Originally Posted By: Still_Alive
[snip]I don't mean to be harsh on him because I doubt I would have had the sense to do anything right as a 9-year old. But giving Bear Grylls the credit is a stretch.


I suspect that he didn't learn much that was specifically very useful to him from Bear. But perhaps the value of his having watched Bear "survive" on TV was learning that he, too could survive, and this may have helped him overcome his initial reported panic and start doing what he could to help himself.