Re: What's in Your Survival Kit?

He's not a fake, he's doing a reality TV show. He is providing entertainment and racking up the advertising $$$. If the TV crew following him had to endure hardships in the wild, the show wouldn't exist.

As the TV credits state, and I paraphrase, Bear will demonstrate survival techniques when they present themselves. e.i. Crashing thru ice into fridgid water, purposely climbing into quick sand, etc etc

I give the man a lot of respect for being the youngest human being to summit Everest and the guts to become a member of the British Special Forces.

Les Stroud actually aired an episode where a survival expert guided him thru the territory the show was going to be filmed and pointed out what he could and couldn't eat and how to build the proper shelter for the environment. Again - reality TV.

And we eat it up.