Channel 5 - New Lives in the Wild Series 5 (2016) Part 7 Appalachian Mountains, North Carolina

Ben Fogle meets people who have given up the rat race to start a new life in remote parts of the world.

Part 7 Appalachian Mountains, North Carolina

Ben travels to a secret location in the Appalachian mountains of North America, to live with forest dweller Tod Kershaw and his own wild community, who are fiercely protective of their privacy. His host, a former engineer, lives by his own rules in a thatched bark hut in a hillside forest in Madison County, North Carolina, eating whatever he can forage. Ben Fogle finds out why Tod decided to strip away the comforts of contemporary life and live outside modern society.

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