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Arctic Adventure: Follow Bear Grylls

I bet you’ve all heard of Bear Grylls; real-life adventurer and presenter of You vs. Wild. But when he was dropped on an untouched snowy mountaintop for the next episode, all contact was lost and  the weather broke.

When Bear looked around in hope to try and find civilization, he spotted something   something strange on one mountain: a door. When he stepped inside, a long corridor lead him to a balcony overlooking what looked like some abandoned laboratory, scattered with broken weapons and machines of all kind.

Seven feet away from a central control unit, the adventurer spotted a scroll, with the instructions of how to fire a major weapon that could potentially destroy the  world; would Bear launch the missile or not?

Well, of course not; this isn’t a horror film, but Bear was intrigued by how the lab was abandoned and not even a whisp of its stories had been told to the public. Maybe someone went mad and every single worker died? Even then, what about their family members who knew about their jobs? had they got killed by this savage scientist too?

The reason Bear believed this was that he spotted something strange on the walls: claw marks. They were scratched on every surface there was, even the scroll was dripped in blood and had been  ripped up.

As he held his torch over the ground, Bear spotted  another side to the scroll, which read out Don’t be scared by the look of Snowden Lab; it was trashed years ago by the savage - which ended there and was completely hand-written, unlike the other side. Trashed by who? thought Bear as he realised his hand was touching the launch button. When he screamed it pushed the button down more and the missile was initiated, but a warning flashed on a huge screen, which read out Out of gunpowder. The adventurer breathed a sigh of relief as a helicopter came to pick him up and took him back to humanity.

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