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Spokane Scoutmaster wins $250K TV suvivalist event

Terry Fossum, life-long Boy Scout, poses in this “Kicking and Screaming” handout photo. Fosum won the television competition, televised Thursday night. (FOX Broadcasting Co. / FOX)
Terry Fossum, life-long Boy Scout, poses in this “Kicking and Screaming” handout photo. Fosum won the television competition, televised Thursday night. (FOX Broadcasting Co. / FOX)

Spokane Scoutmaster Terry Fossum won top prize in the new Fox reality show “Kicking and Screaming” Thursday night, along with partner Natalie Casanova.

The show paired survival experts with outdoor novices, pitting teams against each other in challenges of skill and adaptability. Each week, a different team was sent home, until only Fossum and Casanova remained.

“Nobody is more surprised than I am,” Fossum said of his win.

Fossum, 52, was the oldest survival expert on the show. Most of the others were military survival experts or members of the military special forces. His claim to fame was 45 years in the Boy Scouts and a solo winter snowshoe backpacking trip in North Idaho, as well as trips to the Arctic Circle and Africa/Nina Culver, SR. More here.



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