When I saw this tough-young guy in Discovery channel-suddenly I amazed,..wooooawww.. how tough he was. With minimum equiptment & tools, he survived in a jungle and gave some interesting tips of how to stay alive. One of the episode "Costa Rica Rain Forest"-Bear was jumped--brought mineral water, knife and ropes--in the middle of tropical rain forest. He could survive for several days and I knew, I got valuable knowledge but I doubt I can practice it, except if Bear accompany me--I believe I will able to practice it..;)
here's about bear
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Edward Michael "Bear" Grylls (born 7 June 1974), known as Bear Grylls, is a British mountaineer, adventurer, author, television presenter, and motivational speaker.
Grylls, a former member of the Special Air Service (SAS), made his name in 1998 by becoming, at the age of 23, the youngest Briton to climb Mount Everest and return alive.
Grylls passed UK Special Forces Selection, serving as a Sabre soldier, trained in unarmed combat, desert and winter warfare, combat survival, medics, parachuting, signals, evasive driving, climbing and explosives.
He served for 3 years in 21 SAS, one of two Territorial Army regiments in the Special Air Service referred to as the "SAS(R)". 21 SAS specializes in Close Target Reconnaissance and attack(CTR). During his time with 21 SAS Grylls served actively in North Africa twice. His military career ended abruptly, however, in 1996, when a routine parachute exercise in southern Africa went wrong[citation needed]. His canopy ripped severely and caused him to spiral towards earth from 16,000ft at twice the normal speed, leaving him with three broken vertebrae and left him struggling to feel his legs.[1] Grylls spent the next 12 months in rehabilitation and, with his military career over, directed his efforts into trying to get well enough to fulfill his childhood dream of climbing Everest.
Grylls no longer serves in the British Special Forces but he was awarded the honorary rank of Lieutenant Commander in the UK's Royal Naval Reserve.
He hosts the television programme Man vs. Wild (on Channel 4 in the UK and on the worldwide Discovery Channel) and is currently filming new HD episodes of Man vs. Wild.
Grylls hosted an 8-part documentary series known in the U.S. on Discovery Channel as Man vs. Wild, and titled Born Survivor: Bear Grylls for Channel 4 and Discovery Channel in Europe, Asia & Africa. The series features Grylls being dropped into some of the most inhospitable places on earth and showing viewers how to survive. Season 2 premiered in the US on June 15th, 2007. His brand of TV includes sheer cliff climbs, wading massive rapids, and even wrapping his boxers around his head to help stave off the desert heat. Bear has eaten live snakes, rubbed ice on his body to warm up after jumping into an icy lake, squeezed elephant dung into his mouth for water, ripped raw chunks of meat off a dead zebra with his teeth, drank his own urine, and spent hours constructing a bamboo bridge in attempt to cross a river. Intermittently, Bear also regales the viewer with tales of other adventurers stranded in the wilderness. These stories inevitably end in one of two ways: someone gets "lucky" and survives or someone struggles to remain alive for weeks on end but eventually dies. The Discovery Channel and Channel 4 are reviewing the Man vs. Wild program following allegations that viewers were given the impression he was really stranded alone in the wild.
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