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With Bear Grylls

PRESENTED BY ASWINI KUMAR PARIDA

Man vs. Wild also called Born Survivor: Bear Grylls or Ultimate Survival, is a survival television series hosted by Bear Grylls on the Discovery Channel. In the United Kingdom, the series is

shown on both the Discovery Channel and on

Channel 4. The series is produced by British television production

company Diverse Bristol.

The show was first broadcast on November

10, 2006

-Bear Grylls is one of the most well known and successful adventurers in

the world.

-At 23 he became the youngest Briton to climb Mount Everest.

-What makes this more amazing is that just two years before climbing Everest

he broke his back in three places narrowly escaping a life of paralysis.

Accident

Parachute failed to open in Kenya at age 21

-He spent three years with the British Special Forces (21 SAS)

-He is a best selling author and has written several books including

"The Kid Who Climbed Everest" and Facing the Frozen Ocean".

-He is currently the star of the show Man Vs Wild.

Early Life

British Special Air Service (SAS)

University of London

Circumnavigated UK on Jet Ski

Crosses the North Atlantic

Crosses the North Atlantic

2004

Longest Indoor Freefall

2008

FILMING

Each episode takes about one week to ten days to shoot. Before each show the crew does about a week of reconnaissance, followed by Bear Grylls doing a flyover of the terrain. Grylls then undergoes two days of intensive survival briefings .

CREW

He is followed on the program by a cameraman (SIMON REAY )and a sound engineer (on most shows Paul Ritz ), also with a safety consultant.

Criticism

The show has been criticized for fabricating some of the situations in which Grylls finds himself. In 2006 a Born Survivor crew member admitted that some scenes in episodes were misleading, indicating to viewers that Grylls was stranded in the wild alone when he was not.

RESPONSE TO CRITICS

In response to these early criticisms, Discovery and Channel 4 aired re-edited episodes, removing elements that were too planned, with a fresh voice-over and a preceding announcement pointing out that some situations are "presented to Bear to show the viewer how to survive".

REAL OR REEL

“Episodes take about ten days to tape, explains Grylls: “The night stuff [shown on camera] is all done for real. But when I’m not filming I stay with the crew in some sort of base camp." Episodes now clarify when Grylls gets support from his crew and when situations are staged, “We should have done that from the start,” he says. “The more you see, the more real it feels.””

IF U CAN remember

INSPITE OF ALL ODDS

The program is a runaway hit. Bear Grylls, above everything else, is

entertaining and informative. The show is easy to get hooked on,

anyway. Kids love to watch it. The host really is an entertaining, creative, informed guy.

THANKS FOR WATCHING…..