It was such a privilege to get access to some really remote areas of China with extraordinary variety - high altitude swamps and deserts, snow-capped mountain ridges and vast subterranean cave systems. Nothing is ever certain, especially nowadays, but if Discovery suggested it, I know Laura and I would jump!ДЄs for the other show, where all did you go for the shoot of First Man Out Season 2?Д®verything was shot in China. We would love to evolve the concept of Man Woman Child Wild into a family survival show but that canвЂ™t happen for about two years now due to the ages of the twins. WeвЂ™re actually expecting child 2 and 3! ItвЂ™s twins. Can you manage with two kids now that you are expecting your second child? You mentioned plans for a longer season of Man Woman Child Wild. We were exhausted at the end of the project, having to child mind or film or simply survive all the time. Still, about 90 per cent (of the footage) was self-filmed. Nobody wants a child to come to any harm. But as I had my wife and kid along, occasionally, they did send a boat with the cameraman if we were doing something that was particularly difficult. Looking back, it was definitely the right decision.Дid you have a cameraman to record the footage? We had a big bunch of bananas for him that lasted for about five days before they started to get too brown. We took some fresh drinking water for Ran because he was at such a minor age. With all that in place, it turned out to be much safer than a holiday in the Maldives, I imagine! (Laughs)Дid you carry any food for your child on this expedition? A team with two doctors was on standby, ready to jump into a boat and reach where we were on the island should anything go wrong and take us to a hospital on the mainland. Their parenting is based on being very aware and not letting their children get into a situation where they are in any danger. They donвЂ™t consider their environment to be dangerous as it is their home. So we went to live with the Ment Awai tribe of Sumatra to learn how they look after their children. We are used to being in the wild, but having a baby would be different. Yes, we didnвЂ™t know how we were going to cope. You could hardly childproof everything on an island!

Having a baby around must have been risky. Of course, we had to be more cautious but we got more out for the show because of it. Now he could run around, explore the sea, the cliff. If we went at the original time he wouldnвЂ™t have been walking. Ran was 20 months old when we finally went to the island. She was ready to live on an island in that condition but the project insurance would not cover that. The project got delayed as she got pregnant again.

She had led a kayak expedition down South American rivers. Whose idea was it to take your two-year-old son Ranulph along? We spent a few days with the Ment Awai tribe and then three weeks on the island. We were just off the west coast on the main Island in Sumatra.

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