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Ben visits the Caribbean island of Montserrat, where a volcano devastated large areas in the 1990s. Within two years most of the population had fled their homes. Ben uncovers unique stories of heroism and loss.
Ben Fogle spends a week living inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, gaining privileged access to the doomed Control Room 4 where the disaster first began to unfold.
Ben Fogle heads to Slab City in the Sonora desert, California, to explore a unique, off-grid, alternative lifestyle community who live in the 'last free place in America'. It's a place where there is no mains water, electricity, sewer, or rubbish collection, and people survive in intense summer temperatures.
Ben Fogle and Victoria Pendleton are guided by professional mountaineer Kenton Cool, a veteran of twelve Everest summits. As they head up the mountain, into the notorious "death zone", physical exhaustion, extreme conditions and misfortune will test the pair to their limits, 65 years after Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers known to have reached the summit. Since that day in 1953, more than 4000 people have successfully climbed Everest but nearly 300 climbers have died on her icy slopes. As Ben and Victoria begin their expedition and face their fears, they know Everest will be life-changing.