Abigail
02-03-2007, 21:19
This is a new program starting on Channel 4 tomorrow night at 7pm.
From C4 website:
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In this new 8-part series, Bear Grylls shows viewers how to survive in the world's most extreme environments. Bear is used to tough situations – he's served with the British Special forces, climbed Everest after breaking his back in a parachuting accident, and explored the Arctic.
With little more than a knife and the clothes on his back, Bear puts himself in the position of a stranded tourist by literally parachuting into the middle of some of the world's greatest natural wildernesses, including the Amazon, the swamps of the Everglades, the Alps and the Moab desert.
Followed by an intrepid camera crew, his challenge is to use his survival training and instincts to survive and reach civilisation safely.
Along the way he demonstrates how to overcome the worst that the natural world can throw at you, whether it be physical obstacles such as vertical rock faces, storm water, and quick sand, or flora and fauna ranging from alligators to snakes and poisonous plants.
In the snows of the Alps he has to preserve warmth, and in the Moab desert he must stay cool. But ultimately, survival depends on finding something to eat. And Bear finds surprising sources of food – and he's not squeamish – he eats maggots and zebra as well as live fish and frogs.
As well as providing a thrilling adventure as Bear overcomes apparently impossible odds to get to safety, the series is a valuable guide to some of the basics of survival. Already a hit in the US, this is a series for even the armchair adventurer.
Programme One (Tomorrow night)
In the first film of the series, Bear Grylls travels to the Costa Rican rainforest to show how to survive in this beautiful but hostile environment. Rainforests cover 6% of the earth and are home to two-thirds of all animal and plant species. Every year a million tourists visit to see these jungles up close – but last year 67 tourists got into trouble and had to be rescued
Bear is dropped into the rainforest with just a knife and a water bottle. First he has to decide on his survival strategy – the best bet to reach civilization is to navigate using the rivers and streams to the coast and the communities that live there.
To see the lie of the land, Bear climbs a tree to get above the canopy – it's extremely dangerous without equipment, but the benefits can outweigh the hazards if you know what you're doing. Finding a stream, he follows it to a 120-foot waterfall. The only way down is to make ropes from vines and climb down.
Despite all his training and preparation, Bear gets a painful dose of diarrhoea from contaminated water. But he knows that sap from the Milk tree, or palo de vaca (Brosimum utile), naturally settles guts, as well as helping to prevent heat stroke.
He builds a shelter out of local palms that can withstand the heavy equatorial rainfall, and builds a fire with a natural mosquito repellent made from a Termite mound. Bear also shows how to find food, demonstrating how to fish at night, and what succulent, but poisonous, berries to avoid.
Finally he builds a raft to navigate the mangrove swamps, and heads to the open sea to find safety.
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It was in an interview in the paper and he also picks a turtle out of the river, stabs it with his knife and drinks it's blood :sick:
He ex-SAS so he knows what he's doing. The production crew drop him into the rainforrest/jungle/desert and he has to find his way back to civilisation using a knife, piece of flint and a water bottle.
This program looks brill, I can't wait for it to start.
From C4 website:
http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/2130/bearad8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
In this new 8-part series, Bear Grylls shows viewers how to survive in the world's most extreme environments. Bear is used to tough situations – he's served with the British Special forces, climbed Everest after breaking his back in a parachuting accident, and explored the Arctic.
With little more than a knife and the clothes on his back, Bear puts himself in the position of a stranded tourist by literally parachuting into the middle of some of the world's greatest natural wildernesses, including the Amazon, the swamps of the Everglades, the Alps and the Moab desert.
Followed by an intrepid camera crew, his challenge is to use his survival training and instincts to survive and reach civilisation safely.
Along the way he demonstrates how to overcome the worst that the natural world can throw at you, whether it be physical obstacles such as vertical rock faces, storm water, and quick sand, or flora and fauna ranging from alligators to snakes and poisonous plants.
In the snows of the Alps he has to preserve warmth, and in the Moab desert he must stay cool. But ultimately, survival depends on finding something to eat. And Bear finds surprising sources of food – and he's not squeamish – he eats maggots and zebra as well as live fish and frogs.
As well as providing a thrilling adventure as Bear overcomes apparently impossible odds to get to safety, the series is a valuable guide to some of the basics of survival. Already a hit in the US, this is a series for even the armchair adventurer.
Programme One (Tomorrow night)
In the first film of the series, Bear Grylls travels to the Costa Rican rainforest to show how to survive in this beautiful but hostile environment. Rainforests cover 6% of the earth and are home to two-thirds of all animal and plant species. Every year a million tourists visit to see these jungles up close – but last year 67 tourists got into trouble and had to be rescued
Bear is dropped into the rainforest with just a knife and a water bottle. First he has to decide on his survival strategy – the best bet to reach civilization is to navigate using the rivers and streams to the coast and the communities that live there.
To see the lie of the land, Bear climbs a tree to get above the canopy – it's extremely dangerous without equipment, but the benefits can outweigh the hazards if you know what you're doing. Finding a stream, he follows it to a 120-foot waterfall. The only way down is to make ropes from vines and climb down.
Despite all his training and preparation, Bear gets a painful dose of diarrhoea from contaminated water. But he knows that sap from the Milk tree, or palo de vaca (Brosimum utile), naturally settles guts, as well as helping to prevent heat stroke.
He builds a shelter out of local palms that can withstand the heavy equatorial rainfall, and builds a fire with a natural mosquito repellent made from a Termite mound. Bear also shows how to find food, demonstrating how to fish at night, and what succulent, but poisonous, berries to avoid.
Finally he builds a raft to navigate the mangrove swamps, and heads to the open sea to find safety.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
It was in an interview in the paper and he also picks a turtle out of the river, stabs it with his knife and drinks it's blood :sick:
He ex-SAS so he knows what he's doing. The production crew drop him into the rainforrest/jungle/desert and he has to find his way back to civilisation using a knife, piece of flint and a water bottle.
This program looks brill, I can't wait for it to start.