heey guys, bear grylls (man VS Wild) and les stroud (Survivorman) are to guys that have shows on the discovery channel, about how to survive in different places, there both quite similar with the difference that Bear Grylls has done so much stuff that les cud only dream of doing.
Example:
Feats and Record attempts
Grylls has been involved in several solo and team based feats and attempts for charity or record breaking.
By land
Ama Dablam
Grylls first entered the record books in 1997 by being the youngest Briton to summit Ama Dablam in the Himalayas with his good friend Colm Keaveny, a peak famously described by Sir Edmund Hillary as "unclimbable".
Everest
Then in 1998, Grylls achieved a Guinness World Record as the the youngest Briton, at 23, to summit Mount Everest. However, James Allen, an Australian/British climber who ascended Everest in 1995 with an Australian team, using an Australian passport, but who has dual citizenship, claimed to have beaten him to the summit at age 22. Since then, British climber Rhys Jones reached the summit on his 20th birthday in May 2006.[13]
In an interview with David Letterman (June 2007) Letterman calls him "The youngest Briton to summit Everest" and Bear "corrects" him by saying another man (Michael Matthews) did it the following year but died on the way down, and regardless of his death it has become this man's record.
By sea
Circumnavigation of the UK
In 2000 Grylls led the first team to circumnavigate the UK on a personal watercraft or jet ski, to raise money for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) Lifeboats.
Crossing the North Atlantic
Three years later he led a team of five British men on the first unassisted crossing of the north Atlantic Arctic Ocean, in an open rigid inflatable boat. The team battled giant waves, icebergs and storms.
By air
Paramotoring over Angel Falls
In 2005 Grylls led the first team ever to attempt to paramotor over the remote jungle plateau of the Angel Falls in Venezuela. The team was attempting to reach the highest, most remote high tepuis, made famous by Conan Doyle's Lost World.
Paragliding over the Himalayas
In 2007 Grylls claimed to have broken a new world record by flying a petrol-powered paraglider over the Himalayas, higher than Mount Everest (original claim, "over Mount Everest",[14] and after being challenged, "above Everest" on his website[15]). His report of the flight described coping with temperatures of -60C and dangerously low oxygen levels to reach 29,500 feet, almost 10,000 feet higher than the previous record of 20,019 feet.[16]
The expedition raised over $2 million for children's charities worldwide including Global Angels. Grylls described the expedition, filmed for Discovery Channel worldwide as well as Channel 4 in the UK, as "the hairiest, most frightening thing" he had ever done.[17] While Grylls initially claimed that the flight was over Everest itself, the permit was only to fly to the south of Everest, and he didn't approach Everest itself out of risk of violating Chinese airspace.[18]
The pair took off from 14,500 feet, 8 miles south of the mountain. Grylls says he got within two miles of the famous peak during his ascent. From there, the mission website reports him “riding the wind into the record books”. “There are various formalities and rules. You need a proper flight recorder trace, an FAI license, you’ve got to take off from flat ground – you can’t just take off from the side of a hill. You need to have a flight observer. If you don’t, it’s not a record.” He added, “It’s the responsibility of anybody who does anything ground-breaking to prove what they have done.” He said that even if the instrument displays froze mid-flight, as Grylls wrote afterwards, it doesn’t mean they stopped recording. “It may well be they’ve got a trace.”
Dinner party at altitude
Alongside balloonist and mountaineer David Hempleman-Adams, Bear Grylls created a world record for the highest ever open-air formal dinner party, which they did under a hot air balloon at 25,000 feet, dressed in full mess kit and oxygen masks. This was in aid of the Duke of Edinburgh Awards Charity.
he also served in the British special forces as a survival and 1 on 1 combat expert
but im pretty shore most of you guys know about them, so you chose, who do you think is a better survival expert and why?
