Man Vs Wild enters a new season that takes host Bear Grylls through a journey that makes Alice in Wonderland seem like a yawn. We caught up with the adventure junkie to know what it's like to fall out of a plane, among other things

How did the concept of Man Vs Wild emerge?
Discovery channel approached me and said, "Listen, we know what you do, could we do a show where we drop you in the middle of nowhere and we film? We just want to film you doing what you're doing; the good, the bad, the ugly, the muddy." I actually said no three times because I didn't want to be a TV host and I was doing these expeditions. Then one day thanks to my my wife, I decided to try it and it was really fun. I've never felt any sort of pressure to make it all look smart, and I've never been afraid of showing it when it all goes wrong.


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Tell us about one unforgettable incident that occurred while you were shooting the last season?
Our entry into the Mojave Desert wasu00a0 difficult; hanging inverted under a biplane at 8,000 feet. Life definitely became interesting. Skydiving from a biplane is anything but straightforward. And the simplest way is for the pilot to flip the plane upside down and drop me out. We had to flip the plane upside down so could just fall away.

After ingesting all sorts of strange foods in the wild, what kind of food do you enjoy when you are back home?
I hate spinach, but I don't mind because I've eaten everything from frozen yak eyeballs to camel intestinal fluids to raw goat's testicles to raw big puff adder snakes to scorpions to camel hump fat to giant spiders.