Man vs. Wild

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Man vs. Wild
Man vs. Wild title screen
Genre	Reality television
Starring	Bear Grylls
Country of origin	USA
No. of episodes	9 (List of episodes)
Production
Running time	45 Minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Discovery Channel
Original run	November 10, 2006 – Present
Links
IMDb profile

Man vs. Wild is a survival television series on the Discovery Channel hosted by Bear Grylls. The show premiered on November 10, 2006 after airing a pilot episode entitled The Rockies on October 27, 2006. The program follows Grylls as he survives harsh conditions with minimal resources and finds his way back to civilization. The series is due to air on Channel 4 in the UK as Born Survivor: Bear Grylls in March 2007.^[1] Grylls is currently filming for the next season.

Man vs. Wild shows Grylls purposefully demonstrating more extreme methods of survival in harsh conditions. The program has seen him eating raw meat and live fish, staving off hypothermia after intentionally jumping in a frozen lake, and drinking the fluids of elephant feces for hydration. While Grylls does travel with a two-man camera crew, "they're under very strict instructions not to get involved or help" unless he is in a fatal situation.^[2] The format of this show is similar to that of Survivorman, with the great exception being that Survivorman is recorded solely by the host, without the presence of a single crew member.

1 Season One
2 Survival techniques
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Season One

Moab Desert, Utah (November 10, 2006)
Costa Rican Rain Forest (November 17, 2006)
Alaskan Mountain Range (November 24, 2006)
Hawaii – Mount Kilauea (December 1, 2006)
Sierra Nevada (December 8, 2006)
African Savanna – Kenya (December 15, 2006)
European Alps (December 22, 2006)
Desert Island (December 29, 2006)
Rocky Mountains

[edit] Survival techniques

Grylls demonstrates escaping from quicksand.

Glissading down a glacier using a broken ski pole
Climbing down a glacial waterfall, doused with near freezing water
Floating down a mountain stream, with no boat
Climbing 100 feet up a tree, to survey the land
Hunting a rabbit with a throwing stick
Attempting to tame and mount an escaped horse
Soaking his shirt in pee and using it as a headdress to cool his head down in the desert
Ripping the flesh from a dead zebra with his teeth and eating it raw
Biting into a live salmon for nourishment
Tyrolean traverse: Crawling over two ropes suspended above a deep chasm, with only improvised safety equipment (paracord wrapped around rope and secured to parachute harness)
Cracking a raven egg on tooth while hanging from cliff wall, and eating not only the contents of the egg, but the shell as well.
Drinking water directly squeezed from elephant dung
Using a length of knotted rope (weighted down at one end with his pack) as a self arresting device to stop from falling down into a canyon
Climbing back up the knotted rope (above) using Prussik loops
Using a hammerstone to make a disc knife from flint
Eating live maggots pulled from the entrails of a fresh carcass of an animal killed in a winter avalanche.
Catching a grass snake, and eating it live except for the head.
Making a pair of snow shoes from a branch and parachute cords to walk through the snow