Davina takes on Life At The Extreme

How do some of the most extraordinary animals on the planet survive in its most hostile environments? To find out, Davina travels to the hottest, coldest, deepest and wettest places on Earth to experience, first hand, life at the extreme.

Humans think of themselves as the planet’s top species, but they can only comfortably survive in a thin temperate zone that covers less than a quarter of the earth’s surface. The real masters of the extremes are animals with the extraordinary adaptations to survive. They call the most punishing places on earth, home.

And now, Davina will experience life alongside them. She'll get up close to the iconic animals that survive these remote and hostile conditions to understand their adaptations and uncover their survival secrets.

“I’ve just come back from the Arctic - and honestly, I do not like the cold at all!" said Davina. "I keep going to these places and thinking, ‘Honestly, they’ve got me wrong’ somebody, somewhere down the line they’ve got me wrong… and I’m being sent off to all these places!”

"I was running with cheetahs! Literally, next to cheetahs and clearly I’m not running with it for very long… they were as tame as a cheetah can be and I was terribly respectful of them and very careful.”

Accompanied by an incredibly experienced wildlife production crew, the series will take Davina across different continents, from the hottest desert to the coldest snowdrift, from the wettest rainforest to deep below the sea. Amongst her many adventures, she will run in the scorching sun where cheetahs hunt, sample how polar bears cope in minus 30ºC with 100 miles per hour winds and free dive alongside the whale that is able to sustain one breath of air for 90 minutes by lowering its heart rate to only three beats per minute. By living alongside local people, scientists, tribes and the animals themselves, she will test the limits of her own endurance and provide viewers a better understanding of how extreme, extreme can be.

Coming soon to ITV.