He picks the hard way to do everything. Not the smart way. He takes stupid risks that aren't needed.

Also, a lot of his stuff has got to be staged. Like a life jacket under his coat when he taunts a bear, jumps off a cliff into a river he doesn't "know" the depth of, and leaves his crew behind- odds are, if there was a bear, it was a trained one, he probably knew that the depth of the river, and couldn't be bothered to be man enough to admit this was stupid and instead hid his float gear. Or the "wild horse" that let him get on it and was wearing the shoes? And those are just the two episodes I watched- I've heard about the boat. Sure, he conveniently finds a leaky boat and one that doesn't for the crew. And the rotting zebra, and the infamous elephant poo. The comparison to wrassling is a good one. Yes, it's real. As real as the scripts and props and hidden safety measures allow.

I had some concerns about Les when he started. But I honestly started to think of the camera gear as a young child he has take care of to- it has to be warm, most of it has to be dry, it has to be carried most of the time (60 pounds, good spawnling simulator), and not everything goes according to plan- it probably flusters him a little. What he shows is pretty real world, to. Eating a rotting caribou is not something we're likely to see, becuase if you are out for a week, in most climates your risks are a LOT higher than the gains. I'd love to see Bear do the same- no crew, no helicopter on standby, no scouting of good locations- and play stupid games like he does.

No, Bear is at best a stunt man and at worst a con artist (there are some questions as to his service record, and some of his adventures). I hate to agree with bentirran like this, but caricature is a good word to describe MvW as any I can think of.

And then there is the deal of the $700 dollar knife. It still looks like a hunk of cheap junk to me, even if it is from a smith with a good rep who charges about half that for the same thing without doofus' signature on it. That's just being insulting, no living person's signature magically makes a blade that much better.