The fourth series of SAS: Who Dares Wins aired in January this year, this time for 6 episodes. The show was an amazing success with viewing figures beating any other series of the programme.

In a landmark moment for the British Special Forces, the MOD has announced that in 2019 SAS selection will open to women for the very first time. This year the DS took 25 men and women into the spectacular Andes Mountains in Chile for the most arduous and gruelling course they have designed to date spanning over eleven days.

The recruits ate, slept and washed together – no allowances were made for gender – as their mental and physical strength was tested to the limits. The DS Ollie, Foxy & Billy plus the Chief Instructor Ant Middleton were as ever relentless in the execution of the course which saw two males and one female complete the process.

The DS and recruits were based in an abandoned mining village adapted for the show in the brutal Andes mountains, simulating the extremes of winter warfare in the most deadly environment of them all.

For the first time in SAS: Who Dares Wins history the same location was used to film a celebrity version of the show for Stand Up To Cancer. The show is proving an amazing success with the celebrities proving their commitment while the DS treat them no differently to the public version of the show.

A fifth series of the show is currently being discussed, location tbc.

SAS: Who Dares Wins Trailer

Behind the scenes images