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Ed Wardle, a documentary maker, was supposed to survive twelve weeks in the Canadian wilderness with nothing but a rifle, a fishing rod and a camera, but had to be emergency airlifted after only seven weeks after he sent a distress call, on the brink of starvation. As of now, Channel 4, the network for which Wardle was making Alone in the Wild, is being accused of exploitation and recklessness, the Telegraph informs. Wardle is an experimented documentary maker and has, so far, survived in the most hostile places, the British publication says, but he was not prepared and / or trained enough to survive this particular expedition. Because of this, the network, which initially simply wanted to stretch the limits of reality television to “where no man has ever gone before” stands to be accused of wanting to do so regardless of the person on whom it centers its shows â€" in this case, Wardle. “This is a pretty foolish enterprise. If Channel 4 are going to send people on t!
his kind of expedition, they really must make sure they are up to it and have the skills necessary to survive. If they first of all did not check that Ed Wardle was competent, then that is the height of irresponsibility on the part of Channel 4, to do that merely to provide entertainment for us all back h...
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