Posted on 12/06/2008 5:51:16 PM PST by JoeProBono
Daredevil SAS man-turned-explorer Bear Grylls was being airlifted to South Africa last night after being badly injured filming a TV documentary in Antarctica. The 34-year-old adventurer broke his shoulder in a life-threatening fall and was said to be in ‘shock and agony’ from a serious fracture which left the bone protruding from his body. The accident happened at 11pm British time on Friday, and Bear’s insurance company arranged for his evacuation
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Ya’ll roughed it for sure ! I remember those yellow plastic tube tents ! Did they hold up the entire trip ???
I used a fly and a then homemade bivy bag.....when I did the spike camps. When we did the 70 mile route as a troop we had timberline tents I think they were called. 2 man tent, comfy as it rained as ya know in August EVERY DAY AT 1430L !!........:o)
Man vs Wild is an ongoing study on taking foolish chances that will likely eventually get you killed. Things like jumping off cliffs into pools of unknown depth, climbing down icy slick waterfalls to avoid unpleasant plants on the safe way down, taking a shortcut through an ice cave in a glacier, etc. all serve to increase ones probability of catastrophic injury; which would likely be fatal in a survival situation. Nevertheless I do watch because I use it as a thought exercise to ask myself what I would do in such a situation.
Survivorman is far more sane. I watched Les make a figure 4 deadfall trap on one episode and then went out in my back yard and made one with some sticks and cinder blocks. I gained an appreciation for how critical are the angles and placement of the cuts on the sticks and for how you need to be careful that you don’t catch your own hand/fingers in the trap. Useful information.
Still, sorry to see Bear injured. Hope he makes a full and speedy recovery.
TM
I have asked myself that question and without hesitation the answer is Bear. Les tends towards some dark moods and that's the last thing I want to be around in a survival situation. Plus I think Bear has a more extensive knowledge of survival skills. That said I have great respect for Les Stroud's skills. He is no slouch by any means.
Les is more. Can just barely bear Grylls.
They held up fine, the big sheet of platic was hot iron laminated into a tube. The peg attachments were also melted on. What sucked was being puptent shaped, they sagged in against your bag, and dripped cold condensation water all over you. We were always drying out our bags. But they were cheap!
Clothed, I hope.
Just kidding my friend.
: )
Dead on .....it makes ya think ......how could I do it better !
As well I wish the guy no harm. Hope he’s OK !
Stay safe !
Ditto.
I so miss my backpacking days, damn OA in the knees. Wonerful places we use to pack in.
I will nopt give up, knees are stronger, hopefully, this summer. Of course, not the steep inclines, may baby-foot it.
The total roughing it that we use to do....I really miss that.
I watched Survivroman last night and Les was eating raw fish. After he had spent the time cutting it up in a special manner for drying. He does an awful lot of time and labor wasting things that would get you dead in a real survival situation.
“With lots of other hunting buddies.”
: )
Just kidding.....
yep...not to mention the hotel stays he fails to disclose
course he is former SAS and they aren’t fake and if he was lying about that he’d a been busted by now
Given your training, out of curiosity, what 24/7 "minimal reliable tools" would you recommend? Could you please provide name and brand and why/purpose for each "tool" needed? The information would be greatly appreciated
I carry my little two inch keychain multi tool with me all the time. Better than a swiss army knife in my opinion and I use it several times a day just because it’s handy. I carry a full sized multi tool in the truck at all times.
I also keep a few mylar survival blankets in the truck along with a bundle of good hardwood kindling and some solar/dynamo charged flashlights.
“I know why Ted Turner bought half of it.”
He bought half of it for the Nature Conservancy. End goal is to ban roads, people, or development. Then give it to the UN.
Yep.
So was this guy (but I’m a bit biased because my step-mom is related to him).
Tom Crean (20 July 1877 – 27 July 1938) was an Irish seaman and Antarctic explorer from County Kerry. He left the family farm near Annascaul to enlist in the British Royal Navy at the age of 15. In 1901, while serving on HMS Ringarooma in New Zealand, he volunteered to join Robert Falcon Scott’s 1901–04 British National Antarctic Expedition on Discovery, thus beginning a distinguished career as an explorer during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
Crean was a member of three of the four major British expeditions to Antarctica during this period. After the Discovery Expedition he joined Captain Scott’s 1911–13 Terra Nova Expedition, which saw the race to reach the South Pole lost to Roald Amundsen, and ended in the deaths of Scott and his polar party. During this expedition Crean’s 35-mile (56 km) solo walk across the Ross Ice Shelf to save the life of Edward Evans led to him receiving the Albert Medal. His third Antarctic venture was the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition on Endurance led by Ernest Shackleton, in which he served as Second Officer. After Endurance became beset in the pack ice and sank, he was a participant in a dramatic series of events including months spent drifting on the ice, a journey in lifeboats to Elephant Island, and an open boat journey of 800 nautical miles (920 statute miles, 1,500 km) from Elephant Island to South Georgia.[2] Upon reaching South Georgia, Crean was one of the party of three which undertook the first land crossing of the island, without maps or proper mountaineering equipment.
His contributions to these expeditions earned him three Polar Medals, and a reputation as a tough and dependable polar traveller. After the Endurance expedition Crean returned to the Navy, and when his naval career ended in 1920 he moved back to County Kerry. In his home town of Annascaul, he and his wife Ellen opened a public house called the “South Pole Inn”. He lived there quietly and unobtrusively until his death in 1938.
There was a strong line of my family in New Mexico for 100 years till recently. My great grandfather went out there roadbuilding in 1903 when it was still Gadsden.
Slowly though most of the family filtered back to Mississippi during the depression since the timber industry there was still vibrant and most family was still there.
My uncle built up the largest road building engineering firm in the state for a time....Horne Associates but then he died leaving no spawn and his wife my aunt lived until recently.
We went out there all the time, my dad and his siblings were all born out there all over the state wherever the roads were being built from Artesia to Gallup to Carlsbad and Farmington.
New Mexico made a wrong turn in the 70s and it’s been a lost cause ever since, especially Santa Fe.
I thought about taking my boys out there two weeks ago when they had their week Thanksgiving break but we opted for deer hunting instead.
It’s a sad how the left now dominates Santa Fe for sure.
I always loved Chama (maybe it was Bronson movie)....we’d leave Santa Fe from my uncle’s heading to Gunnison Colorado and always stop in Chama for New Mex breakfast....I can smell the chilies now.
New Mexico was a great exotic chunk of my childhood and some long Hwy 80 drives ...haven’t been there since 1982
Oh yeah there is a lodge near Chama that we used to love to go up to in the WINTER for just getting away ! Corkins Lodge I think it’s called....Beautiful state that has just been infested with illegals and polidiots. If it wasn’t for work & friends I’d never go back there.
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