I was laced with enough frog poison to kill a man and ate a live millipede vomited from the stomach of a witch doctor. Strangely, I am now so much more relaxed and energetic; BRITON'S AMAZON ADVENTURE.(News) From: The Mirror (London, England) | Date: April 13, 2001 | COPYRIGHT 2001 MGN LTD. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: GRAHAM BROUGH

DAREDEVIL TV presenter Piers Gibbon agreed to put his life on the line by training to become an Amazonian medicine man.

He endured a gruelling six-week initiation in a remote part of the Peruvian jungle.

Amazonian indians first burned a potentially lethal dose of frog poison into Piers' skin to test his strength.

After that, the 35-year-old former actor downed a concoction of jungle herbs that made him hallucinate s...

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