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Mont. medic featured on Discovery Channel’s ‘Naked and Afraid’

The episode shows a Missoula paramedic who survives for 21 days in the mountains of India

MISSOULA, Mont. — A Missoula paramedic and wilderness medicine instructor was featured on an episode of the Discovery Channel show “Naked and Afraid,” which chronicles the lives of two survivalists who are given the task of living in the wilderness for 21 days.

In the episode “Fire on the Mountain” paramedic Trenton Harper and his survival partner, who had “limited experience” with survival skills, contended with severe hunger, contaminated water and cold nighttime temperatures in the mountains of India, the Missoula Independent reports.

Watch a clip about the episode: