Safari guide takes huge risk, sits just meters from lion

A lot of us have been lucky enough to go on a game drive at some point in our lives ... and see a lion.

It's the one animal I've never got up close and personal with. I mean, I've seen them in the distance, but not right up close.

So when you go on a game drive and there are animals in close proximity, normally the guide will stop the car and wait for them to pass.

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You sit dead still...

You keep dead quiet...

So imagine how this guide felt sitting on the front of his Jeep as the mighty king of the jungle approached him?

It's like... who's going to give in first?

The lion comes within a foot or two of the guide.

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