
Bear cuts the heart out and… you guessed it… ate it like the Eskimos do… raw! He doesn’t want to leave the meat behind, so he builds a sled to bring it along with him. Bear tells us that reindeer blood is full of protein and is very warm, making it appealing to the indigenous people there. He dispatches it and drinks its blood as it pours out of its lifeless body.

He ends up catching one and ties it by its horns to a tree. He decides the best way to catch one is to set mini snare traps through the track highways hoping to snag one. He follows them until he runs into a herd of 50 reindeer. He finds some tiny crowberries to eat, but sees other things that he says are reindeer droppings! (I’m thankful that he didn’t eat those). He lands on a frozen lake and packs his chute for later. I have to ask… why did they have to air this one when it’s still Summer?īear drops a smoke grenade out of the helicopter to mark where he wants to land, and then makes a dramatic drop out into the barren, white landscape. Staff Grylls has seen cold before… but he hasn’t seen Arctic cold yet! He will now as the new season opens up tonight. After constructing a primitive, alas leaky raft from beached-up fishery waste he harvest from a floating seal-corpse the fat for a signal fire on the island where he must carefully wait to spot and haul a passing ship.Jeff P.

He strips down to cross an icy river and para-glides over a frozen lake on his way to the desolate coast. He risks descending an impregnable slope by exposing a young birch tree.

Finding an abandoned wolverine hunters cabin (those are now protected) he improvises good use for the cabin debris and puts on skis with self-made clamps, finds the traction insufficient but improves that by letting his strategic load of urine freeze under the skis. Even with fire and food, spending the Siberian night in e self-dug trench is chilling to the bone. The Samen allowed him exceptionally to hunt and kill a wild one, but the self-built trap requires extra effort to kill it and pulling the prized fat meat, hastily cut before it freezes rock-hard, on a self-made sledge trough the thick snow and across traitorous crevasses in glacier country is too exhausting even for one worthy to be called Bear. Bear is helicopter-dropped in Lapland, where natives can only survive traditionally thanks to the perfectly adapted reindeer.
