A number of my friends have a man-crush on Bear Grylls, the guy that hosts and appears in the TV show Ultimate Survival. You know the one – where you see Bear pushing it to the extreme, living in jungles and nearly dying on home made rafts out and sea and eating bugs, and starving in the Sahara etc. etc. Ja, that’s the one.

Bear Grylls
Quite mean

So check it out, apparently Will Ferrell saved his life. No spice.

Will Ferrell may have saved the life of adventurer Bear Grylls, it has emerged.

The Hollywood comic actor stopped the ex-SAS soldier from plummeting down an ice cliff – potentially to his death – while the pair were filming a one-off episode of Bear’s TV show Born Survivor in Northern Sweden.

 

Will Ferrell
Saves Bear’s life

 

Will said: “There was a moment when we were going down the side of an ice cliff and Bear slipped and I was holding the rope. I literally had to sit there for 40 minutes while we worked out how to get him back up. That was pretty hard and cold!”

Despite the near-death incident, the funnyman claims he had no hesitations about accepting the “weird” offer to appear on the programme.

He explained: “I’m a big fan of the show. My name came up because they wanted to do a show with a celebrity and it was too weird to turn down. So there I was, 40 miles outside the Arctic Circle.”

Previous episodes of Born Survivor have seen Bear drink his own urine and sleep inside a dead camel.

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Whilst that final sentence was quite something, the best part of that whole report, for me, was Will Ferrell stating that he agreed to join Bear on the show because the show was “too weird to turn down.” Bwaahaha – beautiful!

Similar thing happened to me funnily enough – Which was too weird to pass up, but unfortunately takes place whilst I’m still in South of France. I was invited to experience an “Elephant Collaring” in the Timbavati – featuring choppers, dart guns and general extremeness. Oh yeah, you betcha. Apparently one of the biggest bulls in the area, Mac, needs to have his collar (tracking device) replaced. Pretty radical – sad I miss that!

Anyway, you’ll be pleased to note that Bear was recently made the UK’s Chief Scout (here).

Jeepers, it’s the least they could do.

It would be rude not to mention that The Photographer was a cub/scout during his youth and was often spotted with Andrew Langdon at the Claremont Scout’s Hall.

No, I am not lying.

Scout’s honour!

[thanks mike]

EXTRA:
The Chief writes : Seth, I went to a scouts meeting once and that young age I decide it was not for black people, too much weird outdoors shit.