Welsh bushcraft expert competes on Alone: World Championship

Dropped in the Arctic Circle with just 10 tools and a camera, Andrew Price faced loneliness and lit fires to cook and boil water. Despite worries of grizzly bears and the extreme cold, the 51-year-old has become the first Welshman to compete in the US TV show Alone: World Championship. "I've always wanted to push myself in a really cold environment, it doesn't get colder than the Arctic Circle so it felt like the perfect place to go," Price said. "It was definitely the most physically and mentally challenging thing I've ever done." Growing up in the suburbs of Swansea, Price's grandad introduced him to foraging for seaweed, mussels and blackberries on the Gower Peninsula. When he was eight, his grandad used to take him on walks in Mumbles to collect periwinkles and boil them for food. "As a kid, it seemed like a normal thing to do but only later on in life that I realised not everyone did that," Price said. With his dad, he used to go out kayaking and fishing around Mumbles Head, trying to catch mackerel and bass. This later introduced him to bushcraft, which includes skills such as hunting in a natural environment. After leaving school, Price went on an expedition to Malaysia wher