Sir, I’m gonna need you to calm down. Its just a show.
[quote]Damici wrote:
You clearly have NO idea what it means to have been in the British SAS. None whatsoever.
Nor do you have any appreciation for the fact that he broke his back in a parachuting accident when he was training with the SAS, and AFTER that, recovered and climbed Mt. Everest (youngest Brit ever to do so).
Yes, he takes unnecessary risks on the show to make it more interesting, and to show you how to handle certain terrain if you had no other choice. That doesn’t mean he’d take unnecessary risks in a real survival situation. Clearly he wouldn’t.
Read up on what the SAS selection course (and subsequent training) is like.
DeterminedNate wrote:
Les Stroud would kick Bear Grylls’ ass. He would straight up whoop his ass.
Bear is a fraud, with a gaudy background and good climbing skills.
Les is a true survivor. Les will go out into the middle of the Kalahari, where its a 120 degrees, starve with no food and water, sit under a tree the whole time, and find a way to survive. The guy is constantly starving himself for days on end. He puts himself through real mental/physical stress. There are no hotels, or Mars bars, or throwing a rock at a rabbit from 50 feet away and somehow miraculously killing that rabbit. But there is Les spending 6 hours trying to start a fire. Or him spending another 9 hours trying to catch a fish… and failing at it.
If you were lost in the middle of nowhere, who would you rather have with you to survive? Les, EASILY.
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