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Extreme Dreams: The Ultimate Challenge: Episode 18

Episode 18

BBC Two - Extreme Dreams: The Ultimate Challenge, Episode 18

Ben leads his team across the Atacama salt plains with their razor-sharp salt crystals.

Ben Fogle is on an adventure across the Andes from the Equator to the Tropic of Capricorn. Ben leads his team across the Atacama salt plains with their razor-sharp salt crystals.

Ben Fogle leads a team of deserving heroes on the final leg of his epic South American adventure from the Equator to the Tropic of Capricorn. In this episode, they cross the legendary Atacama Desert in Chile, the driest place on earth, in a bid to summit Volcano Corona.

Ben leads his team across the Atacama salt plains with their razor-sharp salt crystals. But exposed in this vast desert with no shade from the scorching sun, district nurse Katie suffers intense pain from her blistered and swollen feet.

As they climb ever higher into thinner air, the crippling effects of altitude start to kick in and they struggle to catch their breath. Air ambulance paramedic Haydn collapses in camp and Ben suddenly faces a medical emergency.

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Ben Fogle embarks on a South American trip from the Equator to the Tropic of Capricorn

Ben Fogle embarks on an epic South American adventure from the Equator to the Tropic of Capricorn, supported by teams of deserving heroes who help him take on the world's toughest environments

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