The airlift operation itself was fraught with danger as it meant flying into hostile conditions with temperatures plummeting to -35C and a landscape of 1,000ft ice cliffs with 700 miles of high altitude plateau.
The Discovery Channel crew filming Bear’s expedition as part of its Man v Wild series – much of which is re-edited and shown on Channel 4’s Born Survivor show – travelled with him to South Africa and will now film his recovery.
Daredevil: Bear Grylls broke his shoulder
That almost sounds pleasant compared to having a broken bone protruding through your skin while on a mountain in Antarctica.
Ouch !
Read a comparison between him and Les Stroud of SurviorMan.
If you were lost in the wild who would you rather be with? Bear or Les.
Consensus was that being lost with Bear would be more fun but you’d probably end up dead.
That and Bear takes nights in hotels on occassion.
His name is Ed and he is no Les Stroud (Survivorman). Les goes into the wild alone for seven days, Mike takes a camera crew and has people plant food for him and is protected by British union rules. Mike (Bear) Grylls is show, Les Stroud is dough.
His show should be called “Watch me unnecessarily risk my life” or “Man Vs common sense”. Les Stroud has a better show and doesn’t take stupid risks.
these guys flaunt it and have been extremely lucky up until now. I have no admiration for them what so ever. They are strictly out for shock factor and are nothing more than opportunists.
I spent a week myself, out in the Alaska Wilderness (Katmai) after a plane crash and survived for real. I walked out, (50 miles) to get help and also guided Big Game in the state for over 15 years. In that period, I saw countless close calls, several mechanical incidents which left me stranded.
I have had special training in survival as well as have been forced to use that training. It greatly angers me to see men like this, exploit the seriousness of wilderness survival, all in the name of television ratings.
Not to mention, the fact that watching Les Stroud in his Alaska Survival episode, made me laugh at how inept he truly is, as well as the countless levels of B.S. he spews about his great “knowledge” of survival or Alaska in general.
Colonel Norman Dane Vaughan was a member of the first Byrd Antarctic Expedition in 1928-1930 and the first American to mush dogs in the Antarctic. A monument at 10,320 feet, Mount Vaughan was named to honor Norman by Admiral Richard Byrd for his contributions to the Byrd Antarctic Expedition.
Vaughan served in World War II in the Department of Search and Rescue. He participated in the Battle of the Bulge while commanding dog sled ambulances used for the rescue of wounded soldiers. He later became Chief of Search and Rescue for the North Atlantic Division of the International Civil Aviation Organization, the air wing of the United Nations. In the Korean War, he served in the Psychological Warfare Department, assigned to the Pentagon.
Vaughan participated in the Dog Racing Event of the 1932 Olympic Games. He has mushed in 13 Iditarod Sled Dog Races in Alaska, and was awarded the Most Inspirational Musher Award and True Grit Award in 1987. Three years later he was named the Iditarod's Musher of the Year (1990).
During the late 1990's Norman initiated an annual Serum Run by dog sleds that followed the same Iditarod Trail used in 1925 to dash anti-toxin to Nome to aid hundreds of dying Eskimos suffering from diptheria.
Norman's motto in life was: Dream Big and Dare to Fail. His writings include, My Life of Adventure and With Byrd at the Bottom of the World.
The final published work of Norman Vaughan is the 'Foreword' he wrote in PURSUING THE UNTAMED, 2005.
Norman was the REAL deal.
