It’s a rainy morning in Cotswolds, England, and Bear Grylls is in the woods, standing in front of a roaring fire. The British survivalist—who is known for dangling from helicopters, leaping off cliffs, crossing rapids, eating absolutely anything and other forms of badassery—was doing something very un-Bear-like.
Survivalist Bear Grylls says that one of the main reasons people die in the wild is they get their priorities wrong. “The human reaction is panic. When you’re in a very new and scary situation—the plane’s crashed or your car’s broken down or you got lost—the first reaction is you’re gonna surge with adrenaline, your heart starts going. When that happens, you start making mistakes and you can make bad situations worse.”
