Welcome to Too Young to Die! Season I of the newest show coming from the roducers of Naked and Afraid and Survivor comes a new breed of survival show where the contestants could be one of you! This season will take place in the harsh Sahara Desert of Northern Africa. As technical advisors for the new show, we would like to give you some ideas of what we and the rest of the committee of advisors is looking for from survivalists auditioning. Pay close attention as you might think you are ready for the harsh Sahara Desert, but you never can happen in this harsh climate featuring temperature swings, sandstorms, and the flora and fauna.
These are some items items that we would recommend you bring with you on your trip. It is the user s choice, but in the Sahara, you must expect the unexpected to survive. 1. Portable Stove: You can use a non-electric, battery operated camping stove for basic cooking and boiling purposes so that there is always a heat source and you will not have to rely on the elements. The thermal energy it produces will help cook all of your food through conduction and convection, when you heat up or boil the meat. 2. Pot: You can use this to put water and raw food in so that you can cook them so that they are sanitary and safe to eat. This is metal, so it is a good conductor and can utilize heat with great efficiency. 3. First Aid Kit: This can be used to treat simple cuts and wounds caused by the temperatures and harsh conditions of the Sahara. There are things like aloe and bandaids that can ease and help your pain in here. 4. Ziploc Bags: This is a way that you can utilize the transpiration from desert plants. When the sun radiates heat and EM waves down on the Earth, this hits the leaves of trees. This is a part of transpiration that helps the leaves release water vapor, which condenses on the leaves of plants and eventually turns to water. You can collect this vapor in the Ziploc bags, which will keep the water in place until you can get to it and collect it.
5. Hammock: This is a way to keep yourself warm and insulate heat and prevent equilibrium from happening while you sleep in the cold temperatures. You do not want to catch hypothermia, so the hammock helps you keep warm. 6. Butter Knife: The knife makes a good conductor for heat and when heated can kill bacteria. This can help you when you have been cut and need to clean your wound. Through conduction your wound can be sanitized, though the heat will hurt quite a bit. 7. Wool Cloth: The cloth makes a good insulator so that when you are sleeping, no matter where you are in the Sahara, you can keep your heat with you. This is half the battle, because you need to keep your energy and strength to make it the full ten days, and it starts with keeping yourself warm at night.
These are some clothes that we would recommend you wear with you on your trip. It is the survivor s choice, but in the Sahara, you must expect the unexpected to survive. 1. Insulated Hoodie: This will help you keep warm in the harsh and very cold nights in the Sahara. Its fabrics make great insulators and will keep the heat and energy you have with you through the chilly night. The fabrics help prevent equilibrium which helps in your favor so when it s very cold out, you aren t very cold, too. 2. Thick Boots: The boots help keep your tender feet from being burnt and cut up by the landscape. The leathers and plastics in them help keep your feet warm and unhurt. The hot sand, heated up by the sun s rays when they radiate down on the desert. 3. Sand Socks: You will get blisters and sores if you just wear the boots alone, so these sand-specialized socks will help keep the sand and cold out and the dry, clean inside normal with their insulated fabrics preventing equilibrium. This way, your feet are now protected in two different ways. 4. Insulated Pants: This is, once again, preventing equilibrium at night. You do not want to lose all your body heat at night, so you will want to go to great lengths to insulate your body
Heat at night. If you wear these insulated pants with their fine fabrics with their cloths, it will help you a lot in doing so. 5. Black Desert Robe: You will need something to wear in the daytime when you are out and about performing various things you need to survive. If you wear a native Sahara black robe, it is a great option for what you need during the day. Though wearing black during the day may seem odd, it actually creates a mini-air conditioning unit around your body. If you use convection in your favor, the hot air radiating on you will eventually move elsewhere, thus leaving cold air and relief for your body. 6. Cargo Shorts: You will, beyond the robe, need things to wear during the day. The cargo shorts will be used as backup for if you have an issue with the robe or need to let it air out since it is covered in sweat. You can use them to hold many of your tools and they keep heat away very well through convection. 7. Flap Hat: Beyond the robe, you might want something to protect your head even further. If you use a canvas flap hat, then you will have protection from the sun s radiating dangerous UV rays. You can also, in an emergency, use the canvas in the hat to tie up a cut or patch up something that breaks.
We would recommend that you use the pot and portable, non-electric stove when you cook the food that you catch. Since we do not have a thermometer, you will know when the water reaches its boiling point when bubbles start rising up from the pot. Remember that without a thermometer, it is hard to exactly predict when the food is under or overcooked. This is big because if you undercook the food you could make yourself ill or if you overcook it you could make the food useless with thermal energy. We would also recommend that you either boil your water or you use transpiration. Either works. Through direct contact with the pot, the non-electric stove can boil the water through conduction and convection when the hot and cold water move. If you use transpiration, you will cover the plant s leaves with Ziploc bag so that when radiation hits the leaves and photosynthesis happens, the water released by the leaves will be collected.
We would recommend your shelter would be made up of logs, foliage, sand, mud, and wool cloth. The wool cloth and mud make good insulators because the wool keeps heat in and the mud makes it hard for heat to escape. The wool doesn t conduct heat very well, but at least it helps prevent equilibrium. The foliage, logs and sand also are insulators and will make a thick layer of protection against the night. The temperature of the shelter should stay the same throughout the night because of all the insulators that will keep the warmth in and heat out. The heat will radiate in during the day and stay that way at night, which we hope will help you survive. We would arrange these in a lean-to formation so that the strong logs and layer of mud make an outside all and the wool is used as flaps and a blanket. This way, you are using your resources in an efficient fashion that is proven to work.
We wish the survivalists the best of luck in their auditions and, if they make the show, their survival in the Sahara. We hope that we helped clarify or educate you on certain topics that could make or break you surviving the ten days in the wilderness, and we hope that the audience is ready for Season I of Too Young to Die!