It was a pretty good lesson in what to NOT do from everything I've read.

Let's see

• Don't eat anything unless absolutely sure you know what it is and how it should be prepared.
• Don't go into the water unless it's absolutely necessary. Certainly not 40deg F. water.
• Don't DIVE into any unkown waters. Certainly not from any serious height.
• Don't move in the dark - although if there really was a bear (seems like it was all contrived) maybe booking out of there was the right thing to do. I think he was running because he had the camera lights.
• Don't run period (sweat!).
• Don't heat water-laden rocks over a fire.
• Don't go anywhere without a good knife!.
• Free-floating white-water rapids? Maybe in the military, but this is probably a fast ticket to deadsville, or maybe the scenic route to deadsville by way of broken-bone hypothermia town.
• Belaying down a cliff with suspect rope.
• Running down a crumbling hill-side

Those were the things I remembered. I'm not sure how smart it was to eat dirty worms, either.

In general, some of the things he did might be arguably smart (like the debris shelter and lining the ground with needles for insulation) but it seemed like it wasn't geared toward either the enthusiast or the neophyte. It looked largely like an exercise in "see what I can do" and how good I look doing it.