In this week’s episode of Running Wild the Challenge, Bear Grylls teams up with ‘Wicked’ star Cynthia Erivo in the South of Wales.

Bear Grylls has spent a lot of time on islands throughout his career as a survivalist and adventurer, filming in remote locations such as the Pacific Ring of Fire. Remember that famous video clip where he hangs off the skids of a helicopter above a tiny island in the Pacific, then jumps 10,000 feet into [...]

This week on Running Wild, Bear Grylls and Cynthia Erivo are “defying gravity” as they traverse a variety of caves and other icy terrain. On top of the highest peaks in Wales, where Grylls trained for the British Special Forces, he teaches the singer-actress to rappel through the caves on her own with an oxygen [...]

Bear Grylls shared new details about Running Wild and his life philosophies when he called into the Stay Free with Russell Brand podcast. 

For his survival expeditions and TV shows, Bear Grylls has spent time in some of the world’s most inhospitable landscapes, and this includes deserts. He says he has been in the world’s toughest and that they are “brutal, unforgiving wildernesses to be in.” He also says that a really hot desert will kill you faster [...]

Bear Grylls is teaching essential survival skills to the world’s biggest celebrities on the second season of Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge (Sundays on National Geographic at 9/8c). This week, he’s meeting up with Benedict Cumberbatch on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. Following the learning phase of their two-day adventure, which includes [...]

In the eighth and final episode of I Survived Bear Grylls, Season 2, the survivalist and toughest man on the planet is making sure whoever wins his contest really puts in the work to earn the $10,000 grand prize. “We’re about to find out if you’re as tough as you think you are,” Bear tells [...]

Beginner climbers have a few simple rules to learn, and one of the most important rules that survival expert Bear Grylls follows is the “rule of three.”  This means that you should have at least three points of contact with the rock face you’re climbing on, rather than relying on just one point of contact.  [...]

Actor Benedict Cumberbatch is known for playing Dr. Strange in the Marvel Universe, but can he harness the mystic arts to help him rappel down the side of a cliff on Scotland’s Isle of Sky? Bear Grylls and Benedict Cumberbatch will explore the mountains on the Scottish coastline in this week’s episode of Running Wild [...]

Tent pegs are one of the smallest and sometimes most overlooked pieces of camping equipment that is vital to the entire operation. A tent will not stay up by itself, after all. It needs to be securely attached to the ground, and it must also have secure guy ropes. The ropes hold up the tent, [...]