From the article from the Philippine Daily Inquirer by Oliver M. Pulumbarit:
There were 10 people who got stranded on Vancouver Island in Canada, she related. “We had a week of camera training together and we were individually dropped by seaplane, boat and helicopter on the island. We had no communication with anyone else from the show.”
“The show is really different from others in that you are completely alone—I had no camera crew with me,” American Nicole Apelian revealed to the Inquirer in a phone interview, while she was in Portland, Oregon.
Apelian, 45, is a former field biologist and a game warden with the US Peace Corps for a time. Her previous experiences, she related, prepared her for her stint in the second season of “Alone,” where she was required to record her time on the island.