Man vs. Wild’s Bear Grylls A Fraud?

Thanks for this post. It does suck to hear some of these realities, however to a certain degree it seems reasonable that he have medical support in the field. I’m always most impressed by his ability to free climb up and down cliffs and rocks without ropes. Sometimes I’ve wondered if the way the scenes are edited reflect some extra help.

I’ve given Bear the benefit of the doubt though. There’s not much faking going on when he drinks his own urine, or squeezes water from elephant dung into his mouth.

BTW - a new season of Survivorman starts in about two weeks. Les Stroud takes his own cameras (supposedly) on his 7 day adventures. He doesn’t climb cliffs, and seems a bit more realistic in his endeavors.

Its my understanding that the Post is tabloid-ish so taking this article with the provrbial grain of sand isn’t a bad idea. And i have to beleive that the author of the article has a bone to pick with someone because I cannot imagine a happily employed person trashing his employers in this way.
And its is possible to be on a desert island and still be in Hawaii-in fact either on the “Man vs Wild” site or the M vs W board at IMDB “they” say they filmed in Hawaii.
I don’t really care that Bear has medics on site and/or enlists the help of experts. It never occured to me that he didn’t. I mean why would a guy from the British Special Forces be trained in how to survive in the Everglades?

Although I pretty much assumed Bear had emergency food/water stored away in his bag, the fact that he didn’t contruct that raft by himself was a shock. I still look upon Bear as being a pretty legimate survival expert, you can tell when he explains each plant/animal he comes upon that he does know his shit. However, the constant overexxagerations of impending danger was a bit much to take, but expected of a survival show. It will be hard to ever look at this show in the same way, and unless Bear can prove beyond reasonable doubt that this wil not occur again, he may be shunned forever. Even if this occurs, there is always behind the scenes activites that we will never know about, and some people no doubt will never trust what Bear says anymore. I really wanted to believe all of what i saw on that show was real, that someone really could survive in extreme conditions with nothing but a flint, knife, and some water. Sadly though, everything is not always as it seems, especially on TV.

First i think Les Stroud and his show are not near as good as Man V Wild. I am a big fan and I have every episode. Of course he has a medical crew and of course he has to do alot of studying about his upcoming surroundings including talking to experts about the area I mean who knows all the stuff he knows about everything everywherek, no one.Dan is right a show like this is going to have people doubt it and bash it. I m hear to tell you Bear is a beast weather he was hungry or not he ate a snake raw and plenty of other great stuff, hes a great climber and seems very smart. I promise if i was stranded somewhere Bear would be the first person i wanted to be there way before les. Oh and anyone les, Bear or anyone who has this kind of job, if you didnt take medical help, and extra provisions you would be an idiot they are making a fortune no reason to risk it. At least bear told me the crew was around if you dont think les’s crew is around your an idiot. I have watched with my roommate and when les supposely set the camera up and was walking back of course the camera was moving and following him moving and of course a tripod does that. it is just t.v. and meant to be educational and to me it is who ever knew you could crush a plant put it in the water and kill fish not me. I hope some of this is not true and im pretty sure some is and some isnt.

This Bear clip says a lot…

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=3UpSlpvb1is

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At the end of the day, you’re right, Ben. That’s why I’ll still be a viewer of the show.

OK, KONVICT. I DON’T WANT TO MAKE YOU ANY ANGRIER THAN YOU CLEARLY ALREADY ARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Whether Bear sleeps in hotels and etc. is irrelavant. The purpose of the show is to teach viewers how to stay alive in the wilderness. Bear gives us, with the help of experts, important information and tips on survival. Plus, Bear Grylls is so hot which makes it very entertaing.

Do these critics even pay attention to the show?
Hello do you not hear him speaking at the begining of the show?
Do you not read the credits and such at all?
Firstly, Bear introduces where he’s going and he says that his camera crew is coming along.Then after every commerical it tells you that medics and such do come along with him.

What’s the big deal anyway.
Nowhere does he take complete credit or say that he goes on these journeys alone.
Like people have previously said, he’s not expected to just fall out of the sky to some random location and just survive.

The show teaches you that you should in fact research where you are going before you go.
What fool would walk into his enemies house with no knowledge of his capabilities.
The point of the show is to teach survial techniques, let’s keep unintellegent accusations out of this.

Listen and learn how to read.
It’s all clear, not to mention common sense.

Who cares. He still has a bunch of good info. I have no doubts that he could survive in real life.

The show is entertaining. Anyone who thought he made it without support is a fool.

The show doesn’t teach though. It gives absolutely bad advice. Drinking your own urine is NEVER NEVER recommended for example.

I knew this guy was a fraud after seeing just one episode.