Man Vs. Wild

I watched the original "The Hills Have Eyes" for the first time last week, and the documentary felt more real than any survivalist TV show. I swear, if you venture off the beaten path in the desert, especially outside of Barstow, you run into, and away from people just like this.

Man vs Wild fo sho.

I missed the episode. Did he eat any dead and rotting Big Horn Sheep parts?

Dirty Gri Gri, or is it GiGi wrote:I watched the original "The Hills Have Eyes" for the first time last week, and the documentary felt more real than any survivalist TV show...

Me too. I made the drive from Colorado to Yosemite and the inhabitants of some of the NV desert towns we passed through scared me more than any scenario I've seen on MvW.

But, if anyone makes that trip, be sure to stop by "The Little Ale-Inn" near Area 51. They don't actually have a single ale on tap but the experience is worth the stop.

Crag Dweller wrote: .... be sure to stop by "The Little Ale-Inn" near Area 51. They don't actually have a single ale on tap but the experience is worth the stop.

I actually enjoyed a decent BLT at the Little A'Le'Inn (my third, or fourth landing there) a few months ago, as we were entertained for an hour, or so with somewhat interesting conversation, intermittent blank stares, and awkward staring contests at times with the bartender, and a Rachel local. Never a dull moment when mingling with desert folk. Kinda makes one feel hungover the rest of the day- even without drinking alcoholic beverages. : )

Eh, it's entertainment. He makes no bones about his crew and the fact that they stage certain parts of the show to demonstrate techniques. As for "terrible advice" all those techniques are valid if the shit hits the fan and you need to get out of dodge quick. Exposure is a mother when nature happens. You have to admit the dude does put his grapes on the line. Props to the guy for making a pretty effin cool living.

He`s going to get someone killed one of these days. I dont think an episode goes by that he`s not in a body of water, regardless of climate and temperature. Down climb a waterfall? Walk knee deep down the length of a river? Drink your urine? C`mon now. The last thing you want is to be wet in a survival situation or drink your urine.

Corey Morris wrote:I really enjoy how this "survivalist" dashes down scree fields....really...would one do this in a survival situation?

I did. Running from the Wisconsin DNR one night down a boulderfield in the dark at Devils Lake cuz we were illegally camped again. I survived, and escaped to live another adventure.

les stroud. that is all.

Adam Winters wrote:les stroud. that is all.

+1

Adam Winters wrote:les stroud. that is all.

+1 for the real way to do it.

Adam Winters wrote:les stroud. that is all.

+1. Yeah, he is certainly grumpy enough to actually be surviving.

Adam Winters wrote:les stroud. that is all.

+1

Not only is Les Stroud a sick survivalist, but he is a cool guy too.

I'm an Assistant Scoutmaster for a Boy Scout Troop in New York. We had two guys make Eagle recently. When this happens, we like to write to various people of renown and request that they send a congradulatory letter to the new Eagle Scouts.

We wrote to Les Stroud and he sent back two of the most inspirational Eagle letters I have read (being an Eagle Scout myself and knowing many others) along with signed pictures of himself...Bear Grylls...who is the honorary Scout Executive of the UK does not write congradulatory letters...all he has to do is have somebody else write something for him and stamp his signature...and he can't even do that even though he is pretty seriously associated with Scouting...come on now dude...what is that about?

All that being said, the show is still pretty entertaining...

Adam Winters wrote:les stroud. that is all.

+1

Adam Winters wrote:les stroud. that is all.

Bear (Edward Grylls) was British Special Forces, so he is an army survival speicalist, just like the dude in Man Woman Wild (watch if you like over the top sexually suggestive survival situations with him and his wife, gross), they can make it through, but they are mission oriented. Les Stroud, Cody Lundine and Dave Cantebery provide much more reasonable survival instruction.

Anybody see the episode where he kills a caribou with his knife? That's what made me stop watching the guy. He didn't have to do that; he did it for ratings. He could have easily demonstrated how to get control of the animal by controlling the antlers, and he could have stopped there. But no, he has to plunge his knife between its eyes. The guy is an egomaniac who probably gets more people killed than he shows how to survive.

Adam Winters wrote:les stroud. that is all.

+1 for a real survivalist, and a damn fine human being.

Bear Girls is the sport rappeller of survival.

also ... hansel - so hot right now.

Another vote for Les is he can play a damn fine harmonica. Imagine out of the two which you'd want to camp with more? Well, maybe if you're a woman you'd have a caveat... But I think I'd choose the mean harp player with some real backwoods stories over some jacked up, blabbering adreno-twit.

RockinOut wrote:He`s going to get someone killed one of these days. I dont think an episode goes by that he`s not in a body of water, regardless of climate and temperature. Down climb a waterfall? Walk knee deep down the length of a river? Drink your urine? C`mon now. The last thing you want is to be wet in a survival situation or drink your urine.

Let's hope this Henderson, NV. missing teen is found safe, and sound- He's reported as a fan of Discovery Channel survival shows, and reportedly told his mom that he planned to "swim the river into Arizona" (from Hoover Dam area).
Of course, until the kid is found, and more is known it's just speculation that the shows had anything to do with his mind-set, and disappearance. Anyway, the news report linked below reminded me of this thread, and some of the concerns expressed by a few of the posters re: survivalist TV shows.

News link

A very sad update.

RIP young man.

Anyone have a video of that rope-solo/belayed free climb? I can't find it anywhere online.

It's just like climbing in any other medium, the only ones who know it's wrong are climbers, and we're already the ones with the better perspective on the show as entertainment, because we've actually, you know, been OUTSIDE at least a time or two.

But hell, at least he was actually doing real climbing. I remember watching Inceptionand watching Ra's Al Ghul and the Scarecrow...er, I mean Ken Watanabe and Cillian Murphy rappel UPHILL in the last act at the "snow base" and being all "damn, that's some attention to detail, did he hand-drill those bolts in his mind, or was his mind lazy and using a powerdrill?"