That some guy ISNT JUST ANY GUY! 😤
- Documentaries were made about him
- A very successful movie was made about him “Into the wild”
- Countless Youtubers keep making videos about him; Thoughty2 made a very good video about him…
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_stranger_@lemmy.world 5 months agoThere was a guy a few years ago who tried to live off grid. He died, having left behind a journal detailing his final days. In it, he logged the exact process you outlined above for various things he foraged, which included wild potato seeds. Turns out those things pass all the above tests, but that builds up over time that no one really knew about. Poor guy starved because he was too weak to even crawl.
nature be scary fellow humans. Be careful out there.
Hardy@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
_stranger_@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The point of my comment was to highlight that even if you follow all the good advice, there’s still a chance you discover some new things that will kill you.
Hardy@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Cool… I also forgot to mention all the books written about him… 😅
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I heard about a guy that didn’t get accepted to art school.
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 5 months ago
His name? Albert Einstein
reinei@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Eh, it’s sort of a tradition at this point. You just win some and lose some (and as is quite obvious the outliers of both categories are really out there!
Zron@lemmy.world 5 months ago
He also wandered into the Alaskan wilderness with basically just a sack of rice and a .22lr rifle.
He was a a couple miles from safety the entire time, but did not buy a map so believed he was stranded when the river rose and cut off the main trail. But there was another trail with a raised cable crossing over the river a few miles upstream.
He was totally unprepared and essentially just committed extended suicide. The fact that he remembered some basic tips from a Boy Scout handbook doesn’t mean he was an expert. Kid was an idiot who got in way over his head.