Man vs. Wild is a fake?
Judge for yourself…
Note: We don’t own a TV and have never seen this show, but we hear loads about it from all our friends.
Be careful around those wild SUVs!
Judge for yourself…
Note: We don’t own a TV and have never seen this show, but we hear loads about it from all our friends.
Be careful around those wild SUVs!
August 16th, 2007 at 12:07 am
ahh! Undoubtedly the most controversial post in the history of LH bloggers!
(I know you started blogging before all the LH people hopped on the bandwagon, but I don’t think you’d mind being grouped in that category)
August 16th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
This article is interesting, it was also linked at the bottom of the video:
Man vs. Wild Now Truth vs. Deception
August 29th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
The real issue with “Man vs. Wild” isn’t that it is only a depiction of survival scenarios v. real situations… the real problem is that much of the advice given by Bear is critically dangerous, and could get you killed… It is not practical or informative survival advice. The show is a farce and sham because of his poor advice that is inaccurate and dangerous…
The link below discusses the “bad survival advice”.
http://www.daughtersoftiresias.org/bearwiki/Bad_Advice_and_Inaccuracies
I believe that he is a phenomenal athlete and fully capable of handling the physical challenges that are depicted on the show… Granted they stage the shots and setup the situations… I suppose it is advisable to eliminate the real danger (why should he kill himself for a show???), and to make the scenes more exciting and entertaining to watch (he is essentially replicating real situations in more a production friendly manner).
The problem: 1) It is a let down to see it is faked when it is billed as REAL SURVIVAL, and 2) It is upsetting to treated like we are all dumb out-in TV land (I for one am not OK with being lied to for the sake of entertainment - refer to the 1950’s game show “Twenty One”) 3) IT IS WRONG ON SURVIVAL!!!
So, Bear Grylls may be a capable and skilled survivalist, but he is not a genuine all-encompassing survival expert. He uses off screen consultants for the survival techniques that he presents, and the scenes are setup for him to be oh so adventurous… but yet somehow they actually come up with critically BAD survival advice… as in the link above…
1) Drinking your urine - full of toxins
Use coconut oil as a sun block - believe that and you will fry in the sun thinking you are protected
2) Squeezing elephant dung to get moisture - saturated with disease causing bacteria
3) Drifting down stream at high altitudes - The fast track to hypothermia
4) Jumping into a white-water rapid - ticket to drowning
5) Using parachute cord to repell - happy landing
6) Swimming under a log jam not knowing if there is an openning - who needs air anyway???
7) Climbing a tree to get ripe avocados - The ripe ones are on the ground dummy, big waste of energy
9) No discussion on the time, planning and preparation needed to gather enough firewood for an entire night, to build a sturdy raft, to build an adequate shelter, to gather enough food - he just runs, jumps and climbs all day, then settles down to a fire with plenty of wood, has a nicely crafted raft with sawed ends, starts grabbing food on a whim because he is hungry…
Bear Grylls - On this day, he is Rich Santoro’s “Worst Person in the World” (homage to Olbermann)
September 5th, 2007 at 2:39 am
Man vs. Wild is a Fake? What is it exactly that was faked? The purpose of the show has been clearly stated many times and that is to educate you on how to survive in the wild if you are ever stranded in a remote area. It’s an informational show that also happens to be extremely entertaining. I don’t recall Bear, any of the film crew or any other Man vs. Wild representative every claiming that Bear was 100% footing it during any of the episodes. It would be pretty stupid to get dropped off in the middle of the desert and not maintain your health and safety if you could. These episodes are lessons on how to stay alive in worse case survival scenarios, not footage proving how real Bear Grylls is. If Bear were to really endure all of the circumstances he’s thrown into, in the short run he’d be in the hospital after every episode, and in the long run he’d almost certainly suffer from some degree of renal or hepatic damage. Whichever journalist cracked this news story is the real fake. This isn’t journalism-it’s an opinion piece in disguise. I wish the media would think before they publish this kind of crap. Bear Grylls is one of the youngest people to have climbed Mt. Everest, he crossed the north Atlantic Arctic Ocean in a very tiny boat and circumnavigated the UK on a jet ski, he’s former British special forces and actually broke his back during a training exercise, he’s published a few books and he gives tons of money to charitable organizations of all sorts. How real is that?
1) Urine is full of toxins..that your kidneys help filter out…the second time through your kidneys will filter them out again…leaving your body with H20.
2) Elephant dung probablly does have bacteria..whether or not it’s disease causing depends on that particular piece of dung. No water will lead to death…many diseases can be treated…but not if you’re dead. Better sueeze that piece of dung dude.
3) Staying at high altitudes…faster track to hypothermia.
4) Ticket down the mountain.
5) No problems repelling with parachute cord. I’ve done it with horse training equipment.
6) Yeah I agree…that was pretty dumb.
7) If wild animals already picked up all of the avacados you might have to climb the tree.
9) It’s an hour long television show, do they really want to film Bear Grylls collecting firewood for an hour, or 12 hours making a raft, or six hours finding food. Or should they do what they do with every show and edit the long hours of footage down so as to be able to fit into th program’s length…which is an hour.