Benedict Allen

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Into the Abyss

What keeps an explorer going, step after step, into a blizzard when there seems to be no hope? Benedict Allen, attempts to answer these questions sharing his scariest experiences - whether being shot at by drug barons, initiated as a ‘crocodile man’ in a secret ceremony, fleeing from Amazon gold miners, or being abandoned by guides. With his usual humour he conveys what it’s like to have faced the abyss - whether alone in the jungle, or in Siberia, as he reveals previously untold episodes of his journey with dogs in the worst winter in living memory.