Bear Grylls: Mission Everest

[jojo]

I thought people would be interested in seeing our favourite adventurer:

Quote Intrepid adventurer Bear Grylls sets out to fly over Everest in a motorised parachute, and this time there are no cushy hotels. Unquote

Easter Monday C4 9pm.
Discuss.......... Hopefully in a spirit of fun..I'll go and hide now....:sulkoff:

 

[spamel]

From the clips I've seen, it looks like he invented powered paragliding even though it has been around for some time. I would have been more impressed if he had done it without the prop, maybe flying over active volcanoes for the massive thermal column coming off of it. That would have been well worth watching. This is also, for once, not a dig at Bear as I hold a Club Pilot rating in Alpine Paragliding so this does appeal to me. I may even watch it!

 

[BIG_emu]

maybe flying over active volcanoes for the massive thermal column coming off of it.

He would have to wear a white t shirt over his face to protect him from the toxic fumes

sorry couldn't resist

 

[spamel]

Well, if he flies right next to it maybe, but then his wing would melt too! You'd be surprised at how much warmth will make a good thermal column, I've seen people shooting skywards at around midday over a patch of grass that has caught the heat from the sun and is radiating it back out. You probably wouldn't need to go anywhere near the actual volcano to hit a really impressive thermal.

 

[Bushcraft4life]

I would have been more impressed if he had flown into Everest and rid the world of his ego and stupidity

 

[Stuart]

for the real story of what happend outside 'TV world' see:

http://www.mounteverest.net/news.php?id=16243

http://www.mounteverest.net/news.php?id=16114


Form 'The House at Pooh Corner'
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.
- A A Milne




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[Wayland]

Walter Bear....

 

[Humpback]

"for the real story of what happend outside 'TV world' see:

http://www.mounteverest.net/news.php?id=16243

http://www.mounteverest.net/news.php?id=16114


Form 'The House at Pooh Corner'
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.
- A A Milne"


I said it before on the poll thread recently closed :

pocketa, pocketa, pocketa......


I now fully expect him to do a three legged charity race across Africa with Heather Mills!

Alan

 

[jojo]

OOPS.... Only found the thread that was closed Shouldn't have brought that back to the surface of the pond! Sorry about that, people. Won't do it again. :twak:

 

[demographic]

Don't mention the war. I did once but I think I got away with it...

 

[Toddy]

Okay......I've closed two threads slating BG..........whether the slating is deserved or not is a moot point, but the rules still hold.

Please read No.1

http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=45

If the discussions and conversation is within those guidelines it won't need Modded, will it?

cheers,
Toddy

 

[Wayland]

1 Community area behaviour - Flaming:
Slander, foul language, or harassment of anyone, member or non-member will not be accepted (otherwise known as flaming). As these forums are often viewed both at home and in workplace, family language is encouraged. Moderators will use their discretion.

So we can still call him the son of a politician then....

 

[Toddy]

M

 

[spamel]

You may as well lock it now Mary, I feel a Tourettes moment coming on!

 

[Toddy]

I feel bad about locking threads, but they just keep getting worse about this man, and the rules go to hang.
That he appears to be a "celebrity" means he's keeping himself in the news and that keeps bringing his antics up again

Tedium ad nauseum tbh

cheers,
Toddy

 

[Bushcraft4life]

Having actually seen the ad for it on C4, it actually looks pretty good, and not a hotel in sight (going by the ad)

I'll be watching it.

 

[firecrest]

So did anybody watch it?
I did. He covered his bottom this time and said upfront he wouldnt be flying over everest, just higher than it, next to it. But his altometer broke and it can never be claimed he actually did fly over 29 thousand feet because nobody knows. I question the camera shot that made it look like he was above it - if he was much further forward than the mountain than what it looked (as you lose the 3d perspective on tv) he could have looked higher whilst actually much much lower.
Though to keep in the good spirit of this thread *ahem* that wouldnt be Bears fault but the programe makers.

 

[Bushcraft4life]

It was a load of rubbish, and thats the nice version of that sentence!

I thought he was going to fly OVER Mount Everest, but no, he tried to fly higher than it.

Correct me if i am wrong, but couldn't he have just done it in the UK? the altometer wouldn't have broken because it wouldn't have been as cold and we wouldn't have had to watch an hour and a half of the biggest twit in history.

 

[spamel]

Totally forgot about it. Sorry Bear, if you were more of a hero I might have remembered!

 

[Jodie]

I can't watch programmes like these cos I honestly get a bit scared about the outcome
even though I know full well that all is likely to have a happy ending. I saw the trailer and
decided that it wasn't for me. Especially with worried spouses crying... nooooo.

Adam Hart Davis did something vaguely similar in a large hangar with a homemade
flying device (it didn't work but it was great TV nonetheless) and some people tried to
replicate one of Leonardo da Vinci's flying machines which was quite exhilarating.

Do I get credit for having flown higher than Everest? Even though I was in an aircraft at
the time...

Also I was nowhere near Everest at the time.