Bear Grylls Posts go here!

BUZ said:
Post from Bear himself:

http://community.discovery.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/2161971848/m/3281901858
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The show itself is about watching a journey. It's about seeing what I do to try and escape these hostile places, with all the struggles and human frailties that I know survival really encompasses.
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From the man himself, the trick to enjoying the show. Don't think of it as an educational video, just enjoy watching some crazy freaking brit do it his way.
 
Bear said:
In January I head out to shoot the new episodes - including hopefully, one in Oregon, after hearing about the tragic stories of the Kim family and the stranded climbers.

Looking foward in time, this May I am leading a team attempting to fly powered paragliders over the summit of Everest...details to follow in January on www.beargrylls.com.

Thanks again,

God bless

Bear x
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Ummm....ok.
 
Originally Posted by Bear
In January I head out to shoot the new episodes - including hopefully, one in Oregon, after hearing about the tragic stories of the Kim family and the stranded climbers.

Watching these stories on the news got me started thinking about putting together survival kits for the truck and home.
If i can recommend two books so far

Cody Lundin 98.6 degrees art of keeping ur ASS alive and
Tom Browns Field Guide to Wilderness Survival

I hate to say it but these two tragedies serve as examples to me atleast that I should be better prepared
 
So Bear has a turbine powered parawing that can do those altitudes? And carry oxygen? I'll buy a ticket.
 
Bear is great, a bit on the extreme side yes but regardless I would pick watching him any damn day of the week over the commercialized fake BS like survivor. I really liked Survivorman with Les Stroud on discovery too. Hell anyone who would have the balls to get on a handmade raft and head to open sea is worth an hour of my time. Europeans have a bit different survival skills so it is kind of fun.
 
Let me see, Survivor = Hot, young, in shape women wearing next to nothing performing various physical challenges.

Man versus Wild = some guy with dodgy creditials, a funny accent, who takes his clothes off way more than I am comfortable with and drinks elephant poo.

I think I will take Survivor. :D :D
 
runningboar said:
Let me see, Survivor = Hot, young, in shape women wearing next to nothing performing various physical challenges.

Man versus Wild = some guy with dodgy creditials, a funny accent, who takes his clothes off way more than I am comfortable with and drinks elephant poo.

I think I will take Survivor. :D :D
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So you would rather rot your mind watching anorexic chicks run around on a beach than watch someone with years of training (I dont know where you came up with "dodgy credentials") demonstrate useful survival techniques? That seems a bit odd.

Any way... I dont know why you guys are bashing Bear because some of the things he does are a bit more extreme than the "normal" person could handle. I mean yeah the guy screws up sometimes and gets in bad places, so would all of us in a survival situation. He does give some very useful tips and demonstrates that survival is possible no matter how few things you carry.I mean honestly if you had to choose between getting giardia and dying of thirst what would you do? I would take giardia any day.

Sorry for the rant but seriously some of the ideas you guys have...
 
It is all entertainment. Nothing more or Les (:D ). If you find an educational tidbit in there, well and good. Training can be good. Learning by doing can be better. We all want to be voyures to some point, watching others make mistakes, take unreasonable risks, face challenges that no one in their right mind would face if not for the notoriety and financial gain at stake. Embelishing the challenge, the skills, the credentials is to be expected. It is a part of the hype to gain viewership, thus market share, thus sponsorship. I really have no problem with any of the celebrity adventurers. I do get tickled at people buying the hype.

Ya'll bees so funny!:D

Codger
 
Munky said:
So you would rather rot your mind watching anorexic chicks run around on a beach...
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YES!

My wife may like Bear better though.

As for all his experience, he is a thrill seeker with lots of money, that spent a few years in the British Army and then became a motivational speaker. In my feeble, rotted mind this does not make him an expert, entertaining, but no expert. Chris
 
We were watching Bear last night and during the credits they list another person as the survival expert. From this I would assume that bear just goes out and do what he says. I am sure he knows more than me but .......

Les is pretty cool, survivor is a joke but I do like to watch the wimmins, the wife likes the men so both are happy and we get to laugh at the stupid antics. For the most part Probst is the smart one out there. Traveling to those nice places and getting paid for it, hell I need that job.
 
Briggz said:
For the most part Probst is the smart one out there. Traveling to those nice places and getting paid for it, hell I need that job.
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Man you got that right, if I can figure out how to travel to those places and get rich doing it I am all over it, not to mention getting women to take their clothes off for a peanut butter sandwich.:D
 
Grylls doesn't claim to be an expert. He's an outdoors entertainer. I don't take him for anything more than that.

If he paraglides over Everest, he's as nuts as I already think he is. What I want to know, is how is it that mostly it is only Englishmen who seem to get away with becoming professional "Adventurers" and are still taken seriously?

The only British exceptions I can recall from the television age are Marlin Perkins, Jacques Cousteau, Robert Ballard, and Steve Irwin.
 
Boats said:
Grylls doesn't claim to be an expert. He's an outdoors entertainer. I don't take him for anything more than that.
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I'd say he know a little about survival!

quoted: Before climbing Everest, Bear spent three years as a Specialist Combat Survival Instructor and Patrol Medic with the British Special Forces.
 
BUZ said:
I'd say he know a little about survival!

quoted: Before climbing Everest, Bear spent three years as a Specialist Combat Survival Instructor and Patrol Medic with the British Special Forces.
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Those things make him facially qualified to avoid being called a total pretender. Read the guy's own supposed post linked above. Not even he claims to be an expert.

I can land navigate, make snares and traps, build shelters, make fires, find water, and have even made food cakes from a Western Hemlock's cambium layer before. (Tree eating sucks BTW, which is why I suppose it never really caught on anywhere there is a choice to eat something else.).

I would never call myself an expert. I still have lots to learn. My attempts at natural cordage, for instance, usually look like a one handed man made it.
 
I see this on these forums all the time, people put way to much stock in military survival training, they really don't teach you that much, even if you are special ops.

If Bear spent 3 years in the SAS he might know as much about woodcraft as a 12 year old boy in the rural Appalachians but I doubt even that. Now I am sure his medical training is very good, that is much more important and stressed much more in the military than fieldcraft. Chris
 
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