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    A 9-year-old boy named Grayson Wynne survived 24 hours lost in a Utah wilderness area thanks to tips he learned from watching the TV show Man vs Wild with British adventurer Bear Grylls. Grayson ripped up his jacket and tied pieces to trees as markers for rescuers, just as he had seen Grylls do on the show. Rescuers followed the markers and found Grayson, who was able to spend the night sheltered and then walk to an area where a helicopter spotted him. Grayson credited the survival skills from Man vs Wild with keeping him safe until rescuers arrived.

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    A 9-year-old boy named Grayson Wynne survived 24 hours lost in a Utah wilderness area thanks to tips he learned from watching the TV show Man vs Wild with British adventurer Bear Grylls. Grayson ripped up his jacket and tied pieces to trees as markers for rescuers, just as he had seen Grylls do on the show. Rescuers followed the markers and found Grayson, who was able to spend the night sheltered and then walk to an area where a helicopter spotted him. Grayson credited the survival skills from Man vs Wild with keeping him safe until rescuers arrived.

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    A 9-year-old boy named Grayson Wynne survived 24 hours lost in a Utah wilderness area thanks to tips he learned from watching the TV show Man vs Wild with British adventurer Bear Grylls. Grayson ripped up his jacket and tied pieces to trees as markers for rescuers, just as he had seen Grylls do on the show. Rescuers followed the markers and found Grayson, who was able to spend the night sheltered and then walk to an area where a helicopter spotted him. Grayson credited the survival skills from Man vs Wild with keeping him safe until rescuers arrived.

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    A 9-year-old boy named Grayson Wynne survived 24 hours lost in a Utah wilderness area thanks to tips he learned from watching the TV show Man vs Wild with British adventurer Bear Grylls. Grayson ripped up his jacket and tied pieces to trees as markers for rescuers, just as he had seen Grylls do on the show. Rescuers followed the markers and found Grayson, who was able to spend the night sheltered and then walk to an area where a helicopter spotted him. Grayson credited the survival skills from Man vs Wild with keeping him safe until rescuers arrived.

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    Lesson 3 Text Types Date: _____________

    Boy, nine, survives wilderness thanks to tips


    from Bear Grylls
    By Paul Thompson for MailOnline TV fan knew what to do when lost in Utah
    UPDATED: 09:32, 24 June 2009

    A boy of nine lost alone in the wilderness for 24 hours survived using tips learned from Bear
    Grylls.

    Grayson Wynne knew he had to find a shelter for the night, conserve his energy and if possible
    leave clues for searchers, thanks to watching the British adventurer’s TV show.

    He ripped up his yellow jacket and tied the pieces to trees just as he had seen on Man vs Wild, 5
    the U.S. version of Grylls’s survival programme.

    Rescuers followed the markers and Grayson, who


    went missing when he wandered off on a family
    camping trip, was spotted by park rangers scouring
    the million-acre Ashley National Forest in Utah. 10

    His first words when reunited with his parents Kynan


    and Kimberley were ‘Happy Father’s Day’.

    Born survivor: Grayson Wynne in the back of an ‘I was really scared,’ he added. ‘But Man vs Wild tells
    ambulance after spending nearly a day lost in
    you how to survive all different terrains.’
    dense forest

    His father added: 'The thing that he recognised from the show, regardless of the circumstances 15
    you're in, you are capable of surviving.'

    Grayson was among a party of 15 who had set out on a hike through
    the one million acre Ashley National Forest in northern Utah.

    The group had planned to walk four miles to Daggett Lake, set up camp
    for a long weekend. 20

    Grayson went missing on Saturday evening after wandering off on his


    own.

    Search and rescue teams on foot, horses and mules fanned out to look
    for Grayson overnight. Tracker dogs were also brought in as well as
    helicopters. 25

    Despite being scared Grayson remembered from Grylls show to find a


    place of shelter and spent the night under a fallen tree.
    Inspiration: Grayson had
    watched British adventurer
    Bear Grylls's show
    Lesson 3 Text Types Date: _____________

    At daybreak he began using his bare hands to rip up his yellow rain coat and ties pieces to trees.

    'I just used my hands,' said Grayson. 'I don't know how many times I tore the thing but quite a
    lot.' 30

    He also accidentally dropped an energy bar wrapper and his rucksack.

    Grayson told rescuers he decided to follow a creek in the hope in the hope of finding help.

    Rescuers found the discarded


    sweet wrapper and also footprints
    in the mud. 35

    When Grayson heard a helicopter


    overhead, he ran into a meadow
    and waved the last piece of his
    jacket.

    Two searchers on horseback saw 40


    him first, and his first words to his
    father after being reunited were
    'Happy Father's Day.'

    Kimberley said: 'There were tears,


    Wilderness: The nine-year-old got lost in Ashley National Forest, Utah
    lots of tears, and just happiness.' 45

    Grylls’s show Man vs Wild is among the most popular on the Discovery Channel in the US.

    In the series the 35-year-old is forced to endure survival in the some of the world’s toughest re-
    gions from the frozen wastes of Alaska to the Sahara Desert.

    Grylls, who was the youngest Briton to climb Mount Everest at the age of 23, has made 40 epi-
    sodes of the series. 50

    Often to survive he has to build


    shelters from available material
    and eat jungle or forest crea-
    tures.

    Grylls, who has faced accusa- 55


    tions of faking some of the
    tricky situations he has filmed,
    was last month made Chief
    Scout of Britain.

    He was the youngest person to


    60
    hold the position since Scouts
    Grayson's group lost him as they walked from Spirit Lake to Daggett Lake,
    founder Robert Baden Powell.
    above

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