From outside magazine, this is the outside podcast.

There have been a lot of close-shaves, parachute failures and avalanches and

pendant-white water rapids and bitten by snakes and cornered by sharks and

crocs and you know rock fools and you name it. I mean I look back on let it

become a blur of things. There it is, perhaps the most recognizable voice

in the world of adventure and survival entertainment, if not all of television.

For 16 years now, Bayer Grills has been showing us how to survive in wild places

and for just as long, people have tried to imitate his accent and his apparent

gusto for extreme discomfort. I'm Michael Roberts and I've known Bayer since

almost the beginning of his run. I wrote a couple feature stories about him

for outside magazine and I produced an episode for this show about him back in

2018. When I picture Bayer now, I still see what most people do, a guy dangling

under a helicopter or reading something really, really disgusting. Almost always

with a smile. But if you actually step back and look closely at how the TV

shows he makes have evolved, you'll also see someone who truly believes that

going through difficult moments in extreme environments is the best way to prepare

ourselves for the hard times in our everyday lives. If I, if people would say

what's the outdoors given to you, it's given me healing. It's just another

weapon in my arsenal that's helped me so much over the years to keep going.

You know, it's no accident that my mentor has been never give up for so long.

But how do you do that? Where do you draw that strength? You know, healing comes in

many forms, but nature wants to heal. The sea heals us. The mountains heal us.

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