Magazines Fogle's initial jobs included picture editor at
Tatler magazine. Fogle has produced films about naval history and the
Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) for the History Channel and followed Princes William and Harry on their first joint Royal Tour in
Botswana and made an exclusive documentary called ''Prince William's Africa''. He marked the centenary of Captain
Scott's expedition to the
South Pole with ''The Secrets of Scott's Hut
. Fogle is popular on the motivational and corporate speaking circuit. His two-part documentary, Swimming with Crocodiles
aired on BBC Two in 2012. Production commenced in 2011 for Storm City'' in 3D on Sky One and National Geographic. Fogle was hired for two years as a special correspondent for
NBC News in the United States, in 2011. Their purpose was to cover the April royal wedding of
Prince William and
Catherine Middleton and the 2012
London Olympics. Fogle appeared on the programme
Countryfile with
John Craven from 2001 to 2008, during which he reported on a number of UK rural pastimes. He rejoined the programme in 2014. Since 2013, Fogle has presented two series of
Harbour Lives, a documentary series on
ITV. In 2014, Fogle joined the presenting team on
ITV series
Countrywise with
Liz Bonnin and
Paul Heiney, which covers aspects of the British coast and country. Since 2013, Fogle has presented his show for
Channel 5 called
Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild, that sees him follow the stories of people living "off grid" in the wild and isolated from society. In 2024, he interviewed musician
Vanessa Forero in her Colombian cabin about the kidnapping of her mother
Marina Chapman, and has expressed his hope to make a film about Chapman's life story. Fogle took over as the host of recommissioned and re-titled ''Ben Fogle's Animal Clinic'' on Channel 5, replacing disgraced presenter
Rolf Harris. In 2016, Ben Fogle also had an accidental appearance on the hit TV series taskmaster during a task in which the contestants were completing a task on the river with giant foam hands, Dave Gorman asked Ben Fogle to yell from across the river. In 2026, Fogle participated in the
seventh series of
The Masked Singer as "Sloth". He was unmasked in the seventh episode.
Sport Atlantic Rowing Race Fogle was the first to cross the line in the pairs division of the 2005–2006
Atlantic Rowing Race in "Spirit of EDF Energy", partnered by Olympic rower
James Cracknell. While competing in the 3,000-mile race, the pair had their boat fully capsized by huge waves. They made landfall in
Antigua at 07.13
GMT on 19 January 2006, a crossing time of 49 days, 19 hours, 8 minutes. After penalties, they were placed second in the pairs and fourth overall. In 2007, the BBC series that followed the pair,
Through Hell and High Water, won a
Royal Television Society award.
Marathon des Sables He has also completed the six-day
Marathon des Sables for the
World Wide Fund for Nature across of the
Sahara Desert and the Safaricom Marathon in
Kenya for the
Tusk Trust, with
Longleat Safari Park keeper Ryan Hockley. Fogle has completed the
Bupa Great North Run in 1 hour 33 minutes, the
London Marathon and the Royal Parks Half Marathon. He beat
EastEnders actor
Sid Owen in a three-round charity
boxing match for
BBC Sport Relief under the training of
Frank Bruno and he recently re-ran the Safaricom marathon in Kenya with the injured Battleback Soldiers.
Amundsen Omega 3 South Pole Race Fogle teamed up with Cracknell once again, together with Ed Coats, a Bristol-based doctor, as Team
QinetiQ to take part in the inaugural "Amundsen Omega 3 South Pole Race". Six teams set out to race across the
Antarctic Plateau to commemorate the historic
race of 1911 between
Roald Amundsen and
Robert Falcon Scott. Having led the race for much of the time, the team took 18 days, 5 hours and 10 minutes to complete the race, coming second overall, 20 hours behind the Norwegian team, who commended them on making it "a fantastic race", and over two days ahead of the next placed team. Fogle suffered
hypothermia and
frostbite to his nose and the team experienced temperatures as low as . The race was filmed by the BBC for the series
On Thin Ice and was aired in Summer 2009. Five episodes of
On Thin Ice were broadcast on
BBC Two Sunday evenings receiving a peak record of 3.7 million viewers. Macmillan published an account of their journey,
Race to The Pole, which became a top-10 best-seller in the UK. In October 2009, Fogle and Cracknell cycled a
rickshaw 423 miles from
Edinburgh to London non-stop. They took 60 hours to reach the capital, raising money for
SSAFA (Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association). The event was filmed as part of The
Pride of Britain Awards. Fogle and Cracknell planned to take part in the
Tour Divide race in 2010, a 3,000-mile mountain-bike race across the
Rocky Mountains, from
Banff in Canada to the border of
Mexico. The world record is held by American Matthew Lee and stands at 17 days. The race was put on hold after Cracknell received life-threatening injuries after being knocked from his bicycle in America while training. In 2013, Fogle and Cracknell teamed up again for their third and final expedition across the
Empty-quarter of
Oman for a new BBC Two series.
Mount Everest On 16 May
2018, Fogle summited Mount Everest, completing the climb over a six-week period whilst accompanied by two sherpa guides and
Kenton Cool. His trek also included former Olympic cyclist
Victoria Pendleton, who abandoned her attempt due to severe
altitude sickness. A film
Our Mount Everest Challenge (The Challenge: Everest) documented by
CNN, aired in June 2018, to highlight environmental issues around mountains in his new role as UN patron of the wilderness. The whole project was made possible by Fogle's good friend,
Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein of Jordan, in memory of her father alongside raising awareness and money for
The Red Cross.
Writing Fogle has written ten books;
The Teatime Islands (2004) in search of the remaining islands in the
British Empire in which he travels to
Saint Helena,
Ascension Island, the
Falkland Islands, the
British Indian Ocean Territories and
Tristan da Cunha. He also tried to visit
Pitcairn Island by private yacht, but when the inhabitants learned that he was a journalist they refused to let him land. Fogle claims that they suspected that he was a spy, and after six hours of interrogation he was refused permission to visit and deported. He was also accused of attempting to smuggle a
breadfruit on to the island. The book was short-listed for the
WHSmith's people's award for Best Travel Book. He has also written
Offshore (2006), published by
Penguin Books, in which he travelled around Britain in search of an island of his own. He visited the
Principality of Sealand and attempted to land on
Rockall in the North Atlantic. In 2006 he published
The Crossing, published by Atlantic books and co-written with Cracknell followed their Transatlantic rowing bid. In 2009,
The Race to the Pole was published by Macmillan and spent ten weeks in the best-seller list. His seventh book
Labrador was released in 2015. In it, he explores the origin, characteristics and exploits of the breed. In 2016,
Land Rover: The Story of the Car that Conquered the World was published.
English: A Story of Marmite, Queuing and Weather, which was published in 2017, examines the English national character. He published his tenth book,
Up, in October 2018. Co-written with his wife, Marina,
Up documents his planning, training and eventual summit of Mount Everest. In 2019 Fogle launched a children's book series, co-written by best-selling children's author
Steve Cole (author) and illustrated by Nikolas Ilic. Inspired by Fogle's real-life encounters with animals, the series follows the character of Mr Dog and his many sidekicks and friends. Between March 2019 and January 2020, four Mr Dog books were published, with two more billed for late 2020. Fogle writes a weekly Country Diary for the
Sunday Telegraph and is a regular columnist for
The Daily Telegraph and travel writer for
The Independent and has contributed to the
Evening Standard,
The New York Times, the
Sunday Times and
Glamour magazine. He has interviewed
Gordon Brown and Prince William for the
Mail on Sundays
LIVE magazine. He is guest director of Cheltenham Literary Festival and a regular at the
Hay-on-Wye festival. ==Activism==