[Chronic Diarrhea]

I could have told you many of the scenes are staged before this. There was one glaring example of this in one episode. He was going to try to cross a crevice where the rock had formed a bridge. He says to the camera, "You have to be careful when you cross something like this, because you never know what is solid and what isn't." He then jumps on the platform and runs across it. He had obviously checked it beforehand.

The bottom line is it's just a show. They're not going to risk getting the guy killed. Either way, Bear is still fucking hardcore. Any man who can drink the juice from elephant shit, and snap a live fish's spine in half with his teeth is OK in my book.

Survivorman isn't entirely truthful, either. Les Stroud inserts himself fairly close to roads or other forms of civilization. He also has a GPS w/ some sort of communication device in case he gets in a bad situation. I'm not faulting him or Bear for doing it, because their shows are still interesting.