The BBC journalist Sue Lloyd-Roberts, a veteran foreign correspondent who specialised in getting into difficult places, has died from cancer aged 62.
She spent decades reporting from dangerous areas around the world, and has been praised by colleagues, friends and viewers for her "extraordinary" determination and courage.
During her career Lloyd-Roberts was almost killed in a convoy that came under fire from Serbian forces, and nearly raped while reporting from East Timor.
She was arrested so many times she jokingly considered writing a 'Good Jail Guide.'
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Lloyd-Roberts arguing with a man after getting into North Korea
She was given an Emmy and a CBE for her work, and often travelled alone with a video camera and no crew, covering stories of wars human rights abuses in countries including Burma, China, Syria and what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Lloyd-Roberts had acute myeloid leukaemia, and spent 10 months making a series of video diaries documenting her experience. She received a stem cell transplant over the summer after a "Save Our Sue" campaign from BBC staff to find a donor match.
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Lloyd Roberts suffered with cancer for 10 months
BBC director general Tony Hall called her a "pioneer video journalist" and praised her "extraordinary" courage.
"She went to dangerous places to give a voice to people who otherwise would not be heard," he said. "She was quite simply a remarkable woman who got remarkable stories. She will be deeply missed."
"She astounded me every time she would come back and tell me where she had been and how she had got in there."
Earlier this year, Lloyd-Roberts she "always joked that the part of my brain that recognises fear doesn't exist".
But she said this year that cancer was the "toughest thing I’ve ever faced".
"On all those other occasions I’ve been recording other people’s challenges and other people’s trauma. This is the first time it’s hit me," she wrote.
"Usually I have my camera to comfort me. There have been terrible times in my career when I remember thinking I can just sit here and scream and say my prayers or I can pick up the camera and get some work done. I’ve always done the latter and it has always helped. But I can’t pick up my camera now because now I’m the story. I have aggressive leukaemia."
These are eight times when she went above and beyond to bring viewers a story:
Sue Lloyd-Roberts dies
First journalist into Homs(01 of08)
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In 2011, Lloyd-Roberts sneaked through Syrian army lines to enter the besieged city of Homs, known as the "capital" of the country's revolution. She used a fake ID provided by her guide to get past checkpoints, and pretended to be his deaf, mute sister, "which suited me fine" she said.
China(02 of08)
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She was sentenced to seven years in prison in China, in absentia, for her reporting on the human organ trade. In 1994 she described how how prisoners were "killed to order" for body parts that were then sold.
"It's believed hundreds of foreigners are coming to China every year for their kidney transplants, to hospitals like this in canton that services the Hong Kong market, and that the number is increasing all the time," she told the audience.
North Korea(03 of08)
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In 2011 she got into North Korea, one of the world's most difficult-to-access countries. She said she was unable to go to a market ("It's like shopping is a state secret") and also revealed that "At school, children are taught to sing a song that tells them that they have nothing to envy in the outside world, and that they are the happiest people on Earth."
She won an Emmy for her reporting from the secretive country.
Bosnia(04 of08)
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"‘I remember a brush with death in Bosnia, while travelling in a convoy to a Muslim village being besieged by Serbs, who opened fire on us," Lloyd-Roberts told The Daily Mail of her time in Bosnia.
"In those situations you tend to either scream or pray. But I picked up my camera. Concentrating on filming displaces you from what’s going on. There is nothing better at dispelling fear than having something constructive to do."
Burma(05 of08)
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Going undercover by posing as a clothes manufacturer, she worked to expose human rights abuses in the country's clothes industry. She was filmed asking an official how much he paid workers, to which he can be heard replying "less than one dollar". Lloyd-Roberts reported often from Burma, also covering the country's tightly-controlled elections in 2010. (credit:BBC)
FGM(06 of08)
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Lloyd-Roberts was one of the first journalists to talk about the now high-profile issue of female genital mutilation (FGM).
In 2013 she interviewed two women from The Gambia who said they had applied for asylum in Britain in order to protect their daughters from FGM, but had been rejected. She then travelled to The Gambia to try to find out if their claims were true.
ISIS captives(07 of08)
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During remission from her cancer this year, Lloyd-Roberts was back in the field, reporting on Yazidi women and girls who had been held prisoner by ISIS. "The three girls re very beautiful, with an aura of sadness about them despite their age, and a kind of deadness int heir eyes, which isn't surprising when they start telling you what happened to them," she told the camera.
Hospital(08 of08)
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This year, she appeared in front of cameras for a different reason, as she was diagnosed with a rare form of blood cancer and filmed her experience in moving video diaries.
"When you are facing something like cancer some of the old clichés suddenly make sense," she wrote in The Times earlier this year. "Take every day as it comes has been a useful one for me.
"But also you latch on to new things. I’m reading a book called Capital by John Lanchester. One of the characters ends up in Yarl’s Wood detention centre — poor love, I’ve interviewed many asylum seekers who have been through Yarl’s Wood and it’s no joke.
I was reading this as I was preparing myself for my stem cell transplant and the character says to herself: “This is probably the worst thing that’s ever happened to me in my life but it can’t go on for ever.” That has become my mantra."