The author is by Jennifer Meierhans.
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Simon Reeve is in front of a waterfall in Costa Rica.
Simon Reeve has admitted that he sometimes feels like a hypocrite over the carbon footprint his travel documentaries leave behind.
The host has traveled around the world fronting travel shows for the BBC in places like Australia, Cuba and the Caribbean.
In the last few years, Reeve has been showing British landscapes.
He hoped that his shows would help mitigate the environmental impact.
On the Desert Island Discs, Reeve said that he felt like a hypocrite for discussing his carbon footprint.
"The only way we're going to know what's happening out there is by going out there and faithfully capturing it and bringing it back for people to see and be shocked by."
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While filming The Americas, Reeve met armed police in Mexico.
He was always interested in trying to find bears in a forest in the middle of the night.
He said to take chances on planet Earth because it's the way to feel alive.
He said that there have been times when he had realised how dangerous a trip was.
When he and his team were trying to find the source of a new drug, they discovered that the place they had gone to interview individuals was actually a gang's drug den.
He said that he felt a sense of responsibility, but that he and his colleagues were more alert to risk and danger than most people.
We try and design that out.
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A helicopter carrying Italian police officers escort over a ton of cocaine that was seized during the course of the year.
He did not fly on a plane until he was an adult and had presented travel documentaries including Holidays In The Danger Zone: Places That Don't Exist.
I don't take the journeys I've been on for granted, that's partly why I'm so grateful for them.
The TV host left school with one qualification and no job, and was suffering from poor mental health.
He said he stepped back in every possible sense after he found himself on the edge of a bridge.
He climbed the editorial ladder at the Sunday Times until he was trusted with his own news stories and investigations.
Desert Island Discs can be heard on the radio on Sunday.
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