re: Are Young Men Truly Lost?

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I found myself wondering something recently while watching that survival show alone. These are pretty competent men on the show, some are really tough. And many don’t make it a week out there.

Now think about guys like Louis and Clark who set out into unknown wilderness facing all the same dangers on top of hostile natives, and they survived. How fricking hardass those guys then had to be. A completely different type of person that probably doesn’t exist in this world anymore.

All the sailors braving the Atlantic to the new world, colonists building towns and cities on untamed land, the pioneers moving out west. We study it in history but I don’t think we truly appreciate just how hard those men were to do that

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And it's both sides who have lost it as well. I've watched the survival show Alone and find it truly fascinating. No stupid challenges and no cameramen, they truly are alone and can truly die out there.

There are definitely some competent and tough men and women on that show. Heck Callie would've made it 100 days on I think Season 7 if she wasn't forced to be medically evacuated. She made it longer than several winners from other seasons.

I'll admit I would be one of those people who wouldn't make it a week out there. I'd probably wouldn't make it more than 3 or 4 days.