Explorer, Film Maker, TV Presenter & Author

One of Britain's most prominent explorers, Benedict is also perhaps our most authentic – he travels without the use of satellite phones, film-crew, GPS or any of the normal backup normally used by other adventurers today. Instead he relies on skills learnt from indigenous people, setting off alone and immersing himself in seemingly hostile worlds. Few people alive have lived so long alone in so many perilous environments.

• What made him undergo a harrowing “crocodile” initiation ceremony in New Guinea – never before fully witnessed by any outsider – and be given extensive crocodile scars and beaten for six weeks?
  
  
• How did he survive being shot at by assassins belonging to the drug baron Pablo Escobar, escape gold miners determined to kill him or stagger out of the jungle, having been left to die alone in the jungle?
  
  
• And what are the contents of his famous survival kit?

What it Takes to Survive
Said to be a “cat who’s used up six of his nine lives,” Benedict in this new show shares with the audience his latest stories and clips of his arduous expeditions, revealing with his considerable sense of humour what it takes to survive again and again in jungles, deserts and icy wastes. He reveals what it is that has kept him alive over twenty years of living dangerously.

“Television’s most fearless man” - The Radio Times

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