Bear Grylls: The Born Survivor

If you don’t follow “Man vs Wild” on Discovery Channel; you have till now missed a very important necessity of human life: the art of survival. Man vs Wild is one of the few shows I watch on TV. And when I am just playing with my TV remote; if I see Bear Grylls appearing on my TV screen, even my remote denies working. Forget alone pushing it’s buttons.

Few basics on which he concentrates:

1. Positive attitude in every situation; a desire to live and survive in any case.
2. Courage to take risk. It’s for your life.
3. In particular, he tells that burning of fire at the place of night stay/ camp gives him a new hope and well needed energy to move on.
4. Eat whatever and whenever you can. (but something which doesn’t harm your health and body).
5. Be cautious, proactive and athletic; take care of your body by fulfilling basic needs like, food, water, sleep and sufficient body temperature.
6. Utilize every resource which is available; something which might seem to be a waste at one time; may help you in saving your life at other.
7. Don’t go against the nature, but take it’s help in your survival.
8. Maintain a proper body fitness.
9. There are many other small and big things which he keeps on telling but I don’t remember all of them right now; may be you can remind me of some in your comments if you follow him.
10. Well when there is nothing at point number 9; what are you searching on tenth??:P

Some info on Grylls from Wikipedia:

He’s got a lovely family of his; containing a wife (Shara Grylls ), and three sons Jesse, Marmaduke and Huckleberry (born 15 January 2009 via natural childbirth on his houseboat).

In December 2008, Grylls suffered a broken shoulder while kite skiing across a stretch of ice during an independent expedition to climb a remote unclimbed peak in Antarctica. Travelling at speeds up to 50 km/h, a ski caught on the ice, launching him in the air and breaking his shoulder when he came down.

On 16 May 1998, Grylls achieved his childhood dream (an ambition since his father gave him a picture of Everest when he was eight) and a record, as the youngest Briton, at 23, to summit Mount Everest, just eighteen months after breaking his back. (this record was later surpassed by others).

The show has featured stunts including Grylls climbing cliffs, parachuting from helicopters, balloons, and planes, paragliding, ice climbing, wading rapids, eating snakes and crocodiles, wrapping his urine-soaked t-shirt around his head to help stave off the desert heat, drinking urine saved in a rattlesnake skin, wrestling alligators, field dressing a camel carcass and drinking water from it, and free climbing waterfalls. Grylls also regales the viewer with tales of adventurers stranded or killed in the wilderness.