I was genuinely scared I was going to die from a snake bite or running out of food filming perilous Channel 4 show

A TV Explorer feared she would dice from a venomous snake wound oregon deficiency of nutrient during her latest expedition to the deepest reaches of the Amazon rainforest.

The caller bid of Secret Amazon Into The Wild, began connected October 7 and charts the adventures of British explorer Lucy Shepherd.

Lucy spoke exclusively to The Sun Online astir what went connected down the cameras and however she felt during the filming process of the endurance show.

In bid one, occurrence 1 we spot Lucy and her indigenous squad embark connected an unprecedented 50-day expedition to traverse the virgin Amazon rainforest wholly connected foot.

"Everyone thought it was impossible," she said they entered a unsafe conception of unexplored and dense jungle canopy that was to beryllium their location for the adjacent fewer months.

She and the squad faced fearsome challenges from deadly snakes to alligators.

Speaking astir whether she was ever frightened astatine times, she admitted:  “Yeah, aggregate times, but besides not astatine all. Truthfully, I was much frightened for my squad because, though there's 4 guys with maine and we each effort to beryllium arsenic harmless arsenic imaginable and travel everything, astatine the extremity of the day, it conscionable boils down to a batch of luck.

“You mightiness beryllium the champion snake spotter oregon beryllium capable to archer what subdivision is bully to basal connected what's not.

"But erstwhile you haven't had overmuch nutrient and you're bushed and your tegument is falling apart, past your senses bash spell down a small bit.

“Your pupils and your eyes are conscionable truthful similar acceptable for anything. So astatine night, I tried to marque definite that my squad were successful the hammocks by the clip it got decently black."

But this was the clip erstwhile they would privation to spell retired and hunt, she revealed, leaving her susceptible and unsocial successful the dark.

"If we were adjacent a river, they would privation to spell retired hunting, shining with their torches, similar usage the bow and arrow to termination things.

“And I was similar we cannot bash that due to the fact that it's dark."

As a effect she said she feared the nights the most, and she slept truthful 'animalistically' proceeding each sound.

She revealed that astatine times she felt truthful acold distant from home, successful the mediate of the mighty Amazon rainforest.

She said: "At immoderate points connected the expedition, it would person taken 2 weeks to rescue us. If you're by a river, thing happens, it volition conscionable beryllium a fewer days due to the fact that idiosyncratic tin travel get down that river.

“But arsenic soon arsenic you're a fewer weeks into the jungle, it isn’t arsenic casual for helicopters with winches to travel and get you.”

Lucy besides spoke astir however conscionable fewer months earlier the expedition, her mentor Ian Craddock abruptly died.

"It was like, good is this adjacent much foolish to bash this, oregon should we spell up and bash it successful his name."

They went up were joined by friends who thought it would beryllium a large mode to retrieve his legacy.

She confided: "Often it felt similar helium was with me, and that helium was investigating us."

In 1 episode, she capsized into a vessel which was captured connected cameras.

The bid is presently streaming connected Channel 4 and airs connected Channel 4. The archetypal 2 episodes are disposable now.