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Late Gap Years Rise

06 Jan 2011

Gap years for older people are on the rise, with visits to endangered places and cultures increasingly popular, but TV explorer Bruce Parry effectively does for a living what many other adventurous souls only do for leisure.

Former Royal Marine officer turned TV adventurer Bruce Parry has travelled to remote places, tried to live as the locals do and even been seen cross-legged in a hut, eating something unfamiliar, in the TV series Tribe and Amazon.

"My gap year would have been nothing like as exciting as this because I would have travelled the world with judgements," Parry explains

"Arctic with Bruce Parry" is currently showing on BBC Two, Sundays at 2100 GMT.

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