Castaway Reikko Hori lived on an island for 19 days.
WOULD you ever deliberately dump yourself on a deserted island and challenge yourself to live there for 19 days?
Unless you’re casting for Survivor, the chances are relatively slim.
But a female castaway who deliberately spent almost three weeks on a deserted island after shunning modern society, has for the first time has revealed the secrets to survival both inside and outside island life.
Reikko Hori, a 22-year-old Japanese woman dubbed ‘the first voluntary female castaway’, chose to spend 19 days on the Indonesian island of Amparo, 6700km northwest of Australia, surviving solely on its inhabitants and the handful of items she brought with her.
Lacking any survival skills or training, she was without a machete, lighter or shelter, crucial tools for toughing it out alone amid harsh terrain.
“Usually I prefer to be alone. I am not very good at human relationship,” Ms Hori told news.com.au.
“I just have to survive. That’s all I thought. I just have to survive.“
And she didn’t make it easy on herself, either. According to trip organiser Alvaro Cerezo, she gave herself less than one hour’s preparation time to organise her experience.
“She hadn’t prepared anything and didn’t bring adequate clothing, not even a swimsuit, just a pair of jeans,” Mr Cerezo, said.
“The worst of all was her absolute ignorance on means of survival.”
Her knowledge of jungle life was so slim, she slept on the floor in the jungle in the middle of the night. She fell ill after her second night after intense tropical storms swept the area, and she was without shelter.
Castaway Reikko Hori lacked any survival skills.Source:Supplied
“I felt very bad because my stomach was empty I felt continually dizzy. As I had no shelter the rain made me suffer a lot as did the insects and the sea. On the fifth day I felt absolute desperation knowing I still had another 13 days on the island.”
Yet Ms Hori lived to tell the tale, using her wit to survive with as little as a magnifying glass to make fires, a harpoon to catch fish and a stone to break coconuts.
“Why need training? What I needed was my body and mind. I learn what I need to know and do in the place. That’s how I have lived.
“I think of myself as a person who wants to challenge anything that I haven’t experienced,” she said.
“I wanted to survive on my own in any environment to confirm my strength.”
Yet Ms Hori’s biggest surprise came when her island experience taught her something about life inside the trappings of modern day society.
“I found a world without people was not the world where I really wanted to live,” she told news.com.au.
“I learned I get not only sufferings but also happiness from being related with other people. I positively want to live in society now.”
“There is nothing convenient about life on desert island,” Ms Hori said, adding it was very hard to spend day after day alone there. “Somehow 19 days has past by spending one moment and one moment.”
Hori learned how to make a fire, catch fish and break open coconuts.Source:Supplied
Ms Hori says she now appreciates the little things in life, including that “I can sleep in bed. A roof protects us from sun and rain. We can get food easily if we pay. I can clean myself by shower. I can get clean water from the tap. [There are] people around. Light in the night.”
The adventure was organised through specialist travel company Docastaway, which finds remote islands and provides opportunities to adventurers wanting a true “survivor” experience.
Last year the company made headlines after 65-year-old adventurer Ian Argus Stuart spent 11 nights alone as a castaway on the world’s newest and most solitary island, Hunga Tonga, on what was dubbed, “the most extreme holiday of all time”.
Ms Hori’s experience, as Mr Cerezo says, is “ big proof” anyone could do it.
“She was probably the least skilled castaway we have never had, but the bravest.”
You can organise your own survivor experience by visiting www.docastaway.com
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