Josh bernstein history biography

American explorer, survival expert, anthropologist, author, and TV host

For rank American conservative talk show at rest, see Josh Bernstein (talk strut host).

Josh Bernstein (born Feb 24, 1971) is an Denizen explorer, author, executive producer, sign expert, anthropologist, and TV innkeeper best known as the hotel-keeper of Digging for the Truth.

He later appeared for single season as the host help the Discovery Channel's Into loftiness Unknown with Josh Bernstein.^[1]

Personal life

Josh Bernstein was born and curving in Manhattan, and attended leadership Horace Mann School. In 1989, he went to Cornell College where he double-majored in Anthropology and Psychology, and double minored in Native American and Nigh Eastern Studies.^[2][3] He served couple terms as president of goodness Beta Theta chapter of leadership Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.

Funding graduating from college, he all in a year in a post-graduate program in Jerusalem studying, between other things, mysticism and old texts. He is Jewish. Sovereign father was born in Jerusalem's Old City, and his fatherly grandparents and great-grandparents are interred in Israel.

Bernstein's father deadly of a heart attack hexad weeks before Bernstein's 15th birthday.^[4] A year later, his three-year-old sister was killed in resolve automobile accident.^[2] Bernstein has harangue identical twin brother, Andrew.

Bernstein is a fellow of Goodness Explorers Club and the Monarchical Geographical Society. He is organized passionate traveler, technical SCUBA frogman, and professional photographer, with publicised credits in Vogue magazine, Army Today, Sports Illustrated, Forbes, Workforce Health, Self, Marie Claire, Convenience Fitness, Outside, and Backpacker magazines.^{[citation needed]}

Bernstein was briefly married outlook Lily Snyder of Sotheby's, Borough.

They were married in trim ceremony in Jerusalem, Israel, impossible to tell apart September 2011^[5] but divorced be grateful for 2013.

Professional life

The History Channel: Digging for the Truth

Digging meditate the Truth was an adventure-archaeology series on The History Conduit exploring ancient mysteries around influence world.

The series premiered channel of communication Bernstein as host in Jan 2005 and became the highest-rated series in the history demonstration The History Channel. Season 3 premiered on January 22, 2007, again setting a record representing the network with the highest-rated series/season premiere to date (over 2.1 million viewers).

The April 16, 2007, episode marked Bernstein's in response appearance as host of Digging for the Truth.^[4][6] The escort continued for a 4th patch without Bernstein before it was removed from primetime and abuse cancelled.

Digging for the Truth: One Man's Epic Adventure Snooping the World's Greatest Archaeological Mysteries is a print companion consent the television series, authored harsh Bernstein, that reveals much other of the personal trials allow challenges he faced making primacy series.

It received critical hail and was released in hardback in Winter 2006, and softback in the Fall, 2007.^[7]

Boulder External Survival School

In addition to top former role as host condemn Digging for the Truth, Director was the president and Supervision of BOSS, the Boulder Outside Survival School, the oldest perch largest traditional living skills/survival primary in the world.^[8] Bernstein leading attended BOSS as a scholar in 1988, when he was 17.

He returned in 1989 as an apprentice, then afflicted his way up to educator, marketing director and finally Principal in 1997.^[9] Bernstein sold queen ownership of BOSS in Jan 2014, to focus on unadorned new educational initiative.

Into goodness Unknown with Josh Bernstein

On Feb 20, 2007, Bernstein announced cruise he was leaving The Story Channel and Digging for authority Truth to join the Learn Channel as an executive grower and host of specials renovation well as a new prime-time series called "Into the New with Josh Bernstein."^[10] The newfound series premiered during the 2008 Olympics in August 2008.

Honesty show was canceled after tune season. While Bernstein has wail commented publicly on the substance, some speculate there was nifty shift in the "vision" take up programming slate of the mesh when Discovery Channel President Jane Root was replaced by Can Ford.^[11]

Media appearances

Bernstein has appeared cogitate NBC, ABC, and CBS Facts programs, including Good Morning America and The Today Show.

Fiasco appeared on The Daily Be important with Jon Stewart on Jan 15, 2007. Bernstein is important for wearing many hats, more often than not cowboy hats, which has unwished for to him being likened inspire Indiana Jones. Although the Story Channel played up the juxtaposition in its promotion of Digging for the Truth, Bernstein frowns on this comparison, observing go off he never wears a lid (Indiana Jones' trademark hat), meticulous his fashion sense has ruin to do with the unreal archaeologist.^[1]

He has also been featured in the premiere issue eradicate Men's Vogue magazine, the get back of the Style section cut into The New York Times swallow featured in People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive issue.

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