Jake Gyllenhaal & Bear Grylls Vs. Wild

Holy Hotness, Batman

Actor and all around hottie Jake Gyllenhaal will appear on the upcoming season premiere of the Discovery Channel series Man Vs. Wild starring wildman Bear Grylls and today we get to check out a few promo photos from the season premiere. Bear takes Jake to the magical environs of Iceland … and it looks like the guys have a great time exploring together. Check out the photos below.

Bear Grylls has survived in some of the most dangerous places on Earth. From jungles to deserts and from Everest to Antarctica, he travels to places where you couldn’t last a day without the right survival skills. To kick off a run of all-new episodes of MAN VS WILD on Monday, July 11 from 9-10PM ET/PT, Bear brings along a companion – actor Jake Gyllenhaal. MAN VS WILD will test how Gyllenhaal measures up to unpredictable and unforgiving Mother Nature. For two days, Bear and Jake embark on a survival experience neither will forget, to an Icelandic landscape dominated by mountains, huge glaciers and some of Europe’s most active volcanoes. Jake will have to go where Bear goes, eat whatever Bear eats, and on occasion even take the lead, if he’s going to cope with some of the worst conditions known to man. “For me, it’s all about discovery,” said Gyllenhaal. Said Bear about the experience, “The wild is always very revealing – not only physically but mentally. You’ve got to smile when it’s driving horizontal hail and be able to face your fears and just get on and do it — and on both of those accounts, Jake came up strong.”

Woot!! This sounds like an awesome ep! I must admit, despite my love for Bear Grylls (and his oft shirtlessness), I don’t watch too much Man Vs. Wild. Now that I know that Jakey poo will appear in the season premiere next month, I’ll be tuning in for sure ;) They should rename the ep, Hot Men in Iceland. Again, I say, Woot!!

Everest

On 16 May 1998, Grylls achieved his childhood dream (an ambition since his father gave him a picture of Everest when he was eight) and entered the Guinness Book of Records, as the youngest Briton, at 23, to summit Mount Everest, just eighteen months after injuring his back. However, James Allen, an Australian/British climber who ascended Everest in 1995 with an Australian team, but who has dual citizenship, beat him to the summit at age 22.^[25] The feat has since been surpassed by Jake Meyer and, at age 19, by Rob Gauntlett.
Grylls' expedition involved nearly four months on Everest's southeast face: From his first reconnaissance climb where Bear was almost killed in a crevasse at 5,800 metres (19,000 ft), he was knocked unconscious and came to swinging on the end of a rope, to the weeks of acclimatisation climbs involving climbing up and down the South Face, negotiating the Khumbu icefall (a frozen river), the Western Cwm glacier, and a 1,500-metre (5,000 ft) wall of ice called the Lhotse face, to the gruelling ascent with the ex-SAS soldier Neil Laughton, involving climbing for hours in the night, that took him past extreme weather, fatigue, dehydration, last-minute illness, sleep deprivation and almost running out of oxygen inside the death zone where air is three times thinner than at sea level.
To prepare for climbing at such high altitudes in the Himalayas, in 1997, Grylls became the youngest Briton to climb Ama Dablam, a peak described by Sir Edmund Hillary as "unclimbable".

Military Service

After leaving school, Grylls considered joining the Indian Army^[18] and spent a few months hiking in the Himalayan mountains of Sikkim and West Bengal, Assam. He then briefly attended the University of the West of England where he was a member of the Officer Training Corps. In March 1997, he joined the British Army and after passing on his second attempt United Kingdom Special Forces Selection (where he claims he was one of four to have passed out of his group of 180),^[19] from 1994-1997, he served in the part-time United Kingdom Special Forces Reserve, with 21 Regiment Special Air Service, 21 SAS(R), as a trooper, survival instructor and Patrol Medic.^[20]
In 1996, he suffered a freefall parachuting accident in Zambia.^[21] His canopy ripped at 4,900 metres (16,000 ft), partially opening, causing him to fall and land on his parachute pack on his back, which partially crushed three vertebrae.^[22] Grylls later said: "I should have cut the main parachute and gone to the reserve but thought there was time to resolve the problem".^[23] According to his surgeon, Grylls came "within a whisker" of being paralysed for life and at first it was questionable whether he would ever walk again. Grylls spent the next 18 months in and out of military rehabilitation at Headley Court^[23] before being discharged and directing his efforts into trying to get well enough to fulfil his childhood dream of climbing Mount Everest.
In 2004, Grylls was awarded the honorary rank of Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Naval Reserve.^[24]

About Bears..........

Bear Grylls, (born Edward Michael Grylls, 7 June 1974) is an English adventurer, writer and television presenter. He is best known for his television series Man vs. Wild, known as Born Survivor in the United Kingdom. He was the youngest Briton to climb Mount Everest, doing so at age 23.^[6] In July 2009, Grylls was appointed the youngest ever Chief Scout at the age of 35.

Grylls grew up in Donaghadee, Northern Ireland and Bembridge on the Isle of Wight.^[7][8] He is the son of the late Conservative party politician Sir Michael Grylls and Lady Grylls (née Sarah Ford).^[9] His maternal grandparents were Patricia Ford,^[10] an Ulster Unionist Party MP and Neville Ford who played first-class cricket. He has one sibling—an elder sister, Lara Fawcett, a cardio-tennis coach. In an episode of Man vs. Wild featuring Hollywood actor Will Ferrell, he said his sister gave him the nickname "Bear" when he was just a week old.
Grylls was educated at Eaton House, Ludgrove School, Eton College, where he helped start its first mountaineering club^[11], and Birkbeck, University of London,^[12] where he graduated with a degree, obtained part-time, in Hispanic studies in 2002. From an early age, he learned to climb as well as sail from his father, who was a member of the prestigious Royal Yacht Squadron. As a teenager, he learned to skydive and also earned a second dan black belt in Shotokan karate. He now practices Yoga and Ninjutsu. He also became involved in Scouting, beginning at age eight, as a Cub Scout.^[13] He speaks English, Spanish, and French.^[14] Grylls is a Christian, describing his faith as the "backbone" in his life.^[14][15]
Although Grylls was christened 'Edward' he has legally changed his forename to 'Bear'.^[16]
Grylls married Shara Grylls (née Cannings Knight) in 2000.^[3][10] They have three sons: Jesse, Marmaduke,^[17] and Huckleberry (born 15 January 2009 via natural childbirth on his houseboat).^[5]

'worst case scenario' NEW series...

Monday, 1 March 2010

'worst case scenario' NEW series...

All going well here filming in LA...

Doing some pretty crazy 'Worst Case Scenarios' that get quite intense at moments.

Strangely, we just did a whole series of earthquake disaster scenarios a day before the Chile earthquake struck - from blackouts, to buried alive.

Potent timing for all of us involved.

But above all, I hope this show will empower people to know what to do if it ever happened to you...

It is due to air in May in USA...and we have 4 more weeks filming here.

Bear x

ps what is weird is that we have seen so many of these Worst Case Scenarios happen for real since we started filming: earthquakes, wild dog attacks, road rage, car skidding off a bridge into sea, and chemical spill....they have all been reported in the Press here since we started filming!

In times of old, 22 February was a day when school uniform was swapped for Scout uniform, work ties were replaced by woggles and Scouting pride made a brief appearance in the ‘outside world’.

#iSCOUT because I am so proud to be part of the coolest adventure ever! Keep scouting, champs!

OK - well it has been busy for sure...but all fun!

We took a small break in the summer as a family on our Welsh island hideaway which was greeeaaat! Then I left for the Arctic where we had one of the most unbelievable expeditions I can remember, ever, taking our high-speed inflatable craft, through 2,500 miles of ice strewn waters.

We had bears, rescues, discoveries, unchartered waters, storms, and masses of ice-crushing adventures! But we pulled it off and completed the infamous North West Passage in aid of Global Angels...

(see: www.fcpnorthwestpassage.com)

We then went straight into Man Vs Wild and the start of Season Six (how have we ever reached that benchmark!!?)

We went to the most remote part of Northern Scotland and Cape Wrath: dropped in a life-raft from a helicopter, and had some of my favourite Man Vs Wild experiences ever up there in my home country.

(I particularly enjoyed finding a rotten seal carcass which I skinned and then climbed inside to wear as an improvised blubber wetsuit to keep me warm as I swam the freezing seas from the outer islands to the mainland... worked a treat by the way!!)

I then flew to USA for a Man Vs Wild, faith, expedition and 'life' event for a big church in Louisville, (probably the nicest folk on the planet by the way were there!), then I did a similar event in Spain and then again back in Orlando for a big JuicePlus health convention. (Again, JuicePlus guys, just crazy nice and motivated and such a privilege always to hang with.)

All those events saw between 7,000 and 10,000 people, including 1,500 Scouts who were as usual, utterly brilliant!

Then I did a Scout weekend back in the UK, touring the country by helicopter, dropping in for 45 mins in about 24 places in 24 hours!

Full on, but such a privilege to get to spend time with so many different groups, and such an inspiration for me to meet SO many motivated, dedicated, ambitious, rocking Scouts!

(Hats off to the one Scout aged 12 who had just hiked 45 miles non-stop! Hero or what!?)

Now I fly off to the Arctic in Northern Norway for another Man Vs Wild, which will include an intentional parachute malfunction, where I will have to detach and cut away from my chute after deployment.

(Am a little nervous about that after my original parachuting accident in the SAS. (see: The Kid who Climbed Everest.) But I pray all will be fine.

At the same time, my team is finishing the last touches for my 'Bear Essentials' App. Going to be a demon app this one and it is out in November. watch for it! This one really could save your life!

Ditto my range of knives, survival packs, scout knives and multi-tools I have developed with Gerber (see: www.bear.gerbergear.com ) This range has received awesome feedback already and I really hope people like this. It has had so much work from me this one and includes all my most useful gadgets!

Also, so you know, we now have an amazing group now on twitter with over 115,ooo followers! Thanks guys. Hope you enjoy the updates and quotes!

And finally: I am looking to start a global 'JuicePlus' health and lifestyle enterprise in USA, Europe, Australia and Japan. I am after five entrepreneurial, highly-motivated, personable, health-conscious people in each of those regions, to work with me and my team, with the goal of encouraging a generation of young people and Scouts to get healthy and motivated! If you are interested email me and my team-leader Levi Burdick at: levi@burdickenterprises.com for more info. Serious applicants only! Brilliant... I love it!

Anyway, that's a kind of update. Been busy but exciting!

Oh, and my seven-year old son, Jesse, has just told me his school headmistress has asked him to suggest something for the school to do as an away trip - such as visiting a museum or the zoo... he suggested they all go bungey-jumping!

(The teachers weren't very amused! But it shows that the apple hasn't fallen far from this tree, I guess! Bless him, my special, little champion.)

Have a brilliant week guys!

love Bear x

ps images are: hanging with scouts and teaching them to light fires! hanging with Shara and teaching her nothing! hanging with my boys and watching them on their home-made raft, and then a man vs wild billboard that made me laugh!