Bear Grylls

[Fingers]

Idiot.

Oh, and his friend Gylo.

Para motors have an air speed of over 60 mph! These tits would have you believe.

Paramotoring without a lid is also all OK.

This is ref there ridiculous program tonight Bear Grylls Mission Everest

[Davehorne]

I recorded it so anyone who missed it can PM me if they want

[gordie]

Yee there was a whole lot of artistic licence used in the making of this program and a lot of false claims made. It has promoted a great deal of controversy amongst the paramotoring and Himalayan fraternity, resulting in the company who arrange the trip and logistics publicly announcing they do not support the program. It was build that they would fly over Everest but they never had connect off the Nepalese government to fly any where apart from where they did (not because of the safety issue of flying over the Nuptsie Wall as Bear tried to suggest). Also the Chinese government would never of allowed consent to fly in to Tibet as it was at the time of the recent problems.

Finally did you know Mr Grylls took it upon himself to teach himself to paraglide and used some of our sites in Cumbria to do so, uninsured, without consent and with out qualified instruction and probably because he is so cool, with out a helmet.

All I can say is don't believe everything you see on the tele. The only good bit in the show was the development and build of the super charged paramotor, wouldn't mind one of them.

[GlennP]

I saw last nights prog aswell.

I've seen it before and appaerently , according to the Mrs, I was shouting at the telly while it was on.....

This kind of stuff is exactly what the Tarquins and Clarissas who make Tv programmes in the big smoke want. Lots of exaggerated drama and half truths.

No helmet, no licence, no idea........ nuff said