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An adventurous woman with links to east Perthshire is one of 23 brave volunteers taking part in new TV reality show, Eden.
Rachel Butterworth (29) and fellow contestants are aiming to build their own utopia in a remote part of the Scottish Highlands, where they will live, hunt and sleep together for an entire year, while being filmed by cameras.
The programme was first shown on Channel 4 on Monday night this week.
Before leaving to film Eden, Rachel worked as a food development officer with Forward Coupar Angus.
Rachel and her group hBauvlelebteeGnrienat Ardnamurchan since March, braving mud, midges and sore backs, unaware of the outside world. Their brief was to survive with no smartphones or access to the outside world, with even the camera operators living inside the vast compound.
Rachel joins a yoga teacher, a chef, a paramedic and other people with a range of skills on a programme which, in many ways, is reminiscent of BBC One’s Castaway, set in the Hebrides during 2000.
A Channel 4 statement said:“With no prescribed infrastructure, the group will take in with them only what they can carry and the basics needed to kick start their experience, including the tools of their trade. What they do and how they do it is up to them.
“The series aims to challenge everything about modern living, raising questions about what we need to be happy, what we want from our communities and how we are influenced by society as a whole.”
The filming is ongoing, with the series staggered across several months.