On March 28, 2007, UK artist Pollyanna Pickering and her daughter/manager Anna-Louise Pickering departed for Bhutan sketch and paint the rare flora and fauna of this largely undisturbed region of the Himalayas.
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Viewers of CBBC's flagship programme X-Change will have seen Pollyanna talking about her expeditions to the High Arctic a few weeks ago.
Pollyanna travelled to the famous BBC studios in London's Shepherd's Bush to guest on the show. She joined presenters Jean Anderson and Tony Craig (above) to talk about her remarkable Arctic expeditions, which inspired her second book 'On Top of the World'. Pollyanna lived with the native Innuit above the arctic circle, travelling by dog sledge and sleeping in tents and igloos at temperatures of -40 to paint polar bears and other wildlife.
"We had a live satellite linkup to the arctic, a 'phone in for viewers to ask questions live on air - and two huskies with us in the studio, so there was plenty of scope for disaster on a live show" Pollyanna commented, "but miraculously everything went smoothly, despite the dire warnings about working with animals and children!"