Does Bear Grylls have too!

hey truthseeker love Bruce Parry, I think because watching deadliest climb it really is life or death, its not squirrel hunting! Some of the injuries you see and the climbers dying are real life scary stuff. Bruce makes decisions for the climbers that I don't think I could.
Skiing in Colorado one year some of my friends got altitude sickness and that was only 4000 metres and they were pretty ill. It was crazy the fittest of us got it the worst and had to have oxygen delivered to the apartment.
I appreciate Bear has done some amazing feats like everest and I watched the show where he used the motorised paraglider and enjoyed it, think its just the lost in the wildness side erks me!
 
as rmelly says 'I think the fact he has a camera crew following him gives the secret away'!!!
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Theres this guy, i've no idea who his name is, and he does all that survival stuff on his own with his own cameras and no back up support. He's American I think - often wandering about in polar bear country etc - very good. No pretending there.

Ah ha! Google is my friend - he's Canadian - http://www.survivorman.ca/
This guy is a class act.
 
pc7 said:
hey truthseeker love Bruce Parry, I think because watching deadliest climb it really is life or death, its not squirrel hunting! Some of the injuries you see and the climbers dying are real life scary stuff. Bruce makes decisions for the climbers that I don't think I could.
Skiing in Colorado one year some of my friends got altitude sickness and that was only 4000 metres and they were pretty ill. It was crazy the fittest of us got it the worst and had to have oxygen delivered to the apartment.
I appreciate Bear has done some amazing feats like everest and I watched the show where he used the motorised paraglider and enjoyed it, think its just the lost in the wildness side erks me!
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excellent - must watch that. i loved the Bruce Parry 'Tribe' series - really good stuff.

i agree - Bear can get annoying in the wilderness!!
 
Sometimes you see him struggling up a mountain (with his cameraman looking down on him) or stuck in a swamp (again his cameraman avoids the pitholes) so if I am ever caught out in the wilderness I would prefer to have his cameraman/woman with me.
 
sorry guy in charge of everest deadliest climb is russell brice :) amazing show. last year a climber who had lost both his legs below the knee from frost bite climbed it on prosetic limbs, now that was surviving!
 
Yeah, I watched some of that Deadliest Climb. What amazed me most was they pratically had to queue up to reach the summit as it was so busy. I mean they have ladders erected to climb over the tricky bit for Gods sake.

Most of the guys on the climbs were literally carried up by their sherpas.

One obnoxious American broke his hand on the way up, didn't tell Russell, carried on and made it up and down. He was a very lucky guy to make it and he could have taken his sherpa with him if he fell. Amazingly stupid but some achievement all the same.

I can't help feeling that it somehow devalues Hillary's achievement when you hear of so many people summiting.
 
Squire said:
I can't help feeling that it somehow devalues Hillary's achievement when you hear of so many people summiting.
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AND Tensing Norgay....who seems to have been completely forgotten by the media after Hillarys death this year
 
elefantfresh said:
Theres this guy, i've no idea who his name is, and he does all that survival stuff on his own with his own cameras and no back up support. He's American I think - often wandering about in polar bear country etc - very good. No pretending there.

Ah ha! Google is my friend - he's Canadian - http://www.survivorman.ca/
This guy is a class act.
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Timothy Treadwell also did something similar tracking the grizzly bears in Alaska... it didn't go so well - but compelling viewing nonetheless..
 
Pique318 said:
AND Tensing Norgay....who seems to have been completely forgotten by the media after Hillarys death this year
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Lol, that crossed my mind but I couldn't think of the guys name. So your point is proven I suppose.:D
 
gianni said:
Timothy Treadwell also did something similar tracking the grizzly bears in Alaska... it didn't go so well - but compelling viewing nonetheless..
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Brilliant documentary - there was something amiss with Timothy Treadwell, he seemed like he had some possible mental issues (did he have addiction problems, i cant remember) - but a great documentary nonetheless.
 
pc7 said:
It just bugs me I guess. How many of the people watching it are going to get lost in Siberia and use a piece of metal string from their back packs to make a noose to catch a squirrel. Which they will then use their knife to peel the bark from a tree, light a fire to cook said peeled squirrel on.
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If something like Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 hits earth, the RayBear fans will survive until the AmeriCANs arrive, whereas the FairCorrieEast fans will be well watching the credits.
 
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