The New Forest could maybe get someone if they’re unlucky, but for the most part our woods are fairly harmless and it’s difficult to get truly lost in them. I think up in the Highlands in Scotland is the best equivalent to some of the US forests and even then they’re not as large, but the terrain can get difficult and I can imagine someone could get lost to the point of not coming back alive.

But yeah he likely underestimated how dangerous big US forests can be. I certainly have a hard time conceptualising the scale of them as I’ve never visited somewhere with a large forest nearby, not that I’d blindly walk off without telling someone, but I know I don’t truly understand the dangers of them.