I am an armchair adventurer. One step up from a couch potato perhaps, I love to watch real-life survival programs, where people are pitted against the elements and have to fend for themselves in the wild. I find it exhilarating to see how they use their physical strength and mental acuity to confront the challenges that nature sets for them and work their way back to safety and civilization. This is more than ironic, of course. While I have enough trouble getting myself off the couch to get a glass of water, I am fascinated by the unstinting stamina that these stalwart survivalists exhibit.
The guru of conquering the challenges of the great outdoors is British adventurer Bear Grylls. With a slew of TV series under his belt such as Running Wild with Bear Grylls and The Island with Bear Grylls, the master nature maven takes ordinary people and exposes them to extraordinary situations.
