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.

Dealing with hot weather is part of being outdoors nowadays – even in cooler alpine zones.  Last July, a team of biologists with the Colorado Department of Parks and Wildlife were studying the effect of drought on alpine plants in the Rocky Mountains. It shocked them that they had to strip to their t-shirts as [...]

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 [...]

Late June 2021, Lake Tahoe, California. It’s maybe 82 degrees, but along the trail, there’s no shade from trees. There’s also no water. Five miles (uphill) until the next water source; nine miles from the previous one. The three liters of water we carried in are almost gone between my dog and me. The sun [...]

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 [...]

High-up mountain adventures are tons of fun—but if altitude sickness hits you, things can go downhill real quick. Altitude sickness happens because at higher elevation, there’s less air pressure and less oxygen (O2) available for us to breathe. The amount of oxygen in the air and, therefore, the amount of oxygen we can breathe is [...]