Agree ....when we watch with smaller kids we ask em what he did right or wrong. Last night on a new show he was cooking and eating at his shelter and wiping his hands on his clothing on Baffin Island where bears are normal as rocks........
we always stressed a cooking fire and awning away from the sleeping tents etc when in bear country in lower 48 or alaska. Warming fire was for the relaxing and goofing after dinner. No smelly in the tents on on clothes if at all possible. Albeit 12 ga and a 44 mag or two were along ....why kick fate !
First time I saw a bear attack was Philmont scout Ranch in NM. A kid was dragged out of his tent like a big ole burrito by a little cinnamon bear looking for the scouts Hershey bar he’d snuck into his tent to snack on. Kid got some bites on his leg and that was it. Bear was scared more than the scouts !
We have camped in many palces with black bear.
Always, always have a gun. No fools are we.
Plus we used to camp with the wolves...
I did Philmont at about age 15. Great experience in the Sangre de Christos above 10K feet! Northern NM is awesome. I know why Ted Turner bought half of it.
Man vs Wild is an ongoing study on taking foolish chances that will likely eventually get you killed. Things like jumping off cliffs into pools of unknown depth, climbing down icy slick waterfalls to avoid unpleasant plants on the safe way down, taking a shortcut through an ice cave in a glacier, etc. all serve to increase ones probability of catastrophic injury; which would likely be fatal in a survival situation. Nevertheless I do watch because I use it as a thought exercise to ask myself what I would do in such a situation.
Survivorman is far more sane. I watched Les make a figure 4 deadfall trap on one episode and then went out in my back yard and made one with some sticks and cinder blocks. I gained an appreciation for how critical are the angles and placement of the cuts on the sticks and for how you need to be careful that you don’t catch your own hand/fingers in the trap. Useful information.
Still, sorry to see Bear injured. Hope he makes a full and speedy recovery.
TM