science and survival. Using Crittercam technology, they hitch a ride with the majestic emperor penguin to go places only penguins have gone before - under the massive Ross Ice Shelf.

*Crittercam - a revolutionary animal-borne research tool that records images, sound and data from an animal's perspective - allows researchers, scientists and filmmakers to gather data about behavior and habitats that humans cannot otherwise observe.