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I'm sure over the years I've caught a glance of a thread about this chap, but I genuinely don't know about how he is perceived. I've recently caught a few of his programmes including Worst Case Scenario and that survival one, and think they make pretty good entertainment.
I don't know how credible all the SAS stuff is, but he seems like a pretty knowledgeable chap, although at times can take things a bit too far.
What does everyone on here think? I did search for those threads I thought I'd glanced, but nothing turned up.
I don't know how credible all the SAS stuff is, but he seems like a pretty knowledgeable chap, although at times can take things a bit too far.
What does everyone on here think? I did search for those threads I thought I'd glanced, but nothing turned up.
I like the chap, and he has some impressive achiements under his belt. Climbing Everett, territorial SAS, etc. the only think that bugs me is how they do his programs. It just seems to fake, (and is). If he did something more akin to Survivor,an, I think his stock would grow considerably. Near's shows do seem to be a bit 'action packed' for a survival show, where injuring yourself is the last thing you need, so running full pelt down a hill, or leaping canyons, and off cliffs just doesn't seem right. It's essentially billy big spuds for the camera.
BarnatosGhost said:
Not as tough as his cameraman. Like Ginger Rogers, who could do everything Fred could do, but backwards in high heels.
I was always curious about the cameraman/team. Do they have to eat sea cucumbers and rotting flesh? Or have they got a plentiful supply of lion bars and lucozade?
Polarbert said:
BarnatosGhost said:
Not as tough as his cameraman. Like Ginger Rogers, who could do everything Fred could do, but backwards in high heels.
I was always curious about the cameraman/team. Do they have to eat sea cucumbers and rotting flesh? Or have they got a plentiful supply of lion bars and lucozade?I don't think anyone eats much of the grim stuff, and i guess there's always a land cruiser with a fridge and a fluffer just out of shot.
I was referring more to the action bits up and down cliffs and waterfalls, through swamps and the like.
Polarbert said:
I was always curious about the cameraman/team. Do they have to eat sea cucumbers and rotting flesh? Or have they got a plentiful supply of lion bars and lucozade?
The cameramen always seem to get little billing for doing the same things. It's like 'The Long Way Round'... At least Claudio got some credit for that, and was part of the team so to speak, (as were the support crew). I've seen documentaries before where some chaps will be climbing Everest, or K2, going to the pole or some such, where some poor sod was filming, and he had to carry all his camera equipment, get ahead of them, set up, film, tidy up, get back ahead of them, film, etc. no idea who he was, unless you look in the credits. Camera guys... The unsung heels of these sorta of expeditions...
Polarbert said:
BarnatosGhost said:
Not as tough as his cameraman. Like Ginger Rogers, who could do everything Fred could do, but backwards in high heels.
I was always curious about the cameraman/team. Do they have to eat sea cucumbers and rotting flesh? Or have they got a plentiful supply of lion bars and lucozade?They try to eat some of it but not the more extreme stuff. Where he's cold and freezing, they have dry suits etc. They might have extra ropes securing them on to something, but he only has what you see, a bent over tree or vine etc.
I know it's done for entertainment, and some is set up, but I really enjoy it all regardless.
Top guy, even played along with the drink your own piss joke on twitter recently.
He often talks to the camera man on the show and when they did a behind the scenes episode they showed the crew have it a bit easier.
From Wikipedia :
In 1996, he suffered a freefall parachuting accident in Zambia. According to his surgeon, Grylls came "within a whisker" of being paralysed for life and at first it was questionable whether he would ever walk again. Grylls spent the next 12 months in and out of military rehabilitation at Headley Court
He often talks to the camera man on the show and when they did a behind the scenes episode they showed the crew have it a bit easier.
From Wikipedia :
In 1996, he suffered a freefall parachuting accident in Zambia. According to his surgeon, Grylls came "within a whisker" of being paralysed for life and at first it was questionable whether he would ever walk again. Grylls spent the next 12 months in and out of military rehabilitation at Headley Court
NeMiSiS said:
I think he is mentally unstable though, anyone who disembowels a camel, squeezes juice from its part digested stomach contents, then sleeps in the remaining cavity, is slightly ill.
He got the idea from the start of the Empire Strikes Back, when Han opened and emptied the abdomen of his newly dead tauntaun and stuffed Luke inside it so as to survive the cold Hoth night.
The sheeping bag
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOEWvypaJS4
Killing a rabbit (like a boss)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkZbO5sEVuE
The seal skin wet suit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk1Cte0arDE
All a bit grim and some of the stuff seems a bit setup but that's TV I suppose.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOEWvypaJS4
Killing a rabbit (like a boss)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkZbO5sEVuE
The seal skin wet suit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk1Cte0arDE
All a bit grim and some of the stuff seems a bit setup but that's TV I suppose.
GnuBee said:
Seems like a nice bloke, I'd much rather be stuck in a survival situation with him than the completely over earnest Mr. Mears.
The Bears Wild Weekend with <insert persons name> have been entertaining especially the one with Jonathan Ross which had some genuinely very funny moments.
Yep, I really dislike Mears.. Hes boring. But Bear, hes cool, hes a proper survivalist. Even his name sounds survivalist, Bear Grylls.The Bears Wild Weekend with <insert persons name> have been entertaining especially the one with Jonathan Ross which had some genuinely very funny moments.
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