Read Bears disclaimer at the start of the show. Kinda kills the whole
thing. Recently, he tried to trap a caribou, when he failed, the land
steward provided one for him. He promptly lost most of the meat doing
something foolish, like climbing down a frozen waterfall. He is a
strong, well trained and knowledgable, but also a showman. He did an
episode with Will Ferrel, what does that tell you. His shows are
entertaining, like a circus.
Don's iPhone.
On Aug 21, 2009, at 12:51 PM, mark.al...@l-3com.com wrote:
I lost interest in this guy and his show when I repeatedly saw him
doing things that were either unnecessary, dangerous, or just plain
stupid.
Then, fraud and hoaxes were introduced.
Read below:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07242007/news/nationalnews/grylls_thrills_bogus__expert_nationalnews_don_kaplan.htm
If you want to see the real deal, watch Les Stroud on Survivorman.
No camera crew, no cushy digs, and he films EVERYTHING himself.
Sets up the shot, starts the camera, walks off a quarter mile or
around or threw a lake, and has to go back and fetch the camera.
What a beating.
But, a great show!
They are all now in reruns, as he has retired from the show.
Later,
Mark
From: Fofo [mailto:gonza...@msu.edu]
Sent: Fri 8/21/2009 12:23 PM
To: texascavers
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Bear Grylls goes caving (with a torch
made of a strip of t-shirt soaked in wild boar fat)
Sounds like another episode I saw, where he got into a mine with a
torch
that he dipped in kerosene. He went deeper, downclimbed a shaft,
_then_
his torch went out (and I thought, "In real life, that would pretty
much
be 'game over'") and he said how dangerous the whole thing was and he
kept walking (in total darkness, recorder in IR), following the wall,
until he found the exit.
I stopped believing the whole thing one time when he did a rappel, he
tied one end of the rope, threw the rest down and descended -- and
later, he had the whole rope again with him! Uh, yeah, right...
- Fofo
Don Cooper wrote, on 21/8/09 9:48:
> Nay, but following Occam's Razor - "If it smells of 'B.S.' - it
probably
> IS some form of 'S.'...
> -WaV
>
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 6:39 AM, <speleoste...@tx.rr.com
> <mailto:speleoste...@tx.rr.com>> wrote:
>
> From TagNet this morning:
> c
> Man vs. Wild
> By: Karl Niles (Bowling Green, Kentucky)
>
> Caught an episode of Man vs. Wild Wednesday night. Bear Grylls
(host)
> got dropped off by chopper in a remote area of Alabama.
>
>
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