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By Chris Calcino. ABC Far North. Topic: Documentary. Alby Mangels and his travel partner Judy Green achieved widespread fame in Australia following the World Safari adventure films. Alby Mangels is in a reflective mood as he muses over the absurd ragbag of ingredients that somehow became his recipe for success. The year-old adventurer and documentary filmmaker, who created the World Safari films and Adventure Bound TV series of the s and 80s, was a sex symbol in his own right: all tight shorts and sun-kissed sinew.

At the height of his fame, he even posed nude beside a smouldering fireplace for a Cleo magazine centrefold. These days, he spends most of his time living under an assumed name in a secret island location, but he still has one more adventure in the works. In the hierarchy of understatements, that's like saying that getting lost in the Sahara Desert in a two-cylinder van was a rather balmy affair, or riding bareback in an ostrich race could be a tad bumpy — both of which Mangels has done, by the way.

Mangels inherited none of the key ingredients that might traditionally be associated with success in the public arena. He was a primary school dropout who forged his mother's signature and lied about his age in order to leave school after year 7. Alby Mangels stripped down for a Cleo magazine centrefold shoot at the height of his fame.