A Wild Weekend with Bear Grylls

A wild weekend with Bear Grylls good job nothing happened or it could have been fatal! 

There were ill fitting harnesses, poor rope work and set up of anchors, no via ferrata kit, a bowline that wasn't tied off (in this state it is not even a knot and people have died in climbing walls because they have not tied it off) and to top it all off on the final abseil, as well as there not being a safety rope, prussic, the sling used had a knot tied in the middle, was being used as a central anchor with two peoples weight on it, on a scree ridden descent that was loose and chossey, the one person (chief scout) who was controlling the rope and had a complete novice in his hands, wasn't wearing a helmet! 

Sadly and with the greatest of respect I would highly recommend Mountain Training using this as a guide of 'what not to do with a client ', hopefully no novice eh watched/watching this will assume any of the practices shown in this are the way to do things, and sadly the excuse that the person executing this on tv knows what they are doing is not going to wash, as a role model one should be always be demonstrating best practice.

If you wish to check it out, it's available on 4OD till the 24th January 2014. 

Here are a few of the moments for those that have not had the chance to see it, 'Bear'ing in mind this was Christmas Day viewing;

Left

Top; Stephen's Harness Fitting. Middle and Bottom; the apparent Via Ferrata Kit

Right

Top; the single knotted sling holding both Fry & Bear. Middle; Bears Flask going tumbling down after being dropped. Bottom; the only person holding the rope in control, Bear, with no helmet on whilst abseiling down a choss ridden ravine.