Hi guys,
I'm not an expert in jungle survival, but have expert my time in the southern Venezuelan Amazon, and can tell you with out a doubt that I would never drink any milky substance coming out of a tree. It is not that I'm picky, just that I have never seen such a thing neither form people that have tons of experience in the terrain or the Yanomami or Pemon tribes.
Just my 2 cents.
Saludos
PS: I have eaten the mangos that fall from the trees with out any problems, but may be I?m used to the parasites and bacteria from this side of the globe <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

IMO the show is a ridiculous joke. After watching his stupidity during the Moab episode, I popped in a Survivorman DVD to help cleanse my mind of "Bear's" junk. What a moron.

Figtree:
No need to be rude. I just asked a questions. If you don't give a crap about it don't answer.

Go to http://extweb.discovery.com/viewerrelations and let the viewer relations folks know what you really think about the show.

Guys,
Lighten Up! The shows’ intended audience is armchair worriers and their families. Evan with adequate training and preparation, you would be seriously challenged if you found yourself in any of those exotic scenarios. I myself focus on the scenarios I am most likely to encounter. 1) A major earthquake in Southern California 2) Some unforeseen situation while traveling (domestic and international) for work. For scenario 1 I am stocking up on beans and bullets and for scenario 2 I carry a Ritter Pocket Survival Pack with the recommended supplements. As for the survival shows, I will continue to enjoy them.

Thanks for the link, RAS. I went ahead and sent in a few comments.

If we could only team up Doug, Les Stroud, Cody Lundin, and John Wiseman to make a show!!

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Link is courtesy of Ron Hood, he doesn't like it much either.

Ok, I admit that I hated the half hour I had already invested enough to go back and watch both the Moab and Costa Rico shows, just to see how many crazy stunts went on.
I did get a good look at the fixed blade knife and seems to be a scuba diver knife with a point, I have seen then somewhere. Not expensive IIRC.
As for the shows, not very informative, very high risks taken and not too impressive. I will give Bear credit for his stamina and apparently huge spheres, yeah you know that pair I speak of. It does not appear that there is an end in site to the show, oh well, I do have some blood pressure meds I can rely on, just in case I see another installment of Wildman.
As for the mangos that made me ill, I just know I ate way too many of them, they were tasty:) CHeers!

Last night I saw about 10 minutes of the Alps show. Enough to watch Bear run, stumble and fall down a hard snow chute that easily could have tumbled him head first into the rock walls or broken bones. he then "found" a pre-rigged tyrolean traverse across a deep canyon and proceded to slide across on the "old ropes" Come on!!!
Bear wins the ID-10-T award for 2006, hands down!! Oh, and I guess he parachuted onto the mountain as well. The show is all done for effect and not one bit for any practical survival technique. I am gonna have to comment to Discovery Channel about this ridiculous show!!! It is actually starting to P*** me off!

I loved the jumping in to the freezing water, and as for the ID-10-T of 2006 award I’m thinking that he could easily be the life time holder……That or the next Darwin winner.

I wonder if someone/surviving family will sue him and the Discovery channel when they get hurt/killed doing this stuff