Sunday, May 20, 2007

bear necessities

bear grylls



a true survivor. in one day the man climbed up a 500 feet 180 degrees cliff, swam across the nile, jumped from tree to tree in a 200 mile forest, got chased by a tiger, swam with crocodiles, and got eaten by a whale and digested out through the other end. all with the help of a pen-knife and a camera crew. perhaps his biggest feat though was getting by the channel 4 insurance people.

you have to wonder when he's stuck in some forest somewhere at night eating ants, and the crew are having their bacon butties, does he not feel like having at least a little nibble on some of those tasty sandwiches. and it must get especially hard for him when the tv crew break open a six pack of coors light and he's drinking from the amazon.

the idea of a television programme about someone surviving on their own in some vast wilderness is what could be called an oxymoron.

No comments: