We would all be as good as Bear Grylls if we had a stunt coordinator to plan our crazy stunts and a "local" survival specialist to tell us what pants are safe to eat and use for medicines, and to guide us threw the local geography to prevent us getting lost and basically how to look good on camera
but this isn't really survival is it ? this is how Discovery sells the product that is "Bear Grylls"
Why Discovery tries to pass Man vs Wild off as a survival show I will never understand. 90% of the information that he gives is either wrong or just plain dangerous.
It wasn’t bad enough that this guy was presented to the public as a wilderness survival expert, but to pretend that he is now an urban survivalist (as shown on the newest episode of MAN VS WILD) is insane. This show is not about survival, it is nothing more than a stuntman preforming carefully choreographed stunts.
In the latest so called “urban survival” episode Bear Grylls advises:
Why Discovery tries to pass Man vs Wild off as a survival show I will never understand. 90% of the information that he gives is either wrong or just plain dangerous.
It wasn’t bad enough that this guy was presented to the public as a wilderness survival expert, but to pretend that he is now an urban survivalist (as shown on the newest episode of MAN VS WILD) is insane. This show is not about survival, it is nothing more than a stuntman preforming carefully choreographed stunts.
In the latest so called “urban survival” episode Bear Grylls advises:
- Crawling across power lines to explore old abandoned buildings
- Climbing down old rusty pipes and risking a fall that would kill you if the pipe broke.
- Crawling through Sewage (does this sound smart to you?)
- Blowing up doors to gain access to abandoned buildings
- and countless other stupid things that have nothing to do with urban survival.
