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June 14, 2007 By Fausta

Bear sightings


Yesterday three dozen people came to my blog from googling “Bear Grylls”, plus two who were searching for “Bear Grylls naked”.

At first I was puzzled as to why the sudden interest, but later last night when I was watching Mythbusters, I realized that Bear’s new season starts tomorrow.

I’m sorry to dissapoint the latter two, but here’s a shirtless Bear Grylls YouTube:

Monsters and Critics World Premiere Friday, June 15, 9 PM ET/PT

EVERGLADES: This premiere episode finds host Bear Grylls stranded in the swamps of the Florida Everglades, where each year at least 60 tourists need to be rescued. With more than a million alligators, thousands of snakes and even black bears roaming these waterlogged lands, the area has more than its share of hazards. Bear demonstrates how to keep alligators at bay, deal with vicious razor-sharp grass and find stomach-churning food that will keep you alive if you find yourself stranded in this beautiful but dangerous destination.

The first thing I’d do if stranded in the Everglades would be calling my sister on the cell phone, since she lives in the area. But then, she’d probably come along so then the two of us would be stranded.

The Phoenix is quite insulting, calling Bear “English boy adventurer”.

Over on the Discovery Channel, English boy adventurer Bear Grylls backflipped off a chopper into the ultramarine waters of the Pacific, swam two miles to a desert island, scaled a cliff, descended through the root system of a banyan tree, and finally found a hospitable little cove, where he subsisted for a few days on coconuts and tiny fish ( MAN VS. WILD , Friday at 9 pm). A juicy turtle passed within harpoon range, but Bear courteously forwent a feast on account of the turtle’s position on the endangered-species list. Both Bear and Criss, as they go about their respective tasks, make a selection of animalistic grunts and coughs. Shinning down the coconut tree seemed particularly hard on Bear, who grimaced against the chafing bole and warned the viewer against it “as a bloke.”

Last month Bear glided over Everest

Flying over the top of the world A British Everest summiteer has become the first man to fly higher than the top of the world in a powered paraglider.

Bear Grylls, who at the age of 23 became the youngest British climber to scale Mount Everest in 1998, achieved a feat that had been deemed impossible by many critics prior to the mission.

The Telegraph carried his arcticles,Flying into a dream and has a video you can watch here

Here’s a selection of books authored by Mr. Grylls,

I haven’t found Man Vs Wild on DVD yet, but when I do I’ll link to it.

Meanwhile, if Mr. Grylls is reading this, please email me at faustaw-at-yahoo-dot-com. I’d love to have you as my podcast guest.

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In other diversions, I have become addicted to Facebook. I’m learning the ropes and just this morning asked a question, but then I made a mistake and the question got sent to all my friends, which probably means I’ve annoyed everyone early in the morning. My apologies to all.

Jeff Jarvis (who is a lot better at figuring out Facebook than I am) has a terrific post, Facebook: the platform of people?

Does Bear Grylls have a Facebook page? Well, I looked and there are dozens of Bear Grylls Facebook pages. Will the real Bear Grylls please stand up?
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  1. Obi's Sister says

    June 14, 2007 at 8:56 am

    Facebook has a group you can join called “FACEBOOK: My anti-drug but somehow my biggest addiction”. Heh.

  2. Elmondohummus says

    June 14, 2007 at 9:03 am

    Bear was on Letterman last night (June 13th). Didn’t expect that; was flipping through channels getting ready to go to bed, and there was the guy I saw doing all that survival stuff on Discovery Channel.

    Anyway… yeah, he’s all right. You at least manage to get the survival stuff from him w/o getting the apocalyptic survivalist political nonsense from similarly talented folks (like ones I’ve met). That’s what I like about watching his show.

  3. Fausta says

    June 14, 2007 at 9:59 am

    Obi’s Sister, I should join. Oh yes.

    Elmondo, If you ever have a chance, watch the program he did with the French Foreign Legion in the desert. Fascinating program, in many ways.

  4. A Jacksonian says

    June 17, 2007 at 7:32 pm

    Personally, I like Survivorman more… he is out solo, no camera crew, and every great shot you see of him trudging into the distance just means he is going to trudge right back to get the camera. His gripes on carrying 70 lbs. of cameras and such around are great!

    “I would have been out of here by now if it weren’t for the cameras!”

    “You know these shots would be a whole lot nicer if I didn’t have to go back for the cameras.”

    “Finally, a use for a dead camera!”

    “Well, I forgot to turn it on and now I forgot what I said…. oh well…”

    Somehow that makes it for me. To know that someone actually auditioned for and *got* to do this and he *wanted* to do this, and then complains about the set-up.

    Discovery Channel has this knack of taking the simplest ideas for a television program and making them compelling viewing. Literally in MvW, Survivorman, Dirty Jobs, Mythbusters, Deadliest Catch and even things like the old Monster House/Garage/etc. they come up with something that could have been made in the 1950’s.

    Now if only they would swap stars for a week… ahhh… paradise!

    *This week on Man vs Wild… Adam and Jamie get stuck in the Siberian Tundra! ‘Quit your whining!’*

    *Its Dirty Jobs with Bear Grylls and he gets to tackle the NYC sewer system… and then get to see what it takes to inseminate an alligator… ‘I’ve got to do wot??’*

  5. Chris says

    September 25, 2007 at 8:11 am

    I’ve had 200 people already today, looking for a naked Bear… what’s going on?

    🙂

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