Ben Fogle

Ben, James Cracknell and Ed Coats have been training in the Plaine Morte Glacier of Crans Montana with trainer Bernie Shrosbree. The team endured sleep deprivation, hunger and crevaces as they trained at 3000 metres.

Ben will be heading off to Latin America for a new series, Extreme Andes, which will see Ben trekking from the Ecuator to the tropic of Capricorn by way of the Andes. He will be leading four seperate teams on this gruelling journey. The series will TX sometime in the new year.

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Ben Fogle and double Olympic rowing gold medallist, James Cracknell have announced their plans to enter the 2008 Race to the South Pole. The pair will endure temperatures of minus 75 as they cover nearly 400 miles of Antarctic white desert on foot. The race will be the first ever undertaken to the South Pole and will push the teams to their limits as they race to the bottom of the world. The pair are currently searching for a third team member to join them on their record attempt to the South Pole.

Ben has joined the innovative new island community of Tribewanted.com on the Fijian island of Vorovoro. The mastermind of Ben Keane, the island boasts a community of nearly 1000 and will be the subject of a major new BBC documentary in the Autumn.

Ben Fogle had always harboured a dream of owning an island and, at last, he found one - in the storm-tossed Hebrides. But, as he discovered, staking his claim proved something of a problem…

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