Bear Grylls may not be in any danger while filming Man vs. Wild , but he has faced some very serious life and death situations, even seriously hurting himself in the process. In , when he was just 21 years old, Bear broke his back during a military training exercise. After jumping out of a plane, his parachute failed to inflate at 16, feet.
I had come so close to severing my spinal cord. Because of my age and my fitness, they decided I could avoid surgery. The celebrity outdoorsman seems to spend most of his life outdoors. He even has his own private deserted island that he uses as a vacation home and refers to as his favorite place on the planet. It is my favorite place on the planet! We have a foot, high-speed ex-lifeboat. It is a rigid inflatable boat with twin horsepower engines behind it that can tackle any sea it needs to often with our dogs and children, as well.
Bear Grylls is the perfect name for a professional outdoorsman. Bears are one of the fiercest animals on the planet, and Grylls invokes the feeling of being outdoors and reminds you of summer. It would appear that Bear Grylls was destined to become a world traveler and survival expert. It turns out that his older sister, Lara Fawcett, gave him the nickname "Bear" when he was a young boy. Given that the makers of Man vs. Wild have admitted that the show is a how-to guide to survival techniques and not a story of unaided solo survival, several of the more extreme things should be called into question.
For example, why would Bear Grylls be willing to drink his own urine, rappel down a waterfall with vines, or squeeze the liquid out of an elephants dung if he could just go back to his hotel instead? Each episode of Man vs. Wild takes between 7 and 10 days to shoot. They also have to go through an extensive list of equipment checks. For each show, Grylls undergoes approximately two days of intense survival briefings and training. This is where the outside experts are used the most because they know the terrain better than the crew.
Bear Grylls likes to live his life on the edge and has accomplished a lot of incredible feats. Just a year and a half after breaking his vertebrae in a parachuting accident, Bear Grylls achieved his childhood dream of climbing the summit of Mount Everest.
At 23 years old, he became one of the youngest Britons to ever achieve the feat. It did not look good. What are the most challenging moments? You see Bear in some pretty precarious situations, and the biggest challenge is keeping the crew safe. Which scenarios are the most treacherous? The crew is very small. We have two camera guys, a sound guy, a drone operator, and myself. And a couple safety people as needed — sometimes the safety team to crew member ratio is one-to-one. I wondered about the scenes with animals — the wolf, the jaguar, the memorable bit with a sheep.
I assume they required finding an animal and making sure it was in the right place at the right time? I was quite surprised when he ended up wrestling a crocodile. Running into a crocodile in Panama is like running into a squirrel in Central Park. Bear seems to helicopter out before anything truly terrible happens.
How did you decide where to draw the line when showing the consequences of each choice? You could make this show as extreme as you want to, and it could be very dangerous for the host. You could kill the host if you wanted to. We just had to draw that line. But do we really want to film for the next three hours, me freezing and hopefully starting a fire? So rescue by helicopter was always an option. It must cost a lot to insure him?
Do you want to make more episodes of this show? As you were filming it, were you thinking about other scenarios to try? It was a real challenge, and there were times when I was pining for the days of the simple, linear, unscripted TV show producing. There are so many places in the world were we could take Bear.
Did Bear end up liking the multiple versions? It feels like it could cramp his improvisational style. Before the greenlight on this show, when I was talking with Bear about doing this idea and got him on board, I think that was the thing.
Dude, this will be so fun to pick what you do. He loves it so much. You get him out in the wild, he just comes alive. Already a subscriber? Given the nature of what I do, I trash my cameras. I take them to the most extreme places on earth.
He did it all before sponsorship and branding because he just wanted to explore. I have nothing but total admiration for him. I always try hard to live within my means. It was a golden opportunity. I had no idea that would be my lifelong career. It suited me and I suited it.
It will inform you, but nothing compares to being on location and learning the etiquette of being on a film set, knowing where to stand and when to speak.
You cannot learn that in a classroom. I studied fine art in Sydney and was an oil painter, so I had an eye, but I learned to work a camera not by reading a book but by pressing buttons.
My first-ever proper shoot was a Lonely Planet documentary in Cambodia, and I completely blathered my way into it. I cleaned his camera gear and his cars, but I started to learn the ropes and get my head around different lenses. I eventually started to go on shoots with him. At first I just carried his bags, then he let me change out a lens, and eventually he started passing on work to me that he no longer wanted.
Footage is delivered with blood, sweat, and tears sometimes. Bear is a like-minded guy. We both have a strong Christian faith, and I think that helps us trust in our decisions when we get into extreme situations. When I was a maverick single man, I saw myself as almost disposable.
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