Hapless pals spend three weeks in jungle completely naked and survive eating bugs and machete wounds ‘after watching Bear Grylls on TV’
Daniel Olifi, 26, and James Moynihan, 27, decided to spend three weeks camping in the Kuantan rainforest “to see if it could be done” – but gave up after 16 days when Daniel cut his hand on a machete.Daniel Olifi, 26, and James Moynihan, 27, set themselves the challenge after watching TV survival showsThe survival nuts – who met on a film course at Southampton’s Solent University – lost 46lbs between them after living on bugs and berries for half a month.
But the quick fix didn’t work, and they sacked off the trip after the wound started smelling of “rotten flesh”.Daniel wrote at the time: “My hand is still not healing and smells rotten. James and I question how long I can stay in the jungle before it gets severely infected.”