M Wild I didn't know it was this fake. that comment was posted to an early expose of M Season One episode 5. While Be Grill's other survival missions have featured everything from rented horses to volcanic Landscapes created by smoke machines we're going to go and pretty watch I Clicked it earlier and it just every available example where Bear Grills might not have been telling the truth, including multiple responses from the man himself. So you can come to your own conclusion about whether or not the show was real.

A TV survivalist caught cutting Corners This was the first example of Bear Grills being called out for fakery and it came on the 24th of July 2007 Just 4 days after the end of the first season the article was written after. Mark Winer one of the show's Consultants came forward to talk about the ways in which the first season was staged. Mark Began by explaining that while in the Sierra Nevada mountains, girls were seen supposedly sleeping under a rock beside a small life-saving fire and this little overhang. here.

here's all I've really got now our shelter for the night. It's not very nice yet in all actuality, Grills instead spent each night at the Pines Resort in Bass Lake which was advertised as a cozy getaway for families and is a luxurious hotel with its own Spar on a lake as well as television Stone fireplaces, hot tubs, and internet access. However, this isn't the only part of the episode which has since been exposed as fake only a few minutes after waking from the campsite which he apparently didn't even sleep at, girls run into a group of Wild Mustang Before talking about how unusual it was to see them out in the wild, a chance to use an old Native American mode of Transport comes my way and this is such a privilege to see that probably broken free maybe from a ranch. He spends the next couple of minutes gaining the trust of the wild horses before trying to jump onto one without success, which is interesting as according to a Reddit post, be Girls Breaking a Wild Mustang was actually a choreographed scene shot with a domesticated horse from a nearby Ranch The post included a video which is sadly now being deleted, yet there are comments on other websites to back up the claim, such as the wild horses in the American West are uncom skittish wild creatures with scrapes and cockal burs, not the gentle manicured saddle horse which was seen in that episode alongside YouTube comments such as I grew up near Reno Nevada and spent a lot of time watching wild horses never roped a wild horse, he's still alive On top of this.

Mark Wner then explained that Season 1 episode 9, in which Grills is supposedly surviving on a scarce desert island was actually filmed off the coast of Hawaii where Grills spent his evenings in a motel. During the same episode, Grills can be seen making a bamboo raft on the beach, which even included a fishnet sail. yet this was also debunked after Wier explained he actually led a team of Builders to construct the raft. It was then taken apart so that Grills could be shown building it on camera.

However, it I mean um CH I be hon chat. If you're the one who leads them to build it, you could probably do it. It just takes more time. So I don't think the timec consuming things are problem.

I I Don't really see that as a problem if you're the one who build. If you know how to build it and you lead them to build it right What? It's kind of the same thing, it's just not as time consuming so it's like if you're going to be off camera, might as well do it faster. Bring it on camera. However, Epode 5 of Mount Killa that was the most suspicious of them all.

At the beginning of the episode, Grills was supposedly walking on an active volcano shown by sulfur dioxide gas which was steaming from the surface. Sulfur dioxide gas forms in volcanoes and here, it's really thick. Look at this, you can actually see the sulfur dioxide here seeping out of these vents. However, after the episode went live, one of the show's safety instructors explained to the Sunday Times that the white clouds of poisonous sulfur dioxide that billowed around the former SAS Explorer were in fact harmless Vapor created by smoke machines and according to insiders, the red glow of the molten magma which he worned could incinerate him in seconds was supplemented by burning hot coals brought in by members of the production team.

Dioxide fumes are colorless and you can't see it, so smoke generators were used off screen to make the existing fume seem visible. Later in the episode, Grills talks about being far from civilization before explaining that crossing the TR was dangerous due to Lava cracks in the ground Crossing these fragile fissures I'm not scy Behavior sometimes you get these these lava Bridges build You' got to be really, really careful Crossing these just cuz you don't know what's solid and what's Hollow underneath what. However, when a YouTuber called Volcano Chaser uploaded a video titled Remman vers wild Bear Grills is a phony. This segment was also debunked.

The video showed that just behind the camera the last lava crack came to an end and could have simply been walked around, which became even worse after it was shown that Grills was not far from civilization and was rather right next to a major highway to a Cherry on Cake. The video description other parts of the episode by stating most of the scenes in the show don't exist in the area he was supposed to be in. Avocado trees, lava tube, tropical forest fishes, and Landing site are all in different parts of the island and separated by up to 50 miles. I've hiked this area hundreds of times.

These fishes are unique to a small area on the summit and are a very popular tourist viewing area. They're only a few hundred feet long and easy to go around. only the phony bear seems to have trouble Crossing them The fishes are located next to the parking area where cars can be seen room Drive shown on the clip although there was still more trickery that wasn't being made obvious to the audience survival expert Nick Rumans worked with Bear Grills on season 1 episode 13 in the Australian Outback after which Nick stated that even the script itself was pre-planned he'd expand on this by stating everything you see in the show is set up: I built him shelters and found him snakes to eat on the show broadcast of Europe and the US you see him catch a snake, kill it and eat it but it was actually two snakes a road kill that I found which he was shown beating on the head and eating and then alive Olive python that a wildlife carer had been rehabilitating which is followed by rumors also exposing the segment where Grills was almost attacked by a crocodile, stating the whole crew was petrified of the crocodiles. They didn't want to get any near the water so we filmed a setup of him like he was near a crocodile when he was actually a safe distance away.

I Was a bit miffed when I saw the Finish show as a result of the media ripping each episode to shreds. Bear Grills Was given a chance to respond to the controversy during a live talk show and then we heard somebody complaining that they said no, no, he's he's down the road at the Motel 6 he's he's not really out there. surviving The way we film these things is over over six days and um, and when I'm filming the live night stuff out I'm out. Whether you know it's in a camel carcass or up a tree and then when we're not filming the night stuff, I'll stay with the crew.

you know, wherever that is, whether it's in a you know, tented camp area in the Sahara or jungle, Lodge you know, in a rainforest or wherever girls would then issue a public apology stating if people felt misled on how the first series was represented. I'm really sorry for that. He added I'm the person that takes the rap for these things even CH I had to say chat I I don't think I give a that much I think it's it's entertaining as it is and I think the fact that it's real only adds more but I don't give that much to be honest side of it which is followed by the show promising to be a 100% transparent guys if I watch Jersey Shore do I give a if Paulie D is in love with uh the other I don't give a if he's actually in love or not the do I care future ENT Open with a disclaimer: however, it's not like this did anything to convince viewers of the show's authenticity. If I had to choose one person to be stranded on a desert island with, it would be Bear Grills That way he would have his crew with him and they'll probably pay for us to stay in a nice hotel or something.

Which became even worse after the show was exposed for a different stunt during the episode. In the African Savannah Grills is shown squeezing water out of elephant dung which by itself didn't seem all that. Troublesome However, when Canadian Survival expert Les strad host of the show Survivor Man responded to the episode in a Reddit AMA he debunked the strategy by stating many of the actual survival skills: Tau A Bogus: it's not possible to squeeze drinkable water out of elephant dung. Well, it is if your cameraman has soaked it with bottled water.

I Would even go so far as to say that some of the skills it followed and attempted in a real survival situation could result in worsening the situation with this comic coming alongside a few instances of Lestra dissing Man verse Wild for its lack of authenticity. I Was wondering if you've ever had the opportunity to meet Bear Grills I haven't cuz I'm out overnight and there's nobody else out there. What are your thoughts on? Bear Grills If you wanted to learn about archaeology, would you get it from? Harrison Ford A lot of fresh water around here. good thing too.

Otherwise, I'd be reduced tobly having to drink. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But who watches this to learn about survival skills? Dude, they would tell you not to do it at home and or professional like what? Yeah, right. There are YouTube videos as well as full-blown websites dedicated to the poor advice that Bear Grills is given, with many stating that this constitutes fake.

While Others have made the point that Grills was simply showing survival techniques and it therefore didn't matter if the shots were set up or not. It's a show to teach you how to survive certain scenarios, to have every survival stunt to be real. Every single episode would be both dangerous and illogical. He teaches survival techniques.

It's obviously irrelevant if he's really facing those perils or not. The point is, it's entertaining and informative. He was teaching people how to survive if they were in that situation, as if he's not risking his life for a freaking TV show. Whether or not setting up the shots constitutes fakery is Up For Debate However, a YouTuber by the convinced that even when set up a different be Grill stun is completely impossible.

Eating a snake with the gut and skin on, you can eat him straight like this. Ah, not possible. Although in other episodes Bear Girls has shown himself eating snakes in their entirety. so I wouldn't call the video by low the show all that much of a debunk.

However, if we want slightly better evidence, we have to look at a video posted by Justin Wallace titled Clim A Cringe Bear Grill's confirmed top Roper Justin Who's clearly an avid climber, spends the video criticizing an advertisement in which Bear Grills is climbing a difficult route in. Utah Grills is shown to be using all the wrong gear. Guess we're using the MERS coil, which you don't really do, especially when you're Track Climbing in Moab because just Kinks up your rope. sorry bud, but a single wire gate on your harness isn't going to going to do much for you tying all the wrong knots.

What the hell? KN Actually chat I think that might have been the wrong knot for that type of uh, clim chat kind of looks like then so then not really correctly. I Don't even see his last piece. He's like 40 ft run out right there. You're going to die man.

Oh, and there's so many good placements too. What is he doing? There's no way he is holding his body weight with that one hand in that crack right there are just sticking out on nothing. His crew is definitely pulling his fat ass up there on a 3 to one. There's no way he's climbing that.

The video has a dislike ratio of almost 75% and features comments such as got to give him credit for really committing to the BS interesting skills he has in climbing. This is just ridiculous. Wow, it could be impressive if it was not fake. As a climber, it's obvious that the Heli dropped him at the top and he made some shots repelling down I used to like him.

Disappointing. You can make the argument that Grills gets a pass given it was filmed for an advertisement. but does he get a pass for an article titled be Grill show accused of fakery again after the Island's ordinary men exposed as trained professionals I mean at that point people still watch the show like I don't even know dude AR The Island by Bear Grills Introduc Supposed to be 13 ordinary men are about to be abandoned on a Pacific island with just the clothes they stand up in and a few tools. but there was no that bro that is literally chat chat that's literally The Hunger Games These people really think that legally these are the people are going to do a random Hunger Games like holy dude dude, this is such a liability and a few tools.

but there was no mention that Rert Smith had worked in war zones and extreme environments including alongside Grills as director of Channel Four's escaped to the legion. Similarly, there was no introduction to cameraman Dan Eidge, who also worked with on Discovery Channels Man burst wild Ke Mcmanis, a sound record with 10 years experience in some of the world's most dangerous places also failed to get a mention. The article also revealed that two had been manually released onto the island and that the rare source of fresh drinking water found by those on the show was actually a rubber line pool set up by the production crew. Channel 4 responded to the featuring of train professionals by stating it clearly states in the program voice over the train crew are part of the experiment, living under the exact same conditions as the other men.

Like all of the men on the island, their professions are captioned on screen and their backgrounds are discussed. Biographies are also on the Channel 4 website. Before going on to address the crocodiles and drinking water by stating we had to ensure the Island's only water supply a muddy pool would last through filming in the dry season and that there was enough native animals and Native vegetation that could sustain the in for 28 days as long as they had the Ingenuity to find it, catch it and kill it which you have to admit is a pretty decent statement. Ang Saying the aisle wait, chat I I just watch at night this this other show I it's like something agent something I don't know it's like a triangle logo or some that that was pretty good I enjoyed that.

it's like Survivor Island but it's it's pretty decent CH What CH What that called I What I it's called Man Yeah I don't remember.