{"id":28042,"date":"2023-01-02T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1761151"},"modified":"2023-01-03T02:47:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T01:47:02","slug":"ben-fogle-meets-snowboarding-legend-in-new-lives-in-the-wild-preview","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/ben-fogle-meets-snowboarding-legend-in-new-lives-in-the-wild-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Fogle meets snowboarding legend in New Lives in the Wild preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Lauren Morris\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Monday, 02 January 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>Ben Fogle heads to the slopes for the season premiere of New Lives in the Wild, with the TV presenter meeting snowboarding star Mike Basich in a first-look clip at the upcoming episode.<\/p>\n<p>The season 17 premiere sees Fogle head to Sierra Nevada mountain range in the US to visit Basich, who left the sport of snowboarding to pursue a quieter life at his hand-built log cabin.<\/p>\n<p>In the sneak-peek clip, which can be shared exclusively by <a href=\"\/\/RadioTimes.com&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">RadioTimes.com<\/a>, Fogle chats to Basich about his choice to give up his career to \u201creconnect with the natural environment\u201d.<\/p> <div class=\"&quot;brightcove\" embed=\"\"> <div class=\"&quot;embed__intrinsic&quot;\"> <div class=\"&quot;brightcove__player\" vjs-playlist-player-container=\"\"> <video data-video-id=\"6317605659112\" data-account=\"69912529001\" data-player=\"ByeOf0VZEl\" data-embed=\"&quot;default&quot;\" data-application-id=\"\" controls=\"\" class=\"&quot;video-js&quot;\"> <\/video> <\/div> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<script src=\"&quot;\/\/players.brightcove.net\/69912529001\/ByeOf0VZEl_default\/index.min.js&quot;\"\/> <p>When asked whether he misses competition, Basich says: \u201cNo. Full freedom. I\u2019ve never felt better. The snow is going this way, I\u2019m going to follow it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The clip also teases moments later in the episode, including how the ex-professional \u201cgot his kicks by pushing his body to the edge\u201d by jumping out of helicopters before embarking on a \u201clife-changing project\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a fire about a year ago, the whole place burned inside,\u201d the American snowboarder says. \u201cThat\u2019s the one thing I can\u2019t get back is time for my kids, so that\u2019s a hard thing to process and accept to know that I\u2019ve got to figure something else out.\u201d<\/p> <p>In the episode, Fogle joins Basich at his log cabin in the Sierra Nevada mountains, where they \u201cexplore the mountain on skis\u201d and \u201cembrace Mike\u2019s genius in mechanics, metalwork and woodwork\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Later on in the season, the TV presenter will be heading to the Australian rainforest, the Californian desert and a remote valley in Uruguay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild airs on Tuesday 3rd January at 9pm on Channel 5.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Looking for something else to watch? 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