Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild
Season 5
TV-14
A British urbanite follows in the footsteps of various individuals, who against all odds, have willingly forsaken the luxuries and lifestyle of the modern world, for a less-than-ordinary life in the wilderness.
Where to Watch Season 5
8 Episodes
- The Selkirk Mountains, British Columbia, Canada
E4The Selkirk Mountains, British Columbia, CanadaBen meets former war correspondent Julius Strauss and his Estonian wife Kristin, the former bureau chief at Reuters. They gave up successful careers as journalists in Europe for a new life as grizzly bear guides in the Selkirk Mountains. - Khatgal, Outer Mongolia
E6Khatgal, Outer MongoliaBen meets Micky and Trina Cofer, who along with their four children, left behind the comforts of America to become missionaries in the freezing tundra of Outer Mongolia. In temperatures of below minus 20, Ben builds his own ger (yurt) to sleep in, uses a freezing outhouse, attempts ice-fishing, joins a wolf-hunt and learns how to wrestle. - Appalachian Mountains, North Carolina
E7Appalachian Mountains, North CarolinaBen travels to a secret location in the Appalachian mountains of North Carolina, where forest dweller Tod Kershaw lives in a primitive skills community who have chosen not to live as members of modern society, but as opportunistic outsiders who scavenge other peoples' waste. - Morocco, Atlas Mountains
E8Morocco, Atlas MountainsDocumentary series. Ben Fogle meets people who have given up the rat race for an alternative lifestyle. Dina Zughyar and Mostafa Jabbour turned their back on the American Dream to start from scratch with a handful of rabbits and chickens on a small patch of barren land in the shadow of the Atlas Mountains. In their mud house in Morocco, the couple confess to Ben that it has been much harder than they thought...
