can someone explain the bear grylls adventures...

[piggynose]

its all very well him falling out of a helicopter to a dangerous place. but where does his camera crew end up? they cant all fit in a snow cave, or sleep on a hammock above mangroves. plus i dont beleive they all have to eat bugs, spiders etc.

[boxtops]

Doesn't he carry a remote camera with him?

[sophie_1003]

He stays in hotels so I assume the camera crew do as well. Ray Mears is more realistic in my opinion. Also Bruce Parry, he doesn't try to make people think that watching his TV shows will enable them to survive in the wild which makes him the best really.

[piggynose]

i watched a lot of his adventures lately, and he´s always having to guide a cameraman through some dangerous places, eg mangroves, where there is no turning back to check into a hotel.
if you listen clearly he always says he has a cameraman with him.
maybe he stretches the truth
will check out the other 2 blokes

[rsvp]

ray mears is a legend - understated and soooooo well informed

[sophie_1003]

Maybe in some of his newer adventures he didn't but just Google 'Bear Grylls hotel' and it'll come up with a glut of news articles about how he stayed in hotels.

[The-HouseHusband]

Bear Grylls is a fake as at points on his adventures the camera crew seem to have been able to find an easy route and got ahead of him while he hacks his way through the vines on his way to a specially set up basecamp if they dont have accommodation. They always have back up teams, medics and a helicopter on standby in case they need medivac.

[RAV1D]

I watched a Bear Grylls program when he was explaining about his programs and He has a sound and a camera man who both follow him with a background team that are some place else in an office watching on tv screens 24/7 giving them extra advice etc. He said his camera man has to do all the stunts he does jumping and climbing up and down the mountains but not all is shown on camera. The camera man often has to stop filming and get to different locations first or wait behind to do different shots. The trips are all planned out in advance so they have a interesting area for the program and they bring extras like the dead camel and the dead sheep he found were brought in for the program. He will sometimes go home and then come back the next day or week to film more and make it look like it's been one day and make out he has slept over night when he has'nt always done so.

[bednobs]

i remember a michael palin one once where they were all of a kerfuffle because it was the last flight going to "wherever" for 8 weeks. Then they showed the plane taking off and i wonderedhow, if it was the last flight, surely the camera crew would have had to go with him!

[piggynose]

just as i thought, cheating fecker grylls!!
will google ray mears now

[sophie_1003]

I wouldn't say he is fake; am sure he does actually know a load of survival stuff but just showing it in a safe environment wouldn't make for good telly so they have to introduce the danger element.

[didoatwork]

How many bears could bear grylls grill if bear grylls could grill bears?

[didoatwork]

Sorr, rambling again

[didoatwork]

^^ sorry ^^

[piggynose]

having said that, i should remind you that i´d recently watched him trying to navigate himself through the rockies, and he really looked sh1t scared, due to the place being habitated by grizzlies, and when he found a grizzly footprint, he didnt seem to want to sleep during his 4 day hike.He said the f.print was from a 600Lbs bear!!!

[sophie_1003]

Yeah, I imagine some of the dangers are real, I think the TV show would do just as well if he said "I'm lucky in that I'm having my safety looked out for but as you can see the dangers are very real..." and then it wouldn't be so easy to call him fake.