With a camera crew following Bear, he is never in such real danger, but it provides for a more visceral show as he can take more chances. Wild is more entertainment with a reality veneer. While Survivorman was a real reality show Man vs. Wild has started to develop its character. I am sure he is well briefed before entering new areas. Bear Grylls, the star of the show is an ex British Special Forces veteran who apparently knows the tricks to survival all over the world. Wild, a show that many of you are familiar with. The competitor of Survivorman, also on the Discovery channel is Man vs. After a few short seasons Survivorman is no longer, but apparent promises from Les point to a survival related new venture. Survivorman’s Les Stroud presented a more real show given that he was the star and cameraman. With the absence of new episodes (or any more ever) of Survivorman, I have been forced to turn to the less real reality based wilderness survival show, Man vs. Bear Grylls flirts with a lot of timepieces. “Fortunately we didn’t, but it was a very, very close call.It all started with a Breitling Emergency watch, which turned into a Bremont Chronograph for a while, and now seems to be a favored Casio Dynamic Wave Ceptor. “There’s one part where we could have potentially lost lives,” he adds. This river … threw us some real curveballs at us. You’re dealing with a jungle, which is hot, sticky and dangerous. “All of the crew at the end of it were pretty exhausted and, to be honest, quite desperate to get out of there,” Mungo says, (Not to mention roughing it with Hollywood stars such as Ben Stiller, Kate Winslet and Channing Tatum).īut it was the premiere episode of “Expedition Mungo” in Liberia, a west African country ravaged by civil war and Ebola, that turned out to be his toughest assignment yet - and not only because it took a plane, 4×4, motorbike, canoe and hiking to get to their remote destination. Mungo, who lives in London with his TV-producer wife and their one-year-old son, has had his share of extreme experiences on the job, including camping on a Canadian mountain as three tornadoes passed through. For the last 20 years I’ve been shooting behind the camera and have to be dead quiet most of the time.” “It was nice for a change to actually be able to air my opinions. In other ways, the role-switch was a relief. “At the start, I was lugging around all the kit as I normally do and said ‘Look Mungo, leave it to me to do,’ ” he says. But the transition to host was an adjustment in one way. Given his tenure behind the lens, Mungo shot some of his own series and insisted on picking his own crew. “I like the idea of trying to fight them.” Mungo has worked as a cameraman on “Running Wild with Bear Grylls” (here with guest Kate Winslet) for the past 10 years. He subsequently lost his job, got outed by the local community as being a bit of a nutter. “ was so traumatized by what he saw that he went mute for two and a half weeks. But then when you actually get on the ground and you meet these people face-to-face … can often be very convincing,” Mungo says. “Some of the stories I was tracking down sound ridiculous and incredibly far-fetched. In the six-episode season, he goes in search of a shape-shifting creature linked to witchcraft in Namibia, a dragon-like reptile in Borneo and a massive lizard that resembles an extinct dinosaur in Liberia as well as travels to India, Peru and Argentina. Unlike the celebrity survivalist challenges of “Running Wild,” the Animal Planet series features Mungo investigating the legends of mythical creatures that he’s heard about from locals in his years of traveling. , it just felt like it was at the right time and the show fit.” It felt like potentially I had a lot to lose and a lot to risk. “From my view, I’ve had a crackin’ camera career. “Over the years, I’ve been approached a few times, but the show was never right,” he tells The Post. on Animal Planet), the Brit steps in front of the camera for the first time. Mungo (real name: Paul Mungeam) has worked as an adventure cameraman for more than 20 years, the last 10 of those as part of Grylls’ crew on shows like NBC’s “Running Wild.” In “ Expedition Mungo” (premiering Sunday at 10 p.m. To host a wildlife entertainment show, you can’t get much better training than shadowing Bear Grylls for a decade.
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