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Car Need a Jump-Start? Call in Bear Grylls!

If Bear Grylls finds himself somewhere remote with a dead vehicle battery, he knows he’s not going to be able to call a 24-hour breakdown service for rescue. That’s why he always brings along a set of jumper cables in any vehicle he uses, and [...]

Photo taken in Düsseldorf, Germany

Bear Grylls on How to Survive a Flash Flood

Flash floods are so-called because they can happen literally in minutes, both out in the wild and also in urban environments. Causes include heavy rain, natural phenomena like earthquakes or from the build-up of water in lakes and rivers, which then overflow. They happen frequently [...]

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How Bear Grylls Finds Food at Sea

Being a castaway at sea might sound like something from an epic novel like Robinson Crusoe, but being surrounded by open ocean is very scary and sometimes people find themselves adrift and lost, even on a short voyage.  “If I had any idea of how [...]

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Bear Grylls on the Right Ways to Extinguish a Fire

Bear Grylls has lit enough fires in the wilderness to know exactly how to put one out—and what to do if a fire gets out of hand. How to fully put out a campfire Even if your campfire was small, if it’s not properly extinguished, [...]

Bear Grylls winter shooting 04.15.2019

How Bear Grylls Deals with Hypothermia and Frostbite

Bear Grylls has survived some of the planet’s most extreme temperatures and he doesn’t shy away from icy situations—just recently, he was immersing himself in the waters of a frozen lake in Wyoming while on location for Running Wild.  In order to survive in these [...]

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How to Escape Quicksand, According to Bear Grylls

Quicksand can be found anywhere that water and sand meet—by the sea, along river banks, near lakes and marshes. It’s composed of loose sand that’s fully saturated and therefore suspended in water. So when something heavier—like your body—displaces it, it can create a suction and [...]

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How Bear Grylls Makes Smokes Signals

If you’re ever lost in the wilderness and you think that people are looking for you, the internationally recognized distress signal is three small fires, lit in a triangular formation, which can be spotted from above by rescue craft. On the other hand, if no [...]

Bear Grylls on the set of Discovery Bear Grylls: Breaking Point - Mexico.   (Photo by Marcos Ferro/Discovery Communications 2014 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED )

How Bear Grylls Makes His Water Safe to Drink

Finding drinkable water is one of the most vital skills of any survivalist. You can survive for a couple of weeks without food, but only two or three days without water—and if you are in a very dry or very hot place, that window shrinks. [...]

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Car Need a Jump-Start? Call in Bear Grylls!

If Bear Grylls finds himself somewhere remote with a dead vehicle battery, he knows he’s not going to be able to call a 24-hour [...]

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Bear Grylls on How to Survive a Flash Flood

Flash floods are so-called because they can happen literally in minutes, both out in the wild and also in urban environments. Causes include heavy [...]

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How Bear Grylls Finds Food at Sea

Being a castaway at sea might sound like something from an epic novel like Robinson Crusoe, but being surrounded by open ocean is very [...]

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Now Streaming: Bear Grylls-Produced Documentary “Finding Michael,” filmed in Everest’s Death Zone

The feature-length documentary Finding Michael, about Spencer Matthews’ search for his brother’s body on Everest, is now available to stream in the U.S. on [...]

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Bear Grylls on the Right Ways to Extinguish a Fire

Bear Grylls has lit enough fires in the wilderness to know exactly how to put one out—and what to do if a fire gets [...]

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How Bear Grylls Deals with Hypothermia and Frostbite

Bear Grylls has survived some of the planet’s most extreme temperatures and he doesn’t shy away from icy situations—just recently, he was immersing himself [...]

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How to Climb a Rock Face Without a Rope, According to Bear Grylls

Climbing up a rock face without rope is dangerous, difficult and there is no room for error. But if it’s a life or death [...]

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How to Escape Quicksand, According to Bear Grylls

Quicksand can be found anywhere that water and sand meet—by the sea, along river banks, near lakes and marshes. It’s composed of loose sand [...]

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How Bear Grylls Makes Smokes Signals

If you’re ever lost in the wilderness and you think that people are looking for you, the internationally recognized distress signal is three small [...]

Bear Grylls

How Bear Grylls Makes His Water Safe to Drink

Finding drinkable water is one of the most vital skills of any survivalist. You can survive for a couple of weeks without food, but [...]

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