Wilderness with Simon Reeve

Episode 1: Congo
Adventurer Simon Reeve battles his way through the Congo, Africa’s greatest rainforest.

Adventurer Simon Reeve travels through the Congo, the second-greatest rainforest on Earth. In one of the toughest journeys he’s ever undertaken, he travels five hundred miles across dense tropical jungle, heading for the region of Salonga, where he searches for one of the rarest and most iconic creatures on the continent: the bonobo. But will he be able to track down his elusive target?

Episode 2: Patagonia
Simon Reeve treks across the mountains and glaciers of Patagonia in South America.

Simon Reeve travels through wilderness of Patagonia, at the foot of the South American continent. A beautiful and rugged land of mountains, ice and endless wild grasslands, the region is whipped by wind, rain and snow. Simon’s journey takes him up to the huge south Patagonian ice field, through the foothills of the Andes, towards the great Grey Glacier of eastern Chile.

Episode 3: Coral Triangle
Simon Reeve voyages across the remote ocean wilderness known as the Coral Triangle.

Simon Reeve voyages across the Coral Triangle. It’s a huge wilderness of tropical seas and jungle clad islands in the southwest corner of the Pacific that’s been described as the Amazon of the seas. Surrounded by the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia, the Coral Triangle is one of the most beautiful and biodiverse corners of our oceans, crucial to the health of the wider marine environment.

Episode 4: Kalahari
Simon Reeve crosses the parched and forbidding Kalahari Desert in southern Africa.

Simon Reeve travels across the Kalahari in southern Africa. Covering half a million square miles, it’s one of the last great unspoiled African wildernesses. Simon tracks wildebeest with one of the region’s indigenous groups, the San, who are renowned for their hunting techniques. And he visits the Okavango Delta, which is transformed each year by rain, from a desert to an oasis of greenery.