How I filled my hungry tummy while surviving in the woods.
Here's the premise - I was surviving a night in the woods with only minimal tools. I had:
- A head torch
- A multi-tool
- A flint and steel
- Ray Mears' 'Outdoor Survival Handbook'
You'd have to have bloody big hands by the way. I thought a handbook was meant to be the size of your hand, you know, to slip in you back pocket or something. To be handy. In terms of size it's the least handy handbook ever.
Makes an awesome pillow though!
And it does have loads of information on how to go about getting your own food and water.
Not that this was any help to me as I was completely clueless.
I didn't cheat though. Not once!
Even when my brother, Rob, was cooking his signature 'Beer Can Chicken' by shoving a can of beer up a chicken's arse and steaming it over the fire. Even when he boiled up a handful of succulent crayfish that he'd caught down by the river. Even when I cooked a pork chop for my other brother using the split stick technique recommended by Ray in his book.
Didn't have a single morsel, all night.
Bloody hell was I hungry!
Hopefully I'd be able to catch my breakfast by fashioning a fish hook from a feather and some nettle rope. Watch the video to find out if I was successful.
Episode 4 - MORNING