Barack Obama is recording his experience with survivalist Bear Grylls.

The President of the United States has joined Alaska and Bear Grylls to measure the state of the consequences of climate change on the state as well as the retreating glacier as a result of global warming.

The White House posted a picture of the two, ahem, chilling out from the glacier in their hike with all the remark: ‘Happy this was the sole bear I met in the park’.

The President also took snapshots indicating the effects global warming has had on the region together with the glacier withdrawing:

Following their excursion, Bear Grylls will be educating a crash course in survival skills to the huge man. So should Obama discover himself stranded in a woods with nothing to eat but a rat stewed in his own pee, he will understand exactly how to proceed.

Bear Grylls has formerly been on excursions with the likes of Kate Hudson, Michelle Rodriguez and Channing Tatum.