In Churchill, Canada, there’s a jail for bad news bears. The crime? Getting too close to humans. The punishment? A time-out that lasts for up to a month with no snacks and then a one-way helicopter ride miles outside of town. Churchill is a unique, remote place in the Canadian province of Manitoba, right in [...]
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 [...]
National Parks are beautiful and amazing, but sooner or later Debbie Downer is going stroll through and say “lame!” Sure, we’ve all had a bad experience in the outdoors, right? Maybe it rained or the mosquitos were the size of chicken hawks. But Amber Share decided to design National Park posters based on the worst, [...]
After decades of research into the ways polar bears stay warm in the wild, scientists have developed a new textile that could revolutionize the apparel that keeps us warm outside. Researchers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst say that their new two-layer fabric mimics polar bear skin and fur to make clothing that keeps [...]
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 [...]
On Sunday night, the Maryland State Police dispatched a rescue mission when a hiker and his dog got stuck on a cliff above the Shenandoah River, located in West Virginia. At around 10pm, Maryland State Police Aviation Command’s (MSPAC) Trooper 3 was called to a mountainous, heavily forested area of Harpers Ferry National Park. A [...]
The United States government has launched an initiative to protect wildlife sanctity. This pilot program will install corridors for animals along busy roads. State and local governments, as well as several Native American tribes are set to use $350 million from the infrastructure fund to construct these corridors. Wildlife signs will be installed to notify [...]
Be prepared to be tested. On Thursday, May 18, Bear Grylls’ new competition series, “I Survived Bear Grylls,” will premiere on TBS. In this exclusive first-look trailer, we get a glimpse of the wild and thrilling competition that awaits. After years of life-saving missions in some of the most isolated places in the world, Bear [...]
The camping cot has been around for as long as people have been sleeping in tents. They’re essentially beds without the frills. Instead of a box spring or mattress, they typically use a steel or aluminum frame and are equipped with a canvas or polyester pad for sleeping on.  But when you’re on an [...]
