Steve is a 46 yeas old BAFTA-winning English naturalist, writer, and television presenter, mostly known for BBC TV's Deadly 60. And if that wasn't enough, in ‘The Venom Hunter’ he endured the stings of hundreds of bullet ants (the world’s most painful stinging invertebrate) in an initiation ceremony.The start of Steve's wildlife filming early in his career and his take on wildlife films that are made today.Outside television, Steve started studying for his biology degree in 2000 with the Open University, attained his diploma in Natural Sciences and has completed one of his finals courses, though is struggling to find time to complete the degree! He is absolutely passionate about rock and ice climbing and all disciplines of kayaking and cycling.Steve’s first love was writing. He also abseiled to the bottom of the Kaiteur Falls in Guyana to the soaked wonderland below.In ‘Lost Land of the Volcano’, Steve was the first outsider to enter the Volcano Mount Bosavi – where the team discovered as many as 40 new species, including the largest rat in the world! He has published several books, Steve has completed many endurance events; finished in the top third of the field in the Marathon Des Sables, the top ten of UK’s Tough Guy, 5th in the Welsh 1000m peaks marathon and completed the Devizes to Westminster kayak race. Steve also took part in a brutal caving expedition opening up new passage in Mageni Cave in New Britain.Other series included ‘Expedition Alaska’, where he was almost swallowed by humpback whales and was swept into the guts of a glacier, ‘Wilderness St Kilda’, ‘Extreme Britain – Caves’, ‘Springwatch Trackers’ and Nature Reports for the One Show.
However this time there is big difference … this summer Steve will appear live on stage with some of Australia’s deadliest animals!
When I was given the opportunity I absolutely leapt at it.
Arts were … TV BBC April 1973, the guy had been created in Bagshot, Surrey, Great Britain on 21st.
Over the following years Steve wrote for the Indonesian Rough Guides and during his travels became conversant in the local language, drank blood with uncontacted tribes, nearly got caught in fatal crossfire in riots in East Timor, came nose to nose with Komodo Dragons and attempted to walk solo across Irian Jaya (a woeful failure)!Armed with an idea for a television series, Steve headed out to Colombia. Saving Britain's Hedgehogs with Steve …
0 30 1 minute read. National Geographic Channel International bought the resultant video and Steve was taken on as ‘Adventurer in Residence’, producing, filming and presenting adventure and natural history programmes. Today, we are going to talk about one of the fearless personale in the world, who has been a spectacular person during his time.
In ‘Lost Land of the Jaguar’ he made the first ascent of Mount Upuigma in Venezuela, slept on the vertical cliff face and found unknown species of animals on the summit. It's an idea that I've had in mind for a long time, of these two youngsters on the run who become almost wildlife vigilantes, and it's one that I've had tremendous fun writing." Expedition with Steve Backshall . AFTER MULTIPLE SELL-OUT AUSTRALIAN TOURS, STEVE BACKSHALL, THE STAR OF THE HIT TV SHOW DEADLY 60 IS RETURNING TO AUSTRALIA WITH HIS DEADLIEST SHOW EVER. 2019.
Backshall's first job after returning from Japan was as an author on the Rough Guides to Indonesia and South East Asia. BBC Knowledge. After leaving Exeter University with a degree in English and Theatre Studies, Steve studied martial arts in Japan attaining his black belt. He began his career began working for the Rough Guides and freelance travel writing for publications including The Independent and The Times. Steve’s outdoor sports CV includes having climbed the sixth highest mountain in the world (Cho Oyu 8201m) as well as many other ascents around the globe. His other BBC work includes being part of the expedition teams in Backshall's first job after returning from Japan was as an author on the In 1997 Backshall attempted to walk solo across the western half of New Guinea, then known as For National Geographic International, Backshall presented the expedition series In 2017 the BBC premiered another two-part documentary following Backshall's expedition to New Guinea called In March 2019, Steve Backshall, along with Liz Bonnin and Backshall stated "I was a big reader when I was a kid ... Fiction was a massive, massive part of my formative years, far more so than television ever was, and I always hoped that my future would lie with writing. The true nature and animal lover is none other than Steve Backshall. "In 2014, he summitted the highly technical granite Backshall has a black belt in judo, attained after a year living in Japan studying the martial art.In July 2008, while attempting to climb a wet cliff face in the In 2012 he was awarded an honorary PhD from the University of Exeter.In 2012 he was awarded the Animal Carer Badge in the Scout Birthday Badge Awards.In 2017 Backshall and Glover were awarded Charity fundraisers of the year, after raising £360,000 for the In 2020 he was awarded the Scientific Exploration Society Explorer of the Year Award.On 16 September 2015, Backshall and Olympic champion rower On 13 March 2018, it was announced that Backshall and Glover were expecting twins.On 20 January 2020, Backshall and Glover announced the birth of their twins, Kit Newlyn and Willow Bo.
All their children's names had Cornish connections, due to Glover being born in Steve has circumnavigated the globe time and again, venturing into the Sinai desert , completing the Israeli paratroopers selection course, catching anacondas, vipers and cobras and (perhaps the best job ever) making “The Ten Great Dives of the World”, for the long-running series ‘Earthpulse’.Steve is one of the busiest presenters on television, mainly working for the BBC’s Natural History Unit.