That’s how to survive!

Posted: November 25th, 2009 | Author: Habi | Filed under: TV | Tags: , , | No Comments »

I’m sure all of you watched the ground­break­ing TV show Man vs. Wild fea­tur­ing for­mer SAS mem­ber Bear Grylls. This guy has been every­where: deserts, moun­tains, jun­gles, glac­i­ers, forests,  desert islands, the most remote wilder­ness and he even climbed the Mount Ever­est at the age of 23!

Grylls climb­ing cliffs, para­chut­ing from heli­copters, bal­loons, and planes, paraglid­ing, ice climb­ing, run­ning through a for­est fire, wad­ing rapids, eat­ing snakes, wrap­ping his urine-soaked t-shirt around his head to help stave off the desert heat, drink­ing urine saved in a rat­tlesnake skin, drink­ing fecal liq­uid from ele­phant dung, wrestling alli­ga­tors, field dress­ing a camel car­cass and drink­ing water from it, eat­ing var­i­ous “creepy crawlies” [insects], uti­liz­ing the corpse of a sheep as a sleep­ing bag and flota­tion device, and free climb­ing water­falls. Grylls also regales the viewer with tales of adven­tur­ers stranded or killed in the wilderness.

But this is propably the worst part ever: Bear Grylls eats a giant rhino bee­tle larvae:

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Just one sin­gle word: dis­gust­ing. But always rember:

Pound for pound, insect’s lar­vaes con­tain more pro­tein than beef or fish — the per­fect sur­vival food!