Les Stroud "Survivorman" calling it quits

Yeah, love the show. I've must have seen every episode like 5 times, always on OLN.

Season 3 starts tonight on the US discovery channel.

Season 3 has Sierra Nevada, Colorado, Arctic Tundra, Australian Outback, Papa New Guinea and Temagami Ontario.

I'm not really surprised that he's ending the show. But spending 6 weeks every year starving probably isn't good for his body.

He's done a few other projects for TV.
 
Not a shock that the show is going away...I mean this guy has proven that he can survive ANYwhere. Where else can he go? The moon?

...that'd be interesting...
 
Loved the show. He was at NAB last year.
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Really? Was he setup somewhere or just attending? That be cool to talk to him.

The show originally aired in Canada about 3+ years ago.

My favourite episodes are usually the ones where he's in the tropics where he can show a lot of survival techniques. Some of the harsher climates are very limited.

One of the cooler moments in the show is the northern Ontario plane crash scenario, when he hasn't eaten for like 4 days and then catches the snow shoe hare with the snare, you can tell he feels bad for killing it, but his hunger outweighs any guilt. Really cool moment on the show. "When it comes to survival, everything is fair game". Also when he eats the rattlesnake in the Georgia Swamp.
 
Same here. I might get shunned for this, but I find Bear Grylls much more entertaining.

Entertaining I said... not believable ;)
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I somewhat agree with that. The fact that he has to shoot the entire thing himself definetly takes away from him being able to put himself in different situations and show different techinques. Where as Bear just has a crew following him and setting up scenerios for him to get into. You probably learn more from Man Vs Wild than Survivorman, but I think Survivorman is a better overall show in terms of style. It's a very original idea. I'd love to see what Les could put together with a crew like Bear has.

Didn't Man Vs Wild originally show the show like Bear was out there the entire time? I thought they got into some trouble with that and eventually had to put a disclaimer up claiming that some of the scenerios were staged.
 
I lost a lot of respect for him during one show. He was in the Jungle, and trying to show how to get water from a certain vine. He was screwing around and not paying attention, and started just blindly hacking at the vine. Sure enough, he damn near hacked off his finger. Way to show proper respect when using a knife.
 
I lost a lot of respect for him during one show. He was in the Jungle, and trying to show how to get water from a certain vine. He was screwing around and not paying attention, and started just blindly hacking at the vine. Sure enough, he damn near hacked off his finger. Way to show proper respect when using a knife.
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Yeah, that's the one he's looking up a the monkeys and he trying to cut the water vine. It may have been an stupid thing to do, but I don't think I lost respect for him.
 
I like Man vs. Wild too, and he does some really cool things, but it's definitely more of a production. He had one episode in the Sierra Nevada in which he carefully walks up to what he called a "wild horse". I'm a Sierra Nevada explorer, I know all about the Sierra, and I know there's no "wild horses" in the Sierra. I since found out he had choppered wild horses in from Nevada. Hey, if he wants to chopper in horses for a 'scene', fine, but I guess no one on the production team was savvy enough about the Sierra mountains to know there's no wild horses roaming around. But the things Bear does definitely shows unique skill and is good information, and no doubt 'entertaining'. Survivorman is less production and more realism.
 
I like Man vs. Wild too, and he does some really cool things, but it's definitely more of a production. He had one episode in the Sierra Nevada in which he carefully walks up to what he called a "wild horse". I'm a Sierra Nevada explorer, I know all about the Sierra, and I know there's no "wild horses" in the Sierra. I since found out he had choppered wild horses in from Nevada. Hey, if he wants to chopper in horses for a 'scene', fine, but I guess no one on the production team was savvy enough about the Sierra mountains to know there's no wild horses roaming around. But the things Bear does definitely shows unique skill and is good information, and no doubt 'entertaining'. Survivorman is less production and more realism.
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They just started airing in Canada earlier in the year so I think, they've gone in and did voice over on all the episodes with disclaimers saying that they have been placed there to show what you could do in that situation. I remember reading something about them admitting that some of the scenerios were staged and how they would put disclaimers up for new episodes, but when they aired here they were already changed. He'd have to be the luckiest man alive to just stumble across a fresh dead Deer, Camal, Goat, Sheep and Rabbit.
 
I have always wondered how many granola bars / bottles of water he has stuffed in his camera bags.
 
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