The Accidental Entrepreneur, The Survivor Edition

9Survivor continues

At the Contenders camp we knew that we were very close to merge, but in Survivor there is nothing predictable, so we were unsure if we had one or two more days.

I had played my idol the night before, even though it turned out I didn’t need to because my name was not written down. I still believed it was the right thing to do: my idol power expired after merge, so I only had two more Tribals to play it. I’d decided that if Harry played an idol then I would play mine, since with his votes cancelled out the odds of me going home was significantly higher.

Going into the last challenge I was unprotected. I have to say it was very nice to have that little necklace in my bag, even if it was the skull of a dead animal!

We arrived at another immunity challenge. We had to jump across logs that stood out of the ground, from half a metre to about 1.5 metres in height — which was a long way to fall. The distance was such that you had to jump from log to log. The million ways I could hurt myself on this challenge ran through my head. My fear was nothing compared to Pia’s, who being only five-foot-two, was really nervous about how to get across without serious injury.

Photograph by Nigel Wright.

With these challenges it is just as much a mental game as a physical one. Pia told herself that it was nearly impossible, so it became impossible. Pia fell 10 times until she ...