The BEST episodes of Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild season 5

Every episode of Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild season 5!

Ben Fogle travels round the world to visit people who have given up the rat race.

Last Updated: 12/6/2024Network: Channel 5Status: Continuing
The Selkirk Mountains, British Columbia, Canada
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8.17
12 votes

#1 - The Selkirk Mountains, British Columbia, Canada

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/15/2016

Ben 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.

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Appalachian Mountains, North Carolina
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8.00
5 votes

#2 - Appalachian Mountains, North Carolina

Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/6/2016

Documentary series. Ben Fogle meets people who have gone back to basics in remote parts of the world. Ben 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.

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Ibiza
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7.89
9 votes

#3 - Ibiza

Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/24/2016

Ben travels to Ibiza to meet a former merchant sailor.

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Ruaha National Park, Tanzania
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7.80
15 votes

#4 - Ruaha National Park, Tanzania

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/1/2016

Ben Fogle meets a husband and wife who gave up the city rat race to live as safari guides in an unexplored Tanzanian national park.

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Gadacs, Hungary
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7.77
13 votes

#5 - Gadacs, Hungary

Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/8/2016

In 2015, South African Julia Pryke and her British husband Gareth Shone bought a derelict farmhouse in rural Hungary via the internet. Ben meets them and helps them to install a window and assist them in buying chickens at market.

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North Cascades, Washington State USA
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7.53
19 votes

#6 - North Cascades, Washington State USA

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/25/2016

Ben meets Lynx Vilden a British woman who has spent more than half her years living, sleeping and hunting in the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest. He discovers how she has not only survived, but thrived in the harsh conditions.

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Khatgal, Outer Mongolia
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7.14
7 votes

#7 - Khatgal, Outer Mongolia

Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/29/2016

Documentary series. Adventurer Ben Fogle meets people who have gone back to basics in remote parts of the world. Ben 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.

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Morocco, Atlas Mountains
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7.14
7 votes

#8 - Morocco, Atlas Mountains

Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/13/2016

Documentary 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...

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