Man vs. Wild?

Man vs. Wild is a survival television series on the Discovery Channel hosted by Bear Grylls who is airlifted into the wild with only a few survival tools, such as a flint or water bottle. On the show, he supposedly survives for several days with no outside assistance [although he’s got a crew of people filming him so duh that’s obviously not always the case people!!!].

Grylls, who has served in the British Special Air Services, has been filmed stranded in the deadly swamps of the Florida Everglades, paragliding onto the edge of the Andes to follow rivers into the Ecuadorean jungle and demonstrating how to make a snow cave, find water in deep tunnels and avoid frostbite in Iceland's arctic environment. The series features Grylls purposefully demonstrating extreme methods of survival in harsh conditions. The program has shown him eating raw meat and live fish, staving off hypothermia after intentionally jumping in a frozen lake, and drinking the fluids of elephant feces and his own urine for hydration.

In advertisements for Man vs. Wild season 3, the screen shows a disgusted Grylls eating an enormous grub while the announcer states, ‘Does Bear Grylls really need to do these things? Probably not. But you might.’ And because he does, Joshua gets to “exercise his eye” by watching it with me.

After reading some Berenstein Bears, it’s fun to sit back and watch a real live Bear do his thing!!! It’s educational. And entertaining. And before you know it, it’s time for Joshua to take his patch off his eye. [Joshua has a condition in his right that requires him to wear some pretty thick “cool goggles” and before the summer was told he also has to wear a patch on his eye for 2 hours a day]. Click any graphics for a link to Bear's Blog.