Bear Grylls Survival Gear: Are You Prepared?

You may recognize Edward Michael "Bear" Grylls from his popular television show, "Man vs Wild" where he visits places no man would ever think of visiting and does things no man would ever think of doing to survive.

He's a hardcore survivalist to the extreme and he's done everything from running through a forest fire to eating snakes and bugs to drinking his own urine.

In May of 1998, Grylls became the youngest Brit to scale Mt. Everest. He was 23 and just 18 months before he'd been hospitalized with a broken back. He'd crushed 3 vertebrae in a skydiving accident and, at the time, doctors feared ha may never walk again.

Since then he's gone on to conquer almost every square inch of uninhabitable, unreachable space on Earth. He's paramotored over Angel Falls, the highest waterfall on Earth. He's hosted a dinner party in a hot air balloon at 25,000 feet - whiled dressed in a tux and oxygen tank. He's traveled Antarctica and crossed the Northwest Passage in an inflatable boat. He catches 20-pound catfish with his bare hands, eats deer droppings, wrestles alligators and has used a seal carcass for a wetsuit.

While most people would never picture themselves in a scenario where they would have to use a dead sheep for a sleeping bag or eat elephant dung to survive, the simple truth is: You just never know when disaster will strike. You need to be prepared for anything.