MAN vs.WILD: Shock and agony:airlift rescue for injured explorer Bear Grylls after Antarctic fall

dailymail ^ | 07th December 2008

[Travis McGee]

You should go back for a NM road trip. That place has too much history and too many ghosts to ever kill. The current problems are just a blip in its long story.

I hope. But it really is a magical place.

[socrates007]

Do you have ANY clue what it takes to qualify for the SAS?
Research it. Wasn’t Les Stroud some sort of Canadian musical thespian prior to getting his face on Survivor Man?

[Soliton]

Do you have ANY clue what it takes to qualify for the SAS?

It isn't relevent. The British have become soft and the unions rule.

[LowOiL]

Plus I think Bear has a more extensive knowledge of survival skills.

Tonight's show was filmed about 10 miles from me in Little River Canyon here in Alabama. It features him toughing it out in the canyon. He fights the cold and a wild boar... but he goes on and on about Alligators. There is NO gators within 400 miles of here, especially in the hills of Northeast Bama.

I was really disappointed in how fake his show was.

[LowOiL]

Make that 200 miles not 400 miles.

[eartrumpet]

“He fights the cold and a wild boar... but he goes on and on about Alligators. There is NO gators within 400 miles of here, especially in the hills of Northeast Bama.”

Yeah, none now. Thanks to Bear.

After he was exposed for the fake he is, my 7 yo son refuses to watch him and calls him a liar. I don’t miss the who at all.

[TigersEye]

Yeah, I still kind of like Bear because he's crazy but I have revised my opinions since I made that post. Mostly my opinion of Les Stroud has risen rather than a lowering of it for Bear. It is a little disappointing that Bear fakes things but it is television and he's just presenting a "what if" situation. It is definitely more impressive and real that Les actually goes it alone in the wilderness. He does some dumb and crazy things too but there are lessons in watching mistakes.

They both present some good usable skills you could develop and add to your kit of survival knowledge and they both get some good film of remote and beautiful places. I don't put a lot of expectations on any TV gurus so they both give me enough to watch their shows.

[TigersEye]

I didn’t know the range of the alligator went that far north or west. I was a nut about reptiles and amphibians when I was a kid. Back then alligators had been reduced to a fraction of that territory.

[blam]

"I did Philmont at about age 15. Great experience in the Sangre de Christos above 10K feet! Northern NM is awesome. I know why Ted Turner bought half of it."

Only the federal government owns more US property than Ted Turner. He is the largest private land owner in the US.