Bear Grylls has battled everything from wild animals and deadly snakes to raging rivers, dense jungles, and sheer cliff faces, but it’s a different kind of challenge fighting for survival against some hot sauces. Armed with just a knife and fork, Bear recently went head-to-head with Hot Ones host Sean Evans. The show sees Evans [...]
Bear Grylls knows all about how to find and purify water in the world’s most hostile environments. Sometimes though, as you brave the elements you might be looking for a drink that provides a little more comfort. “Maybe it’s just the Englishman in me, but I don’t reckon anything raises the spirits better than a [...]
One way that survivalist Bear Grylls collects water when in the wild is by making a solar still to capture water from plants or from the ground. There are two types of stills: above-ground and below ground. Above Ground: Evaporation Stills The above-ground version works best in an area with lots of vegetation, by collecting [...]
As UK’s Chief Scout, and Chief Ambassador of World Scouting, it makes sense that one of Bear Grylls’s favorite books is the classic children’s tale The Bear Scouts, by Stan and Jan Berenstain. The story is a children’s book that Bear’s father used to read to him when he was small, and which Bear read [...]
Bear Grylls says that people often refer to big challenges he has taken on – climbing Everest, crossing the Atlantic, surviving in jungles – but to him, these are the least interesting parts of his story. He says that behind every summit or achievement that makes it into the headlines, like all of us, he [...]
If you get lost in the wilderness and are trying to survive or make your way out, one thing you do not want to do is to become prey for a hungry and wild animal – even if your name is Bear. Over the years, Bear Grylls has had his fair share of encounters with [...]
Rivers can offer a route to safety if you are lost, and though they may not look dangerous at first, a river can be unpredictable and quickly change in an instant. Melting snow from a mountain, or flooding in heavy rain can cause flash floods, or the river surface might look calm but underneath there [...]
As a survivalist, Chief Scout, and former SAS Reserve, Bear Grylls spends most of his time in the outdoors, and he has learned how nature and time outside can help reduce stress. From climbing Mount Everest to crossing the Atlantic in a tiny RIB, from dealing with dangerous snakes and angry crocodiles to eating giant [...]
Survivalist Bear Grylls always talks about how finding water is one of the key priorities of survival. But when you do find water, you need to be able to filter and purify it—and boiling is a good way to purify it. You can also cook things in boiling water to kill two birds with one [...]
Bear Grylls has spent time in many of the world’s hottest deserts, and he’s figured out some, er, creative ways to find water—remember that time he squeezed it from some camel dung? Thankfully, he also knows some more conventional ways to find water. Understand the risks If you become lost in the desert, dehydration is [...]
