Steve Backshall

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Stephen James Backshall (born 21 April 1973) is a BAFTA-winning English naturalist, writer, and television presenter best known for BBC TV's Deadly 60.

Other BBC jobs include serving on expedition teams in Lost Land of the Tiger, Lost Land of the Volcano, and Lost Land of the Jaguar.

He has worked for both the National Geographic Channel and Discovery Channel.

He has written three books for children and many non-fiction ones.

Early life

Backshall's parents worked with British Airways, and he was brought up in a smallholding in Bagshot surrounded by rescue animals.

In the sixth year, Backshall attended Collingwood College in Camberley and Brooklands College, Surrey. He traveled solo around Asia, India, and Africa. He continued his English and theatre studies at the University of Exeter. He earned his MSc in bioscience from Canterbury Christ Church University in 2020.

He is fluent in Japanese, Indonesian, and Spanish.

Personal life

Backshall and Olympic champion rower Helen Glover announced their participation in 2015. On September 10, the couple married in Prussia Cove, Cornwall.

Backshall and Glover were expecting twins in March 2018. Glover said in April that one of the twins had died but that she and Backshall were "hopeful for the remaining baby to arrive this summer." Backshall and Glover announced the birth of their baby boy on July 24th.

Backshall and Glover announced the birth of their twins on January 20, 2020. When Glover was born in Cornwall, all of their children's names had Cornish roots.

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Career

Backshall's first job after returning from Japan was as an author in Rough Guides to Indonesia and South East Asia.

Backshall attempted to walk solo across New Guinea's western half in 1997, a time known as Irian Jaya; he spent three months in the rainforest, but was ultimately unsuccessful. He had an idea for a series, bought a video camera, and headed to Colombia, where he sold a pilot to the National Geographic Channel in 1998, where he spent five years as a producer and host.

Backshall of National Geographic International coproduced Game For It and the EarthPulse series. He walked across Israel's Negev Desert on A Walk in The Desert. He completed the Israeli special forces selection process for Bootcamp, running 60 miles overnight to gain their red beret. At the Banf Mountain Film Festival, Cracking the Canyon was nominated for Best Adventure Film.

He migrated to The Really Wild Show on BBC in 2003. He traveled up Australia's east coast, from Tasmania to Cape Tribulation in his first film. In the upcoming series, he travelled around Central America, the Galapagos, and then Southern Africa for the final series in 2006. Michaela Strachan, a long-serving host, competed alongside fellow naturalist Nick Baker in a string of wildlife challenges, as well as long-serving host Michaela Strachan. The Really Wild Show was cancelled after four years, so he joined the BBC Natural History Unit's expedition team.

The team travelled to Expedition Borneo, BBC 2005, in search of new species. He was among the first to explore the passages beneath the mighty 'Solo' sinkhole in the Mulu mountains of Borneo, and he made the first ascent of Mount Kuli's north side.

He co-presented Springwatch Trackers (BBC Two) with Kirsten O'Brien, and the Springwatch farm in Devon was broadcast live from the Springwatch farm in Devon between 28 May and June 2007. A string of tracker challenges was presented to both boys and girls teams.

Backshall's Deadly 60 was commissioned in 2008, followed by the Live n Deadly offshoot, whose aim was to encourage children to get outside and interested in wildlife and adventure; his live wildlife question and answer performances attracted up to 14,000 people per event. He looked for predators that were "not only deadly to me but deadly in their own world." He swoop outside of the cage with great white, bull, great hammerhead, mako, and tiger sharks, a redback spider crawled across his hand and was bitten on the leg by a caiman while looking for anaconda in an Argentinian swamp. The programmes were broadcast on Nat Geo Wild, Animal Planet, and BBC to 157 countries around the world. Deadly Pole to Pole, the fourth season of the series Deadly Pole to Pole, was shot in 2013–2014 from the Arctic circle to Antarctica, traveling south through the Americas. During kayaking in Svalbard, a polar bear was stalked by a polar bear, filming feeding sharks and eagles using timeslice techniques, investigating flooded caves and the insides of a glacier, and catching hundreds of species of snake and crocodile. He was bitten by a shark but was rescued by a chain-mail shark suit. With the help of a predatory leopard seal, the finale was submerged under Antarctic icebergs.

In Lost Land of the Jaguar, BBC One 2008, he was the first expedition to successfully scale Mount Upuigma. On the summit, they found an endemic frog and mouse as well as footprints of an unidentified mammal. John Arran, a lead climber, named the route "Spiders in the Mist" and gave it a British rating of E7.

He filmed Ultimate Caving, BBC One 2008, with Kate Humble, Secret Wilderness Japan, BBC Two, 2008, and also presented Nature Reports for the BBC's The One Show.

He led the first western expedition into Mount Bosavi, where they found new species of cuscus; frogs; and a giant rat, the first on Earth, in Lost Land of the Volcano. In addition, they discovered miles of undiscovered passages in the Mageni cave system in New Britain.

The expedition team traveled to Bhutan and filmed the Bengal tigers above the tree-line in the Himalayas, with remote cameras, which were uncharacteristically high than had ever been shot before. Their presence at these altitudes has previously been noted in reports from India, Nepal, and Bhutan. They also made the first descent of the Drangme Chu, a grade V white-water river.

In a Supergiants film, he explained why animals grow so large. It involved diving in Botswana, sperm whales in the Caribbean, and avoiding 2-ton elephant seals in California.

On BBC Four, he appeared on Nature's Microworlds in 2013.

Backshall appeared on the twelfth series of Strictly Come Dancing from September 2014 on BBC One. Ola Jordan, a former champion, was partnered with him. In week nine, the couple departed the show after dancing a jive to Frankie Lymon's "Little Bitty Pretty One."

Backshall co-presented Big Blue Live, a series of three programmes for BBC1, featuring marine life in Monterey Bay, California, in August 2015. The series received a BAFTA award for best live series.

The BBC broadcast a series called Steve Backshall's Extreme Peak Challenge in 2016, in which the explorer attempted another first ascension by scaling one of Venezuela's remote and forbidden tepuis - sheer-sided flat-top mountains. In episode 1 of Backshall and his crew confront Amaurai Tepui in Canaima National Park, south Venezuela. A storm struck the mountain, and rockfall nearly killed Aldo Kane's climbing partner.

Following Backshall's expedition to New Guinea with Steve Backshall, the BBC premiered Down the Mighty River in 2017. In Papua, the team of whitewater kayakers attempted to make the first ever descent of the 500-mile-long Baliem River; an expedition Backshall had been planning since 1997. They fought some of the world's biggest whitewater, capsizes, sickness, and local politics over the course of six weeks. They made it from source to sea, but they were aware that they hadn't kayaked the entire distance. Backshall and his partner Helen Glover's three-part series Wild Alaska Live, co-presented by Liz Bonnin and Matt Baker, aired in July 2017.

Backshall And They're Off! Sport Relief is a charity that supports refugees in need of assistance. Steve Backshall appeared in the first five episodes of Springwatch this year, as well as a 45-minute documentary on CBBC. He hosted Deadly Dinosaurs, a ten-part series that also for CBBC in summer 2018.

Backshall, Liz Bonnin, and Chris Packham appeared on BBC One in March 2019. From Bimini's shark sanctuary, backshall was seen diving live with mighty hammerhead sharks, tiger sharks, bull sharks, and reef sharks.

Backshall's project Expedition, which was broadcast by BBC2, SBS, PBS, and Discovery Asia, was launched in 2018-2019. This involved ten expeditions to areas of the globe that had never been explored before. In the Yucatan cenotes, the team discovered many miles of sunken cave passages. They were among the first river descents in Suriname and discovered a waterfall that had never been seen before. It was the second highest in the nation at over 100 meters. Backshall was trapped in a five-minute rapid on the first descent of the Chamkhar Chhu river in Bhutan and almost drowned. Sal Montgomery, a rescue kayaker, saved his life. They also completed an ascent of Jebel Samnhan in Oman, as well as the first exploration of a desert canyon with a local explorer.

He travelled South America in 2008, hoping to find out as much as possible about venom, including participating in the bullet ant festival, where he was stung hundreds of times by the world's most stinging insect.

He swam with big fish, including anaconda, hippopotamus, Humboldt squid, and great white sharks that didn't have a cage in Swimming with Monsters, including anaconda, hippopotamus, Humboldt squid, and great white sharks without the security of a cage.

For Sky One's Inside the King Cobra, he filmed Inside the King Cobra in 2006.

Backshall and Brian May's One-Hedgehogs, a one-hour documentary on Channel 5 in 2017, was broadcast on September 5, 2017.

Backshall began writing for publication Rough Guides and is the author of their Indonesian guidebook. He continues to contribute to British newspapers.

Backshall wrote: "I was a big reader when I was a kid" and I wanted to write more than ever. I jumped at it as soon as I was given the opportunity. It's an idea that I've had in mind for a long time, of these two teenagers on the run who have become almost wildlife vigilantes, and it's one that I've had a blast writing."

He released The Falcon Chronicles, the first in a series of fantasy books, in May 2012.

"I hope that the reader will be entertained," Backshall said, "I hope that some of the readers, even if it's a small minority," will read more and want to know more and find out for themselves what they can do."

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