I have just landed back home after one of hardest few episodes of Man Vs Wild/Born Survivor.
Having started off on the Namibian coast on day 1 with fresh, soft hands after a good holiday break, two weeks later I am walking back through the front door of our houseboat with Shara saying I looked battered, with cuts, grazes, brusies everywhere, and with blistered, hard hands... I guess I am just back into the Man Vs Wild way again after Christmas!
These shows though, I feel will be especially good ones; full of some of the most intense scenes I can remember. From being dropped into the infamous southern Atlantic swells off the Skeleton Coast, doing battle with large puff adders, to riding some of the biggest rapids in the world; to then getting diarrehea hanging off a sheer rock face, making a canoe out of a dead zebra, and then being caught in a pit with a ravaged giant porcupine! No-one can say life is dull.
As ever the crew worked alongside me in some quite intense situations, and the San Bushmen I encountered were an inspiration to me. Wonderful, gentle, instinctive people.
I hope you guys enjoy the shows when they air in the Spring along with Siberia and Indonesia which I leave for in a couple of weeks.
In the meantime, I am away again this week as I am speaking in both Phoenix and Prague, but am then taking my two young boys off for some antics in the English countryside!
Stay well,
Bear x
ps Channel 4 in the UK start airing the new Born Survivor Series around Easter time, sunday nights 8pm. More to follow.
pps photo is from the end of the Zambian episode - somewhere down on the Lower Zambezi River. Alongside me is one of the professional hunters assigned to the safety of the crew when we were working so close to the hippos and crocs.
