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SPAINJON
Joined: 09/19/07
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Houston, TX
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Posted: 10/23/07 4:34pm |
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Ok so I am guilty of reading Outdoor magazine. Next month on the cover is Bear Grylls. In one of the headlines it says that he is coming clean. Now I love his show but if it was or is all true about him staying in hotels and not really doing the stuff that his television show portrays then I am firmly against him and his show and Ill stick to survivorman. I dont think that Outdoor magazine would put a scam artist on their front cover but I may be wrong. If any one knows more information about the Bear Grylls scandal please post it.
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Wade
Joined: 07/23/06
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Bowling Green, KY
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Posted: 10/23/07 7:01pm |
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I have that copy of Outside, but haven't read it yet. I have to admit, I haven't seen the show yet. A buddy has burned several to a dvd for me so I can catch up though.
I'm a lover, not a racer... --Wade
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wdew23
Joined: 10/30/06
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Louisville, KY
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Posted: 10/24/07 7:20am |
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As usual the cover is somewhat misleading. Bear really doesn't come clean about anything. He just says that there are some unjustified claims by a disgruntled consultant to the show. Next season's episodes are two hours long and more behind the scenes stuff will be shown.
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nwoods
Joined: 05/07/07
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Posted: 10/25/07 4:36pm |
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And then there is our Canadian "Survivor Man",
who carries all his own gear, makes his own shelters, and finds his own food.
A typical day out for us.
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tco_larry
Joined: 10/09/07
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Posted: 10/25/07 5:35pm |
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Anything on TV I take as being slightly "fake" anyway even if they push it as authentic. Everything is edited down for dramatic effect. The show is at least entertaining.
Bear has done some real feats though. Check out this pic of him in his record setting paragliding flight over everest - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Slideshow/slideshowContentFrameFragXL.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/14/bear/bearpix.xml&site=News
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Wade
Joined: 07/23/06
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Bowling Green, KY
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SPAINJON
Joined: 09/19/07
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Houston, TX
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Posted: 10/26/07 9:49am |
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just an updat on Bear Grylls......taken from
http://theadventureblog.blogspot.com/
Amidst all the controversy, Man vs. Wild returns to the airwaves on November 9th with all new episodes. A move that is sure to strike a whole new round of Bear vs. Les debates.
Hosted by Bear Grylls, Man vs. Wild is a show, not unlike Survivorman, in which we the viewers watch the host try to survive in extreme conditions somewhere on the planet each week. The show sparked controversy this past Summer however, when word got out that host Bear Grylls wasn't always fully upfront with his activities in the field. Some of his methods were called into question, and we even learned that he may have spent some of his nights in a warm hotel room with his crew rather than "surviving" out in the wild.
Since that time, the show is said to have refocused, with more of an emphasis on staying true to it's roots. Grylls, a charismatic and entertaining guy, took a lot of heat for his purported antics, as did the BBC and Discovery Channel which co-produce and broadcast his show.
This season, the show will spend two episodes in the chosen environment as opposed to one episode in the past. When the new episodes start on Nov. 9th we'll kick things of in the Sahara desert and that will continue on the Nov. 16th episode as well. From there, we'll get two episodes in the jungles of Panama, followed by two episodes in Patagonia.
At some point this fall we should also see Bear's Mission Everest which will follow his attempt to fly a paraglider over Mount Everest this past Spring. That event is also steeped in controversy as to whether or not he actually made it. Bear claims he did, but there is little independent proof of the fact. The video should shed a lot of light on the subject. No word as to when that special will air however.
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Greensap
Joined: 10/23/07
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Frisco, CO
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Posted: 10/26/07 10:31pm |
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Hey as long as the show makes people get out and enjoy nature. I could care less if it's fake. 
Lets Get Green
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