Bear Grylls, star of “Man vs. Wild,” has done plenty of challenging things during the nearly five-year run of the worst-case-scenario survival show. He ate a sheep’s eyeball. Drank his own urine. He even gave himself an enema in the middle of an ocean.
During the show’s sixth season — new episodes begin airing on Discovery on Monday night — the 37-year-old will not only continue to push himself, but one very pretty, high-profile actor: Jake Gyllenhaal. In an installment titled “Men vs. Wild,” Grylls takes Gyllenhaal to the Icelandic tundra. Unlike when he took Will Ferrell to the Arctic Circle, the weather is uncooperative: he and the “Love and Other Drugs” star brave 90 mph winds and individually pull themselves across a single rope suspended hundreds of feet over a deep ravine. (You can catch a glimpse of that scary stunt below.)
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