This guy puts Survivor Man to shame.

http://dsc.discovery.com/beyond/player.html?playerId=203711706&bclid=301793941&clik=dsc_leftnav

11/25/2006 4:22:30 PM

And that's why you don't walk on a frozen lake. That guy needs a vacation after that.

11/25/2006 4:27:18 PM

Those two should have a survive-off.

11/25/2006 4:44:12 PM

survivorman imitation

plus, he has a whole camera crew with him, survivorman is all alone

11/25/2006 4:46:39 PM

SurvivorMan ftw.

11/25/2006 4:53:11 PM

Survivorman would kill this guy with his bare hands, then use his body as a raft to sail across the Atlantic Ocean.

11/25/2006 4:57:38 PM

Les is more (than Bear)

11/25/2006 5:00:15 PM

yea canadians suck, but not nearly as much as the english

11/25/2006 5:06:56 PM

I find it impossible to believe that RachelMarie would advocate "This guy puts Survivor Man to shame". Clearly someone hacked her t-dub account with malicious intent to slander her good name.

11/25/2006 5:12:52 PM

puts survivorman to shame??

AHAHAHHAHAAHA

man vs. wild dude is a joke. total fraud

11/25/2006 6:11:55 PM

motherfucker ate a snake

11/25/2006 6:33:59 PM

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"SurvivorMan ftw."

11/25/2006 6:36:12 PM

show is very good. I still think survivor man is good and informative. I like both

11/25/2006 7:02:12 PM

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"Survivorman is back in action! In just under one week I will be flying to the Amazon jungle in Ecuador to do the first shoot of the new season. It has taken quite a while to get to this stage but I, along with my production partner Dave Brady and our production team are thrilled to be in the middle of a ridiculously hectic schedule right now, ramping up the activities for Survivorman. And don't worry, same set up, just me alone with only my camera gear. But the locations have become a bit more exotic. Along with the Amazon, I am expecting to go to the Australian Outback, the African desert, the African bushland, the Alaskan coast and the rough scoured rock of northern Labrador. "

11/25/2006 7:03:13 PM

survivorman ftw, he goes it alone. unlike bear (and his film crew) versus wild

11/25/2006 7:13:46 PM

yeah, Survivorman FTW, Man vs. Wild is a fucking joke

the only worthwhile thing I've seen him do is use some vines to rappel down a waterfall, other than that its worthless

11/25/2006 7:28:07 PM

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"the only worthwhile thing I've seen him do is use some vines to rappel down a waterfall, other than that its worthless"

then he climbed back UP the waterfall. it was all done for looks. in a real situation where there was a waterfall, is he suggesting someone should repel down it? if you slip and break an ankle, you're dead - alone in the middle of a rain forest

11/25/2006 8:51:05 PM

if you stay there and try to fend off the jungle you're dead as well.

11/25/2006 9:01:14 PM

i gotta give props to RachelMarie for even knowing who these cats are
lets make babies

11/25/2006 9:10:05 PM

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"Bear Grylls falls into a frozen lake and lives to tell about it."

More like intentionally jumps into a frozen stream, is ready for it all along, never becomes submerged, and has a hot fire with a dry tinder bundle waiting. This guy is all show. How can you take a person seriously when they don't even have any vowels in their last name?!

11/26/2006 9:49:51 AM

You got a good point there

survivorman ftw

11/26/2006 10:22:55 AM

all i know is Bear pissed on his shirt and then wrapped it around his face to stay cool. Fraud or not that was disgusting

11/26/2006 11:52:48 AM

Les Stroud would make a crossbow out of a shoelace, two sticks, and a bicycle spoke, and shoot Bear in the jugular from atop his perch in the forest canopy. He could survive for months on the remains.

11/26/2006 3:22:06 PM

Les is a real-world gilligan's island Professor

11/26/2006 4:25:27 PM

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"and has a hot fire with a dry tinder bundle waiting."

that's the whole point ..... he was trying to point out the things you need to have prepared if you're going to try and cross a frozen lake. he intentionally started the fire. if you fall in you go back to your fire and dry off and try again. if you don't fall in ... every thing's good and you continue on.

11/26/2006 4:44:09 PM

survivorman shoots his own stuff, man vs wild has a camera crew

11/26/2006 6:17:19 PM

In some environments, there may not be any sticks to scavenge.

11/26/2006 6:27:46 PM

Survivor man is Ok.

What I'm digging is Everest: Beyond on the Limits but I'm a mountaineer myself. This year was the worst year on Everest since 1996 when Jon Krakauer wrote about that cluster-fuck in Into Thin Air. So I'm kinda curious to see how the series develops.

11/26/2006 6:33:10 PM

death

11/26/2006 10:31:27 PM

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"that's the whole point ..... he was trying to point out the things you need to have prepared if you're going to try and cross a frozen lake. he intentionally started the fire. if you fall in you go back to your fire and dry off and try again. if you don't fall in ... every thing's good and you continue on."

but then he crossed the 2nd frozen lake and didnt build a fire

11/26/2006 11:37:02 PM

i think of myself as an old school man- i play with guns, i backpack, fix cars, fix houses myself, i canoe, fish, etc.

bear grylls makes me feel like i have a vagina.

12/27/2006 9:22:07 PM

can wait for the new season of Survior Man to start
did anyone catch Man vs Wild in Kenya
Bear picked up the elephant dung and squeezed all the water out of it and drank it
the "shit water" was so fucking nasty i almost threw up

12/28/2006 12:25:07 PM

I've been watching both these shows from the beginning and have the following thoughts:

First off, and don't kill me, I think Bear knows a bit more and is better at doing some of the survival things. He seems to be able to fish and hunt with a bit more luck than Les (However I have a tiny suspicion that some of the stuff that Bear runs into is just a little too coincidental...like the horse and the rabbit in that episode). Whereas Les' traps and things don't always work, and it's often difficult for him to start fire (although that is part of what appeals to me, its a bit more real)...he often has an expert help him for a while before his survival time. Les is sometimes more resourceful too...I remember watching the arctic episode of Man vs. Wild and thinking for 20 minutes, "MAKE SOME DAMN SNOW SHOES", and probably thought that because I saw Les do it right away.

I also think that Bear does a lot of things that look really cool, but some are completely unnecessary. I DID like him jumping in the frozen lake and also jumping off the "cliff" earlier in that episode to show how those knots on the string worked (because I didn't believe it would). But he quite often will climb up a waterfall or something, saying its the fastest way, when there's probably some stairs just 10 feet away or something. It's like he has a giant hill to go down so he says, "Well the best way to go down, and coolest looking, is to just run and jump really high, so here I go!" (see the hill in the volcano episode).

Lastly though, I like the format of Les' show (7 days), where Bear just has to get somewhere...and Les has to deal with a whole lot more shit with all that equipment. So I am a bigger fan of Survivorman

12/28/2006 12:52:28 PM

climbing up a waterfall, jumping off cliffs, all the stuff Bear does would be risky to the point of suicidal if he were actually stranded in the wild.

I prefer Survivorman

12/28/2006 1:41:46 PM

Bear does stage his stuff. In the Sierra episode he stays mostly by the Shuteye road, though, he's kinda all over the place in that episode rather than going from A to B. I kinda imagine he jumps out of a freezing river and into an RV and then talks with the crew about what crazy stunt they can pull next.

12/28/2006 2:08:15 PM

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"Everest: Beyond on the Limits"

it sucks that by the nature of the show it has limited episodes...

I felt bad for max when he found the guy dying


I'm more interested in survivorman from a pure "what if that happend to me" standpoint, but man vs wild is rather good at conveying useful knowledge and tips as well

[Edited on December 28, 2006 at 2:30 PM. Reason : .]

12/28/2006 2:21:48 PM

http://dsc.discovery.com/tvlistings/series.jsp?series=112243&gid=14831&channel=DSC

sweet

1/22/2007 2:16:24 AM

what bugged me about jumping into the ice water is that he had very visible holes made in the ice for him to grab on to in which pull himself out with.

1/22/2007 4:20:37 PM

I liek the one where Bear gets stranded on an island. Bitch jumps out of a helicopter a few miles away from land and swims in. He is pretty awesome, his scenarios are a little more plausible but they are both good shows.

1/22/2007 4:35:51 PM

his shit is all completely planned out though

he has a crew

he has a plan

its obvious he knows exactly where he is going, how to get there, and what to expect along the way

none of that is very plausible in a real survival situation

[Edited on January 22, 2007 at 4:38 PM. Reason : /]

1/22/2007 4:38:04 PM

He has a cameraman.

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"Throughout each gnarly adventure, Grylls is able to narrate his experience surprisingly well. While in the lake, he treads water for a bit while describing the most common reasons people die when they fall into freezing water. If it weren't impossible to stage some of the show's scenarios, it would be hard to believe that Grylls didn't get frequent help from his production crew. But our fearless host did survive three years in the British Special Forces, where he broke his back and lived to scale Mount Everest."

[Edited on January 22, 2007 at 4:41 PM. Reason : ]

1/22/2007 4:38:53 PM

i love man vs. wild!

1/22/2007 5:04:40 PM

im a bigger fan of survivorman... but most every thing in man v wild is plausible


and in the water episode he doesn't have hand holds pre made .... those are footprints he digs out and pulls himself up on.

1/22/2007 5:30:11 PM

I don't care what you say, Bear is pretty fucking hardcore to do this.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vlEavUH9ng


I think I would rather die of thirst.

Someone embed this shit, no pun intended.

1/22/2007 6:38:42 PM

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"and in the water episode he doesn't have hand holds pre made .... those are footprints he digs out and pulls himself up on."

Yeh...that's what I thought too...but the holes were there before he jumped and if you looked his feet didn't even start to dig into the snow, meaning that whatever "made" the holes and had to apply more force than his feet could have.

1/22/2007 7:53:22 PM

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Survivorman Season 1 DVD Set now available!


You all have been asking and we were listening. Survivorman Season 1- Featuring Les Stroud is ready for ordering today! Order now .

New Season of Survivorman in the works!


Survivorman is back in action!

Les has completed the first show of the new season in Ecuador it is now in the edit room, and he is now in Africa scouting locations and shooting episode 2 & 3 for season 2; Air dates to be announced

Les is now in Africa be sure to keep checking in on Les's new Blog at http://www.lesstroudonline.com/blog or click on the link at the top right of this page....(if problems try refresh or clear your web browser cache ) as he will be keeping in touch with us from his different locations as he films Season 2.

To all our U.S.A friends, a lot of you have been asking when "Off The Grid with Les Stroud" will be airing in the United States, well we are working on it and be assured that we will let you know as soon as it is available.....

2/28/2007 12:23:42 PM

the Season 1 DVD set has been available for quite some time, but the new season news is GREAT, Survivorman FTW

2/28/2007 1:53:04 PM

I always felt that I learned a bit more from Man v Wild. Plus after that volcano episode, that's one twisted situation to be in. I was all freaked out that at any moment in time the guy would fall through the rock and into liquid mamgma.

Then again, both of these guys are freaking nuts.

2/28/2007 2:05:29 PM

when are they gonna come out with new episodes?

2/28/2007 3:42:51 PM

bear is the shit favorite show right now

2/28/2007 4:42:45 PM