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The Bear Grylls Survival Academy
Day Adventure
Location: Cowdray, South Downs
This fast-paced, action-packed adventure is best way to enjoy the outdoors with a group of your choosing!
A compact introduction into wilderness survival, this experience has been designed to incorporate the essential survival skills and techniques from Bear’s own arsenal while creating fun and long-lasting memories together.
Dive into the adventure, learning about camouflage and concealment and how to navigate using the natural elements around you from our team of highly skilled BGSA Instructors.
Learn how to set snares and identify animal runs, tie a variety of survival knots, how to build an emergency shelter and create a fire that will keep you alive. Although only a one-day experience, this is a fast and dynamic, jam-packed day. You will also learn about First Aid and casualty evacuation.
Includes the following:
- Emergency shelter builds
- Natural Navigation techniques
- Survival knife skills and fire lighting
- Learn how to camouflage and conceal yourself
- Signal fires
- Improvised Wilderness First Aid
Duration: 1 Day
Cost: £325.00 + VAT per person (maximum 10 participants)
Wild Camp Adventure
Location: Cowdray, South Downs
This tailored overnight camping adventure is a great introduction to learn wilderness survival skills with your group.
It teaches Bear’s tried and tested survival techniques and is lead by his expert, knowledgeable and experienced instructors. Learn how to set traps & snares and identify animal runs, to forage for wild edible food to supplement your diet, how to build your emergency survival shelter and create a fire that will keep you alive. Although only an overnight course, lots is packed in, its fast and dynamic.
You will move through the terrain fast and efficiently and learn how to navigate without a compass. For your evening meal, and cooked over an open fire, you’ll prepare wild game such as fish, rabbit or pigeon. By night you will learn more skills with astro navigation techniques and preparing your camp to keep everyone safe overnight. Day two will rise early with some situation awareness training and self defence followed by a casualty evacuation exercise. Put all your new-found skills to practice to get your whole group safely back to civilisation.
Includes the following:
- Learn how to identify animal runs and lay traps and snares
- Build an emergency survival shelter
- Make a signal fire
- Learn useful and lifesaving knots
- Learn how to camouflage and conceal yourself from wild animals
- Navigation techniques
- Wild food preparation
- Astro navigation
- Forage for wild edible food
Duration: 18 Hours (Overnight)
Cost: £395.00 + VAT per person (maximum 10 participants)
24Hr Primal Survival Adventure
Location: South Downs, UK
In this intense 24-hour survival experience, your group will learn practical life-saving skills, attitudes such as resourcefulness and calm under pressure, pushing yourselves farther than ever before. From hour one, when you arrive in the wilderness with no tent, and limited supplies, the pressure is on to source food and water locally from streams and pools. Guided by Bear’s team of highly trained experts, you’ll be taught to identify animal runs, lay traps, skin and gut your dinner, and forage to supplement your diet. You’ll acquire survival knife skills, wilderness first aid, fire lighting, and rope skills like knots and harnesses, then use these skills to navigate difficult terrain such as rivers, lakes and steep ground by day and night. You’ll also learn to build emergency shelters and protect yourself in the wild from attack.
Includes the following:
- Dynamic river runs and/or lake crossings
- Emergency shelter builds
- Rope skills – crossing difficult terrain
- Survival knife skills and fire lighting using a bow and hand drill
- Foraging for food, setting snares & traps
- Dynamic self-rescue techniques
- Spear making and throwing
- Stalking
Duration: 1 Day
Cost: £453.00 + VAT per person (maximum 16 participants)
24Hr White Water Survival Adventure
Location: Brecon Beacons, UK
This 24-hour outdoor adventure has been created by Bear Grylls and his close team of experts, and is delivered by a range of hand-picked instructors in the Brecon Beacons each with challenges of woodland, gorges and white water. In parent and child teams, you’ll learn Bear’s famous survival techniques: how to build and light a fire, how to navigate at night, water purification, building a shelter, extreme weather survival river crossings and a waterfall jump to test your nerve. You will be taught the most effective and safe ways to use a knife for survival. On day two, you’ll put these skills into action, following Bear’s ethos of self-rescue, by crossing difficult terrain back to civilisation. It’s an opportunity to bring your group together through a truly memorable and fun experience.
Includes the following:
- Dynamic river runs
- Improvised Wilderness First Aid
- Emergency shelter builds
- Navigate harsh terrain by day and night
- Abseil & rope use techniques
- Survival knife skills and fire lighting
- Waterfall Jump
- Dynamic self rescue techniques
- Emergency water rescue techniques
- White Water Gorge Walk
- Gorge Tyrolean Traverse
Duration: 1 Day
Cost: £546.00 + VAT per person (maximum 14 participants)
Survive the Moors Group Challenge
Location: Dartmoor, UK
There’s a reason why the British Special Forces favour Dartmoor as a training ground for their elite recruits – as one of the UK’s most hostile environments, it can test the mettle of even the most intrepid soldier. Our Dartmoor survival course is a three-day survival experience training in the same natural arena that will challenge the boundaries of your strength, courage and wit. As they say in the military, “Survive to fight, don’t fight to survive”.
Includes the following:
- Ascend up vertical rock faces
- Cross high rope Tyrolean’s
- Abseil down high cliffs
- Swim through moorland lakes
- Navigate by night and day
- Skin and gut wild food
- Wild camp on the moors
- Learn essential survival skills
- Helicopter pick up and extraction across the moor
Duration: 3 days
Cost: £1,700.00 + VAT per person (maximum 10 participants)
Survive the Highlands Group Challenge
Location: Scottish Highlands, UK
Following the success of Bear’s TV shows, Man vs Wild, Running Wild and most recently Netflix’s You Vs Wild, aspiring adventurers can challenge themselves on an extreme survival course in the Scottish Highlands. This five-day intense survival course follows similar formats of the TV shows. It begins with a crash three-day course in Bear’s survival techniques and culminates in an epic self-rescue survival challenge. You will be pushed to the limit crossing difficult terrain and putting all your new found skills to the ultimate test in order to make your way back to civilisation.
Do you have what it takes to meet the challenge?
Starting at base camp in the heart of the Highlands, our highly trained and experienced Instructors will teach you Bear’s survival techniques.
This is an extreme environment like no other and perhaps one of the last remaining wilderness areas left in the UK. You will learn all the skills you have seen Bear demonstrate over the years, including his priorities of survival, skinning and gutting, fire lighting and emergency shelter building. However, it’s not all about survival, self-rescue is one of Bear’s key priorities.
Training complete, it’s time for the final challenge – You’ll be dropped off by 4×4 away from any form of civilisation and from then on, you are on foot as a team with no instructor support. You’ll need to head up in to the mountains where your survival adventure begins. Your aim – to cross the mountain range, summit the highest mountain in Alladale and make it back down safely. Remember, reaching the summit is only half the challenge. Along the journey you’ll need to set up a survival camp, forage for food, prepare and cook wild food, cross rivers, climb, scramble, raft, rappel, zip line across a high gorge and if you get back down in time, you’ll be rescued with an exciting, dynamic extraction.
Includes the following:
- Cross the high mountain range
- Descend a river gorge
- Abseil down a waterfall
- Embark on a raft river journey
Duration: 5 days
Cost: £2,700 + VAT per person (maximum 12 participants)
All prices are per person and subject to VAT
For more information email [email protected] or call Mini Vohra and the Cornucopia Events team on +44 (0)871 288 3965 or +44 (0)7863 240513
