Posted on 12/06/2008 5:51:16 PM PST by JoeProBono
Daredevil SAS man-turned-explorer Bear Grylls was being airlifted to South Africa last night after being badly injured filming a TV documentary in Antarctica. The 34-year-old adventurer broke his shoulder in a life-threatening fall and was said to be in shock and agony from a serious fracture which left the bone protruding from his body. The accident happened at 11pm British time on Friday, and Bears insurance company arranged for his evacuation
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You should go back for a NM road trip. That place has too much history and too many ghosts to ever kill. The current problems are just a blip in its long story.
I hope. But it really is a magical place.
Do you have ANY clue what it takes to qualify for the SAS?
Research it. Wasn’t Les Stroud some sort of Canadian musical thespian prior to getting his face on Survivor Man?
It isn't relevent. The British have become soft and the unions rule.
Tonight's show was filmed about 10 miles from me in Little River Canyon here in Alabama. It features him toughing it out in the canyon. He fights the cold and a wild boar... but he goes on and on about Alligators. There is NO gators within 400 miles of here, especially in the hills of Northeast Bama.
I was really disappointed in how fake his show was.
Make that 200 miles not 400 miles.
“He fights the cold and a wild boar... but he goes on and on about Alligators. There is NO gators within 400 miles of here, especially in the hills of Northeast Bama.”
Yeah, none now. Thanks to Bear.
After he was exposed for the fake he is, my 7 yo son refuses to watch him and calls him a liar. I don’t miss the who at all.
They both present some good usable skills you could develop and add to your kit of survival knowledge and they both get some good film of remote and beautiful places. I don't put a lot of expectations on any TV gurus so they both give me enough to watch their shows.
I didn’t know the range of the alligator went that far north or west. I was a nut about reptiles and amphibians when I was a kid. Back then alligators had been reduced to a fraction of that territory.
Only the federal government owns more US property than Ted Turner. He is the largest private land owner in the US.
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