I watched. There was some good stuff, and the things you pointed out. Shootin' the rapids sans boat looked a tad dangerous to me, and while he no doubt knows his stuff, rappelling with 550 paracord or jumping off 70-ft cliff into unknown water (and rocks) are one of those "don't try this at home kids."
I will say, he's got an interesting "r?sum?." From bio on his
website : climbed Mt. Everest at age 23; served 3 years in British SAS; crossed Artic Ocean in small, open inflatable (why would you want to do that? <img src="/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />), broke his back in a freefall parachute accident in Africa.
Dan