The new luxury vacation: being dumped in the middle of nowhere

I&#x27;m having a very hard time taking this seriously since its a extremely long article about a simple fully managed 2 day hiking trip to go 18 miles, which any healthy adult should be able to do in 1 day with a full pack.<p>At first, I was willing to give the writer the benefit of the doubt, but when I realized that the writer was getting Wood&#x2F;Food&#x2F;Water dropoffs regularly, is when I realized this thing is definitely for sheltered rich people.

This sounds like backpacking... which you can do for way less than $30k. A nicely equipped pack from scratch can be had for less than $1k. Add in a little more for food, airfare, and any accomodations before and after, and you can do a trip like this for a couple thousand dollars max.<p>Of course prior wilderness experience is also essential, so I guess some people will want to spend extra for a special forces guide.

The idea of being dumped in the middle of nowhere seems like it has scope for much more vicarious entertainment. Imagine a challenge where a point on the Earth&#x27;s land surface is chosen at random, and competitors are dropped there (at random times of the year) and told to reach the nearest airport. They could then sell the vlogs to a production company.<p>Of course there would be rules about not starting in active warzones, or countries where you would be locked up as a spy, but I&#x27;m sure viewers would accept that. Also, it would be a bit unfair if a competitor had to start on a remote island, but I recently calculated that 99% of the Earth&#x27;s land surface is accounted for by continents and islands no smaller than Sicily. The other edge case would be starting in Antarctica, but people do complete solo crossings of that.

Does anyone remember that movie &quot;the game&quot; with Douglass and Penn? (It wasnt that good). It&#x27;s getting closer every day.

Suffering for people who have never suffered. This comes up on here again and again (the last one was why rich people do triathlons). People who have done well in life need to justify themselves with some organised (and usually artificial) suffering. No-one does middle-class guilt like a Brit.<p>Also, this guy lives in Manchester. He lives next two spectacular national parks (Lake District and the Dales), and he goes to Morocco. Could have gone to the Highlands if you wanted remote. Inexplicable. Smh. Embarrassment.

There are companies which offer such tours to Kazakhstan. They drop you off in complete wilderness, no other living soul in the radius of 500km. They give you all the gear&#x2F;food&#x2F;ammo, a bunch of coordinates with supplies pre-cached, a Thuraya satellite phone in case you decide to give up midway.<p>It costs a fortune, though.

I guess Fyre festival was just a way for trust fund babies to experience the vicissitudes of surviving on cheese sandwiches.

$15,000 for a glorified camping trip sounds absurdly expensive, sure.<p>So does paying $1000 for a phone, and yet how many people in this thread critiquing the camping experience have one of those?

Had to look elsewhere to find the cost. Looks like a trip like described starts at 30k minimum. Anyone know of any competitors?

Comments here feel a bit rough. If you&#x27;ve got the time, I&#x27;d recommend a read here.<p>Regardless of the &quot;stats&quot; here (absurd price point, 2 days &#x2F; 18 miles, plenty of supervision), it feels the author is as self-aware as one would hope. The article, longer than necessary to be sure, is still well-written.<p>His experience, his feelings throughout -- make any arguments you want about them, but it feels genuine. I learned a good amount about Black Tomato et al., and regardless of their merits, they do exist and people are using them.

University of Minnesota, Duluth campus has (used to have?) a winter survival class where the final test is to live on your own in the North Woods for a few days. Never done it, but I heard it&#x27;s fun.

From the title, I thought this is about people ending their romantic relationship in a strange place.

This is silly beyond belief. 18miles? Easily done in 6-8 hours. Sticking to the dumb managed schedule vs hanging out with the locals?! What a fool. What a dumb trade of potential experience. What story would his grandkids want to hear? “Dad spent a night with locals in a tent serendipitously” or “Dad did a Disney-fied hike by himself”. So silly. Disgusting.

If the goal is &quot;eighteen miles away&quot; (even if its rough mountainous terrain) Why cant you just walk there in a matter of hours?

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