Well, this is really cutting-edge technology called RFID, and they’ve used it for a while for races. There’s a point system attached to this thing.
There will be 18 different scenarios for participants to navigate, in appropriately harsh settings which range from “apocalyptic highway” to “deserted village” to “infested swamp.” Whether by himself or with celebrities in tow-from President Obama to Julia Roberts-the 43-year-old Grylls has managed to turn harrowing journeys into family-friendly entertainment.Īnd for anyone who has sat at home and thought they could hang with Bear, you’re about to get your chance: On April 28 and 29, Grylls will host the first-ever Bear Grylls Survival Challenge in Santa Clarita, California. After a near-death experience twenty years ago while serving in the Special Forces unit of the British Army, Grylls has become of the one the world’s preeminent survival specialists, something like a real-life cross between The Most Interesting Man in the World and MacGyver pre-reboot. What would be the thrill of a lifetime for ordinary citizens is a Tuesday afternoon for Bear Grylls, who is a bad man. I’m in the middle of amazing mountains, it’s just wonderful.” “It’s been beautiful,” he says, casually adding that he’s spent the last few days doing “lots of paragliding and wingsuiting and climbing, it’s just been super fun. Of course, as one might expect with Grylls involved, there are a few extenuating circumstances, which seem rather forgivable: He is calling via an unlisted phone number from somewhere in the mountains of Switzerland, where he’s filming his latest adventuring series. Bear Grylls is apologizing that he’s a few minutes late.
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