to get blood to your extremities, wave your arms back and forth like a spacker running.
That's what Bear Grylls does.
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 12:28, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Bear Grylls warms his hands in the hotel he's staying in.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 12:38, Reply)

That's a harsh judgement.
If I'd spent the day filming in sub-zero temperatures, jumping naked into hazardous whitewater, eating scorpions and drinking my own piss out of a snakeskin, I reckon I'd probably demand a hotel room once 'cut' is called.
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 12:53, Reply)

Ray Mears wouldn't do that.
Ray Mears would build his own hotel out of mud and fish that he'd caught using reeds. He's proper hardcore. He knows what to do. Always trust the survivalist who looks like he's eaten all the pies.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 13:07, Reply)

Exactly
I think if you're going to advertise yourself as a survivalist you shouldn't get to switch it off when you want.

There should be a Mears v Grylls survival-off or something. See who dies first. Although I've noticed that I've never actually seen Ray Mears making fire, he just shows the village kids how it should be done and then sets them to work on it.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 13:11, Reply)

I've seen Mears show New Zealand Maoris how their ancestors 'probably' made fire.
They seemed pleased - Grylls carries a flint rod and bashes his knife against it to make sparks. There is one essential difference between the two boys. Grylls just wants to leave wherever he is whereas Mears just wants to make it nice - it's like a wilderness makeover show. To be fair, he'd be better off up against Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen.
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 13:21, Reply)

Bear Grylls
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 13:33, Reply)

so that's what his fucking name is
I've been watching his show here in Spain for the past couple of months without knowing the name of him or the program.

they just showed the desert one where he eats rattlesnake
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 13:19, Reply)

I know the behind-the-scenes survival advisor for that show
The crew first asked him whether you could make a water carrier from snakeskin, then a little while later whether you could drink your own piss.
He told Bear to drink a feck load of water before filming that one.
(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 14:08, Reply)

I'd seen another program
a few years ago about drinking piss in the desert.

it wasn't direct urine-to-bottle though- it involved covering and evaporating the water in the urine, and drinking that somehow
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 14:27, Reply)

Yep, it's just distilling the water.
Easy if you have the materials to hand.

I might hasten to add that distilled water is just as bad because it strips the minerals and salts from your body.
(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 14:47, Reply)