Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild

- Season 3

(2014)

Ben tastes life in the Namibian desert with Dennis 'Boesman' (local term for the native Bushmen) who left the rat race after a business career in capital Windhoek to farm the hard way with his wife, Japanese agricultural engineer Yuri, and their daughter aged four. Ben stays in their broken caravan -nothing in ever thrown away- and struggles with the scorching heat, yet risks in barefoot despite thorns. Using abundant solar power, Dennis achieves virtual self-reliance, a constant struggle due to the extreme aridity, provided he shoots and guts two 'gemsbok' (the local...

Ben joins a senior, fully self-reliant world of former New York farmer who, desperate by broken marriage, business going down hill and asthma, sold everything and followed his boy's dream, becoming an Alaska trapper. Its' so remote Ben can only reach it by son Nate's water-plane There he even found a like-minded wife, who does must of the gardening on top of domestic chores and general two man-jobs, even the heaviest lifting, like their indispensable boat. Otherwise most sympathetic Ben's emotional barrier concerns the killing of wild animals by the three sled ...

Ben joins the senior brothers Bob and 'Wild' Bill who moved to a desert patch they bought in Utah from Oklahoma after a thrill-hungry life of daring career switches after one of them daringly testified to talk a drug gang into jail, requiring him to leave in witness protection and ironically bounty-hunt criminals in the hideout region. Undaunted, they keep up self-reliance even after a cardiac crisis left Bob brain-impaired. The former contractors now need the minimal comfort of the house they built around a mobile home, Ben must dwell in the cave storage the previous...

Ben stays with a couple that live north of the Arctic Circle, Gaynor is from London and she quit a good paying job to go and live and marry Milos a Slovakian expat in northern Sweden. Here they operate a dog sledding tour business. Temperatures can go down to -52 at night during winter.