Welcome to Steve Backshall's Website

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NEWS.....


I'm going to be out of the country with little or no internet access or mobile signal so will struggle to update you on my facebook and Twitter over the next few months. Please accept my apologies, but please do keep checking in at www.facebook.com/stevebackshallofficial and www.facebook.com/Deadly60 

A HUGE Congratulations to Steve and the Deadly 60 team for winning 2 Childrens BAFTAs! Factual WINNER: Deadly 60 John Miller, James Brickell BBC Bristol for CBBC/CBBC Presenter WINNER: Steve Backshall – Deadly 60 BBC Bristol for CBBC/CBBC Ufortunately Steve is away filming the new series so couldn't collect the award but see the team collecting best factual here: http://www.bafta.org/awards/childrens

Find a great interview with both Steve and Naomi at the CBBC website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/articles/live-n-deadly-interview The Live 'n' Deadly presenters take time out from their filming to answer some of your questions from the Messageboards. For tales of terrifying creatures (think sharks, think spiders, think Steve Backshall in the mornings), read on, read on... it's the deadliest interview on the web!

CONGRATULATIONS!
Great news as Steve has been voted 'World's Greatest Adventurer' by readers of National Geographic Kids magazine!





Keep up to date:

Keep up to date with Deadly 60 on the website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/shows/deadly-60

Statement from the BBC 21/10/11: “The safety of the audience at BBC events is of paramount importance. Unfortunately we had to make the difficult decision of cancelling Sunday’s Deadly Day Out in Castlewellan due to the forecasted extremely high winds of up to 60mph. We are sorry for any disappointment caused to people who have been allocated free tickets for the event but as the Deadly Days Out take place in a series of tented structures with additional outdoor activities placed on open grounds, we have had to review the site and weather forecasts and make the decision to ensure the safety of everyone involved.”

Message from Steve's Management:
Thank you everyone who came along to the Live n Deadly event in Horsham last weekend. We know that some of you were disappointed not to see Steve in person due to spaces in the show tent being limited. The BBC has posted a response to your comments on the Live n Deadly blog which can be viewed here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/cbbc/livendeadly/2011/09/deadly-day-out-at-horsham-last.shtml



The Deadly 60 Wild cards are now on sale!

The website is also live – have a look at all the cards available to collect. 

http://www.deadly60cards.com/deadly_cards

Don't miss Steve on The One Show on BBC One at 7pm on Thursday 18th August where Steve will be chatting all about his new book, Looking for Adventure!!

Steve will be giving a talk based on his new book at the Edinburgh Book Festival at the RBS Theatre on Wednesday 17th Augusut from 4.30-5.30pm!

Head down to Waterstone's George Street, Edinburgh where Steve will be signing copies of his brand new book on Wednesday 17th August between 3.00-3.45pm!

Tune in to The 4 O'Clock Show on BBC Radio 4 Extra where Mel Giedroyc will be joined by Steve live from the Broadcast Gazebo at the Edinburgh Book Festival on Wednesday 17th August! http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/bbc_radio_four_extra

Steve is busy travelling the world and filming new BBC series!

This year Steve will be filming a third series of Deadly 60, and a new series of Live and Deadly, so watch out for future broadcast dates and live shows. Later this year Steve will also be releasing two new books; Looking for Adventure and Predator.

Steve is snap happy to present young people’s photography award!

On 9th November Steve presented the winners of the Colliers Green Focus 2010 photography award with their prizes at a special ceremony in London. Steve is the new Ambassador for Colliers Green Focus, an innovative initiative for secondary school geography students which encourages them to capture a ‘sense of place’ though the lense of a camera. “It’s really interesting to see how these young people have been able to tell a story about their surrounding so effectively through a single picture. They’ve achieved something really significant!”

Congratulations to winner Nathan Lodge and runners up Phil Benge, Leo Gaunt and Joe Peaker. You can see a short film of the awards ceremony and find out more about the scheme here.
 

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Steve Backshall is the naturalist who reaches parts of the world others just can’t reach. He’s travelled to over 100 countries around the world making first ascents of remote jungle mountains or descending into hidden sinkholes in search of new species, climbing the world’s highest peaks or completing some of the world’s most demanding endurance races. Steve has continued to push back the boundaries of exploration whilst capturing it all on camera or in words.

His BBC natural history series ‘Deadly 60’ is being shown around the world, and is about to enter its third series. Whilst making the series, he has danced with thresher, tiger, bull and white sharks, come into contact with rattlesnakes, king cobras, mambas and giant pythons, and discovered such oddities as ghost bats, mantis shrimps, alligator snapping turtles and Humboldt Squid. In 2009, the series was nominated for two children’s BAFTAS; best presenter and best factual series.

Expeditions to the world’s most remote places remain Steve’s primary passion, and he’s taken a role as the ‘adventure naturalist’ in some of the most successful filmed expeditions of recent years. In ‘Lost Land of the Volcano’, Steve led the first ever team of outsiders into the depths of the perfect New Guinean volcanic caldera known as Bosavi. In the jungle interior, the team discovered many species unknown to science – including the world’s largest rat! In BAFTA-nominated ‘Lost Land of the Jaguar’, he descended to the bottom of the Kaiteur Falls to discover a wonderland of frogs and orchids seen only by a handful of other humans. ‘Expedition Borneo’ was nominated for an EMMY, and saw the team delving into the heart of this fast disappearing wildlife wonderland in search of a way to conserve it. The team’s success resulted in a threatened area of forest being given the highest possible degree of protection. ‘Expedition Alaska’ sought to quantify the effects of global climate change by studying this magnificent wilderness state, and saw Steve kayaking amongst tumbling glaciers and bubblenetting humpback whales.

For the BBC’s Secret Wilderness: Japan he met giant salamanders and feisty Macaque monkeys and came face-to-face with King Cobras for Sky One’s Inside programme. Closer to home, Steve has presented Britain’s Lost World, Extreme Caving, Inside Out, Springwatch Trackers, The Really Wild Show and The Nature of Britain. Steve is a successful author with Steve Backshall’s Venom, The Rough Guide to: Indonesia, as well as Wildlife Adventurer’s Guide and Deadly 60. He regularly writes article for newspapers and magazines. As an inspirational public speaker Steve presents on a range of wildlife, conservation, exploration and adventure topics. 

Steve Backshall
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