Well, not quite, but Stephen Elliott-Hunter did go to Boliva and Chile f
or a couple of weeks last October to help film the 2009 Top Gear Christmas special.
Following on from trips across Botswana, Vietnam and to the North Pole, this one featured the 'boys', Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May who were dropped deep in the Bolivian rainforest armed only with three shabby 4x4s which they bought from the local small ads for a maximum of 3500 pounds each.
What followed was their most extraordinary journey to date. They drovefrom the heart of Bolivia to the coast of Chile, encountering local drug lords, the debilitating effects of high altitude and the terrifying sheer drops of the infamous forty-mile El Camino de la Muerte (Death Road) along the way. But before all that, they had to escape from the deep, dark centre of the rainforest in what is without doubt the toughest and most unmissable challenge Top Gear has ever faced.
Stephen and a colleague were responsible for all the 'on-board' cameras for the cars.