E: 2/1/08 Win a survival weekend for 4 people!

joho

Enter here, fill in your details and answer the question below.

Born Survivor: Bear Grylls Competition

To celebrate the return of Born Survivor: Bear Grylls, Discovery Channel is giving you the chance to learn the essential endurance skills with a three-day survival weekend for you and three friends in the highlands of Scotland. Your skills will be put to the test as you learn everything from trapping and snaring game to lighting fires with no matches and building survival shelters. Click here for further details.
Highlights include:
- Identifying food and plants in the wild
- Distress signalling
- Navigation using nature
- Long term shelter construction
- Making natural tools and weapons
If you think you could be the ultimate survivor, answer the following question and fill in your details:

<FORM action=# method=post><LABEL for=N1000A>Which of the following countries does Bear Grylls visit in the new series of Born Survivor?</LABEL> </FORM>

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<FORM action=# method=post>Siberia </FORM>
<FORM action=# method=post>Greece</FORM>
NB. The answer is a bit of a discussion point, so please read the thread and decide for yourselves.Sorry!

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<FORM action=# method=post>T&Cs:</FORM>

<FORM action=# method=post>Born Survivor: Bear Grylls Competition terms & conditions:
1. By entering this competition, the entrant will be deemed to have read and understood these rules and to be bound by them.
2. The only valid method of entry will be by providing your details and answering the question online via the website at www.discoverychannel.co.uk/bornsurvivor (the “Website”).
3. The competition is only open to entrants residing in the United Kingdom and who are over the age of 18 years. Only one entry per person is allowed.
4. Entrants expressly declare and represent that (i) they submit to English law in participating in this competition and (ii) they are individuals and not a company or any professional and/or commercial entity.
5. This competition is NOT open to employees of Discovery Communications LLC., Discovery.com and their respective parents, affiliates and subsidiaries (together the “Promoter”).
6. This competition will run on the Website from Tuesday 27th November 2007 until midnight (GMT) Wednesday 2nd January 2008 (inclusive). The Winner will be notified in writing or by telephone. The winner's name only may be displayed on the Website two weeks after the closing date.
7. Illegible, incomplete or late registrations and entries will be disqualified.
8. The winner will be chosen by the Promoter from all valid entrants who have answered the question correctly and submitted their details online. The Promoter’s decision as to the winning entry is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
9. If the Promoter is not able, for any reason, to contact the winner by the contact details provided by the winner within three (3) weeks of first attempting to do so, then the Promoter reserves the right to choose another winner and to reallocate the prize to such new winner.
10. There is one (1) prize of a survival weekend in Scotland for four (4) people, which comprises:
A three day course which will develop your outdoor survival skills, courses commence at 10.00am on the start date and finish approx 2.00pm on the last day.
B&B accommodation will be provided on the night before the course commences and the Promoter will cover the cost of standard class public transport to and from the destination in Scotland.
Participants will require a minimum fitness level to hike and camp in the wilderness for three days, and to generally participate in the course activities.
Course highlights include:
Lighting fires with no matches
Building survival shelters
Trapping and snaring game
Identifying food and plants in the wild
Distress signalling
Navigation by natural means
Long term shelter construction
Making natural tools and weapons
11. The Promoter does not take responsibility for any other costs.
12. The prize is non-exchangeable, non-transferable and non-refundable and there is no cash alternative available. All travel is fully subject to availability.
13. The name of the winner may be used in post-event publicity.
14. The Promoter will be entitled to terminate or modify the competition or to modify these rules prior to the closing date by posting on the Website.
15. The Promoter's details: Discovery Communications Europe Limited, Discovery House, Chiswick Park Building 2, 566 Chiswick High Road, London, W4 5YB.




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Sophika

I don't understand this, the blurb says he goes to Patagonia, the Sahara and Panama in his new series..can't see any mention of Siberia, France or Greece, any ideas?

joho

Hmm yes, good point Sophika. I've read as much as i could of the blurb and also no mention of France, Greece or Siberia. I picked the answer on the basis that it wouldn't be too hard to survive in France or Greece! However, once I went back and tried to enter myself I got an error.

If anyone manages to enter successfully would they let me know - otherwise I'll get this deleted!

Sophika

Don't delete it, I want to win it!! It says he goes to the Alps in a previous episode, do you reckon that makes the answer France?

Rharni

Just can't find the answer anywhere...just a lot about him not really surviving in the wild..but staying in plush hotels etc....:eek:

So...could be anywhere!! But maybe not Siberia!

Snow_Bunny

But Siberia is not a country!

Butlers1982

taken off his own website:

Bear finishes filming Season 3 of Man Vs Wild, which feature shows from Everest, Patagonia, the Sahara desert and the jungles of Panama. These air in the USA every friday night on the Discovery Channel. (In December he starts filming in Siberia for the start of the next 'Man Vs Wild' Season)

Nikki_c_77

Butlers1982 wrote: »

taken off his own website:

That's the Man Vs Wild series though, not the Born Survivor series which the question specifically asks about.
The competition isn't one for me (I avoid Scotland, the MIL lives there :rotfl:) but the Discovery website gives an episode guide to the new series http://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/bornsurvivor/eps/index.shtml which includes:

"European Alps
Every year, 120 million people ski and climb the 80,000 square miles of the Alps, Europe’s greatest mountain range. Unfortunately, every year hundreds of people die enjoying this beautiful wilderness because they’re unable to survive the potentially fatal conditions at heights sometimes reaching 15,000 feet. Armed with a knife, a water bottle, a cup and a flint, Bear parachutes into the Alps to demonstrate vital survival skills. From a radical new technique to save lives in crevasse zones, building a snow shelter to survive alpine storms, and showing viewers how to escape from a fall into a frozen lake, Bear puts his own skills to the test in this ultimate survival challenge."

Now geography isn't my strong point but are the European Alps not at least partly in France?! If I were entering that would be my answer anyway