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From being bitten by a flesh-eating parasite and having his drink spiked to overcoming hypothermia - a look at Ben Fogle's terrifying brushes with death after his horror road scare
The TV adventurer said it was 'ironic' it had not happened during one of his trips to the jungle or desert, before claiming his two children had also nearly come close to the injury.
While Ben began planning his huge trek to Antarctica with pal James Cracknell, he was hit by an unexpected health scare, after being unknowingly bitten by a sand fly while filming Extreme Dreams for the BBC in the jungles of Peru. 'At 7.30am on the 16th April, after more than five weeks of acclimatising and training on Mount Everest, I finally realised a childhood dream when I successfully summited the 8848m mountain,' the TV star said, as he shared a photo of himself on top of the world's highest peak. The presenter, who has six dogs and is married to wife Marna, has started a petition to reduce the current 60mph speed limit to 20mph before a fatality occurs after his two children son Ludo, 15, and 13-year-old daughter Iona also had near misses on separate occasions.
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