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ANCHORAGE, USA (UDATED) – President Barack Obama will trek through Alaska’s wilderness and get a “crash course in survival techniques” from insect-eating British adventurer Bear Grylls, US television producers announced Monday, August 31. (WATCH: Michelle Rodriguez, Bear Grylls snack on mouse stewed in urine)
Obama – who on Monday trades the comforts of the White House for the rigors of the Great White North – will appear on an upcoming episode of Running Wild With Bear Grylls, television network NBC said.
Excerpts of the show released Tuesday, September 8 featured the suit-less president polishing off a raw, half-chewed fish pulled from underneath some moss near a river bank.
“I think the president looked a little surprised when I pulled out this sort of bloody carcass of a half-eaten salmon,” television host Grylls is seen telling viewers.
Obama is seen looking on as Grylls cuts away a chunk of the pink bloody flesh.
The president then pops a morsel in his mouth and chews away at before declaring “Mmmm. That’s tasty.”
“I think a piece of salmon, that’ll work just fine,” he tells the camera, “it would have been nice if we’d have had cracker to go with it.”
Grylls, a former special air service trooper, boasts that he pushes celebrities like New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees and actress Kate Winslet “beyond their limits.”
Tasks they have been given include eating mice, jumping out of planes and crossing desert canyons – activities the Obama’s security team, the Secret Service, would not normally allow the president.
His appearance on the show, which will air later this year, is just the latest in a series of White House efforts to reach new audiences.
Obama’s visit to Alaska is meant to highlight the impact of climate change, and its impact in this vast and sparsely populated state, which has seen rising sea levels, shrinking glaciers, and melting permafrost.
The trip comes ahead of a major United Nations summit later this year that aims to cap global temperature increases by two degrees Celsius (3.6 degree Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial levels. – Rappler.com
Bear Grylls photo by s_bukley/Shutterstock.com, Barack Obama photo by Everett Collection/Shutterstock.com
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