Naked and afraid spring break

Survival for me is a constant daily preparation, training cycle and test. It is the thing that will get you through bad days, and can even make them better. Folks brag about going into the wild with just a knife for a long period of time to survive, and I get to one-up them by doing it naked like a caveman, just as man had done some 10, years ago. But the reality of this task, as I would come to find out later, is really immensely harder than one could imagine. I knew I was good, but just how good was I really? If I accepted this challenge, I would truly find out.

This time, instead of the swamps of Florida, Brady finds himself and 11 other veteran survivalists in the jungles of the Philippines. Brady has degrees in communications and film as well as environmental science from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash. You can say those degrees and the passions that drive him may have contributed to why the year-old finds himself on TV once again. Q: You appear to be somewhat of a jack-of-all-trades, what with your interest in wilderness guiding to the arts.

It sounds like something out a reality show, and it kind of is. The Discovery Channel series pairs strangers together in wilderness environments across the world sans sustenance and even clothes and chronicles their fight to stay alive. She was found August 12, naked, dirty, weak, and covered in bug bites on the side of Highway 82 near Union Springs. Theris says she stayed alive by eating berries and mushrooms, and by drinking water from creeks and puddles.

Hammer, a Cocoa Beach native, is a survivalist instructor for the popular Discovery Channel reality series. They both have these flat bundles of flowers. One of them is elderberry, that has edible fruits.