Bear Grylls - Man vs Wild / Born Survivor

[StardogChampion]

Anyone seen this guys show? He parachutes into areas where tourists/climbers often get lost and die. With just a knife and a waterbottle he tells you how to survive.

I wonder how much of it is faked. If you watch the bit where he's in the alps and he jumps into some freezing water, there are footholes to pull himself out with, but he doesn't use them on purpose the first time he tries to get out and ends up going under the water again.

Sometimes he finds a random rope hanging from somewhere and climbs it even though it could easily snap halfway up. I'm guessing the safety experts somehow go up and check before he does anything, otherwise he's just mental. After he's climbed a steep rock there's always a camera crew up there to film him climbing over the lip, so does that mean the camera crew climb up first?

I think a lot of the cameras are tilted to make climbs look steeper and sound effects used a lot to make snakes look scarier.

I still like the show though.

 

[Dan]

It's all scripted

 

[ktimekiller]

Watch survivor man, hes for real. He takes shit load of camera equipemnts himself with absolutely no aid, and his crew comes to pick him up at a specific spot in a few days or something.

 

[StardogChampion]

I'll check out that Survivorman.

There was a funny moment in the latest Man Vs Wild ep where he gets his parachute caught in a tree. He says it's a 40ft fall to the ground, but it seemed more like 10ft max. Funnily enough the camera didn't follow him downward when he let go, it just filmed the landing.

 

[Adrik_Senturu]

Watch survivor man, hes for real. He takes shit load of camera equipemnts himself with absolutely no aid, and his crew comes to pick him up at a specific spot in a few days or something.

Yeah Les rules. Les makes the situations more realistic too, instead of just going with a water bottle and a knife(One of the reasons I think alot of Man Vs Wild is staged >_>), he'll go with what someone getting lost in that area would most probably have (Tundra = Snow gear Woods = Hiking Gear)

 

[gick]

I cant remember what it was called, but there was a show a while ago with that ex-SAS author guy in it. Each episode he'd get dropped in an environment (desert/jungle/siberia) and a team of ex-SAS, ex-Navy SEALS, ex-Delta Force or whatever would have to hunt him down. It was all kinds of awesome