With my knees I’d have to wait for one to die of old age and fall off.
I kept cringing watching that guy use a scoped rifle as a fucking walking stick on the way up the mountain. He’s lucky he didn’t knock the zero off and miss the mountain, much less the goat.
He thought it was the fall that knocked the billy’s horns off. Perhaps the emasculation was a result of his errant first shot.
Despite the bleak ending of Into The Wild, I’ve feared many might view it as some sort of a challenge to strike out and find some inner Walden-like peace in the Alaskan wilderness that’s eluded them elsewhere. As anyone who’s spent any time there at all can attest, not only is it no picnic but it also has the potential, even likelihood, of being quite lethal to the unprepared. Thank goodness there’s shows like this to take some of the undeserved romance out of the reality.
It’s pretty entertaining but I think it’s doing some good as well.
No shit. I kept thinking: a $1000 walking stick. I have to hand it to the guy for persevering, though. That climb was a pure class-A bitch, even for someone who is in shape. Sheep hunting is not for the faint of heart. That he actually shot one… in the fog…exhausted and dehydrated…uphill…with an abused rifle, is nothing short of amazing. Also, surviving the descent through the scree field was no mean feat.
The sisters - Pestilence and Horror - continue their petty bickering and complete disrespect for their father. At least they won’t starve, unless they go on a salmon eating binge. However, gathering twigs instead of wood is going to be a problem for them.
The Beach Blanket Bingo couple will be lucky to pull this off, my previous prediction notwithstanding.
The only quarrel I have with this show is the “Dateline” style of production, where they keep recapping the show every ten minutes and showing the same flashback scenes over and over. It’s annoying and unnecessary. TV producers treat the American public like a bunch of idiots at times.
But gathering twigs is easier!
Question about the salmon: The one woman didn’t put the lids on the jars right, so half of their salmon wasn’t canned. The implication was that they’re SOL. But can’t they just re-can the ones that didn’t seal?
Yeah, I have a lot of respect for the guy. He was hauling around a lot of body fat but didn’t quit. Reminded me of my brother in law, who, ten years ago, despite being somewhere around 50lbs overweight, hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon and, more significantly, back out of it with me.
ROFL! Good name for them. What a pair of harpie bitches! If I were their dad, I might smear them with fish guts and lock them out of the cabin.
Yeah, it’s a shame…they seem to be the most prepared for the challenge, but living in that sucky canvas tent and not having any trees to cut down are going to kill them.
Ever since I saw “Alone in the Wilderness” I have had an urge to do what Dick Proenneke did in Alaska. I would love to be on this show.
Haven’t seen Alone In The Wilderness, and didn’t read the book until recently.
I enjoyed the Proenneke’s journals, and it does sound attractive. Except he keeps mentioning this ‘50° below zero’ thing…
If you read between the lines, his days were 99.9% backbreaking work, and the rest was writing in his journal and taking photos.
They can’t be reused. There is a glue-type substance on the metal insert. Once it’s heated in the moist environment, it’s no longer usable as a seal. It’s possible that they didn’t properly wipe the seal with a cloth to make sure there were no fish guts or salt particles on it to prevent sealing.
Speaking of Proenneke, I have the feeling the guy in the wall tent read his book(s). ‘You have to keep your head on a swivel, glassing the tree line and looking in fields…’ When I read One Man’s Wilderness (and More Readings…) I noticed that Proenneke used the verb ‘glass’. Only he was using a spotting scope.
Resurrecting this because I just finished watching the Venezuela season of this show (just added to Netflix straming). It looked pretty brutal; they had a lot of trouble finding food and sometimes went several days with little to nothing to eat, often sleeping out in the open in the rain.
What I kept wondering about was the camera crew; were they in a tent off to the side eating sandwiches while the trekkers were starving out in the open? I would really like to see a “making of” segment about this show; that would be just as interesting to me.
Aside from that, there seems to be a shift in the presentation of the show. In the Alaska season, the voiceover was constantly coming in pointing out the mistakes the group was making, but in the Venezuela season the voiceover only came in at the the beginning and end of the show and at breaks to recap/preview.
I didn’t realize that the show had continued, let alone in another locale. I assumed that they might try another season in Alaska, but never heard anything about it. This thread died before the show did, but I remember those idiots trying to hike to another cabin for some stupid reason, over impossible terrain, and wearing gloves instead of mittens. Gloves + -30F = frostbite or worse.