Yeah, Bear is an idiot, (on the show anyway) Someone should call Discovery on this show, and hold them accountable. Is this stuff what they want to represent?
I loved him drinking the untreated jungle water, and then being up all night with diareha, and vomitting. All the while he had a metal bowel on his canteen, and a flint striker! Idiot. That was priceless.
Then the next morning he hikes a 1/2 mile to find some tree, and does not even mention the ash from his fire that he could eat and use to calm his stomach. Did anyone else notice that he didn't look any worse for the wear, after that "Horrible night" <img src="/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />
To me the whole show is hard to buy. This guy is not like Les Stroud, he has a camera man/crew with him. I loved it when he said he had gotten lonley in the French Alps episode. I started thinking, "talk to the camera guy" if you are lonely. (Or arrange to have a camera girl <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />)
As others have said, all of the unnessessary risks he takes, have me assured the whole show is "staged".
I guess at best his show does raise survival-preparedness awareness. At worst, it is somewhat irresponsible.