Beginning on 10 February, photographer Alessandra Manzotti will take her talents to one of the most remote parts of the world. She will join BBC and Human Planet photographer Timothy Allen, and six other photographers from Europe and South America, on a two-week expedition of the Altai Mountain region of Western Mongolia. In Mongolia she will document the spring migration of a family of Kazakhs eagle hunters, their prized eagles, and a herd of 1,000 cattle and camels.

A seven-time winner of the Travel Photographer of the Year award, Allen joined the BBC in 2008 to begin work on the documentary project, Human Planet. He spent more than a year and a half traveling with four teams, covering stories of human endeavor in more than 40 countries around the world.

Allen shot content for the programme and its accompanying multimedia projects, as well as imagery that was published in a best-selling BBC book, formed an exhibition, and was used in the programme’s worldwide branding and publicity.’

With temperatures dropping as low as 40 degrees below zero, Manzotti will sleep in traditional round tents called gers. She’ll use this opportunity to become immersed in the life of the nomadic people of Mongolia while witnessing and photographing areas very rarely seen by outsiders.