Alone is a reality TV show where ten competitors get dropped off on various parts of Vancouver Island, and are forced to figure out how to survive by themselves.  The last one standing won half a million dollars.

My son is charmed by tales like My Side of the Mountain and Hatchet, and my husband is a fair outdoorsman.  As for me, I’d be the idiot who dies in the first hour because I tripped on a limpet shell and managed to strangle myself with my own rucksack. (I am what you’d call “indoorsy”.)  Nonetheless, I was still hooked.

Who takes on this kind of lunacy? [Read more…]