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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
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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

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