Truly being alone

[Lightspeed]

Hi MB good to see you are still alive and kicking:-)

I side-tracked a little in that last post.....

The point about the Sat phone and the comfortable life awaiting them when it was all over is that in a real survival situation probably neither of these would exist.

So the guys were plainly not alone. Daily dialogue into the vid cam in the sure knowledge that it would get aired on mainstream TV also tempered the alone scenario. Also at the end the producers contacted Alan to set up a medical examination as a cover for telling him that he's won. That means that all of the competitors had sat phones that were somehow powered and live through out their period of solitude.... they were effectively in two way contact with the outside world.....hardly alone.