Trained from a young age in martial arts, Grylls went on to spend three years as a soldier in the British Special Forces, as part of 21 SAS Regiment. We helped him change his clothes and have some food,” Rawat said, adding that Singh was “badly shaken by the ordeal but otherwise safe and sound, and was sent back to his home in Bijnor.BEAR GRYLLS OBE, has become known worldwide as one of the most recognized faces of survival and outdoor adventure. “He was shivering and hungry when Jal Police got him. “We went on a raft to the area from where the smoke was coming and saw him waving hysterically, asking to be rescued,” Rawat said.

This time, he got lucky as the smoke from the fire was spotted by police. He again lit up a fire in order to warm himself and also hoping that somebody would notice the smoke and reach out to him. Singh resumed walking through the forest the next day on Saturday and ended up in a stretch of the forest opposite Shadani Ghat in Haridwar. Eventually, he spent another night in the forest, lighting a bonfire and sleeping on top of a tree,” Rawat, who is in charge of the Saptrishi chowki at Haridwar, said. “He told us that he kept walking inside the jungle throughout the day but couldn’t find a way out. After spending the night on top of the tree, he ventured into the nearby forest the next morning, hoping to find a way to human habitation. He lit a bonfire to keep himself warm and then climbed a tree to avoid wild animals.

Recounting what happened next, Pradeep Rawat, a police official who was part ofĪnurag Singh’s bag was waterproof and had matches inside. Fearing for his life, Singh quickly jumped into the river.

This is when a leopard emerged from the bushes and pounced at him. He stopped his bike and took out his phone to take a selfie with the river as the backdrop. He ended up on a patch of forest land surrounded by water.” Fortunately for him, the bag he was carrying was waterproof and had matches in it. It was evening, the Ganga and the forest looked beautiful and being a photography enthusiast, he stopthe team that eventually rescued Singh, told TOI, “As soon as he jumped into the water, he found a log and clung to it. In a miraculous escape mirroring the script of the survival series ‘Man vs Wild’, a man dodged a leopard attack, swam across the Ganga to a forest area for safety, got lost in the jungle - full of wild animals - for two nights and was thereafter rescued, all without getting a scratch.Īnurag Singh, a 30-year-old balloon vendor, was returning from Rishikesh, where he works, to his home in Bijnor, when he passed the Chilla area of Rajaji Tiger Reserve on Thursday.

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