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    Man VS. Wild's bear Grylls has run Class V rapids in the lower Zambezi (without a raft) the 34-year-old has plunged naked beneath the ice of a frozen lake in Siberia. He has twisted and shimmied out of quicksand in Utah; evaded alligators in the everglades.

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    Man VS. Wild's bear Grylls has run Class V rapids in the lower Zambezi (without a raft) the 34-year-old has plunged naked beneath the ice of a frozen lake in Siberia. He has twisted and shimmied out of quicksand in Utah; evaded alligators in the everglades.

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    Bear Grylls Mens Journal 0904

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    Man VS. Wild's bear Grylls has run Class V rapids in the lower Zambezi (without a raft) the 34-year-old has plunged naked beneath the ice of a frozen lake in Siberia. He has twisted and shimmied out of quicksand in Utah; evaded alligators in the everglades.

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    Baghdad onthe Border How the Drug War Has Killed the Good Times in Tijuana Back- Country Passage Skiing and Brotherhood in Wildest Idaho Man Vs. Wild ns Mi vere _|| Commuter Bikes of ie) aA A Rice ne ag ! ae roof |e Acs) ry Féar®) ‘Man vs. Wild THE BEAR GRYLLS ~ SURVIVAL | MANUAL | It’s rough out there, so who better to teach us how to endure — and thrive — than TV’s best-known survivalist? Disclaimer: We don’t recommend a diet of raw snakes and goat testicles. by BRAD WIENERS Grylls bs in the lower Zambezi | and filmi , 8 THE SUPERFIT DAREDEVIL HOST OF THE (On the strength ofthat show, Discovery approached him with Discovery Channel's hit show Man vs. Wild, Bear | the concept of dropping him into a wildemess survival situation any part of being slick anted it rough, raw as what did. 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And that's the nice thing about ‘us working together for so long, because do trust him, so just take his ead and hope forthe best" * Intoa' you are in he northern hemisphere and your watchs silo your mist (and stil works), the cardinal pints can easily be deduced, Point the hour hand atthe sun. Then form an Imaginary line crectly through the ‘center ofthe wedge" that is created ‘between the hour hand andi atock. “Tiss your south-northline. The height ofthe sun in the sky and tho time ‘of day wilthen show you which end of theline ig nach and which i south, remembering thatthe sun setsin the "west andriss inthe eas. nthe south ‘ern hemisphere, point the 2 clock ‘mark tthe sun anal bisect that with the hur hand forthe north-south line. (em his 2008 book NAN VS. WOLD) ‘The Grylis family ~ Beay, his wife Shara, ‘and their sons Jesse, Marmaduke, and Huckleberry ~ live the rest of the year on ‘converted Dutch barge houseboat on. the iver Thames in London, ical tates that encourage those lest in the wild to stay inppart because it makes for beter TV. Others question ‘of which would get a less alpha castaway Killed Butallhiscloudsa important poin hisbusheraft but thewayre has used th ing trips. He has improvised an inst “When I hear people say he'sa fake, [just see red,” protectiveoller sister, who gave him the name Bear (asin she hated the one his parents yave him (Kaward)." he is on the show. He’sa bit ofa nutter. An eceente Jmaginc him having job, an very naughty asa little guy second or prime minister, but he was never going to do all ou in life the way he works itout on the show Vhat’s truly remarkable about Gryl series asa vehicle to takeall these amaz~ ely great ite for himself RWG put; Grylls keeps moving, his choice of stants, many it says Lara Faweett, Grylls Tey) asan infant hecanse tly the guy in lite that | Ie fanny, but Fean'teven | ct we always knew held be suceossfl. He was 1nd our mum always sad he eas going. to be othe expected. He works it Andso itis in that spirit that we of, in his awn words, the Bear Grylls Survival Manual.to Life HOW TO SURVI Afeswof as were in Antarctica right before Christ around — and we wereite-sking, and we were yng si hour. twas really blowing a proper hoole. Tl just puta helmet on, mo VE alife-threatening injury ast for ourselves, no cameras ngabout 50 kilometersan to keep my hhatand goggles on, and about 10 minutes later I wasin the Font, and a massive gust ‘ame along and just ripped me out of the sks, and flew through theair and smashed, ‘dow really hal on this blue ce. land with my’head tnd my shouldersandl shat- {ered the helmet completely: 1° halt ad that on, my head woul have been proper jam, And I broke my shoulder. My first thought was, Bloody ell You never want to be injured, but I find ithelps you tobe facused. Now lve got this one goal, which isto get my shoulder better. doing something forit, training, every day *yelearned that great things come from diffe It times, and ifm limited in some respect, how am I goinggto make use ofthe time? Right hefore we leon the trip in ‘quote: “Lifeshould not bea journey to the grave with th in an attractive and well-preserved body, but rather to sears, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and ride!” That was abit prophetic, wasa't i? You take the hein eoSUUCCOSS lastook, and Istarted it with this mention ofarivingsafly | din sideways, covered in screaming, “Yahoo, whata rough with the smooth, I don't fecl very famous. That's probably a good starting point. A few times a year | come out with Discovery and we tour around America, and sometimes poople in anv the the street recognize amazed anyone wa anjanel a couple of athers in these jungles, an ‘no one more surprised than me. I'm always Ines the show, to be honest. I really ook at itfike just vl we mess around and say Toads of stupid things to the camera, and most of i hits the eating-r00m floor Pve been asked to be inthis film, Clash ofthe Titans. Warner Bros. is doing a remake oft. I've got to We've been asked todoa Man ws, Wild urban disaster 3-1 bbe bilan. Fd really ike to do that, shoving eool ways ings or what to do when you're mugged or your ear go ice, your window-

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