I Wasted the Night Watching "Alone"
I Wasted the Night Watching "Alone"
It's a series show where they drop 10 folks off somewhere with their clothing, 65 pounds of video equipment, and 10 survival instruments of their choice. Of course most take a knife, a saw, some rope or fishing line, a fire starter, etc.
It's a series show where they drop 10 folks off somewhere with their clothing, 65 pounds of video equipment, and 10 survival instruments of their choice. Of course most take a knife, a saw, some rope or fishing line, a fire starter, etc.
They are dropped off in the same general area, wherever that is, but in separate spots, so are "alone" against the elements.
Most the participants seem to be wilderness survival instructors but at least two are just women with odd, hardscrabble lives. I like that they allow a fair amount of women into the contest.
The prize is half a million dollars.
The players can take a toothbrush (but no toothpaste) and one picture (if they choose to take one). They do get regular medical checks but the medicos interact with them as little as possible- no chit-chat.
They can keep and use anything they find in the area.
The episodes I watched were part of Season 6. They have been dropped off in northern Canada, about 75 miles below the Arctic Circle. The folks have to build a shelter and then feed themselves and also stay warm (lots of wood cutting going on. I didn't know you could build a fire in a tiny hut and not die immediately! The temps run about 30 degrees F and winter is coming.
Some of the houses they build are quite nice. One lady set her house on fire. Twice. She suffers a ridiculous amount of dumb accidents but keep on trucking.
I'm afraid one guy is gonna die in his tiny plastic-wrapped teepee the first time it really snows there.
One guy brought a gill net so manages to catch a fish just about every day he tries. A good sized fish can feed one guy for about 4-5 days. Most lose their fish when they reel it in, so one guy used his fishing line to make a catch net.
One guy ate some kind of small rodent (I forgot what it was called) and got dysentary bad enough to have to call for medical help and be removed. I really thought he was the best prepared for this particular adventure but when illness strikes....
The prize is half a million dollars.
The players can take a toothbrush (but no toothpaste) and one picture (if they choose to take one). They do get regular medical checks but the medicos interact with them as little as possible- no chit-chat.
They can keep and use anything they find in the area.
The episodes I watched were part of Season 6. They have been dropped off in northern Canada, about 75 miles below the Arctic Circle. The folks have to build a shelter and then feed themselves and also stay warm (lots of wood cutting going on. I didn't know you could build a fire in a tiny hut and not die immediately! The temps run about 30 degrees F and winter is coming.
Some of the houses they build are quite nice. One lady set her house on fire. Twice. She suffers a ridiculous amount of dumb accidents but keep on trucking.
I'm afraid one guy is gonna die in his tiny plastic-wrapped teepee the first time it really snows there.
One guy brought a gill net so manages to catch a fish just about every day he tries. A good sized fish can feed one guy for about 4-5 days. Most lose their fish when they reel it in, so one guy used his fishing line to make a catch net.
One guy ate some kind of small rodent (I forgot what it was called) and got dysentary bad enough to have to call for medical help and be removed. I really thought he was the best prepared for this particular adventure but when illness strikes....
Another got ill from eating raw fish roe but recovered without having to be removed.
I think that was the same guy that drank raw bunny milk on the same day- so gross.
Do Not Drink raw bunny milk for any reason ever.
They mostly catch a few animals such as squirrels or rabbits or an occasional grouse, but one guy killed a Moose with a bow and arrow. Moose have very little fat on them. Fat is critical to human survival.
They also almost always cry when the kill an animal.
But- the guy who managed to kill the moose was then stuck with about 600 pounds of meat that he now needed to protect from other predators such as wolverines and foxes, so had to build a two story food storage structure.
There are bears about the area too but they haven't had too much trouble with bears so far (and do have "bear scare" guns that are "bang-flashes" and not bullets).
The tend to lose about a pound a day over the course of the experience.
Still, what an ordeal! That they volunteered for!
One guy left a few days in when he slipped and broke a leg. Another was just hungry but had a life epiphany after 30 days due to loneliness. Another had a fine shelter and a lots of food stored but missed his wife and kids so much that he just broke down and asked to go home.
So it turns out that eating a diet of meat and blueberries ain't all that good for you. (Hardly no carbs at all aside from a few blueberries and a few "crowberries").
One resourceful lady says she had heard that the stomach contents of ruminants was full of missing nutrients that she felt she was in need of- there really aren't any carbs or veggies"up north". She was feeling the effects of poor nutrition (as they all are) so she made a tea/stew of bunny stomach contents from a rabbit she had snared. She said it was the best thing she had eaten in 40 days; that it was fragrant, floral and slightly pine-y.
Ugh. So gross.
LOL!
What a weird but entertaining show!
I know I would not survive.
Ha ha!
They mostly catch a few animals such as squirrels or rabbits or an occasional grouse, but one guy killed a Moose with a bow and arrow. Moose have very little fat on them. Fat is critical to human survival.
They also almost always cry when the kill an animal.
But- the guy who managed to kill the moose was then stuck with about 600 pounds of meat that he now needed to protect from other predators such as wolverines and foxes, so had to build a two story food storage structure.
There are bears about the area too but they haven't had too much trouble with bears so far (and do have "bear scare" guns that are "bang-flashes" and not bullets).
The tend to lose about a pound a day over the course of the experience.
Still, what an ordeal! That they volunteered for!
One guy left a few days in when he slipped and broke a leg. Another was just hungry but had a life epiphany after 30 days due to loneliness. Another had a fine shelter and a lots of food stored but missed his wife and kids so much that he just broke down and asked to go home.
So it turns out that eating a diet of meat and blueberries ain't all that good for you. (Hardly no carbs at all aside from a few blueberries and a few "crowberries").
One resourceful lady says she had heard that the stomach contents of ruminants was full of missing nutrients that she felt she was in need of- there really aren't any carbs or veggies"up north". She was feeling the effects of poor nutrition (as they all are) so she made a tea/stew of bunny stomach contents from a rabbit she had snared. She said it was the best thing she had eaten in 40 days; that it was fragrant, floral and slightly pine-y.
Ugh. So gross.
LOL!
What a weird but entertaining show!
I know I would not survive.
Ha ha!
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