I understand that he is using examples to possibly save your life etc.... which granted is fun to watch and informative but I don't find it too...uh safe (most of the time).Yeah you can do what Bear Grylls does but you can also die in the process, yeah it teaches you how to do extreme survival stuff but I highly doubt that it is 100% effective when there is no camera crew to save your ass and generally when people are lost, the 1 st rule is to stay put or at least not go wandering too far off.Survivor-man is a slightly more reasonable approach to survival IMO because if I get lost in the wilderness I'm not going to go climbing flimsy trees or rock climbing on a 90 degree rock face :P which may further increase my chances of dying.I guess if you already are a really skilled climber or w/e then the stuff Bear does would be useful but for Joe blow who got lost on a hiking trail I don't think it's the best tactic.
I don't hate Bear Grylls, I just think some of his survival stuff may be a little much.Some of it is really useful (finding food, medicinal plants, building stuff, the basics...etc) but other stuff I would never consider doing because it is more risk than it's worth (white water rafting on a flimsy raft, messing with poisonous snakes, trying to ride wild hoses...etc.) If I was in the wilderness for a while and there was no chance I would be found then yeah I'd run out of there Bear Grylls style definitely but not if there's still a chance I can be found.Bear Grylls = last resort (most of the time) IMO.Besides, out of all the people who watch the show, how many are really going to get lost in a forest or something?Most people that watch the show watch it for entertainment purposes, not because they are going to the amazon any time soon :).
Not a bad show but I would prefer to play it safe if I was lost
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