{"id":510430,"date":"2025-10-18T22:15:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T22:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/510430\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T22:15:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T22:15:20","slug":"steve-backshall-retraces-kings-arctic-steps-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/510430\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Backshall retraces King\u2019s Arctic steps 50 years\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Backshall with the King at Buckingham Palace (Buckingham Palace) – <\/p>\n

Adventurer Steve Backshall<\/a> has retraced the King\u2019s steps from his 1975 trip to the Canadian Arctic exactly 50 years on.<\/p>\n

The trip, filmed for a feature-length documentary to be aired on ITV, looks at the accelerating impact of climate change on the Arctic and the work being done now that aims to secure a healthy future for the planet.<\/p>\n

The King\u2019s 1975 trip to the Canadian Arctic took in dog sledding and a dive beneath the ice, as well as learning about the local Inuit people\u2019s culture and dependence on the environment around them.<\/p>\n

Steve Backshall at Windsor Castle (PA) (PA Archive)<\/p>\n

The trip helped shape his lifelong passion for the environment and his belief in the importance of living in harmony with nature.<\/p>\n

The film, due to be shown as part of ITV\u2019s Christmas schedule, will include a discussion with Charles<\/a> about the impact of climate change.<\/p>\n

Speaking about the project, Backshall said: \u201cTo see the Arctic through the King\u2019s eyes \u2013 then and now \u2013 was both inspiring and sobering.<\/p>\n

\u201cStanding where the King<\/a> once stood, diving beneath the same Arctic ice he explored half a century ago, was humbling beyond words.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis Majesty was raising the alarm for the natural world long before most of us realised how urgent that call would become.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis commitment to protecting our planet runs through every fibre of this story.\u201d<\/p>\n

Director Marshall Corwin said: \u201cIt has been a real privilege \u2013 and eye-opener \u2013 seeing His Majesty the King as never before: his extreme spirit of adventure, his genuine passion for the planet, and his mischievous sense of humour.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steve Backshall with the King at Buckingham Palace (Buckingham Palace) – Adventurer Steve Backshall has retraced the King\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[1500,7709,7730,7731,4044,5686,5681,1760,12,5683,5682,5684,7710,519,5685,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-510430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-british-royal-family","10":"tag-charles","11":"tag-charles-iii","12":"tag-daily-news","13":"tag-global-news","14":"tag-inkl","15":"tag-king-charles","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-news-app","18":"tag-news-headlines","19":"tag-news-today","20":"tag-royal-families","21":"tag-royal-family","22":"tag-today-news","23":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115397481287248192","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}