E-bikes are amazing modes of transport, but are they completely safe? We take a look into some of the recent fires grabbing the headlines.

During a recent trip to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, my travel companions and I spotted smoke as we were driving through Kaibab National Forest along AZ-89. We pulled over, concerned it might be a campfire that hadn’t been extinguished properly. In reality, it was a prescribed burn.  Prescribed burns are important for [...]

While adventurer and survivalist Bear Grylls has been known to rely on an insect or two for survival (remember the time he ate a giant maggot?), he has been bitten by thousands more over the years, and there are many insect types that he avoids, as their dangers range from painful bites to disease and [...]

It’s possible orca attacks on boats are planned by these intelligent and capable animals. Here’s what to do if it happens to you.

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 [...]

In March of 2022, a toddler named Lena was living the three-year-old dream. She was on vacation with her parents in Costa Rica, and she had a slice of cake all to herself. But as she was nibbling her treat, a wild iguana appeared out of nowhere (cue Pokémon battle music). It swooped onto the [...]

Bear Grylls has spent much time in the polar regions, having conducted expeditions in both the Arctic and Antarctica. As a survivalist, he knows that snow and ice always makes navigation and movement more hazardous. In polar regions, the basic skills of navigation can be even more challenging, with landscapes that can have few features, [...]

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 and they kill regularly, so it’s good to know how [...]

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, it could lead to a potentially hazardous forest fire. When [...]

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 temperatures, Bear knows how to recognize and deal with hypothermia [...]