Alex found many ways to test the presenters whilst filming with the military. Household names like John Leslie, Tim Vincent and Matt Baker found humour in their discomfort while surviving in a snow hole on top of a Norwegian mountain in the dead of Winter – and taking part in the fabled tests that the Paras must pass to get their ‘wings’.
Lifting landmines in Angola caused surprise and alarm and free falling parachuting exploits nearly broke the will of one presenter and the pelvis of another, leading to gripping stories of courage and determination.
