“When I’m on your own, I don’t
need to double check a knot. But when suddenly I have Jake Gyllenhaal
hanging off it, I have to triple check it before letting him commit
to it,” he says. The exploration expert travelled to
Iceland with Jake, apart from touring New Zealand and Borneo.
Recalling some of the toughest situations that he and the actor
wriggled out of, he adds, “We were 5,000 feet high, when we hit
hurricane winds moving at 160 kph. The other was crossing a huge
gorge, which had a 150-foot drop. We had to balance on top of this
and pull ourselves along. Jake was really nervous. He’s pretty
scared of heights.”
With no format preparation, the two
headed out into the wilderness few months ago. “I always say ‘just
trust me and we’ll be okay’. But with Jake, it was definitely one
of the worst conditions I’ve ever had on my own. He really got
thrown in at the deep end, but I thought that he would love that;
he’d never been there. And it made sense to both of our schedules,”
says Grylls. The episode featuring Jake airs on Wednesday at 9 pm on
Discovery Channel.
The GyllenFactor has been having a great impact on the fitness levels of the citizens of NYC. Jake's appearances at Soul Cycle have caused such a stir that there are so many people going now that there isn't room for Jake! He’s always there,” a source said. “And he gets a lot of female attention.” This Friday, though, they were on their own. Where next will exercising Jake strike?
Jake has been keeping up with his mission to work through the restaurants of NYC though, this time with his mum. Nice shirt!
Includes pictures from IHJ.
