By Ashley Thompson

Running Wild With Bear Grylls this week is Jesse Tyler Ferguson. We are all thinking of his Modern Family character doing this challenge, but let's not sell Jesse short. If anyone can get celebrities out of their posh shells and into the cliffs and ridges of Croda dei Toni, Bear is the one.

At the beginning of his journey Jesse tells us that his survival skills are extremely non existent but promises it will be an interesting show. Once Bear picks Jesse up in the helicopter and explains that they are hovering over avalanche danger zones, Jesse asks the pertinent question that we are all asking, "Why would we want to do that?". Bear is about to show you. Handing Jesse a fancy dynamic stick, they cause an avalanche via explosion and the helicopter drops them off. They are now about 9,000 feet up and headed across a knife ridge to the summit and descend down to camp. If Jesse can keep from looking down and thinking about that 800 ft drop. Tethering them to the rock, Bear informs Jesse that that is exactly where they are going... down.

When they get down the nitty gritty we learn that Jesse was an "indoor kid" and wasn't very involved in sports. The moments when he would miss the ball he would get teased and he considered that disappointing because if he received encouragement he may have been more successful. Since the success of his show, Modern Family, he realizes what a character builder his childhood was and finds that he is actually helping other families of gay children. He wants to prove to everyone that he is tougher than he is. In fact, he's proving how tuff he's always been.

Heading to camp for the night and getting dinner is their top priorities before temperatures plummet. What exactly is dinner, you ask? Frozen mountain goat. Just chop off the leg, Jesse. And he does "because I don't want to feel like a wimp". Now to make their snow cave for shelter. Pro tip: burn a candle. Not only does it provide light at night and the littles bit of warmth, but it also tells you that you have oxygen. As longs as it's burning there's oxygen in the cave. For breakfast? A goat fat latte. Yummm.

Their descent down to their extraction point is the most danger they've been in. Using crampons which are like steel claws on the bottom of your boot, the pair blindly inch their way down the mountain... or maybe it's a frozen waterfall? Nonetheless, manliness is a state of mind.

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