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Beyond Boundaries is a

reality TV series[1] produced by Diverse Bristol for BBC Two. Each series follows a team of adventurers with disabilities as they take on some of the toughest expeditions on the planet under the guidance of ex-SAS
Major Ken Hames.

Series One – Beyond Boundaries Nicaragua

Ade Adepitan

The first series of Beyond Boundaries Nicaragua follows a group of eleven men and women,[2][3] each of whom have a physical disability, as they trek across the rainforests, deserts, rivers and mountains of Nicaragua. The arduous route takes the participants from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

They start on the treacherous

Pacific Coast
. They have twenty-eight days to cross two hundred and twenty miles.

The team included Ade Adepitan, Jane Atkinson, Amar Latif, Sophie Morgan, Daryl Beeton, Warren Wolstencroft, Karl Sacks, Glenn Kirk, Lorraine Pooley, Charlie Fennel and Toby Farrar – two in wheelchairs, one deaf, one blind, one double foot amputee, two arm amputees, one with spina bifida and the other three were single leg amputees. Only seven participants finished the expedition.

This series was first transmitted on BBC Two in October 2005.

Series Two – Beyond Boundaries: The African Challenge

Beyond Boundaries: The African Challenge follows a group of adventurers with disabilities on a 2,000 mile journey across continental

Victoria Falls before reaching their destination on the Skeleton Coast
.

This series was first transmitted on BBC Two in October 2006.

Series Three – Across the Andes: Beyond Boundaries

10 teenagers with physical disabilities cross the

Amazon Basin, climb to over 5000m to reach the snowline on Cotopaxi, the highest active volcano in the world, and then descend to sea level, wading through miles of swamp before reaching the Pacific Ocean
.They are led by ex-SAS commando Ken Hames.

This series was first transmitted on BBC Two in May 2008.

References

  1. ISBN 978-1-317-15042-8
    .
  2. ^ "In pictures | Beyond Boundaries". BBC News. Retrieved 26 January 2013.
  3. ^ Elliott, Jane (8 October 2005). "Health | Crossing the jungle in a wheelchair". BBC News. Retrieved 26 January 2013.

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