REMEMBER that sensation of stepping into the garden after a snowfall and seeing your footsteps as the only marks disturbing the sheet of white?

Now multiply it by a million and you come close to how Steve Backshall feels on one of his many expeditions to the most remote spots of the planet.

“There is nothing that beats the thrill of stepping into a cave and knowing your footprint is the first that’s ever been put there or summiting a mountain and knowing that nobody else has ever done that before,” says the TV wildlife presenter who has visited more than 100 countries.

“Big expeditions have been something that have fascinated me ever since I was a kid. I guess I wanted to have been born in the golden age of exploration and to travel the world and find things no-one had ever seen before.”

The 37-year-old presenter of BBC show Deadly 60 has entered the lost land of the volcano, descended to the bottom of the Kaiteur Falls, and been in the company of the world’s largest rat.

Now he is bringing some of the remarkable creatures he has confronted on his adventures – hopefully not the rat – to St Helens Theatre Royal as part of his Wild and Live touring show.

All rescue animals from a rehabilitation centre, among them will be “some massive snakes” and “some of the largest, most impressive birds of prey in the world” as well as other reptiles and even a few cuddly mammals.