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Adventurer Steve Backshall has retraced the King’s steps from his 1975 trip to the Canadian Arctic exactly 50 years on.

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.

The King’s 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’s culture and dependence on the environment around them.

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The trip helped shape his lifelong passion for the environment and his belief in the importance of living in harmony with nature.

The film, due to be shown as part of ITV’s Christmas sche

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