Outdoor Readiness

TweetNational Geographic Channel’s The Great Human Race is a late entry in the sprint for wilderness survival programming audience. It’s a powerful entry and much more than wilderness survival. GHR reaches for anthropological authenticity. The scope and breadth of GHR exceeds competitors geographically and intellectually. Viewers follow the tribulations of our archetypal founding pair of survivors along the path of early humans from African origins, onward. Four episodes have aired to date, six remain. This is the venerable  National Geographic…

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TweetHard core survival television on tap for summer 2015.  “…it is impossible to disentangle completely a persons behavior from their physiology. The physical traumas, privations, and deficiencies which can undermine the body’s  strength and efficiency all have psychological consequences.” John Leach, Survival Psychology* Discovery Channel, the folks who bring us the most elemental and challenging wilderness survival series in production, Naked and Afraid, is one-upping itself. The July 12, 2015 Premier of Naked and Afraid XL will feature a group…

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TweetSurviving abrupt isolation, on tap for summer 2015. “… isolation can suck at the soul. It can bring a man to his knees in a surprisingly short time, quicker indeed than many physical or physiological factors.” John Leach, Survival Psychology*. History Channel premiered their new wilderness survival series, Alone, June 18, 2015. Alone features ten men (already down to eight in just a few days), all would-be survivors, dropped off alone in separate remote inlets along the west coast of…

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