Ben is an adventurer, presenter, speaker and writer who is also fluent in Spanish. He has hosted a number of hit shows including eight series of the BBC's Animal Park. He also presents Wild in Africa, Wild on the West Coast, Countryfile, One Man and His Dog and Crufts. 

Ben is an adventurer, presenter, speaker and writer. He has hosted a number of hit shows including eight series of the BBC's Animal Park. He also presents Wild in Africa, Wild on the West Coast,Countryfile, One Man and His Dog and Crufts.  

In 2005 he rowed the Atlantic with Olympic Gold Medallist James Cracknell, the five part BBC series, Through Hell and High Water, followed their efforts winning an RTS award. In 2009 Ben teamed up with Cracknell once again to race 500 miles on foot across Antarctica to the South Pole, the prime time BBC series, On Thin Ice. Ben's passion for adventure culminated in three series of the BBC hit, Ben Fogle's Extreme Dreams, in which he leads ordinary people on extraordinary journeys around the world from the jungles of Papua New Guinea to the desert of Libya. 

Ben has written a number of bestselling books including Offshore (penguin), The Teatime Islands(penguin) and The Crossing (Atlantic Books), his fourth, Race to the Pole will be published by Macmillan in June 2009. His writing has appeared in the Guardian, the Daily Mail, the Sunday Times and the New York Times. He writes a weekly column for the Sunday Telegraph on rural affairs and a monthly environmental column for Sky magazine and is a regular travel writer for theIndependent. 

2010 saw  Ben filming the acclaimed BBC documentary, Make me A New Face about the facially disfiguring disease, Noma, out in Ethiopia His documentary about Prince William, called Prince William's Africa in which Ben follows the young royal on his tour of Botswana with the charity TUSK was transmitted on Sky 1. Ben also filmed in Antarctica again to make a BBC documentary about Captain Scott and his hut which aired in 2011.

Ben has won a Royal Television Society (RTS) award for the highly acclaimed Through Hell and High Water. Ben has also been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Portsmouth. He has his Ocean Yachtmaster, and coastal skipper certificates, and is a qualified Dinghy sailor. Ben also has his NAUI Scuba licence and he is fluent in Spanish.

Ben currently presents films about Britain's Islands for One Show.  He has also signed a two year deal with NBC America, and will be a special correspondent based still in UK.