Imagine rather having to be isolated in Alaskan wilderness then this shit hole could tell even he enjoyed Alaska more. It may be colder and I don't like the cold... but fuck the amazon on your own
One dude who slept on the ground in the Amazon said he woke up and the whole ground was moving. He noticed 3 meters all around him there was nothing but ants. You might had thought that special effect in Indian Jones and the Crystal Skull where that guy is eaten alive by swarms of ants is just made up, actually... its not that far from reality.
I live in a city with 150 000 people. However, its surrounded by the forest... Amazon forest... woke up with a snake on me... imagine what this man is going through.
According to some later interviews, Les said that being stalked by that jaguar was the most scared/most dangerous scenario he'd ever been when filming Survivorman.
Let's be honest, if it wasn't, it would betray him to be a fool. He's been around things that can kill people, but generally don't (bears, lions, and even cougars). But Jaguars? Jaguars are man eaters.
I would also say his adventures in India were terrifying since he was being stalked by Royal Bengal Tigers. Any of the adventures when he really has to worry about big cats is nerve-wracking.
Survival journal, day 3. I'm still watching old episodes with no end in sight. The Canadian talks at me, but I fear that he lost his mind long ago. The side panel whispers of a distant "Season 3". Will I ever see my family again?
Tigers can have an urge to kill a specific person, mostly only out of revenge.But it seems this cat dint need revenge, just human dinner (especially, cuisine du Canadiennes).
this was personally the most brutal out of the survivorman episodes, really shows Les' both physical and mental endurance. thankful that Les uploaded all of these on youtube totally free all for our viewing pleasure.
@@matthewcallgreen4551 for sure, as someone who's not enthusiastic of big waters myself I can imagine how much of a toll it takes on your mental, then on the other hand the alternative is sleeping on the bed of Amazonian jungle with an infinite amount of insects around you and what not. I agree with you, Lost at Sea was the most mentally challenging one and Amazon was the most physical. Also thanks for commenting on my 11 month old comment, now I want to rewatch some Survivorman hehe.
Yes, it's a amazing how a place so full of life, insects plants and animals has so little to survive on. You expect a lack of resources in some other places. And I did expect the danger here due to teeming life but there's very little commensurate resources unless your raised in an indigenous tribe w generations of knowledge and ability.
The sound of a big cat growling from behind you in the middle of a pitch black rainforest must've been unbelievably terrifying. I about shit when I heard that growl. Thank god Les is still here!
Imagine he was like the dum dum son of the Village tribe leader and he kept on hunting with the guys blindly shooting with his blow gun, sometimes catching fellow tribe members with the poisoned darts. lol
LMAO Good catch! I re-watched the start. Before that specific event, 0 bugs around my man. At the very moment they start buttering him up, BUGS EVERYWHERE. lmao they did him dirty. Who knows maybe it was like putrefied meat to repel the jag ;)
@@JenJen0582 The hell kinda hallucinogens' were you guys taking man, gotta lay off that stuff if you're seeing bugs on you that aren't there, that's dangerous
I always loved how no nonsense you were with your show. I like survival videos, but they’re often over the top with their presentation and rarely show how hard it truly can be in the outdoors.
Noone has been able to compete with him and it has been known in the survival world for a while, closest to it was dual survival and they were pretty mild
This dude flew to the Amazon with cameras to make this video and people are down here complaining they have to watch ads. Likely at home enjoying the comforts and dry
That scenario is just so nightmarishly hectic! The bugs, the fricking spiders and that night hike out to the village with a man eater on your tail. OMG!!
I bet ya he already said at a party "meh, nothing to it" to impress a chick. Still remembering the shivers running down his spine as he sprinted for the village people.
Honestly so long as I can see them I'm fine. However imagine if you could feel the bugs crawling on your skin but you cant see them, not in a sense of darkness but just not being able to see em
I watched all the seasons for man vs wild, primal survivor (recommend), naked and afraid. But my personal fave is less stroud survivorman. Miss him jamming his harmonica. Thank you
You should also check out the show Alone. It was a canadian production for the first 5 or 6 seasons, and Netflix bought it and produced the most recent season. Would highly recommend if you're into shows like this.
Man vs Wild was proven to be fake ( except Bear eating bugs ) and Naked and Afraid was also proven to be fake as well, many a woman on that show has said that when they got sick, the crew were right there and would give them water, baby food and some tiny medical treatments, it's all fake my dude, Les is the real deal, now that Show Alone is another awesome show to watch, the winner of the 1st season lives only 4 hours from me, we're both from Ga and it was awesome to see a Georgia boy win the 1st season because it shows us Ga folks have the grit to survive in the woods, hell even the desert because as kids our dads and uncles taught us stuff about how to live off the land and all.
my favorite survivor man of all time, I always remembered how haunting and paranoid it felt when les has to walk back to camp to avoid the jaguar stalking him. I wouldve quit right when I saw the first bullet ant and all the bugs orbiting your face.
I remember I first watched this episode years ago on a weeknight. By the end of the episode, watching him suffer felt so real it had exhausted me. I was even scratching at bugs that weren’t there. It felt so good to sleep in my bed that night, his experience is so well put together it effectively wiped me out.
That's how some folks fish in the south, it's called " noodling ", it's actually pretty common, I'm from Georgia and folks down here do that stuff all the time
Les was way before his time! Now people just strap a camera to their head. The OG Survivorman. Thank you for releasing the episodes Les, it brings me back to growing up watching Survivorman.
Them mosquitoes be stinging even your can like its the tire of your honda and you're in the middle of the ghetto lol "Well well well what do we have here guys, where you trying to kill us bro? PfftiSSsss..."
Good God how did he hike around so much without his massive balls getting in the way?!?! Takes my respect for him to a new level, I can't even imagine being stalked by a jaguar like that without lights in the dark, or sleeping in a hut with monster tarantulas or being In a river with giant otters or Caimen! Holy crap!
I think the butterflies might be drinking his sweat. When I saw them on Les it reminded me of a picture of a yellow-spotted river turtle looking up at butterflies who are drinking it's tears (apparently they lack sodium in their diet), which is adorable. It's fitting that Les has a yellow bandana here...
I love when he eats the freshwater shrimp, then looks up. You can definitely tell that was one of those thank you god moments, even though it was so small.
Has to be the scariest and most memorable moment I have of your show. Talking about how the Jaguars was pacing the walls and stuff he was totally casing your camp and was getting ambitious that night. I think you got out at the right time
from wikipedia: According to Charles Darwin, the indigenous peoples of South America stated that people did not need to fear the jaguar as long as capybaras were abundant.[96] The first official record of a jaguar killing a human in Brazil dates to June 2008.[97] Two children were attacked by jaguars in Guyana.[98] The jaguar is the least likely of all big cats to kill and eat humans, and the majority of attacks come when it has been cornered or wounded
@@gabrielkelly2631 true. But think about how a jaguar saw Les, and then let him walk away for however long it was to the village. I'm sure they attack children or vulnerable looking people, but they're probably intimidated by a big healthy guy who isn't crouched down with his back turned. Like all cats, it was probably curious and checking him out, and decided Les wouldn't make an easy meal and left him alone. That said I sure wouldn't want to be out in the dark with one prowling around
I honestly wasn't at all expecting Les to actually encounter a jaguar let alone hear its growlnon camera. Stranded in the Amazon jungle, being stalked by an apex predator with the strongest bite force of any carnivorous mammal- God be with you
At the end (spoiler) I imagine that you talking to the camera might've saved you from the jaguar attacking... if only for a ĺittle while until it got hungry. Ffs that was too close!
@Trumero You want the guy being followed and stalked by a Jaguar to turn around and film it? Thats a special kind of stupid reserved for white people in a horror movie.
I've watched a lot of survival stories of people trapped in the Amazon. In nearly every vid someone ends up running into either a venomous snake, wild boar, or wild cat within the span of a few days to 1 week. Few have survived longer. I used to think yeah there are wild animals out there but the chance of running into a jaguar isn't that likely. Hell with that! That place is crawling with vicious animals. I see why the natives built a massive fence around their town. Les was right to get the heck out of dodge. He wasn't even there but a few days and he's already being stalked by jaguar.
This is one of the few places I would utterly dread having to be in. Pure terror. I wouldn't be able to survive in the Amazon. The fact that we still don't know anything about the deeper parts of it and there's still vast amounts unexplored terrifies me.
And yet, there's still many groups of people that have managed to not just survive, but live there for hundreds of years. It really goes to show, the strength of human ingenuity is incredibly powerful! Given time, we can figure out a way to do almost anything we set our minds to! That train of thought really makes me think about my ancestors, and the struggles they must have had, so that I could be born. Take nothing for granted!
I watched this episode when i was like 12 yrs old, and I was so surprised when he said a Jaguar was stalking him. I didnt believe it at first but then i heard the low growls and the fear in his tone as les stroud explains his situation. I disnt know the name of the show then and I could never find it in youtube. Until today. Thank you. This episode was incredible
Also the humidity makes it to where your sweat never dries.. imagine that. A weeks worth of sweat and no air conditioning to dry you off. So you just stew in your own sweat and bugs like it more and more.. eww
Hearing howler monkeys roar in the evening while they travel around in the forest canopy is one of the most cherished and memorable experiences of my life. But, yeah, they Amazon is the real deal.
Les reminds me of my best friend from back home. He gets so excited about nature and he loves it. Wherever you are joey weed know that your still my brother.
Without a doubt one of if not the craziest episode. When the tribal guides left him I genuinely felt a sinking feeling in my stomach - I felt worry and fear for him. The Amazon is not like the other places he's survived. That place eats people alive, it is no joke.
23:27 the bugs are almost comical at this point. He's got butterflies, flys, bees, moths, even a hummingbird all flying around him! I bet it's the stank from his shirt absorbing all his terribleness for 3 days that the flys want!
The thing that gets me about the flight from the Jaguar isn’t the big hungry cat behind you. That thing is walking, crawling, practically stuck in traffic following you to the village. It could’ve pounced the second it wanted to. The thing that really gets me is that Les was walking essentially blind through the Amazon hoping he doesn’t take a wrong turn. Depending on distance, minutes or seconds of a degree couldn’t had him miss the village by a couple hundred yards left or right. He’d be plowing straight ahead into the night and ensuing nightmare when a big cat stuck in traffic decides his Canadian ‘fast’ food delivered itself to a nice picnic area.
Duude just realized that you released all your great episodes again and freaked out. Everytime. I tell people I used to watch survival videos they're always like "bear gryllz?" and me "no - survivor man. no big show, no ruthless eating of wild animals and powerful tips for outdoors. Just meditating". Love your stuff. Finally into survivorman again 8 years later.
The fact Les remained calm, never panicked and got right into the hut shows his mental toughness. If he were to freak out. He could have startled the Jaguar to attack.
I enjoy how Les embraces different cultural practices....I can imagine being there really makes you feel just how small you are compared to this planet
I wore those same boots for 30 days on NOLS. Our instructors didn't want us to change into water shoes when we forded rivers (which were almost a daily occurence) so I spent the month with wet feet walking inside those boots. I can only imagine how much worse the fungi are in the hot amazon when it was bad at 10,000 feet!
Can someone explain to me how it was humanly possible to endure that black fly swarm at @ 10:37 ? Wes, you are officially the survivor GOAT to me now. Take your crown... 👑
it was always the point, if you watch his directors commentary videos, he explains that the producers from the network arealways so finicky and nitpicky. he often found it hard for him to pursue his original ideas without people attempting to control and warp the final product. For example, in season 3 he hated the whole idea of "setting the stakes." He hated doing some scripted setup for the journey, "Im here for eight days, i have to make it to that plateau, no crew, no contact, yada yada yada." He said he would rather just get into it and explain more of the landscape and its natural beauty, and let the drama unfold itself, instead of trying to set up added suspense. The network producers did not agree however.
Big cats man. I love them for what they are, incredible animals. But in the wild they are such highly proficient obligate carnivores through their use of intelligence & mastery of stealth that very few animals are not an option for them to eat. Wise move to go straight to the village down river, ecspecially considering the boldness it demonstrated. 😞=🍖 👀🐅
