NBC on Tuesday released clips showing part of President Barack Obama's foray into the Alaska wilderness last week with reality TV survival star Bear Grylls, with the pair snacking on salmon at Exit Glacier near Seward.
The pair taped an episode of "Running Wild With Bear Grylls" during the president's hike to the glacier in Kenai Fjords National Park.
The preview shows Grylls presented Obama with a half-mangled piece of salmon, which he said had been partially eaten by a bear and left on a riverbank. Grylls cooked it on rocks.
"So I think the president looked a little surprised when I pulled out this sort of bloody carcass of half-eaten salmon," Grylls said in the video.
Obama pronounced the salmon "tasty," though he noted it "would have worked nice if we'd had a cracker to go with it."
"Bear's a mediocre cook. But the fact that we ate something recognizable was encouraging," Obama said. "Now, the fact that he told me this was a leftover fish from a bear, I don't know if that was necessary. He could have just left that out."
Another preview video released by NBC Tuesday begins with images of an Osprey helicopter landing at the Seward airport Sept. 1 and Obama disembarking from Marine One.
Obama declared of his day in Seward: "This has got to be one of the best days of my presidency. First of all, I'm not in the office. Secondly, I'm not wearing a suit."
"You know, as president, I'm in what's known as the bubble. And Secret Service makes sure that I'm always out of danger, which I very much appreciate, but it can be a little confining. Every once in a while, if I do something unexpected, the phrase we use is that 'the bear is loose,' " Obama said. "So to be with Bear in the woods, it doesn't get any better than that."
Obama also said the main point of his visit to Alaska was to highlight the impacts of climate change.
"I've got two daughters and I don't want grandkids too soon, but eventually I hope to have some. I want to make sure that this is there for them and not just for us," Obama said in the video.