Nick Knowles in South America

Intrepid Nick Knowles sets off on another ambitious adventure for Channel 5, this time to South America.

From the self-styled ‘end of the world’ in Chile, Nick treks to the astonishing Torres del Paine National Park, considered by some to be the eighth wonder of the world. From the lake district, he visits a Chilean archipelago in the Pacific and its largest island Chiloe, home of witches, and finally traverses the Andes to end his South American odyssey in Argentina.

Crossing the Magellan Strait, he watches baby penguins hatching, then travels north, kayaks under the great Grey Glacier, hydro boards in a fast-flowing river under the Osorno volcano and climbs a Very Big Rock in Torres del Paine.

All this and culture too – Nick learns Chile’s joyful/mournful dance, la cueca, digs in dung for worms at an eco-hotel, herds bulls, is taught to tango and uncovers the scandalous story about the fate of Eva Peron’s body after her early death. And caps it all with the very best steak of his life in Buenos Aires.