I agree that the CR prog is entertainment value alone.
It won't be often that many of us would end up in an environment where escape and evation will be the key to survival or that we would be pursued relentlessly by a horde of enemy!
Survival in these circumstances would of course rely on many skills:food/water procurement, coping with the ominous environmental and climatatic conditions combined with the physical and mental exhertion.
it would seem unlikely that anyone would have time to search for food, so water is the priority.
We know that CR during desert storm successfully E&E'd for over 120 miles, surviving hypothermia in the desert nights,but on the siberia programme he came down very quickly with hypothermia.Fortunate that he had good comms and a medic on standby otherwise had it been for real I doubt he'd have made it.
leads me to thinking that no matter how good your skills are, whether as a survival instructor, great knowledge of bushcraft, or even how fit you are, in the end your survival in these circumstances comes down to water, willpower, cunning, instinct to survive and above all mother nature throwing you a lucky dice!
Anyone ever remember the 80's programme 'Survive' and the blind girl who managed to fight her way through the jungle for weeks, swimming through crocodile infested rivers ?
Still though, the learning of natural and ancient skills is a great and fulfilling knowledge and could at some point increase survivability.
As for Hunting Chris Ryan:
Entertainment value? (my wife actually likes to watch it!) so its gotta be a 10/10
Survival awareness value? (based on the magnified hypothermia scenario)7/10
All round Skills content value? 4/10
Any comments?
It won't be often that many of us would end up in an environment where escape and evation will be the key to survival or that we would be pursued relentlessly by a horde of enemy!
Survival in these circumstances would of course rely on many skills:food/water procurement, coping with the ominous environmental and climatatic conditions combined with the physical and mental exhertion.
it would seem unlikely that anyone would have time to search for food, so water is the priority.
We know that CR during desert storm successfully E&E'd for over 120 miles, surviving hypothermia in the desert nights,but on the siberia programme he came down very quickly with hypothermia.Fortunate that he had good comms and a medic on standby otherwise had it been for real I doubt he'd have made it.
leads me to thinking that no matter how good your skills are, whether as a survival instructor, great knowledge of bushcraft, or even how fit you are, in the end your survival in these circumstances comes down to water, willpower, cunning, instinct to survive and above all mother nature throwing you a lucky dice!
Anyone ever remember the 80's programme 'Survive' and the blind girl who managed to fight her way through the jungle for weeks, swimming through crocodile infested rivers ?
Still though, the learning of natural and ancient skills is a great and fulfilling knowledge and could at some point increase survivability.
As for Hunting Chris Ryan:
Entertainment value? (my wife actually likes to watch it!) so its gotta be a 10/10
Survival awareness value? (based on the magnified hypothermia scenario)7/10
All round Skills content value? 4/10
Any comments?
and they are showing this to the general public!
