Ben Fogle: New Lives In The Wild

Adventurer Ben Fogle travels to Alaska to visit a couple who hiked 4,000 miles to find a new home and lifestyle. As this incredible travel documentary reveals, they spend half the year in a mountainside yurt, then hike in the region's countryside for the next six months. Ben joins the family and learns some essential survival skills including grizzly bear protection and navigating Alaskan storms.

Adventurer Ben Fogle travels to New Zealand's South Island to meet Robert and Catherine, who left a privileged lifestyle to survive as hunter-gatherers. As this intriguing travel documentary reveals, they live in an area of countryside that’s two days from the nearest road. Ben helps Robert hunt for rock lobsters and joins Catherine to climb a waterfall to fix the family's gravity-fed water pipe.

Adventurer Ben Fogle visits John, a former fashion photographer who gave up his opulent lifestyle to move to the remote Texas countryside. In this intriguing travel documentary, John shows Ben the building made from scrap wood and iron that serves as his bedroom, as well as luxuries including a phone and freezer run from electricity generated by solar panels.

Adventurer Ben Fogle travels deep into the foothills of the Himalayas in the Indian countryside to meet Steve, a former fighter pilot who decided he could not live in an organized society. In his remote mountain property, Ben helps Steve chase off intruders, plough the fields with a team of buffalo, tends to Steve's future grave plot, and meditates naked with him.