Has anyone watched this guy on the Discovery channel? he is a fookin loone. he will eat and drink anything in the name of survival, and I mean anything. :hurl: :hurl:

 

http://www.beargrylls.com/

 

The Guy is certainly made from sterner stuff. here is a peice from his biography....

 

Biography

 

 

Every year the death toll on Mount Everest rises, and for every ten mountaineers who make it to the top, one will die. Yet at 7.22am on May 26th 1998, Bear entered The Guinness Book of Records as the youngest, and one of only around thirty, British climbers to have successfully climbed Everest and returned alive. He was only 23 years old.

 

The actual ascent took Bear over ninety days of extreme weather, limited sleep and running out of oxygen deep inside the 'death zone' (above 26,000 feet). On the way down from his first reconnaissance climb, Bear was almost killed in a crevasse at 19,000 feet. The ice cracked and the ground disappeared beneath him, he was knocked unconscious and came to swinging on the end of a rope. His team-mate and that rope saved his life. The expedition was raising funds for the Rainbow Trust and Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.

 

Previously, in 1997, Bear had become the Youngest Briton to climb Mount Ama Dablam in the Himalayas (22,500 feet), a peak once described by Sir Edmund Hillary as unclimbable'.

 

Prior to the Everest Expedition, Bear, also a Karate Black Belt, spent three years with the British Special Air Service (21 SAS). What makes his story even more remarkable is that during this time he suffered a free-fall parachuting accident in Africa where he broke his back in three places. After months and months of rehabilitation, focusing always on his childhood dream of Everest, he slowly became strong enough to attempt the ultimate ascent of the world's highest peak.

 

Bear has a natural talent for communication and his speaking and TV shows has brought him worldwide acclaim. As a motivational speaker, he has addressed corporations all around the world on his experiences on Everest and how these can help us in our life and business environments. He is among the youngest and most successful speakers in the world.

Examples?????

Yep. Great aint he.

 

Haven't seen the one yet were he drinks his own urine but have seen him squeeze elephant dung and drink the link, pee on his own shirt and put it on his head.

 

Darrell

Yep. Great aint he.

 

Haven't seen the one yet were he drinks his own urine but have seen him squeeze elephant dung and drink the link, pee on his own shirt and put it on his head.

 

Darrell

sounds like a normal night out in liverpool city centre at 2am sunday morning :rofl:

Examples?????

When he's walking along, if it moves he will eat it...raw. and I do mean anything that moves.

ewwwwwwwwww

it makes me cringe everytime i watch it but i just cant help it, its a bit morish.

There was a bit of an expose on his series a while back.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=470155&in_page_id=1770

 

To be honest I don't really care, because the guy still knows his stuff and it's a TV series, right?

 

I think some people take this whole survival thing a bit too seriously - it's an entertainment show ffs. Is sucking the juice out of an eyeball not enough for these people???

I would insist on Hotels if I was doing a TV show, and lets face it, if you can spend 3 years in the SAS and climb Mount Everest then your not a fake are you.

I would insist on Hotels if I was doing a TV show, and lets face it, if you can spend 3 years in the SAS and climb Mount Everest then your not a fake are you.

aggree

Has anyone watched this guy on the Discovery channel? he is a fookin loone. he will eat and drink anything in the name of survival, and I mean anything. :hurl: :hurl:

 

http://www.beargrylls.com/

 

The Guy is certainly made from sterner stuff. here is a peice from his biography....

 

Biography

 

 

Every year the death toll on Mount Everest rises, and for every ten mountaineers who make it to the top, one will die. Yet at 7.22am on May 26th 1998, Bear entered The Guinness Book of Records as the youngest, and one of only around thirty, British climbers to have successfully climbed Everest and returned alive. He was only 23 years old.

 

The actual ascent took Bear over ninety days of extreme weather, limited sleep and running out of oxygen deep inside the 'death zone' (above 26,000 feet). On the way down from his first reconnaissance climb, Bear was almost killed in a crevasse at 19,000 feet. The ice cracked and the ground disappeared beneath him, he was knocked unconscious and came to swinging on the end of a rope. His team-mate and that rope saved his life. The expedition was raising funds for the Rainbow Trust and Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.

 

Previously, in 1997, Bear had become the Youngest Briton to climb Mount Ama Dablam in the Himalayas (22,500 feet), a peak once described by Sir Edmund Hillary as unclimbable'.

 

Prior to the Everest Expedition, Bear, also a Karate Black Belt, spent three years with the British Special Air Service (21 SAS). What makes his story even more remarkable is that during this time he suffered a free-fall parachuting accident in Africa where he broke his back in three places. After months and months of rehabilitation, focusing always on his childhood dream of Everest, he slowly became strong enough to attempt the ultimate ascent of the world's highest peak.

 

Bear has a natural talent for communication and his speaking and TV shows has brought him worldwide acclaim. As a motivational speaker, he has addressed corporations all around the world on his experiences on Everest and how these can help us in our life and business environments. He is among the youngest and most successful speakers in the world.

 

what about when he ate that spider then kim lol :D

what about when he ate that spider then kim lol :D

Didnt see that thank God. :hurl:

I would insist on Hotels if I was doing a TV show, and lets face it, if you can spend 3 years in the SAS and climb Mount Everest then your not a fake are you.

Exactly! You don't go through all that, get the chance to make a TV show and still sleep it rough (well, not unless you're Mears). He should enjoy the fruit of his labours. There's obviously just a little bit too much reality TV on the box and people don't know where to draw the line.

i cant take away his history, but his shows are staged. many of teh places he has stated as widerness have been shown by people to be no more than 100 feet from a main road or such.

Yeah but, its all about the skills he shows you on survival, what to eat, how to keep warm, how to stay alive basically.

Exactly! You don't go through all that, get the chance to make a TV show and still sleep it rough (well, not unless you're Mears).

Yes, love the Ray Mears stuff, real survival from a man who's done it all without all the macho BS.

Unlike Bear, who's more "look at me i'm great".

Mears walked out of the middle of the desert in Africa, he had a canteen of water with him but admitted how difficult it was but he didn't have to dramatise it by pissing in his shirt and wrapping it round his head.

That takes a special kind of idiot and lots of money lol.

Exactly! You don't go through all that, get the chance to make a TV show and still sleep it rough (well, not unless you're Mears).

Yes, love the Ray Mears stuff, real survival from a man who's done it all without all the macho BS.

Unlike Bear, who's more "look at me i'm great".

Mears walked out of the middle of the desert in Africa, he had a canteen of water with him but admitted how difficult it was but he didn't have to dramatise it by pissing in his shirt and wrapping it round his head.

That takes a special kind of idiot and lots of money lol.

Yeah, but thats all in the entertainment of the show, Ive watched ray mears a few times, and although he does know his stuff, I find it hard to stay focused, because he is just so boring.

Yeah, but thats all in the entertainment of the show, Ive watched ray mears a few times, and although he does know his stuff, I find it hard to stay focused, because he is just so boring.

Totally agree, when its on i watch it the end but that doesn't stop me saying to the wife "come here and watch this idiot" lol.

I would love to go on one of those survival courses, Ray Mears runs them up in the Highlands and also in Sweeden but they cost a fortune.

I just be happy to be able to leave the house just now without a panic attack lol. :slap:

I watched an episode of Ray Mears where he built a canoe and then went through the Canadian wilderness, there was a bit when he got to some rough rapids so had to carry the canoe round to the calmer waters but when he tried to lower the canoe it was stuck on his head and he nearly broke his neck. The Bear Grylls stuff while entertaining is too choreographed.

All in my opinion of course.

incidently, out of the 2 which one teaches the SAS?

incidently, out of the 2 which one teaches the SAS?

None, the SAS Taught Bear Grylls. so alot of his techniques are taken from the SAS.

The survival company Ray Mears set up teaches survival skills to the millitary, some people have said Mears is ex SAS but he was never in the millitary as he failed his medical for the Royal Marines on something like colour blindness. While filming in Mongolia he took on and beat their wrestling champ so he's not just a podgy know it all lol.

The survival company Ray Mears set up teaches survival skills to the millitary, some people have said Mears is ex SAS but he was never in the millitary as he failed his medical for the Royal Marines on something like colour blindness. While filming in Mongolia he took on and beat their wrestling champ so he's not just a podgy know it all lol.

He's definitely hard as nails. Some of the stuff he does is all about patience and hard work, for what looks like relatively little reward. I'd probably give up and whip out some firelighters, a box of matches, a tin can and a cup-a-soup.

 

I would say I find Ray Mears fascinating and Bear Grylls entertaining. And if you think Ray Mears is boring what about that chap that he drags around with him sometimes?.... fook me!

He's definitely hard as nails. Some of the stuff he does is all about patience and hard work, for what looks like relatively little reward. I'd probably give up and whip out some firelighters, a box of matches, a tin can and a cup-a-soup.

 

I would say I find Ray Mears fascinating and Bear Grylls entertaining. And if you think Ray Mears is boring what about that chap that he drags around with him sometimes?.... fook me!

LOL, Yeah the botonist with the grey beard, he sends me to sleep he does. I cant take away Ray Mears knowledge of survival, I just think he's not really exciting to watch. Bear may stage some things, but you cant beat him for entertainment.

i like the both for different things