Grylls was filming in the Amazon last September when he heard that Steve Irwin had died while filming his show “The Crocodile Hunter.” “It was a real shock to me,” he said.

“If I’m honest, I’m quite on the edge here,” he says. Then he found a dead deer, which he skinned, wrapping himself in the bloody coat to get through the night. “I was on the edge of calling in help,” Mr. The temperature dropped to 30 degrees below zero, visibility was less than 50 feet, and the wind was so powerful that he could not stand up. (The episode will be shown on July 20.) He was high in the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland when a storm rolled in. The closest he has come to calling for emergency help was in his own backyard. He doesn’t seem to mind looking silly or embarrassed or just scared stiff - as when a 16-foot tiger shark began circling the bamboo raft he had constructed to escape a deserted South Pacific island last season.Īnd that wasn’t even the worst. Grylls a particularly winning character is his lack of pretension. He turned 33 last week, and his flab-free physique, lapis-colored eyes and British accent are naturals for television. “I get really scared regularly,” he says. Grylls talks about shows that have taken him from the African savanna to the Sierra Nevada. Aimlessly rowing around the park’s lake, Mr. This morning, though, the only ones snapping are camera-toting tourists, and Mr. There are also bears, panthers, skunks, bobcats and a million alligators that could snap up a man in a couple of bites. Without giving too much away, let’s just say that those with a soft spot for Kermit the Frog might want to avert their eyes during lunch. There is razor grass and mud holes that could inhale a jeep in a single breath. Grylls has to find food, water and a way out of the Florida Everglades with only a flint, a water bottle and a knife. The water was so frigid that he started hyperventilating as his pulse raced to the heart-attack zone.īut then what kind of survival show would it be without a near brush with death? Tonight at 9 is the new season’s premiere, and Mr. Except that his leaked, lacked oars and eventually sank among a pack of ice floes, forcing him to strip down to a T-shirt and swim to shore. Wild,” his hit series on the Discovery Channel. The plain metal rowboats at the Central Park Boathouse are surprisingly similar to the skiff that Bear Grylls commandeered in Alaska during an episode of “Man vs.

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