The Explorer
To The Brink & Back
Client: BBC World News
Mission Film The Explorer
Following one of the UK’s most loved explorers, to the brink, and then back again.
The Project
What started as a passion project after reading a local news article became a BBC World News documentary to an audience of over 400 million.
Robin Hanbury-Tenison has crossed continents by foot, hovercraft and jeep, and this was before the days of satellite phones. He’s famous for starting Survival International, a charity based in London that fights for the world’s indigenous people.
Robin was one of the first people to be hit by COVID and very nearly lost his life. We followed his journey from hospital to climbing one of the highest mountains in the South West.
This all began as a passion project, and it led to so much more…
World wide broadcast
The project was picked up by the BBC and re-commissioned to be shot as a longer form, 20 minute film.
The final film was broadcast to an audience of over 400 million people.
You can watch the final film on the BBC website below
