Having missed the final episode of this excellent show earlier in the week, I caught up with it on 4oD, and within seconds of the show starting, I was mentally yelling at my laptop, “Ed! For the love of Pete, go home! Just ring someone and go home!”

Poor Ed was weeping most of the way through this episode; starving, emaciated and with a frighteningly low heartbeat, his strength was all but gone and his thoughts turning increasingly to his loved ones.

I cried right along with him when he opened and read a letter from his girlfriend Amanda which also contained photos of herself and members of Ed’s family. It was a very touching scene, one of many in this last episode, but for a while there, I thought Ed was – literally and metaphorically – going out of his tree. Read more & comment »

Ed Wardle has discovered a new diet which can cause weight loss of around 24lbs in just four or five weeks! It’s called the Live On Leaves in the Yukon diet. It involves eating berries, the aforementioned leaves, small handfuls of rice and hiking for days on end with a giant pack on your back… which makes me think I’ll stick with Weight Watchers.

But Ed, a 38 year old adventurer/headcase, is living out his dream of existing entirely alone in the Canadian wilderness, so he’s embarked upon this diet as a rather unwanted side effect of living that dream.

He’s not truly a survival expert of the Bear Grylls, Ray Mears sort, and in last night’s episode, we saw that he’d lost huge amounts of weight, was emotionally and physically drained, and his dream was rapidly becoming a nightmare. Read more & comment »