Alone

[Scythe13]

Has anyone else started watching this yet? From what I've heard…amazing!

It's a series where 10 people are dropped into the wild, alone, with clothing and survive gear…to a maximum of 10 items (not including clothing).

It's an elimination programme, and the last man standing wins $500'000, which is about £365'000.

Looks to be epic.

[River Song]

Where can you watch the episodes?

I'm usually disappointed in most TV stuff but still think
that Bear Grylls is my post-apocalyptic hunk :-)

[Scythe13]

I think it's on the History Channel

[bigpaul]

sounds a bit like "naked and afraid" without the naked bit. I've only got Freeview and I think History is subscription only. was watching BG the other night, what a dickhead.

[Barneyboy]

I am watching it ,some of them are very good at outside survival but most of them dont seem to have a clue ,but I'm not there and doing it .its very easy to give advice when I'm watching the TV

[River Song]

BP

He speaks highhly of you :-)

[Sunna]

try , building Alaska...on the travel channel its very good , tonight at 10pm...

[Scythe13]

(16 August 2015, 18:43)Barneyboy Wrote: I am watching it ,some of them are very good at outside survival but most of them dont seem to have a clue ,but I'm not there and doing it .its very easy to give advice when I'm watching the TV

Very very true mate.

I've done stuff in tropical climates like that, and even then it's emotionally hard…and you're in paradise. There really is nothing that can prepare you for the total head f**k that is actually being there. I laughed when the first guy tapped out, but having said that, being 30 metres from a bear cave…honestly, how would you react? After a couple of seconds thinking about it, I realised…fair play. Seeing it on TV makes it easy to say "I'd be fine there", but I bet that's what he said, and he freaked.

Imagine actually being hunted by a 1000lb beast that could disembowel you with a swipe! Or maybe not hunted, maybe just…no longer the highest up the food chain. Here in the UK, we don't have predators. We are the hunters. But would you walk into a bear enclosure at the zoo? Of course not. Bears are dangerous! So why would this be any different?

As you said BB, it's easy saying what to do, but actually being there…not so easy at all. Fair play to all of them for giving it a go.

[Tigs]

There's a show coming to either c4 or c5 called hunted which sounds simular , the contestants are dropped off in remote areas with limited resources and have to reach a safe area , catch is after a few hours a team of specialist trackers and ex special forces hunt them down .

[Mortblanc]

The first season has nearly completed over here. I will refrain from telling you the final results.

It has been great fun watching the contestants fall out like flies, cry their eyes out from homesickness, crap their pants from fear when a bear appears and generally turn into mush.

The ten co0ntestants were picked from among the writers of internet survival blogs and the moderators of survival and bushcraft forums on the internet. Leaders of the genre, outdoorsmen of merit, masters of the wilderness and teachers of other folk who were stupid enough to listen.

Most of them folded like an origami stork!

Folks like are here, sure they can "bug out" and live rough for a few weeks if they have too.