The Bronx Zoo offered $50,000 to anyone who can provide them with a live and healthy 30 foot snake.
It is 1999 and this prize has stood unclaimed for over 80 years, but Robert Twigger, a poet, bodyguard, rap artist, hearse driver and recent winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, believes he is the man to claim the prize - and in doing so overcome his fear of snakes.
From Malaysia to the uninhabited forests of Indonesia, Twigger sets out to find the biggest snake in the world.
This content was made in 1999.
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Sat 21 Mar 2009
The Bronx Zoo offered $50,000 to anyone who can provide them with a live and healthy 30 foot snake.
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