Aldo now runs Vertical Planet, a technical safety risk management company providing services for some of the world's largest TV and film productions. With a penchant for the world’s most dangerous, extreme and remote locations, he has compiled his most awe-inspiring tales in his much-anticipated debut book, Lessons From The Edge. By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Aldo — who is also doing a book tour which stops at Edinburgh’s Assembly Rooms today — says: “When I go away and I’m working with famous people they love the hardship of it but also the freedom it gives them to not have the trappings of being a celebrity. It flagged to him that I’m adventurous but that conservation and the environment is also important to me.

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He also hosts the reality show The Bridge alongside AJ Odudu, guiding the teams across tests of physical ability, mental skill, and teamwork.

Aldo Kane is a well-known TV Adventurer, Author, World Record Holder with over 20 years' experience working in some of the most extreme, remote and inhospitable places on the planet. Trained Royal Marines Sniper, world record breaker and extreme TV adventurer, Aldo Kane is known for his ability to navigate and lead through challenging and pressured environments, whether it be abseiling into an erupting volcano in the Democratic Republic of Congo, rowing the Atlantic, getting locked in a bunker for 10 days with zero daylight, leading Steve Backshall into the jungle or being held at gunpoint. All means of earning money went away so I had to somehow capitalise on the time and find a way to make a living.

Watch our short film where Aldo sets foot on the Via Dinarica trail in Bosnia to hike with award-winning Exodus guide Samer Hajrik and learn about why this is so much more than just a trail. Lessons From The Edge will inspire listeners to find the spirit to do the things in life they’ve previously been too scared to tackle, build the courage to know that failure isn’t the end, and the knowledge that the impossible can be made possible. He says: “I suppose a lot of people who are in TV do one job and that’s them and they do their six projects for the year. He also led a special departure on our Atlas Descent adventure in Morocco, where he shared his passion for mountain biking with other like-minded travellers. Aldo has been held at gunpoint, Charged by a black Rhino, Abseiled into an active volcano, escaped Ebola, rowed across the Atlantic and dived on Captain Kidd’s pirate ship, and that’s just the last year or two.

With an inquisitive mind and an extremely unique skill-set, Aldo is well set up for hard-hitting investigative journalism missions.He has hosted programmes for the BBC, Natural Geographic, and Discovery, and taken celebrities including Tom Hardy, Adrien Brody, and Henry Cavill into some of the most extreme environments on earth. Aldo is a firm believer that with the right head game, however hard it feels, you can get through anything life throws at you. You’re back into the mixing pot of humanity who don’t care or know what you’ve done in the military and you feel lost. In his debut book, Lessons From The Edge, Aldo will inspire readers with his jaw-dropping stories and show them how to survive and thrive through sheer strength of mind and sharp decision-making. Aldo joined the Royal Marine Commandos at the age of sixteen and went on to become one of the youngest Elite Commando Reconnaissance Snipers in the UK armed forces.