‘Bloody hell,” says Simon Reeve as he wades through thigh-high mud somewhere in the Congo Basin. Reeve and his crew are three days from the nearest hotel or hospital and progressing, he estimates, at approximately 1mph, because every step involves scrambling, chopping, ducking or, as is happening right now, hauling themselves through ankle-sucking swamp.
Wilderness With Simon Reeve is the canny explorer’s new series, which promises an itinerary full of extreme challenges. His hack through the unforgiving rainforest fulfils the brief: this wilderness is hard to be in, but the rewards for his trek are things worth seeing and things worth saving.
