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Airdate: Ed Stafford: Left For Dead

Brit adventurer is deep in Madagascar, Bolivia, Panama, Laos, Mongolia & Bulgaria for Discovery.

Discovery soon premieres Brit adventurer Ed Stafford in a new series Ed Stafford: Left For Dead.

Episodes feature him in Madagascar, Bolivia, Panama, Laos, Mongolia and Bulgaria.

The epic adventure series follows the English explorer in his attempt to escape these locations in under ten days – any longer and there’s a real chance he could end up in a life-threatening situation. That’s because on the move without food, it takes just ten days for the human body to start to shut down. Ed is on a mission to find out what it’s really like when you’re lost, alone and desperately searching for a safe route back to civilisation, and to see if it’s really possible to make it out alive.

Subtropical forests, parched deserts and desolate mountains await Ed. Dropped in the wilderness alone, with no survival kit and just ten days to get out, he must push the limits of human endurance on the move. Using only natural navigation, Ed relies on his wits and survival skills to make split-second decisions as he travels without basic survival gear. He has no map, compass, knife, camping equipment, food or water – just his camera kit to document each journey – and must overcome hunger, thirst, fatigue and life-threatening obstacles.

The challenges that Ed faces are so dangerous that an expert rescue team tracks him from afar – ready to venture out to retrieve him at a moment’s notice. But if he gets into serious trouble, there’s no guarantee they’ll be able to reach him in time in such hostile landscapes.

Ed’s journey begins in amongst the tidal mangroves of Madagascar; an environment home to a unique range of wildlife found nowhere else on Earth. He also heads to Bolivia’s Atacama Desert, Panama’s Darien Gap, the Asian forests of Laos, Mongolia’s Altai Mountains and Bulgaria’s Rhodope Mountains.

Ed Stafford: Left For Dead proves that survival is more than just a test of physical strength – it takes mental agility and unyielding determination to make it out alive.

Tuesdays from 31 October at 9.30pm on Discovery.

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