Some of you may have watched a TV reality programme called Alone, or its down-under spinoff Alone Australia.
The aim of the game is to survive on your own in the middle of nowhere, with only a few possessions, for as long as it takes, outlasting the other competitors to win the “life-changing” prize money. You must make a shelter, collect and purify all your drinking water, and trap or hunt your food.
The participants have to film themselves enduring the privations of the great outdoors, exposing both their strengths and weaknesses, mental and physical. And, in a few cases, an over-inflated belief in their own abilities and the supposed benefit of having a spiritual connection to first nation ancestors up in the heavens who will guide them through.

