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…
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…
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Seasons (22)
Season 1
22 Apr 2013 – 13 May 2013 · 4 episodes
1Australia22 Apr 2013
2Alaska29 Apr 2013
3New Zealand6 May 2013
4Texas13 May 2013
Season 2
31 Jan 2014 – 21 Feb 2014 · 4 episodes
1Georgia Swamplands31 Jan 2014
2Himalayan Foothills7 Feb 2014
3Leyte. Philippines Jungle14 Feb 2014
4Panama21 Feb 2014
Season 3
21 Nov 2014 – 12 Dec 2014 · 4 episodes
1Namibia21 Nov 2014
2Alaska28 Nov 2014
3Utah5 Dec 2014
4Swedish Arctic Circle12 Dec 2014
Season 4
20 Jul 2015 – 17 Aug 2015 · 5 episodes
1Laos20 Jul 2015
2Kimberley Region, Australia27 Jul 2015
3Appalachian Mountains, Tennessee3 Aug 2015
4Ocean Living10 Aug 2015
5Scotland17 Aug 2015
Season 5
12 Nov 2015 – 10 Dec 2015 · 5 episodes
1Devon12 Nov 2015
2Wales19 Nov 2015
3Yorkshire26 Nov 2015
4Exmoor3 Dec 2015
5Scotland10 Dec 2015
Season 6
25 Oct 2016 – 13 Dec 2016 · 8 episodes
1North Cascades, Washington State USA25 Oct 2016
2Ruaha National Park, Tanzania1 Nov 2016
3Gadacs, Hungary8 Nov 2016
4The Selkirk Mountains, British Columbia, Canada15 Nov 2016
5Ibiza22 Nov 2016
6Khatgal, Outer Mongolia29 Nov 2016
7Appalachian Mountains, North Carolina6 Dec 2016
8Morocco, Atlas Mountains13 Dec 2016
Season 7
17 Oct 2017 – 5 Dec 2017 · 8 episodes
1Wilderness Island, Australia17 Oct 2017
2Freedom Cove, Canada24 Oct 2017
3Sahara Desert, North Africa31 Oct 2017
4New Zealand7 Nov 2017
5Andalucia, Spain14 Nov 2017
6Guatemala21 Nov 2017
7Missouri28 Nov 2017
8Cambodia5 Dec 2017
Season 8
25 Sep 2018 – 16 Oct 2018 · 4 episodes
1Arkansas, USA25 Sep 2018
2New Zealand2 Oct 2018
3Thailand9 Oct 2018
4Arctic Circle16 Oct 2018
Season 9
8 Jan 2019 – 29 Jan 2019 · 4 episodes
1Bulgaria8 Jan 2019
2Canada15 Jan 2019
3Ireland22 Jan 2019
4Brazil29 Jan 2019
Season 10
16 Apr 2019 – 7 May 2019 · 4 episodes
1Peru16 Apr 2019
2Morocco23 Apr 2019
3Panama30 Apr 2019
4Sri Lanka7 May 2019
Season 11
29 Oct 2019 – 12 Nov 2019 · 3 episodes
1Sweden29 Oct 2019
2Ethiopia5 Nov 2019
3Panama12 Nov 2019
Season 12
7 Jan 2020 – 4 Feb 2020 · 5 episodes
1Iceland7 Jan 2020
2Siberia14 Jan 2020
3New Zealand21 Jan 2020
4Croatia28 Jan 2020
5Oregon4 Feb 2020
Season 13 · 2020
26 May 2020 – 30 Jun 2020 · 6 episodes
1Gorge River, New Zealand26 May 2020
2Georgia, USA2 Jun 2020
3Wilderness Island Australia9 Jun 2020
4Arkansas, USA16 Jun 2020
5Fiji, Pacific Ocean23 Jun 2020
6British Columbia, Canada30 Jun 2020
Season 14
5 Jan 2021 – 16 Mar 2021 · 10 episodes
1Wales Mountainside: The Watkins Family5 Jan 2021
2Iceland12 Jan 2021
3Northern Ireland19 Jan 2021
4Scotland26 Jan 2021
5Ireland9 Feb 2021
6The Owen Family16 Feb 2021
7Wales23 Feb 2021
8Devon2 Mar 2021
9Fair Isle9 Mar 2021
10Exmoor16 Mar 2021
Season 15
30 Mar 2021 – 21 Sep 2021 · 4 episodes
1Ullapool30 Mar 2021
2Wales - Mountain Valley7 Sep 2021
3Suffolk14 Sep 2021
4Isle of Erraid - Scotland21 Sep 2021
Season 16
4 Jan 2022 – 22 Mar 2022 · 10 episodes
1Portugal4 Jan 2022
2Ireland11 Jan 2022
3Greece18 Jan 2022
4Cornwall25 Jan 2022
5Shetland8 Feb 2022
6Northumberland15 Feb 2022
7Oxfordshire22 Feb 2022
8Arizona Desert1 Mar 2022
9Norway, Lynx15 Mar 2022
10Morocco22 Mar 2022
Season 17
3 Jan 2023 – 4 Apr 2023 · 12 episodes
1Sierra Nevada3 Jan 2023
2Australia - Rainforest: Bette10 Jan 2023
3USA - Californian Desert: DNA17 Jan 2023
4Uruguay – Rhona Mitra24 Jan 2023
5Italy – Tuscan Hills – George & Sophie31 Jan 2023