man_vs_wild_Bear_Grylls_Feasts_on_a_Venomous_Scorpion___Man_vs._Wild(360p)
man vs wild Bear_Grylls_Feasts_on_a_Venomous_Scorpion___Man_vs._Wild(360p)
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00:00I'm nine and a half thousand feet up in Copper Canyon, Mexico.
00:08I'm stuck on a ledge and there's no way down.
00:11My only option is to climb back up and face a freezing night at the top.
00:21Then on my right hand side I spot what could be another route down, but to get to it I'll
00:26have to cross a deep gully.
00:29I'm going to see if I can make this leap across there.
00:34Okay, it's eight foot wide and I've got no run up.
00:50Okay, well I'm off the top of that, I'm across this gully and look all of this now looks
00:57quite manageable.
01:09I'm now at seven thousand feet and for every thousand feet I drop the temperature will
01:14rise three and a half degrees Fahrenheit.
01:17So it's tempting to go on, but I'm running out of time.
01:21There's a good tip that I know for working out just how much daylight is left and what
01:26you do is you measure the distance from the sun down to the horizon.
01:29The technique for doing it is if you put your hand up, you put your sun just above your
01:34fingers and then each finger down to the horizon is 15 minutes.
01:37So hand, four fingers, one hour, that, down, two hours.
01:41So I've got about two hours of daylight left so it's time to get a shelter found.
01:48Forty million years ago masses of volcanic ash and lava were deposited here.
01:54The flowing lava cut deep fissures in the land to form the canyons.
01:58The base of volcanic cliffs are often riddled with caves and finding one is my best chance
02:04of shelter.
02:07But I need to be careful where I put my hands here.
02:10There's fallen rocks everywhere and this is exactly where scorpions and tarantulas live.
02:15Here's one, here we go.
02:17Nope.
02:18Look at this.
02:19See this?
02:20Tiger scorpion.
02:21And these are quite common around here.
02:24Look, he's pretty cheesed off.
02:27But he's a predator.
02:29He will live off like other bugs and insects.
02:32And look, see he's up at the stick there.
02:34He'll strike, look, he's trying to get to it.
02:36But actually these are good protein.
02:39You can eat these.
02:40They're not meant to taste very nice but what I want to do actually is just cut off his
02:46stinger, which is this bit here.
02:48It's that ball, like a ball of venom with a little stinger on the end of it.
02:53Pin him down and then just take that off.
02:57Here you go, you can see him there.
02:59But that's all good to eat.
03:17Tastes like kind of cheese that's been sitting around for about three weeks.
03:26But worse.
03:29Five species of scorpions live in the canyons and all of them sting.
03:34The symptoms include numbness, a tightening of the throat and sharp pains.
03:39Without medication they can be deadly.
03:42Yeah, this is what I was hoping for.
03:45Look at this.
03:46Decent sized cave and this is going to be perfect for me to spend the night in.
03:53I feel miles from anywhere but I can see that someone has been here before me.
03:57Just look at the roof of this.
03:59Covered in all of this like soot from loads of fires.
04:04And I can't believe it.
04:07All of this like soot from loads of fires.
04:11And even a shelf.
04:14You can see this hole, that's obviously man-made.
04:19It's no surprise to find signs of human activity here.
04:23The Aztecs once used these caves but for the last 400 years they've been home to the Rarámuri Indians.
04:29They still live here today.
04:31These nomadic people move from cave to cave as they travel the canyons.
04:36Someone's been here recently.
04:38They've moved on but they have left something behind.
04:41Look at that, a bit of wire.
04:43And it might not look like much but actually there are loads of different things I could use that for.
04:48So that's good for me, I'm going to keep hold of this.
04:52The charcoal on the cave roof shows that many fires have been lit here before.
04:56And that's what I need.
04:58It'll keep out the freezing night air.
05:01You might not always be lucky enough to have a flint striker with you.
05:04So what I'm going to do is use this yucca to make a fire saw.
05:08And a fire saw is just a friction fire.
05:10And this yucca is really good for this because it's light and it's really dry wood.
05:15And all I need to do is break it here.
05:20Then remove the base and start to split the wood into strips.
05:26Cut out two pieces about 12 inches long.
05:32The sotol plant grows all over these slopes.
05:35And the leaves make excellent cordage.
05:37And I just get this little bit of tinder, little bit of dried grass.
05:41Put it against one piece of the yucca.
05:45Bit of stone on one side and the same on the other.
05:49So there can be an airflow between the two bits of wood.
05:55And press that against itself so it's like that.
05:59And then just bind that.
06:01Wrap one end tight.
06:02Do the same thing at the other end.
06:04And the job is done.
06:06And then that's the bottom bit of the fire saw built.
06:12And then all I did with this was again just peel it away from the main branch.
06:17And that then acts as a fire saw that I actually drive with to create the friction.
06:23Now to put it to the test.
06:25It's really important to do this so the base of this isn't going to wobble.
06:30And here we go.
06:32This is pretty solid there now.
06:34And I just take the fire saw and start to move it along it.
06:44The great thing about using yucca is it's got the lowest ignition temperature of any of the woods around here.
06:50Which makes it ideal for trying to make a bit of an ember.
06:55And that's all I need, just a little bit of an ember to drop between these two bits of wood into that tinder.
07:04And I better shut up, stop talking and get sawing.
07:14And yeah, look at that.
07:16And once you've got to this stage, this ember is actually going to keep burning.
07:23So the tinder pressure comes off.
07:26And now I just poke it through the bottom there, tip it into there.
07:32Once the ember's surrounded by a good bundle of dried grass, it literally goes up in flames.
07:41There we go.
07:44Okay, we've got fire.
07:51Now I can sit back and watch the sun go down, knowing that tonight I should be warm.
07:58So much of this canyon land here is just so remote.
08:01And for me, just sitting here with a fire going and a view like this, really it just feels like a real privilege, you know.
08:13.