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Where the Wild Men Are with Ben Fogle

Adventurer Ben Fogle travels the planet meeting people who have turned their backs on the trappings of Western society, seeking a new lifestyle in some of the most isolated locations on Earth. In this captivating travel documentary, he meets a former photographer who lives alone in a self-built tin shack and a couple in Alaska who walked 4,000 miles to set up a home in the mountains.
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Episodes

  1. S1 E1 - Australia
    April 21, 2013
    43min
    TV-14
    Adventurer Ben Fogle travels to Restoration Island on Australia's Great Barrier Reef to visit former businessman David. As this intriguing travel documentary reveals, David lost $10million in the stock market crash of 1987, as well as his marriage and his home. Now he lives alone on an island in a house made of recycled material and makes beer to trade with local fishermen for food.
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  2. S1 E2 - Alaska
    April 28, 2013
    43min
    TV-14
    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.
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  3. S1 E3 - New Zealand
    May 5, 2013
    44min
    TV-14
    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.
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  4. S1 E4 - Texas
    May 12, 2013
    44min
    TV-14
    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.
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Audio languages
English
Subtitles
English [CC]
Cast
Ben Fogle
Studio
Renegade Films
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