Episodes
Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild Bulgaria Revisit (Channel 5 Tuesday 4 April 2023)
Today Tuesday 4 April 2023, there is a new episode of Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild.
Bulgaria Revisit In the vast woods of the Rhodope Mountains in Bulgaria, join Ben as he meets up with world nomads Miriam and Peter again.
The pair walked across New Zealand in 2016, and Ben tracked them down on an adventure across Southeastern Europe. He set out with them as they abandoned one camp for another, carrying everything they needed in their packs and making do with what they found along the way, sometimes covering as much as 25 kilometres in a single day. He learned how the pair, who were 30 years apart in age but had been teachers together, managed to overcome the odds of wilderness living by working together.
They had intended to walk across Australia when he departed. After those four years, he finally tracks them down to a remote Bulgarian hamlet. While walking across Australia, he learns that tragedy struck and the pair had to make drastic changes to their lives. After Peter’s kidneys failed suddenly, his prognosis was bleak.
After four years on the road, he made a remarkable recovery, and the pair settled into their new life as “slomads” (travelers who stay in one place for an extended period of time). In keeping with their unconventional “life less ordinary,” the couple shares that they have begun teaching philosophy and wilderness survival classes.
Airdate: Tuesday 4 April 2023 at 21:00 on Channel 5
Season 17 Episode 12
Adventurer Ben Fogle gets a taste of extreme escapism in this brand new series meeting those who have turned their backs on the daily grind. Each week, Ben spends time in one of the world’s most remote locations, meeting the people who now inhabit these inhospitable corners of the planet after leaving their ordinary lives behind. Our intrepid guide also wonders whether these extraordinary individuals and their incredible experiences might tempt him to move his own family out of London and away from the comforts of the city. Is it daring or downright crazy? Ben wants to discover the truth about life in tough, harsh conditions, where doing battle with Mother Nature is a daily reality.
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