Bear Grylls has been known for many years as the action man of survival. You’ve seen the TV shows, you’ve read the books, and he’s the face of the scouts, but yet he is a fraud.
He knows nothing about true survival, and if the scouts think that it is OK for those kids to look up to this idiot, they are just as bad. Nothing that he says can be trusted, and nothing that he does should ever be followed.
The advice that he thinks is good to give is downright dangerous, and doing so when he knows he has such a young audience is downright idiotic.
Who is Bear Grylls?
Bear Grylls (Edward Michael Grylls) is a 50-year-old author and television presenter known mainly for his shows “Man vs. Wild” and “The Island.” From 1994–1997, he served in the Territorial Army with 21 SAS as a trooper. His time in the SAS ended as the result of a free fall parachuting accident in Kenya in 1996. From here, he used this to fake his way to fame.
He is an ambassador for The Prince’s Trust, an organisation that provides training, financial, and practical support to young people in the United Kingdom, as well as being appointed as The Scout Association’s Chief Scout of the United Kingdom and Overseas Territories, which he has held since 2009.
According to Wikipedia, in August 2015, Grylls left his 11-year-old son on Saint Tudwal’s Island off the North Wales coast as the tide approached, leaving him to be rescued by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) as part of their weekly practice missions. The child was unharmed, though the RNLI later criticised Grylls for the stunt, saying its crew “had not appreciated” that a child would be involved.
Can the Advice From Bear Grylls be Trusted?
I understand that the scouts association likes having Bear Grylls as the poster boy in order to get their funds rolling in, but people need to see through this. How can you trust your children to be looked after by somebody who thinks risking their child’s life more is better than getting out of the situation safely?
Bear Grylls wants to be famous, but allowing our children to follow danger is not the way to go. His advice is going to kill people, and the Scouts don’t seem to care.
Is Bear Grylls a Fake Survivalist?
Bear Grylls has been shown time and time again to be a fraud when it comes to survival, which makes you also question his past and anything else that he says.
Take a look below at some facts about his TV shows.
- Hotels: He may claim to be staying outside at night in all conditions, but this is very rarely the case. The sad fact is that he apologises, tries to make it look more realistic in the next show, but still prefers to stay in hotels while selling a show that claims he is outside.
- His crew builds the props: Bear Grylls does not have the experience to build any survival equipment, so he has a team that does it for him, dismantles it, and then Bear rebuilds it on camera.
- He has a crew member test everything first: He is well known for his wannabe action man skills that look good for the camera, except they’re not as spur-of-the moment as he wants you to believe. In most cases, he has other people try them out first, so he knows it is safe to do it himself.
- Fake lava: he claimed that he had to escape an active volcano in the Pacific by leaping across molten lava and avoiding clouds of ‘killer’ gas. Sounds good, but the truth was that hot coals and smoke machines were used to create the ‘effect‘.
- Wild horses: in one episode of Man Vs. Wild, Grylls is seen to lasso a supposed mustang in the Sierra Nevada mountain region. Great, until you find out that those steeds were ‘hired‘ from a local trekking station.
- Bear attack: nobody wants to wake up to a bear outside their tent, but it happens, just like it happened to Grylls, or did it? Apparently not. It wasn’t long before word got out that the scene was scripted in advance, and the threatening “bear” lurking outside the tent was reportedly a crew member in a bear costume.
You can make your own decisions about who you trust as a survivalist and who’s advice you wish to follow, but if it were up to me, it certainly wouldn’t be Bear Grylls. Stick to true survival experts like Les Stroud, and you can’t go wrong.
Need more proof about this fraud? Check out the videos below.
