AVAFREAK182
Banned
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Man VS. Wild
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irishScott
Lifer
A dramatized show where a money-grubbing moron teaches skills that might get someone killed? I'll take reruns of Survivor Man for 2000.
PottedMeat
Lifer
How many times is he going to a polar region? Sure I like the show, but he's running out of places to go. Why not dump him in Detroit or something with just the clothes on his back and no cash.
El Guaraguao
Diamond Member
You're absolutely right. Nobody here on these forums would want to squeeze the water out of camel shit to drink. Not for free, at least.
irishScott
Lifer
In an actual survival situation I imagine most of us could. Sorry, but I have no desire to drink my own urine out of a snake skin for no reason.
El Guaraguao
Diamond Member
parachute.wind.skiis.ice lake = win
StageLeft
No Lifer
Did he check into his hotel yet and fill his stomach on caviar at lunch before going into the wild for an hour or two? He is a farce, I can't believe anybody watches this still.
Believe me, I've gone to many hotels and only shat my pants a handful of times.
Society celebrates mediocrity because of people like you. Men like you built the hydrogen bomb. Men like you thought it up. You think you're so creative. You don't know what it's like to really create something; to create a life; to feel it growing inside you.
Cdubneeddeal
Diamond Member
I don't like this staged show. Survivorman was, in my opinion, better than Man vs Wild.
Clair de Lune
Banned
Bear, what a sissy.
Suvivorman wins with no staff, self-filming camera with extra batteries, truly alone until picked up.
Suvivorman wins with no staff, self-filming camera with extra batteries, truly alone until picked up.
Bear Grylls is full of shit.
Just FYI.
I've spent a good lot of time in the backcountry and on mountains over the past 10 years. That's how I know he's full of shit.
Most of the stuff on his show is basic backcountry survival skills OR actively ignoring basic backcountry survival skills. I remember one particularly asinine show where he rappelled into a canyon that had an obvious down-scramble in view during the whole filming of the sequence. It would've been a much safer, faster, and easier way to descend.
It was also a cute sequence because he did a single rope rappel. In a single rope rappel situation, it is impossible to retrieve the rope you're rappelling on and it must be left in place. The only exception to this situation is if you are less than 1/3rd of the rope's length from the endpoint of the rappel and have the necessary equipment to pull off the Texas Rope Trick and a suitable anchoring point to rig it from. The TRT is also a double line rappel anyway, and looks even more complicated than that because a portion of the rope, to be used as your pull line later, is dangling in the mix as well. So he wasn't using that.
Yet, at the end of this sequence, sure enough...he waddles onward with his rope stowed upon his back. Guess one of the camera crew untied it for him.
I have no use for Bear Grylls.
Just FYI.
I've spent a good lot of time in the backcountry and on mountains over the past 10 years. That's how I know he's full of shit.
Most of the stuff on his show is basic backcountry survival skills OR actively ignoring basic backcountry survival skills. I remember one particularly asinine show where he rappelled into a canyon that had an obvious down-scramble in view during the whole filming of the sequence. It would've been a much safer, faster, and easier way to descend.
It was also a cute sequence because he did a single rope rappel. In a single rope rappel situation, it is impossible to retrieve the rope you're rappelling on and it must be left in place. The only exception to this situation is if you are less than 1/3rd of the rope's length from the endpoint of the rappel and have the necessary equipment to pull off the Texas Rope Trick and a suitable anchoring point to rig it from. The TRT is also a double line rappel anyway, and looks even more complicated than that because a portion of the rope, to be used as your pull line later, is dangling in the mix as well. So he wasn't using that.
Yet, at the end of this sequence, sure enough...he waddles onward with his rope stowed upon his back. Guess one of the camera crew untied it for him.
I have no use for Bear Grylls.
Yeah, by the way, when he supposedly rigged a Prussik hitch to ascend out of that KRE-VASS, it was very obviously a Klemheist hitch that he actually used. It's a semantic detail (either one will work just fine), but this is the kind of shit that I'm talking about.
I think it was later in the same episode that he did that eventual canyon rappel that I riffed on above.
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