Did I make it 'til morning?
Watch the video HERE!!
I don't think it's too much of a spoiler to let you know that I did make it through the night alive. It would be a bit odd for a corpse to be writing a blog. Actually, I don't know. There's all sorts of weird stuff on the internet!
A reminder of the premise - I had to survive the night in the woods with minimal equipment. I had with me just the following items:
- A head torch
- A multi-tool
- A flint and steel
- Ray Mears' 'Outdoor Survival Handbook'
The first part of this vid focuses on how the night went. Utilising multi-angle filming and some awesome acting skills from yours truly, you can really get the feeling of what it is like waking up on a pile of sticks in the woods.
I wouldn't say it was the best night's sleep ever!
And yes, that ski jacket I was lying on did magically appear from nowhere but to be fair, it's an item of clothing that I could legitimately have worn to the forest. And also I slept on it, not in it.
(Thankfully there was an ambient temperature of 19 degrees Celsius that night!)
The second part of the video follows how I tried to return the woodland to the pristine, beautiful state it was in before I trampled all over it.
I'm also magic by the way, which I wasn't even aware of.
So, some take-aways from the weekend.
- You really CAN survive a night in the woods with next to nothing.
- If I was going to swap anything I'd leave the head torch at home and bring a mess tin instead.
- Always make sure that someone is making you a cup of tea when you finish a hard day's filming!