Bear Grylls knows what it takes to survive in extreme conditions
You can't do it anymore? So step up the toughness! Bear Grylls, a former elite skydiver, knows what an individual must force himself to do in order not to succumb to despair in extreme situations.
We present not only the gripping stories of explorers, spies and other professional adventurers, but also the liminal dramas of ordinary people who refused to give up in the face of death. If that death takes the chilling form of an ancient Arctic monster, it could devour an entire scientific expedition, as Sir John Franklin painfully predicts. When climbing the Matterhorn, it will be important who can stay twelve hundred metres above the surrounding landscape without a belay rope like Edward Whymper. And what chance did the brave sailor Thor Heyerdahl have if he decided to circumnavigate the world on a primitive raft without help and was struck by an emergency? Can anything be done when a prisoner of war is being tortured by stubborn Japanese, when a Marine shot through and through needs to crawl away from the Afghan battlefield, or when the sole survivor of a plane crash is searching for food in the Andes desert?
While some of Grylls' stories just give you the chills, others give you goosebumps all over your body, as the fight for your life has never been a walk in the park.
