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Originally Posted by Gill Catton  I have kept watching this and I seem to move from feeling frustrated with the guy and sadness in his pain at being so hungry.
However, did he have any training? did he doesn't seem to be using any field skills such as stalking or tracking to find food - a man who has run from the sound of an animal in the woodland that is as likely to be food (a deer) as it is a bear, his snares aren't exactly hidden and any animal worth its salt would see them I'd have thought.
He seemed to think he'd pick it up as he went along which seems very odd.... and wasting so much energy moving and building new shelter (and is it just me or did the shelter look a bit too verticle? or is it supposed to be verticle?) just on guesswork that another place would be better - that seems odd too. Did he imagine that rivers are always as you see in film of the peak of the salmon run?
I suppose its a good example of how its not as easy and Ray Mears or Bear Grylls make it look - but I'd have thought he'd been better prepared - I would have wanted to be! |
For me that's been the charm of the series. He is just an ordinary guy, not the Bowie-style super heroes in other 'survival' shows. So often the real-life stories you hear from Mears or Grylls involve ordinary people with no survival knowledge. Just normal people, maybe on holiday, maybe on a plane journey who are thrown into life or death situations.
It could happen to any of us. Seeing how Wardle copes is like seeing how most of us would cope, not very well.
It isn't a case of can you live in the wild, more how long you can delay the inevitable.
I thought the final episode tonight was very powerful. My eyes were moist on a couple of occasions. lol
I'm sure when they developed the idea for the series it was intended to document the struggle of man against nature. By the end it was man against man. His biggest battle was to keep his own sanity.
I did wonder at times in the series if he was being over-dramatic. For the sake of the camera if you know what I mean. When I saw him in the hotel room at the end I realised just how much the expedition had taken out of him.
He wasn't faking that.
A great example of why we should all respect the wilderness.
(As an aside I wish I had the gear he had. His clothing alone probably cost more than my car lol)