"Out Of The Wild: The Alaska Experiment", Premiering Tonight At 10 On The Discovery Channel [VIDEO]

Posted by Jake Kalish

 

Here's the show: nine regular folks are dropped into the middle of the Alaskan wilderness as winter approaches, after only three days of survival training. They have limited supplies, and have to make it back to civilization.  Out Of The Wild is already getting some great advance reviews, and this promo certainly is awesome...

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Posted Apr 14 2009, 04:44 PM
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Comments

invertedpearl said:

I live in the area where much of this series was filmed--Haines, AK. The locals know that much of the "challenges" and "experiences" were fictionalized and/or constructed to appear much more extreme than they really were. Rock climbing beside a highway, anyone?

April 15, 2009 9:36 PM

Jake Kalish said:

Good to know - guess that's inevitable, or else everyone, including crew, would have been in real danger. But it sucks that they misrepresented what was happening.

April 16, 2009 12:54 PM

Talkeetnaman said:

They really lie a lot on this show. On the 1st show they said they were 200 miles from any town (65 NE of Talkeetna) and on the second show they show them at 4500ft when I am sitting here looking at a topo map and my guess is about 3500ft. The only good aspect of this show is that is shows people that come up here and venture out  into the wild is that they need some experience. I came up here 30 years ago and started out by just trying different things in the woods next to my house , even camping at about -25 or so till I figured it out.

April 21, 2009 10:14 PM

Jake Kalish said:

Thanks, both of you, for the heads up.

You camped at 25 below? Damn, you should be teaching the survival training.

April 23, 2009 11:34 PM

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