Ben Fogle is used to sitting down with his wife and two children at the kitchen table to tentatively float the idea of a risky trip.
The presenter, author and adventurer – back on TV this week with a new series of Channel 5’s New Lives In The Wild – has rowed the Atlantic, raced to the South Pole, climbed Everest and visited remote locations in 40 countries during 11 years of the show.
This time he wanted to gauge his clan’s thoughts on a trip to war-ravaged Ukraine, not for the cameras but simply because he felt he must go.
