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[Tomas Danko]

This guy is just hell bent on surviving.

He's drinking the water out of elephant dung. Peeing on his t-shirt, then wraps it around his head to cool down. And lots more (eating a live snake, among other things)

You know, that old chest nut:


http://www.linkognito.com/b.php?b=259

[rollmottle]

this guy is awesome. i love watching his show. i was blown away when he ate the raw meat right off a zebra carcass in the middle of the sweltering African savannah. he also drank his piss in that episode. dude is balls out.

[bblackwood]

Hate to burst your bubble, but much of that show is fake - Discovery isn't sure if they will renew the contract as so many things have recently come out about him and the 'authenticity' of the show. Examples:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.htm l?in_article_id=470155&in_page_id=1770
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertai nment/tv_and_radio/article2241720.ece
There's plenty more to be found if you look around...

Bummed me out to find out that while he is a well trained climber and former SAS dude, much of that show is staged...

[Adam Miller]

Anyone who has seen that show would have to be an idiot not to realise that most of it is staged- funny how there's always a camera crew right at the spot he parachutes into at the start of each episode. I think it's got caught up in the general backlash against programmes in the UK that have been caught out for faking phone in competitions and using misleading editing- which is a shame; he was the yougest Brit to climb Everest (at the time), amongst other things.  

http://beargrylls.com/

[rollmottle]

bblackwood wrote on Tue, 14 August 2007 15:15

Hate to burst your bubble, but much of that show is fake - Discovery isn't sure if they will renew the contract as so many things have recently come out about him and the 'authenticity' of the show. Examples:  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.htm l?in_article_id=470155&in_page_id=1770  http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertai nment/tv_and_radio/article2241720.ece There's plenty more to be found if you look around... Bummed me out to find out that while he is a well trained climber and former SAS dude, much of that show is staged...

yeah of course it is. it's easy to see the setup that goes into a lot of what they do. like when then show him climbing down a sketchy cliff. first shot from top of cliff looking down (no camera in his hand, no camera-man on ground below), then cut to a POV shot of him using a hand-held camera, then cut to shot from ground looking up (no camera man above him, no camera in his hand), then show him reaching the ground from top (no camera man below), then cut to him reaching the ground from the ground (camera shooting from where it would have been seen from a shot on top). they must do 3 runs of everything they do for coverage and editing.

they also credit him as the "Presenter" in the credits. some other dude gets the "Survival Expert" credit. i'm still entertained by it all. he's got a lot of charisma.

and he still ate raw zebra. if you watch the video, there's no faking that shit.

[Tomas Danko]

I've seen some of the show and I find it entertaining, although I never thought he was actually out there in the trenches all exhausted and what not.

It's still a fun show!