Man vs. Wild with Bear Grylls

[Cascadia]

Yes, Grylls is a entertainer, Stroud is a instructor, and I'm gonna miss Survivorman.

 

[NOKUY]

Yes, Grylls is a entertainer, Stroud is a instructor, and I'm gonna miss Survivorman.

as i have said im more a fan of les stroud.....but don't just discount bear grylls as a mere "entertainer".

if it came down to a survival situation....bear can hold his own right next to les anyday.

some of you may know a bit of this, but i thought i'd point out a few things i plucked out of bears' resume:

Grylls was educated at Eaton House, Ludgrove School, Eton College, and Birkbeck, University of London, where he graduated with a degree, obtained part-time, in Hispanic studies in 2002. He learned to climb and sail from his father at an early age. He also earned a black belt in karate as a teenager: Becoming a second dan black belt in Shotokan karate (Though, he now practices Yoga and Ninjutsu).

He speaks English, Spanish, and French.

Grylls married Shara Grylls (née Cannings Knight) in 2000. They have three sons: Jesse, Marmaduke, and Huckleberry (born January 15, 2009 via natural childbirth on his houseboat).

In December 2008, Grylls suffered a broken shoulder while kite skiing across a stretch of ice during an independent expedition to climb a remote unclimbed peak in Antarctica. Traveling at speeds up to 50 km/h, a ski caught on the ice, launching him in the air and breaking his shoulder when he came down.


After leaving school, Grylls considered joining the Indian Army and spent a few months hiking in the Himalayan mountains of Sikkim and West Bengal, Assam. From 1994 to 1997, after passing United Kingdom Special Forces Selection, he served in the part-time United Kingdom Special Forces Reserve, with 21 Regiment Special Air Service, 21 SAS(R), as a trooper, survival instructor and Patrol Medic. He served in North Africa twice. In 1996 he suffered a freefall parachuting accident in Kenya. His canopy ripped at 1600 feet (500 m), partially opening, causing him to fall and land on his parachute pack on his back, which partially crushed three vertebrae. Grylls later said, "I should have cut the main parachute and gone to the reserve but thought there was time to resolve the problem". Grylls came "within a whisker" according to his surgeon of being paralyzed for life and at first, it was questionable whether he would ever walk again. Grylls spent the next 18 months in and out of military rehabilitation at Headley Court before being discharged and directing his efforts into trying to get well enough to fulfil his childhood dream of climbing Mount Everest.

Grylls was awarded the honorary rank of Lieutenant Commander in the UK's Royal Naval Reserve for services to charity and human endeavour.


On May 26, 1998, Grylls achieved his childhood dream (a dream ever since his father gave him a picture of Everest when he was eight) and a Guinness World Record (since surpassed by Jake Meyer and at age 19 by Rob Gauntlett), as the youngest Briton, at 23, to summit Mount Everest, just eighteen months after breaking his back. However, James Allen, an Australian/British climber who ascended Everest in 1995 with an Australian team, but who has dual citizenship, beat him to the summit at age 22. Grylls' expedition involved nearly three months on Everest's southeast face: From his first reconnaissance climb on which he fell in a crevasse and was knocked unconscious, regaining consciousness to find himself swinging on the end of a rope, to the weeks of acclimatisation climbs involving climbing up and down the South Face, negotiating the Khumbu icefall (a frozen river), the Western Cwm glacier, and a 5000 foot wall of ice called the Lhotse face, to the grueling ascent with the ex-SAS soldier Neil Laughton, involving climbing for hours in the night, that took him past extreme weather, fatigue, dehydration, last-minute illness, sleep deprivation and almost running out of oxygen inside the death zone where air is three times thinner than at sea level.

To prepare for climbing at such high altitudes in the Himalayas, in 1997, Grylls became the youngest Briton to climb Ama Dablam, a peak described by Sir Edmund Hillary as "unclimbable".

In 2000, Grylls, lead the first team to circumnavigate the UK on a personal watercraft or jet ski, taking about 30 days, to raise money for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI).

He also rowed naked for 22 miles in a homemade bathtub along the Thames to raise funds for a friend who lost his legs in a climbing accident

Three years later, he led a team of five, including his childhood friend and Mount Everest climbing partner Mick Crosthwaite, on the first unassisted crossing of the north Atlantic Arctic Ocean, in an open rigid inflatable boat. Battling force 8 gale winds, hypothermia, icebergs and storms in an eleven-meter-long boat through some of the most treacherous stretches of water in the world including the Labrador Sea, the Denmark Strait, and the stretch made famous by The Perfect Storm, Bear and his team were just barely able to finish the journey from Halifax, Nova Scotia to John o' Groats, Scotland. He was awarded an Honorary commission in the Royal Navy as a Lieutenant-Commander for this feat.


there is a whole lot more, but i thought i'd point sum stuff out.....also look up "ray mears"...talk about a master at survival and bushcraft.

 

[weedster]

wow great info

 

[NOKUY]

To prepare for climbing at such high altitudes in the Himalayas, in 1997, Grylls became the youngest Briton to climb Ama Dablam, a peak described by Sir Edmund Hillary as "unclimbable".

here is a pic of "ama dablam"....i aint climbin that shit

 

[gtbuds2332]

great info on bear...he has done some amazing things and it sounds like he knows his shit

he just does crazy stunts during the show to make it more interesting but i agree that he would hold his own next to les stroud in a survival situation

 

[reefa cheefa]

I love that fukin show. haha bear grills

 

[Hash Zeppelin]

Ya He really is a bad ass, like I said. I look up to him, but there is no way I can do what he does. I have to stick to the more basic safer stuff that stroud teaches.

 

[B.C.]

I think Man vs. Wild and Survivorman are both excellent shows. Lots to be learned from both

I agree.... BC

 

[nycdfan042]

Bear Grylls is ight, he makes things interesting but a bit dramatic. The "survivor man" is a total douche his show is totally boring cant really stand his show its really quite repetative no offense i know theres alotta you guys who absolutely love the guy and his show, for what reason i dont know.
Huge Douche Bag - Brady Barr has been licking lizards and toads lately on his show, aside fromm being a total douche nozzle the guy is just as dumb as bricks. Have you guys see the episode where Dr Brady Barr(this fuckin guy has a phd!) chases a HUGE anaconda into a cave filled with bat pooop and mud waist high, he corners it trries to catch it unde the mud without knowing where the head is and is bitten very close to his femral artery. Now the moron is licking toads, for what purpose i have no idea, but i saw a clip of his licking various toads(at least 5) and his reactions and discriptions of the taste and what not , post lick. Some of this reactions are just priceless, this is what im saying i would trade 20 brady barrs( and his whole family), 300 survivor mans and a few dozen bear grylls for 1/3rd of steve irwin. The magic moment happens at 3:30
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2uDOQBBGOE this Brady Barr guy is such a turd, he rmeinds me of corky the retarded guy who thinks hes a scientist, the guy is hilariously stupid

^^ this is one of many clips showing him licking "mucus membranes" and what not of lizards, frogs and salamanders. This guys probably the most likely to die next, next tot he guy who free dives with great whites in south africa

if you havent seen Michael Rutzen free diving with great white(NO CAGE)'s in south africa i suggest you go on youtube and check out, this guys got ice in his veins and testicles made of titanium and admantiumn
http://www.videosift.com/video/Free-diving-with-white-sharks

 

[Cascadia]

as i have said im more a fan of les stroud.....but don't just discount bear grylls as a mere "entertainer".

Yes, of course I'm sure you are right, but this is how Bear presents himself on TV, so my point stands strong

 

[9Lives]

I watch it..

but it has got nothing to do with survival. This guy gives borderline stupid advice..And i hear they fake alot of scenes too..the last one i remember. Something along the lines of..when it gets sunny and warm the snakes like to hide from the sun under fallen trees such as this.

Snakes hiding from the sun ? Snakes are Ectothermic dude...it's alot more likely they will be basking in the sun!

Les Strout much better...the regular Discovery Channel has been going to shit for some time now.

 

[MrMcBean]

are there any online stream-sources for these shows or do i need to download them season-wise..?

good stuff.. never heard of him (no tv)