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Bear Grylls Interview
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What’s new in the second series of Born Survivor?
More extreme locations, tougher conditions: everything ranging from 130-degree heat in the Sahara to minus 40 in Siberia. Some of the most aggressive jungles and swamps in the world. It’s me at my limit – I think the producer’s always keen to up the ante, and make the locations and stuff I do bigger and better. I definitely do feel well out of all comfort zones, but I hope that makes good TV!Having travelled to Siberia, the Panamanian swamps and the Sahara, which is the most inhospitable?
I think the extremes of temperatures are always hard. In the Sahara we had ridiculous heats where three of our crew had to be evacuated with heat stroke. And then in Siberia I had to swim under the ice of a frozen lake. I was standing there before diving into a big hole – with no clothes on – but my feet had actually frozen to the ice. I just thought: "this can’t be good for you".
But I also kind of thrive on that. There's no room to get things wrong in those conditions. In more temperate places you can always get away with a few mistakes, but in those sorts of temperatures you can't. It's definitely where it's toughest to film. I enjoy really having to raise my game. We've got a brilliant crew of people who come with me and I really love to see how they cope and help them through stuff.
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