Bear Grylls in Alaskan Episode

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wade

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Is it me or is this guy a little nuts? Also saw a tread where they were talking about his knife, they were saying a Cold Steel Voyager.
 
The show is like taking Bushcraft/Wilderness Survival and making it an Extreme sport or something.
 
It seemed to me that there were small bits of good information sprinkled around in the show, BUT if you followed all of his ideas I think you would be dead before you got to use the good ones.:( Just my opinion.
 
I was trying to watch the Alaskan episode last night at 11;30pm.
I fell asleep. Had I been with him I would have died from Hypothermia.

You have to admit, anyone who will jump in an ice encrusted lake to show you how to get out of that situation is pretty far out there. But he is entertaining. The SAS training is among the toughest program in the world, so, he has been pushed far beyond what any of us would call normal.

You gotta respect a guy who will jump in a frozen lake, you can call it foolish, but it really takes some cajones to go for it. Parachute into a jungle?
Again, major cajones.

if anything, some of things Bear does only reinforces with all of us, to MAKE sure i doesn't happen to us.

I'll catch the re-run of the Alaskan scenario and see what other crazy stuff he does.
 
I said before,
we need a Sticky topic for Both Bear Grylls and Les Stroud.

Might as well start a Thread for each episode, in advance to contain the radioactivity.
 
I thought that episode was in the French Alps? Two different shows? :confused:
(Oops I see that there was an AK episode)
 
frediver said:
Is that really the point, are the producers trying to show the audiance HOW to DIE !
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Trust me, if you take this too seriously, you will go insane.

Just last week we had a guy hauled off these very forums, foaming at the mouth, in a straight jacket, screaming. It was very ugly.
We are very worried that these threads about wilderness survival TV shows may cause mass hysteria.


There is no treatment.
 
I think that it boils down to the fact that all of us on this forum cannot get around that fact that TV producers have no scruples nor any idea of what true reality is. It's all about the ratings, and DAMN the consequences. They must live on a different planet.
 
I think he does all the stupid stuff to show you that the methods used to counter or treat the effects actually work.
 
Maybe he does stupid things because the people most in need of showing how to get out of stupid things are those who go out and do stupid things?:confused:
 
I don't get all the hating on bear grylls especially on the rat forums.
Here is the point of the show -- how to niavigate WORST CASE SCENARIOS.
Why does he jump into a frozen lake? Not to suggest we do that, but to show how to get out if we fell in.
He often repeats the phrase "do this as a LAST resort"
On the other hand, if he took only the safe route, that would make for a boring show, not to mention defeat the show's worst case scenario purpose.
We all know how to start a fire, whittle sticks and all the good boy scout stuff. But his point is to show how to survive the worst, and to demonstrate that, he has to put himself in those situations.
BTW, somehow that last knife he used looked like a gerber to me. I could be wrong.
 
Old Painless, I agree with you.

I said same about Les Stroud, if they did everything text book it would probably be too techical and boring on top of that.

It's an adventure show. that's all.

"Bear Gryll's Big Adventure"
 
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