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Benedict Allen has a reputation as one of Britain's most prominent explorers who went on to pioneer the filming of authentic journeys for television.
By The Newsroom
Published 10th Feb 2009, 19:25 BST
Updated 7th Jun 2018, 19:10 BST

By not using a film-crew, he has allowed millions of people around the world to witness for the first time adventures unfolding genuinely in inhospitable terrain. Few people alive have been so long isolated and alone in so many different potentially-hostile environments.

His adventurous activities have included a 600-mile crossing of north-east Amazonia, completing the first recorded crossing of the central mountain range of Papua New Guinea and making the only known crossing of the Amazon basin at its widest point to mean a journey of 3,600 miles.

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All this, and more, has earned him the title of 'television's most fearless man'.

He has also written ten books about his exploits.

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