Bruno man survives cave encounter in total darkness

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A Bruno man, Russell Blair, has survived an encounter with a cave for what could possibly be up to as many as six days in complete darkness. According to Blair’s wife Lyndsi White, that’s the premise for a new survival show premiering in a two night event on the Discovery Channel Wednesday, August second at 9:00 p.m. Central Daylight Time, and her husband Russell Blair was cast to participate.

Lyndsi says “Darkness” is an extreme survival show, completed underground in the harshest of conditions. Touted as the “Ultimate Survival Test”, the trailer for the series on https://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/darkness/ says mankind confronts it’s primal fear as individuals are placed in a cave, with no light for up to six days, relying on their survival skills. Night vision cameras allow the Discovery crew to capture the participants without them being able to see anything.

While the outcome of Russell’s experience, and whether he made it for the entire six days, is not allowed to be divulged, Russell, who is an avid survivalist and local rancher, says it was one of the hardest situations he has ever faced.

His wife Lyndsi set the whole thing up. She says over the last couple of years she has been sick and Russell has been taking care of her. Their daughter Kacie has health problems as well, being born with a heart condition. Lyndsi says her husband has always had a passion for the outdoors and adventure.

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Lyndsi said after signing Russell up she kept it a secret. She didn’t feel the need to bring it up unless he made it to the third stage of the interviewing process. Without being told Russell had made it to the final round she received a FaceTime call from a producer in Los Angeles who said he wanted to do the final interview with him. She explained to the producer she hadn’t told Russell about signing him up yet and had to also explain that to Russell approximately 30 seconds before his phone interview took place.

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Russell says he believes his episode will be the fifth of the series, however they have kept him “in the dark”. He knows the episode will appear after the popular Discovery show Naked and Afraid. He says he doesn’t know much about the other participants as well including how many quit and how many didn’t make it. As for him, although he’s been through several survivalist experiences and works as a rancher under sometimes harsh conditions, he says this was the hardest experience of his life.

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When debating whether he would ever do anything like this again Russell  says he would consider it however he “would have to see some of that big-time Hollywood money”.

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