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6450 Bear Grylls with Inno McKeown How do I contact Bear Grylls? is the most common question I have been asked, since I started writing about Bear Grylls in 2007.

Several readers asked me this week. I wrote this article, with easy instructions, because my 2009 answer and 2012 answer are both wrong. The Web keeps changing. I added a message to my previous instructions to read this article.

It is harder to send Bear Grylls a message in 2013. Bear Grylls only has a contact page for scouting and speaking engagements.

Bear Grylls still has an Ask Bear page. However, you can only read old questions.

What Is The Best Way To Send A Message to Bear Grylls?

Use Twitter. It is easy. I will explain how to do it.

  1. Login to Twitter or Join Twitter.
    • If you are joining, take your time to create a profile with a photo and your location. Your photo will be displayed with your message.
    • Anyone can join. Twitter is free and there is no minimum age.
  2. Write a short message. Twitter messages must be less than 140 characters. Everything counts, including spaces and periods.
    • Check your message for spelling errors!

Is Your Message Perfect?

If Bear Grylls answers your question, a million people will see your message, because Bear Grylls has about a million followers on Twitter.

An Example from a Question I Received

A reader asked if Bear Grylls would be visiting India. If Bear Grylls was here, I would ask:

Do you have any plans to visit India?

Twitter is like email. Instead of an email address, I must add Bear Grylls’s name to the question. Like this:

@BearGrylls Do you have any plans to visit India?

An Example From a Question I Asked Bear Grylls

@beargrylls Do you have any plans to visit India?

— Mitchell Miller on January 6, 2013

Sadly, Bear Grylls has not replied. He might reply to you. You will never know unless you try!

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Bear Grylls Bear Grylls has a new show, but few details are available. We know that he will avoid injuries as a spectator. I will explain how you can participate in the NBC Bear Grylls Adventure.

This show was created for Bear Grylls. A previous version, Get Out Alive with Bear Grylls, was described as:

extreme adventure reality-competition series headlined by world-renowned adventurer Bear Grylls

The current version, The NBC Bear Grylls Adventure was developed by a company with a cute name: ElectUs. (I added caps).

ElectUS is led by Ben Silverman. Mr. Silverman also produced The Office, Ugly Betty and The Biggest Loser for NBC.

I have never watched Mr. Silverman’s previous shows. I am familiar with The Biggest Loser because it appeared in an advertisement for StreetStrider, the first elliptical tricycle. I enjoy riding a bicycle. I would really like to try a StreetStrider. Unfortunately, there are no StreetStrider showrooms near me, in Lexington, Kentucky.

Starving for Dollars

Mr. Silverman is smart. Losing weight is not exciting. Nevertheless, Americans have enjoyed watching The Biggest Loser, where obese contestants have starved and dehydrated themselves for prizes, since 2004. On TV, contestant Kai Hibbard lost 118 pounds in twelve weeks. However, she said:

I have people that come up to me and talk to me and ask me why they can’t lose 12 pound in a week when I did. When I didn’t. It didn’t happen. It’s TV. I helped perpetuate a myth that’s dangerous.

Bear Grylls has been caught faking stuff. I hope his new show is legitimate.

Incidentally, Kai Hibbard regained 31 pounds in two weeks after the show.

Eating Bugs for Dollars

I do not why Bear Grylls is scowling, with a wrinkled forehead, in this show’s publicity photos. I expect the contestants on the new Bear Grylls show to make worse faces eating non-kosher insects.

Although this was not mentioned in the press release, the new Bear Grylls show sounds like Fear Factor. If you have forgotten Fear Factor, The New York Times described it as a:

Reality series in which contestants compete by performing extreme physical, mental and gastronomic challenges under the supervision of Hollywood stunt coordinators.

Fear Factor contestants were couples. Just like the new Bear Grylls show. They competed eating insects and other silly stuff. I watched Fear Factor many times. I stopped watching Fear Factor, after host Joe Rogan, who never scowled, forced a nearly blind, 75-year-old G. Gordon Liddy, who was winning, to drive around an obstacle course. Mr. Liddy crashed almost immediately, so someone else could win.

Now or Neverland

Fear Factor was created by Endemol. It began on Dutch TV as Now or Neverland. The New York Times listed “Nerves of Steel” as an alternate title, but I was unable to find any information about that.

Drinking Donkey Semen For Dollars

I found a Fear Factor video of two women drinking donkey semen and urine which was not shown on American TV.

They might have been unemployed. They definitely needed cash.

Why Copy Fear Factor?

Fear Factor was syndicated after its fifth season. It earned hundreds of millions of dollars.

Fear Factor was revived for two episodes in 2012. One stunt was:

being submerged in a tub full of leeches before having to consume 10 leeches

Fear Factor stunts are completed under the supervision of professional Hollywood stunt coordinators. Bear Grylls is the ideal person to supervise these stunts.

Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi

Fear Factor is popular in India. The Indian host is Ashkay Kumar, a Bollywood action star. Indian stunts are milder than American stunts. Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi won an Indian Telly Award for “Best Reality Show” during its second season.

The winning season, Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi – Level 2, was described as:

Thirteen women— minor celebrities— are paired with people in need of money. The idea is for the pairs to complete two difficult tasks, involving both creepy crawlies and physical challenges, with the weakest performers being eliminated at the end of the day’s tasks.

Bear Grylls is the logical host

Bear Grylls knows more about “creepy crawlies and physical challenges” than almost anyone on Earth.

How To Meet Bear Grylls On His New Show

Contestants should submit a video for the best chance of being selected. I doubt that we will see many contestants over 40, none over 70. G. Gordon Liddy would not be selected.

If you want the best chance of being selected:

  • Fill out an application
  • Create a compelling video with your partner
  • Attend an audition with your partner. Dates below.
Date City Location / Map
Dec 8AtlantaGeorgian Terrace Hotel
Dec 8Detroit Gardner-White
Dec 9DallasGilley's Dallas
Dec 15FayettevilleFayetteville Athletic Club
Dec 15Los AngelesBoys & Girls Club of Venice
Jan 12New YorkFlatotel
Jan 12PhoenixSuperstition Springs Center
NOTE: All times are 10 AM — 4 PM local time.

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by Mark Pullen Bear Grylls, who just finished filming three more episodes of Man vs. Wild, has started a five year mission to visit 10,000 UK Scouts. Grylls is making 24 stops this weekend, across Northeast UK from Northumberland, through Yorkshire, to Lincolnshire County. Bear Grylls said:

My goal as Chief Scout is for every young person that wants to be involved in Scouting to be able to take part. But in order to make this happen we need even more adult volunteers to keep up with the demand. So my aim is to encourage even more adults to volunteer alongside me and join in that Scouting adventure.

Bear Grylls brought his seven-year-old son Jesse, who has joined the Scouts as a Beaver, to Northumberland yesterday. Bear Grylls joined the Scouts when he was eight.

Bear Grylls will participate in activities, including sailing, rock climbing, canoe polo, and a canal boat expedition along Salterhebble Basin, through the Salterhebble Locks– one of the shortest locks on UK inland waterway system.

Where Is Bear Grylls Right Now?

Follow Bear Grylls, and the weekend activites on Flickr and Twitter. For photos, visit Bear Grylls takes to the air to visit 10,000 Scouts. For news, check UKScouting or search for #bearinthenortheast on Twitter.

For more information on UK Scouts visit: www.scouts.org.uk

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Bear Grylls Bear Grylls participated in “Wanderland Walk“ to raise money for Help for Heroes, and Headway, on Saturday. (May 8, 2010)

Help For Heroes

Help for Heroes was started in 2007, to raise money for the construction of a swimming pool, at Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre Headley Court for injured members of the British Armed Forces.

This 85 acre facility was purchased after World War II using donations collected by Royal Air Force Pilots and Crews Fund. It was the Headquarters for Canadian Forces during World War II.

Help for Heroes raised £8 million for the swimming pool at Headley Court, and will open The Help for Heroes Rehabilitation Complex this year. (2010)

Please donate to Help for Heroes, which is not connected to any political organization.

Headway

Headway, “the charity that works to improve life after brain injury,” wants:

To promote understanding of all aspects of brain injury and to provide information, support and services to people with a brain injury, their families and carers.

Since traumatic brain injuries are the signature injuries of current wars, both charities support the same people.

Please donate to Headway. It uses contributions to provide vital services to brain injury survivors and their families.

Where Was Bear Grylls?

Bear Grylls, as I previously noted, has been filming the fifth season of Man vs. Wild, in Russia, Australia, and an unnamed desert island.

Bear Grylls is amazing because he participated in this event, with his wife, Shara, and oldest sons, Jesse, 8, and Marmaduke, 7, on his “day off“ between Russia and Australia.

Bear Grylls had a personal reason for appearing at this event:

When I had an injury when I was in the army I ended up in Headley Court which is the military rehabilitation place. Now they are seeing 100 soldiers a month passing through there who have lost limbs or arms. They do extraordinary work and I try to do as much as I can for them through various expeditions and supporting local events.

That’s why Bear Grylls is amazing!

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Zodiac MACH II Unlike Sarah Palin, Bear Grylls believes in global warming, and plans an expedition to raise awareness of climate change to the public.

Bear Grylls will lead a team on a two week trip, through the Northwest Passage in August 2010.

The Northwest Passage is a sea route that connects the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean through the Canadian Arctic. The team includes Dave Pearce, the medical officer, who helped discover Peak Levy in 2009, after Bear Grylls was injured, and unable to complete that expedition. Let’s hope there are no injuries on this expedition!

The expedition will also raise money for Global Angels, an innovative charity for children, which was created by Molly Bedingfield, mother of singer Natasha Bedingfield, in 2004.

How Will Bear Grylls Cross The Northwest Passage?

Bear Grylls will be traveling on the Arctic Wolf, a 37 foot (11.2 meters) long, “rigid inflatable boat” (see photo). The boat is a Zodiac Mach II – Military Air Channeled Hull manufactured by Zodiac Military and Professional Boats. Their description:

Considered the finest craft of their type in the world, the Zodiac Hurricane range of RIBs are used by the most knowledgeable and discriminating operators who demand the utmost in ruggedness and reliability. RIBs combine the security, stability, light weight and ease of use of traditional inflatables with the speed and comfort of a rigid boat. True “go anywhere” boats, they provide exceptional marine qualities combining a low centre of gravity to a deep V hull and a stabilizing buoyancy tube.

A “stock version” is fitted with three 300 horsepower engines, two fuel tanks which hold 1000 liters, and can travel over 55 knots, or nautical miles per hour. One knot is 1.15 MPH, or 1.85 km/h.

Bear Grylls and his team will have a customized version that includes:

  • larger fuel tanks
  • a canvas covering
  • heaters
  • additional storage

Arctic Wolf will also have a shock absorbing console built by Shock Mitigation which manufactures products “to make a violent collision or impact less intense.” Watch the Shock Mitigation Extreme RIB Video, to see a smaller RIB, operating in rip tide conditions.

Future Fuels Team : Northwest Passage Expedition

Bear Grylls and his team, expect to travel 5700 miles, at speeds of 18-38 knots, in two weeks. You can see an aerial view of their route.

Good Luck to Bear Grylls and his team!

Where Is Bear Grylls Now?

Bear Grylls finished filming Worst Case Scenario last week, and is working on Man vs. Wild : Season 5 in Russia, Australia, and an unnamed desert island.

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Bear Grylls on Man vs. Wild Bear Grylls, has never filmed an episode of Man vs. Wild in New Zealand. Fiordland, a mostly uninhabitated region, on the South Western tip of New Zealand, would be an ideal location for a future episode.

I think he should visit Fiordland National Park, the largest national park in New Zealand, and home to some of the world’s largest waterfalls. I would like to visit Doubtful Sound, which contains two separate layers of water: several feet of fresh water above saltwater.

Fiordland is also the home of the kiwi bird. The Kiwi is the national symbol of New Zealand, and its currency is sometimes called a “kiwi dollar.”

10,000 People for Man vs. Wild Fiordland 2010

The only group I ever joined on Facebook is 10,000 People for Man vs. Wild Fiordland 2010. They reached their goal of 10,000 members, trying to convince Bear Grylls to film an episode of Man vs. Wild in Fiordland.

Unfortunately, Bear Grylls will not film Man vs. Wild in New Zealand in 2010. Liz Healy, Director of Global Communications for Discovery Channel said:

We are considering your part of the world for upcoming seasons

Bear Grylls is currently filming Worst Case Scenario in Los Angeles.