Ed Wardle

Ed Wardle is a Scottish television producer, director, camera operator and adventurer.^[1]

Wardle reached the summit of Mount Everest in 2007 while filming Everest: Beyond the Limit for the Discovery Channel. He reached the summit of the mountain again in 2009.^[2] In 2008 he took part in a guided 'last degree' expedition to the North Pole.

In 2009 Wardle filmed a documentary, Alone in the Wild, for Channel 4 and the National Geographic Channel.^[3] Wardle was dropped off in the Yukon Territory of Northern Canada in order to 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 posting each day.^[4] 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.^[5]

He was interviewed on ITV's This Morning after his adventure.^[6]

See also

• Christopher McCandless, subject of Jon Krakauer’s book Into the Wild, later adapted into a film by Sean Penn (2007)
• Carl McCunn, wildlife photographer who became stranded in the Alaskan wilderness and eventually committed suicide when he ran out of supplies (1981)
• Nanook of the North, 1922 silent film documentary following the lives of an Inuit family
• Richard Proenneke, survived in the Alaskan wilderness for 30 years

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