Chris,

Maybe I'm misinterpreting your posts, but from what I've read of Ron Hood's posts, he's never come across as disparaging of Grylls or Stroud. That can't be said of other posters on his board, as well as this one. I personally think some idiot is going to follow Bear's example and get himself killed.

I think Hood's complaint was regarding the issue of credit and how the episode was edited. To the best of my knowledge, Hood did no further work on Gryll's series or with Discovery Channel after that first episode aired. I haven't seen anything to indicate that Hood is slashing at the others to preserve his piece of the pie.

And regarding the cult of personality, I read this board pretty often, my library contains Mors, Kephart, Nessmuk, Aboman, Lundin, Nyerges, Weisman, etc. I have a number of issues, but hero worship is not among them.

In the interest of full disclosure, I own most of Ron Hood's videos, strongly recommend them and frequent his board.

Misanthrope