


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. LAist: It seems that no matter where you get put on the planet, you seem to find grubs to eat.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.

It's really fun, a fun campaign, and I had wanted to do a lot of the urban survival stuff for a while and this was a good excuse to do that. I'll show you how to escape from burning buildings, how to escape being mugged, how to cross a bridge when it's gridlocked, how to survive off of rats in the sewers, and how to run across rooftops. LAist: What is your involvement in "The Most Interesting Academy"?īear Grylls: The idea is that the Academy will empower people by providing a series of vignettes of how to survive in the modern era. It's a schtick to be sure, but it's such a bizarre schtick it's interesting, and the videos and material collected at "the Academy" are put together in such a clever and amusing way, they are worth a deeper look than what we saw when Grylls paraded them on Letterman a couple weeks ago. Wild" on the Discovery Channel.Have you seen those bizarre Dos Equis commercials with the Most Interesting Man in the World? Well, Bear Grylls has been recruited by Dos Equis to be a Distinguished Instructor in the Most Interesting Academy, specializing in Surviving in the Modern World. LAist had a chance to talk to Edward Michael Grylls, more commonly known as Bear Grylls, a former British Special Forces commando is best known in the states for his "Man vs.
