Even the most bad-ass among us can suffer freak injuries. Bear Grylls, of Discovery Channel's "Man Vs. Wild" has eaten snakes and animal eyeballs, drunk his own urine, climbed Mt Everest, and jumped out of more planes than he can count. But while filming a recent episode of MvW he was airlifted from a mountainside after injuring his leg.
Grylls was charging down a snowy mountain and had to use an ice pick to stop his momentum. However, his quick maneuver didn't stop the momentum of a camera which came crashing into his leg after barely missing his head. A report from Entertainment Weekly says that Grylls' cameraman was temporarily blinded by the snow and lost grip of his camera, causing the near-disaster.
The crew was taken to a hospital but no one was seriously injured, though you can be sure Grylls has some nasty bruising.
"It was a wake-up call," he added. "You've just got to get it right every time. You live with danger a lot and you can get blase, and just can't do that."
This guy has defied death and serious bodily harm more than anyone, and an inanimate object almost brought him to his end. I shudder to think what's going to happen to the poor souls who accompanied Bear on Fan vs. Wild, an episode that will air this fall.
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