Man VS. Wild

[duragezic]

Yeah I am pumped for this. I've been waiting a couple of months for the new episodes to air. Unfortunately it hasn't been posted on any torrent sites yet.

I can accept people not liking the show because it's not authentic as Survivorman, but the people who call Bear Grylls a phony actor or other shit is just stupid. He has done some crazy accomplishments that you can't fake or stage.

On the show where Will Ferrell came along, although that guy is kind of a big goof anyway, I thought it illustrated just how trained and good he is outdoors compared to the average person. Of course that should be taken into account before trying any of the stuff he suggests as survival.

I do like how he pronounces things, though I think he's actually right in some cases and we're just the dumb americans. Like crevasse.

 

[AVAFREAK182]

Originally posted by: ja1484
Bear Grylls is full of shit.

Just FYI.

Originally posted by: OCguy
As "staged" as it can be sometimes, nobody in this forum could pull off 2% of this shit he does without either puking or shitting their pants.

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.

get off your high horse, old man. bear grylls would butt hump you

 

[irishScott]

Originally posted by: ja1484
Bear Grylls is full of shit.

Just FYI.

Originally posted by: OCguy
As "staged" as it can be sometimes, nobody in this forum could pull off 2% of this shit he does without either puking or shitting their pants.

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.

lol, it even gets more obvious than that. I saw one episode where he was "surviving" in the desert, and made it to the coast. He talked about desalinizing water (which was surprisingly accurate IIRC) and eating mussels. Then the episode just ended. 😕 So you make it to the ocean... now what? You're still at least a couple hundred miles from the nearest person. Just going to walk along the beach for the next month or two hoping you don't eat a bad mussel (and that the mussels last in the first place)? 😛

 

[ja1484]

Originally posted by: duragezic
I can accept people not liking the show because it's not authentic as Survivorman, but the people who call Bear Grylls a phony actor or other shit is just stupid. He has done some crazy accomplishments that you can't fake or stage.

Agreed, but not on his show.

Originally posted by: AVAFREAK182

get off your high horse, old man. bear grylls would butt hump you

You can make better bait than that, can't you?