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After the initial nerves, Manchán Magangrew to love hiking in blissful isolation through a Zambian safari paradise teeming with animals - while all the time being fully aware that he was slower, fatter and probably tastier than any other animal out there

I'M GLAD I watch Who Wants to be a Millionaire?It taught me that hippos kill more people in Africa than any other animal and that they can run up to 30km an hour. This may have saved my life when I arrived at Tafika bush camp in northeast Zambia, and saw the two hippos standing on the lawn. I knew to stay inside the jeep. The camp's owner, John Coppinger, seemed to know otherwise. He came out to greet me and even tried opening the door, but there was no way I was getting out. I pressed down the lock and pointed in the direction of the hippos. He seemed completely unfazed, saying "hippos!" with a shrug, in the tone that others use for wasps.