Never Throw Your Pack at a Bear

Bear Grylls is attempting to kill everyone who comes into contact with a bear once more. In one video, he describes what happens to a hiker and suggests that you take it to heart. The guidance? To divert the bear, fling your rucksack at it. This is yet another awful notion.

The theory behind this situation is that if you have a bag full of food, the bear will receive what it wants and you can escape. For some reason, despite his past advice to the opposite, he advises against running away in this video. But, there are two issues with throwing your rucksack at a bear.

To begin with, feeding the bears is the act of providing a bag of food to a bear. Every national park warns against doing this. Bears will continue to approach people if they believe they are food sources. This encourages bears to try to attack humans.

Another problem is that a backpack might actually save your life. You'll want to safeguard your vitals if a bear pursues you, and you decide to play dead. That entails crouching with the back exposed and the head covered. A backpack serves as your unique turtle shell. Depending on what's inside, it might not provide much protection, but it's still preferable to nothing.