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2000 people die lost in the Rockies every year	A climbing rope was planted for Bear's use in the chimney climbing scene	A team of people built the raft, not Bear, and it took a week and a half to build
Abandoning a near-ideal shelter or location	Abandoning the reasonable plan to follow the river to civilization	Advising the use of a snow cave without the caveats
Artificial handholds used to crawl out of frozen lake	Avoiding drinking dirty stream water but drinking from elephant dung instead	Bad Advice and Inaccuracies
Bathing in the same water that you drink	Bear contaminates his canteen by filling it with untreated water	Bear lands in sight of final destination
Bear was within easy reach of an established Forest Service road	Bear’s fire bow demonstration looks like he never did it before and was staged	Bought pizza in the middle of an ep
Claim that fishing spiders are dangerous	Claiming cooked meat is more nutritional and raw meat wastes calories	Cleaned and shaved between scenes
Cliff diving without checking the water depth	Climbed back up the waterfall after becoming ill	Climbing a tree to pick "ripe" avocados
Climbing a tree to pick avocados is a bad idea	Climbing down a waterfall	Climbing feats far beyond an inexperienced person's capability
Climbing harness and rope visible in canyon ascent	Climbing harness visible on the waterfall climb	Coconut oil to protect against the sun
Coincidental boat sinking	Commercial-style fishing hooks inexplicably 'made' offcamera	Contaminating a canteen by filling it with untreated water
Crevase jump filmed from underneath	Current events	Dangerous advice re: using knotted parachute cord to arrest a crevasse fall
Dead badger actually steak inside badger skin	Digs a hole in the ice with a pointed stick	Diver pre-checking the water for sharks
Diving into icy water	Diving into the ocean to cool down	Domesticated rabbit
Drinking urine	Eating eggshell to prevent calcium deficiency	Edited show revelations
Entering an ice tunnel	Evidence	Extensive supporting crew
Fake bear sign.	Fake bowstring-making	Faked boot burning
Faking it in Kilauea	Far insufficient water	Fire likely doused with water
Getting into hot water as a solution to hypothermia	Getting lost a stone's throw from Maui	Getting lost a stone's throw from Oahu
Getting lost in a crowded part of the Sierras	Getting lost on Maui itself	Getting lost on Oahu itself
Getting unnecessarily wet	Glissading	Going across obstacles instead of around them to save time
Heating rocks without taking into account the explosion risk	Hired man in a bear suit because they couldn't find a tame bear for the shoot	Impossible camera angles
Improper snow pit	Jumps off a cliff because of an approaching bear, but the camera crew is already on the other side	Learns his survival skills for each episode right before shooting
Leaving where you are without urgent need to do so	Magnetizing a wire for use in a compass by rubbing through hair	Main Page
Making a risky ascent to get your bearings	Man vs Wild	Moray eel is the second most common type of food poisoning
More Kilauea inconsistencies and bad advice	Moving through the desert in the heat of the day	Myth that falling coconuts are significant killers
No evidence of larvae in the honeycomb	No evidence of log jam debris	No mention made of the cave-in risks of heating a long-unoccupied cave
No mention of the use of mud to keep mosquitoes away	Not attempting to attract attention from helicopters	Not attempting to attract attention from the many tour helicopters
Not spotting the ocean from the summit	Omission of critical survival skills	Poor ropemaking technique for bowstring
Presenting the fire-saw fire starting method as far easier than it is	Provoking a cobra with a canteen on a string	Ptarmigan on a string
Pursuing unimportant or long-term needs	Pursuing unimportant or long-term needs, with an obsession with protein	Raft tied to a boat, just offshore
Recommending use of a compass cactus without the caveats	Relying on boiled lakewater instead of melted snow	Saw-cut ends to the bamboo
Show was originally supposed to be a more educational, less dangerous program, but was dumbed down	Signaling ships from 100 miles away	Snake that Bear "kills" was found dead at the side of the road by the crew
Spitting to determine which way is up	Staged horses	Storybook progression
Supporting crew	Swimming the Colorado river	Swimming under an obstacle that you can't see the end of
TV 'survival king' stayed in hotels	Taking risks, burning calories, and losing water to get a small amount of food	Taking risks and burning calories to get a small amount of food
Taking to the sea	Taking unnecessary risks when your life isn't in immediate danger	Terrain inconsistencies
The deer skinning scene is impalusible	The deer skinning scene is implausible	The friction fire scene of Bear using the hand drill was faked
The show uses literal scripts that cover everything that will happen in a given episode	Truly Horrible Bear Advice	Truly horrible bear advice
Trying to ride feral horses	Unnecessarily crossing a frozen lake	Using Camera NIGHT MODE To Shoot Scenes in the Day
Using a life jacket in the river	Using a shirt as a gas mask	Using knotted parachute cord to arrest a crevasse fall
Using parachute cord to abseil down a cliff	Visible, "deadly" volcanic gas actually from a smoke machine	Visible manila rope tying together the raft
Visible trail in the Savanna	Was hoisted into tree that "snagged" parachute, and wore a safety harness	Water under log jam is free of debris