Season 17
12 episodes
45 min. per episode
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A city dweller immerses in wild, uncovering resilience and purpose while confronting nature's harsh realities and human vulnerabilities.
Episodes
Ben meets snowboarding legend Mike Basich who left professional sport to reconnect with nature in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Ben Fogle travels to the wilds of Northern Queensland in Australia to meet Bette, who has been dealing with snakes, floods and isolation since moving to the harsh Australian wilderness 30 years ago.
In this edition, Ben spends time with DNA - a homeless artist who has built himself a home made out of scrap on a desert hill in Slab City, California - an alternative lifestyle community.
Ben journeys to South America to visit Rhona, a British-born actress who left Hollywood to live alone in a remote valley in Uruguay.
Ben meets British couple George and Sophie who have breathed new life into a farmhouse.
A British urbanite follows in the footsteps of various individuals, who against all odds, have willingly forsaken the luxuries and lifestyle of the modern world, for a less-than-ordinary life in the wilderness.