Ed Wardle is a Scottish

Scotland

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 television producer, director, camera operator and adventurer.

Wardle reached the summit of Mount Everest

Mount Everest

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 in 2007 while filming Everest: Beyond the Limit for the Discovery Channel

Discovery Channel

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. He reached the summit of the mountain again in 2009. In 2008 he took part in a guided 'last degree' expedition to the North Pole

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In 2009 Wardle filmed a documentary, Alone in the Wild

Alone in the Wild

Alone in the Wild is a television series commissioned by Channel 4 and produced by Tigress Productions, a UK independent producer. It was co-produced with the National Geographic Channel. Ed Wardle, an accomplished extreme photographer, created and filmed the series...

, for Channel 4

Channel 4

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 and the National Geographic Channel

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. Wardle was dropped off in the Yukon Territory of Northern Canada

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 in order make a documentary discovering what it was like to live completely alone in the wild, living off the land and the wildlife he could legally catch. His only means of communication with the outside world was via Twitter

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 posting each day. His video diaries had detailed his problems finding food and his inability to cope with the solitude. He had intended to stay for three months, but after seven weeks he decided that he needed to get out. His bodyweight fell by 28 pounds and heart rate fell to below 30 beats per minute by the end of his adventure.

He was interviewed on ITV's This Morning after his adventure.

See also

• Christopher McCandless
  Christopher McCandless
  Christopher Johnson McCandless was an American hitchhiker who adopted the name Alexander Supertramp and hiked into the Alaskan wilderness in April 1992 with little food and equipment, hoping to live for a time in solitude...
  
  
• Carl McCunn
  Carl McCunn
  Carl McCunn was an American wildlife photographer who became stranded in the Alaskan wilderness and eventually committed suicide when he ran out of supplies.-Early life:...
  
  
• Nanook of the North
  Nanook of the North
  Nanook of the North is a 1922 silent documentary film by Robert J. Flaherty. In the tradition of what would later be called salvage ethnography, Flaherty captured the struggles of the Inuk Nanook and his family in the Canadian arctic...
  
  
• Richard Proenneke
  Richard Proenneke
  Richard Louis "Dick" Proenneke was a naturalist who lived alone in the high mountains of Alaska at a place called Twin Lakes...
  
  , who survived in the Alaskan wilderness for 30 years