Escape From Hell Episode 5 William Parven

    William Parven is the 16 year old on Bear Grylls Escape From Hell that loves going on hikes and climbing Mountains. The day William decided to climb Mount San Gorgonio located in California this is the day he turned into a man. William had been wanting to climb San Gorgonio for awhile and one day he convinced his family to go on the long days hike. About three quarters of the way up, William realized at their current pace they would not be able to reach the summit. William decides he could still make it if he left his sister and his dad behind, but little did they know this might of been the last time they ever seen William again.

    On the way up to the summit William was making really good time making sure he could get to the top when he started coming down with altitude sickness. William could see the summit and decides to keep going higher.

    Summit fever is when you can see the top and nothing is going to stop you from making it the top including altitude sickness. It gives you a sense of invincibility that can be the most dangers thing of all because the only thing your focusing on is making it to the top of the summit and nothing else.

    William makes makes the summit with no time to spare and is forced to turn around and begin his decent before nightfall. William is still thinking about the summit when he starts running down the mountain and triggering the worst thing you could do when experiencing altitude sickness.

    On the way down Parvin realizes he doesn't recognize the trail he came up on but continues on heading down. Little does William know he's going farther and farther into the middle of nowhere. As the sun starts going down he realizes he's going to have to spend the night with nothing more than a jacket, flash light and a small pack with a little food.

   Parvin has gone camping before but that was with a bunch of camping gear and his family. The16 year old William has never spent the night in the woods alone and it will be a night he will never forget.

    William awakes to a rustling sound and takes a look with his flash light, it’s just a deer that no big deal. A couple hours later William wakes up again hearing a similar sound but this time it's a huge black bear less than 10 feet away. He freezes not sure what to do and then he realizes he needs to distract the bear so he throws his pack that contained what little food he had. The bear takes the bait giving William just enough time for him to get away still in the darkness of night.

    Now William has been missing for more than 24 hours and his family reports him missing and a full blown Search and Rescue begins. Parvin has been walking in the wrong direction the entire time and now very far from where he first began. William comes across a small stream and realizes the trail he followed crossed over a stream several times and starts following the stream. Soon after William comes to a impassible water fall, with no other way around he decides to climb down the 40 ft. waterfall.

    Being in a survival situation you would never want to risk your life getting down a waterfall but William is successful and continues on. He is feeling invincible again after completing such a difficult task when another waterfall is in the path down the mountain.
William feeling invincible rushes into it and slips and hits his head. He wakes up with a concussion and realizes he is now at the bottom of the water fall. In a lot of pain, William decides to push on..

    Parvin eventually finds and follows down a dirt road after 5 days of surviving on very little, when he finally Escapes From Hell and rescued off the mountain when he spots a vehicle.

Escape From Hell Premier Episode 1

Bear Grylls Escape From Hell Premier Episode 1 

Season Premiere on Discovery Channel November 11, 2013

 The Escape From Hell Season Premier with Bear Grylls starts November, 11 at 10 ET/PT on the Discovery Channel. Knowing Bear's reputation, this will once again be a very exciting and extreme premiere episode with survival stories that will put even Bear Grylls himself in extreme survival situations. All three survival stories are real which Grylls will re-enact on what he might do different if ever in the same set of survival circumstances.

Charles Horton's Survival Story

In April of 2005 Charles Horton experienced something he will never forget when he was cross country skiing and he broke his tibia. Being three miles away from his van he had no choice but to crawl to the closest tree and spend the night. The fact Charles broke his leg was just about as bad as him not telling anyone where he was going cross country skiing. Horton didn't get lost in the wilderness but because of his injury, and his Van 3 miles away with deep snow, this became a real winter survival situation that ended up lasting 9 days with very limited supplies.

 Charles did manage to build a fire the first night, but little did he know at the time it would be the last fire he would feel for the remainder of his 9 day survival experience in the middle of winter. Fortunately for Charles one of the few survival pack supplies he had on him was a whistle that very well may of what untimely saved his life.

Eric Le Marque Survival Story

 You may of already heard of Eric Le Marque as the famous Olympian or during his career in the National Hockey League NHL, but Eric's survival story on Mammoth Mountain in Northern California, is one that will put him in the record books as a True Survivor on several different fronts.

Le Marque's Escape From Hell Survival Experience all started one day while up snowboarding at Mammoth Mountain on one foggy day. With a major storm closely moving in, the decision was made to close down the ski area early for the safety of all the skiers as visibility was becoming extremely poor. Most everyone on the mountain obeyed the safety patrols orders and headed for the warm Ski Lodge below. Everyone except for Eric Le Marque who decided to get one more run in by hiking back up the mountain before starting his foggy decent into hell. That last run would untimely last 7 nights freezing in the middle of winter and after falling into the freezing river while trying to get a drink of water. By the time Search and Rescue finally did locate Eric, Hypothermia had already set in so severely that both feet needed to be amputated and could not be saved.

Sebastain Boucher

Sebastain Boucher a 33 Snowboarder found him self lost in the wilderness after taking a wrong turn while snowboarding down Cypress Mountain. He was lost for three days in the middle of December without food, water or any sleep. The North Star search and rescue teams found Sebastian on the 3rd day after spotting fresh racks in the snow which untimely saved his life during his winter survival experience. Sebastian lost 18 pounds in the three days and had severe frost bite on his hands and feet. 

Escape From Hell Recap

This first episode of Bear Grylls Escape From Hell New Reality TV Show has a lot of valuable lessons on how easy a seemingly simple mistake in the Great Outdoors can quickly become a life or death survival situation in a big hurry. Always being prepared no matter what you're doing in the woods is always the best advice, and the knowledge of knowing what to do with what you have could someday be invaluable and save your life.