Learn key survival skills

The Bear Grylls Survival Academy offer a unique opportunity to learn key survival skills in ‘hands on’ half, or full day packages. Taught by a range of hand-picked highly trained and knowledgeable instructors, this activity will teach you how to make the most of teamwork and leadership skills, whilst facing real life challenges.

Recreated from some of the unique scenarios seen on Bear’s TV programmes, you can choose a combination of activities to suit your team building objectives. Testing your teams performance, knowhow and communication skills, this certainly isn’t an experience you will forget!

Activity options (half day: 4 x activities & full day: 6 x activities)

• Axe Throwing – learn how to perfectly rotate an axe and hit the target
• Air Rifle / Pistol Shooting – learn the essential skills and discipline to handle a firearm
• Survival Arrow Archery – perfect your archery skills, an essential wilderness skill
• ‘Stranded’ Survival Scenario – what will you prioritise? Water, food, fire and shelter are top of the list…
• Improvised Stretcher Race & Wilderness First Aid – get your casualty to safety using what’s in your backpack & surroundings
• SAS Grenade Throwing – learn to throw grenades effectively and with accuracy to destroy the targets
• Land Rover ‘Sledge Pull’ – get your ‘sledge’ across the “ice” using just rope and communication
• Know your Knots – learn a variety of potential lifesaving knots
• Lost at Sea– you have access to a vessel, but can only take up to two-thirds of the team – who will make it?!
• Spear Throwing – make a spear out of a timber staff and knife, but can you hit the target?
• Whiteout – disorientated and with reduced visibility – use your skills to get safely back to base camp
• Kims Game & Observation Lane – observe, identify and memorize to retain and retrieve sensitive intel for your team
• Navigation Challenge – use natural features to navigate your way back to safety
• Commando Crawl – you make your way on top and across the hemp rope from one end to the other, commando style
• Pipeline Challenge – water is more valuable than gold, build a pipeline to transport clean water
• Raise the Flag – utilize all the equipment provided and make sure you don’t fall in the ice hole!
• Tyrolean Traverse – tackle this high ropes activity to pull yourself and crucial stores across
• Raft Building – build a vessel from the equipment supplied – a test of confidence, creativity and team work
• The Tower – organizing resupply of O2 needs planning, a common sense approach and a little problem solving